painting in a series

This might be the first in a series of abstracts corraled by grids. Maybe.

This is a page in the journal where I kept putting the last bits of paint from other pieces. The green/gold from the brayer, overlaid with a bit of titan buff, then daubed with some transparent red oxide.

By the time I'd added some more yellow and filled in open space with some conte pastels, I began to see a composition of blocks.

I emphasized what was emerging, then mixed jenkins green and red to make block lines--which scan as black here.