LOTS of Trial and Error

Good grief.  I’ve about worn out my brain cells trying out different ways to proceed with my current project.

I was really thrilled with the background composition but felt like it needed to have some more black added.

But nothing that would detract from the black already there.  Maybe something loose and organic that would play up the chunky diagonal line between the white and green?  With that idea in mind I began to experiment.

Maybe a wild heavy line?

Or maybe little jagged black pieces to create the line.

Or a thinner more controlled black line?

Or maybe the line should be created with the same shapes showing in the green and pink fabric at the bottom.

You can’t say I didn’t try! Finally I gave up on the idea of playing up the diagonal line and looked for other ways to add black.  Something like this, maybe?

Well, I liked that better, but felt like I was till far away from the right solution.

At about this time one of my readers. Eleanor Levie, suggested adding black vertical strips. That got me thinking.  I began to consider the idea of cutting the piece into sections and reassembling it, along with the addition of black. But, should the sections be vertical?  Or maybe slanted?  Or even curved?  And should I put them back in their original locations or mix them up a bit?  If the latter, what kind of shape might I create?  And what about inverting or rotating some of the sections?

Well, as you can tell, that took me down quite another rabbit hole.  I’ll show you those experiments next time.

Ellen Lindner