Artistic insecurity

The problem with abstract art is that so many people are conditioned to believe that 'real' art is the only art. A painting or sculpture must be of something recognizable and preferably a reasonably realistic rendition of it. Artists spend countless hours learning how to do work like that and I am no exception. That also leads to a bit of insecurity in that you worry that others will not see what you're doing as true art, because that is what you have been trained by your art books to think. That leads me to want to post an example of the representative art that I  have done so that you know I can paint that way also. So here it is, a pretty little Western Scrub Jay that is native here in the Big Valley.

I love to paint birds also, so many colors and such motion in them. God's diamonds, rubies and sapphires.