Direction? graphic

I want to believe that it's hard to believe that we're still waiting for DSL to be hooked up at the studio after first placing an order 14 days ago, but then again, it is TPC (the phone company) i'm talking about so it should be expected. It has been a minor irritant and a distraction (there i just had to get that out)

Painting is still going well.
Recent notions:
I've been slowly heading in a more graphic direction for quite a few years- harder edges, clearly defined colors etc, but i'm not entirely sure that's where i want to go. It seems that some of the energy and depth of an artwork gets lost to the ends of making an image. Still, i've made a point of making the paintings do something that is near impossible to capture on film or pixels- Layered translucent colors and the sensation of brush strokes in paint never translate very well into reproduction. That is good for the pleasant surprise of seeing the pieces in person vs an image of the piece- something that i'm not so sure happens with much of the work that i see coming out of this decade that is purely graphic and flat and perhaps intended to be reproduced. Usually these works strike me as drawing or illustration or graphic design. So here is an image of a recently finished painting...

Compulsion Entranced, oil on canvas 36" x 24"

Next comes my issue with how an image is made... through a long struggle to find itself, or simply draw it and fill in the bits and done?