Terri, i think you have it and that is exactly the way i draw and write and create my jewelry...spontaneously, in the flow...it is the only way to go for me for if i try to reason it out then it is truly hideous.
Some of my favorite drawings are by Paul Reps, the great haijin who drew on scraps of paper and hung them on lines like laundry. Slashes of brilliance with strokes of the sumi-i brush. I very much like your cats as they live on the paper. thank you for sharing them.