Dark Forest Lights

This painting actually has a rather sad story.

One Friday night after a long day teaching I was quite tired and needed to do something to stay awake until a decent sleep time, but I didn't want to do anything too brain-requiring (if that makes sense) because my brain was not in a mood to cooperate, having already worked quite hard all day. So I got out my Wacom, opened Photoshop, turned on some relaxing music, and just started painting whatever came to my mind. Part way into it all I resized the document and saved it as a smaller version with the goal of doing that every so often to create a sort of history, so I could see how I progressed and its development.

Well. In my braindead state I forgot to undo the size change. So I ended up working for the next hour on a much smaller document, one that I could never really do anything with, like print. When I realized what I had done I totally lost my motivation to continue, and almost cried, in fact. It was quite disheartening. So I just closed it all, put it away, and haven't worked on it since.