Exploring people and how they view themselves

After these last 18 months or so of exploring abstracts, I find myself frustrated to the dickens with this genre!! I love colour, but I've also discovered I desire some sort of concrete object to paint, regardless of whether it's from my imagination or not, to help express what I'm wanting to put colour to. I've done this for a few years now with my fruit paintings. Symbolically used the fruit to depict various emotions, ideas, concepts, and experiences. I thought that maybe I could go without an object and get the same result purely with colour, but I didn't end up liking it as much. I had been playing with continuous line drawings and self portraits. One day I thought - what if instead of using this as an art exercise to better my hand/brain connection, I turn this into the actual artwork instead. And voila, I discovered a new style that I now want to spend time exploring! People paintings, done in the blind contour (not looking at the canvas, only your eyes following the subject being drawn), continuous line (no lifting pencil off the canvas) style drawing, and then paint, stitch, and even crochet, to create a complete artwork on the canvas. My aim with this is to capture a mood, or the essence of the person, in this more abstract style. It is super fun to explore and I'm looking forward to seeing what comes of it. It's always a good idea to learn and try new things!