Developing creativity through persistence

So... my overlapping flowers just smudged into one mass, and I could not mix the greens I wanted, and there was little pleasing balance in my painting. I went to bed strangely - for such a seemingly inconsequential project - discouraged. I decided to sketch in my journal upside a nature scene upside down, and then sketched some little happy cartoon long-legged birds.  I felt better. Let out my creativity- vanquish the comparison and sense of not measuring up ?!  Dios mio! 

This morning, I daydreamed awhile of ideas, untaught, and attempted to incorporate my own sense of balance and colour to the watercolour; I feel I stepped forward- not in the work itself, but in having fun ---letting myself fly a little.