Harry Stooshinoff: Play has to be a major part of picture making, or over time, you will just run out of energy. Play is self sustaining and re-energizing, so find ways to make play a part of what you do in every painting session. A simple thing you can do is, when you have paints left over at the end of a session, make an improvised composition to use up the paints. Don’t consider those finished works, although you may find yourself going back into them at a later time. This really makes you fall in love with paint all over again. You may find it’s a way to break old habits in how to apply paint and use color.