It’s a lot of fun playing with paint and letting it drip, run and flow around and you get some visually interesting effects.
I would love to be an abstract expressionist painter. I love painting abstracts. Unfortunately, either painting from life, or using photo reference tends to have me glued to realism throughout the process. I constantly try to make my art more abstract and expressive, but often it seems the harder I try the more realistic the painting becomes! These two little paintings started off abstract and managed to stay that way - but then I was commissioned to paint two abstracts, and my reference pics were all abstract too. That’s obviously the answer for me - Duh!