I have a problem of what to say at your level. I can't say anything more because that's where you are. Stella looks hard at a painting of a seated woman. This painting is ready to go somewhere, but I don't know where you want to go with it. A blurred, soft impression, but somehow it asks for more for more inner glow.
Painting is circular, it's about itself.
It's always static, and you have to imply motion and vitality. That's why drips are so engaging. I'm not saying images are out. But the painting has to raise the level of the image that is being depicted. In the beginning, abstraction struggled to keep up with the power, weight and authority of the figurative art of the past.