I can't say enough about starting to paint again after not doing it for two years.  It was a tragic loss of  a business that my best friend and I created, and as things would have it, the funding was pulled, and we were left with a huge empty spot that I know was tragic for my friend, and devastating for me.  It really took the wind out of my sails, and it has been all I can do to start the creative process again.  I am a very inexperienced painter that started playing around with water colors about five years ago, and found that I really enjoyed it, and  best of all, some people started to really like what I was painting.  Since then, I have sold many sceneries, peir pictures with Lake Michigan in the back ground, and still lifes.  I've also done some dragons and fairies for family members.  I don't consider myself an artist, although some of my friends do.  I consider it a creative outlet, to stop the squirrel cage in my head from turning round and round.