"A Boy and his Cat at the Ocean on a Cloudy Day" Oil

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"A Boy and his Cat at the Ocean on a Cloudy Day"
Oil on canvas, painted with fingers.

I painted this piece in about five hours without really any direction of what I wanted to do. I just continuously mixed colors that seemed right and then used them until the whole work came together. I'm not a visual artist and I spend most of my time writing or browsing over at /lit/, but I thought I would try my hand at painting something abstract and avant garde.

Aside from critiquing my work above, which I appreciate, what is your creative process? Do you map everything to the tiniest detail? Do you just freefall and see where it takes you?