Painting soothes me, so I have been doing a lot of it, whether there's an image I wish to express or not. I end up painting "abstracts," though a better name might be "doodles." Cleaning out old art and art supplies can use up a lot of time, too, and naturally everything must be recycled. What's been a lot of fun is cutting up old paintings that I don't like very much and making new paintings on top of the pieces. Cutting up the old painting without regard to what's already there versus cutting out my favorite parts of an old painting result in different challenges when making a new painting out of them. Here are a few examples.
With the one below, I cut out the part of the painting I liked and painted on it some more, resulting in
"The Mountain Rests":
Below is an old painting I didn't like, and I simply cut it into quarters.
The lower left quadrant became "Life Suspended":
