So what do you guys do when you get stuck and lose the expression of emotion you had when you started the painting? Often I will free draw or free paint as pain management. I end up often with stuff like this where I'm fully expressing myself for a couple of days, and then I walk in one day and stare at it for 10 minutes, think about getting the brushes going, but then I just sit there staring. Then maybe I'll see something new and work on it again. Then the painting changes, and I see something else. But then there comes a point where I love the unfinished painting, but it's NOT finished. It typically happens with acrylics (this was a free painting on black gesso canvas, limited palette). There are probably only 10 layers there now. But I seem to be losing the essence of what I started with. I have a closet full of unfinished works due to loss of emotion in expression. Some oil, but mostly acrylic.