Thank you for this.
...and I suppose you very well could be right. Most likely you are, :)

I really do need to be less harsh on myself. Morning here now and I am staring at that canvas haha!!!!..........

That means your art is work. It is soul. Is thought. Yes, well... Soul and spirit are allowed to take a break. They are already reporting for duty again ;-))

Thank you, wise soul xxx