Disfunctional Painting

Every once in a while, I think to myself-I should use up some of this paint.  Most of the art I do uses minute amounts of paint, ya know?  Last year I painted on a piece of papery cardboardy stuff from a roll I bought at the YSM, and after a yard or two, I actually got some great areas of that painting that was usuable.  But, today, after the TG holiday yesterday, for some reason, I started thinking about disfunctional families and how the disfunction seems to just keep cycling itself.  I know this because my Father was an alcoholic, and I have been told his father was an alcoholic too.  And I have had two marriages, and both men are alcoholic.  And I worry so about my children, who have no qualms about tipping a few, knowing that alcoholism is/can be heritary.   Adult children get to choose their paths.
 I am glad that I have been able to change my life and to try to focus on more positive things, due to the history of disfunction.  I am so glad I am aware of and have an understanding about that, and therefore try not to contribute to it. And, I have been very aware of how grateful I am that my current alcoholic husband has been sober for many many years!
  But, anyway, today, I was thinking about how unhappy people who are involved in disfunction are.  So, thinking that, and also thinking that I needed to use up some paint, I decided to think about disfunction while I painted.  I, at first, was just going to do some wild abstracts that would represent "disfunction" but after a layer or two, deep within the smears, I could see these human figures.  As I noodled with them, these are what emerged.  A good reminder to myself to be sure I fight those disfunctional tendencies from my history!

I started with some very heavy watercolor paper then dumped out some almost useless bottles of paint at random.  I used a credit card to smear the paints around the substrate.

When I saw the figures, I used a charcoal pencil to follow what was there.  This gave the forms to the people, not exactly in proportion, but I just drew what was there. Then I used some glazes to enhance the painting.  Added some stamping, and the word.  I was rather amazed at how they turned out!

And this basket?  Well it was six tea tins so I taped them together with some lovely blue dac tape with pictures behind it.  I am not sure but it might be... oh, maybe a brush holder, or a silverware thingy for the table, or a junk collector by my chair, or.... well, maybe you have a suggestion for it's use?