Two Steps Forward, One Giant Step Back

So yesterday I went in to the studio to work a bit on my piece, and I got the opportunity to discuss it with a few classmates. They gave me ideas and tips on what I can do with it and where I might go. I decided I'd like to outline the green with purple first, just to see what it would look like. Turns out it greatly resembled what I thought was the Nickleodeon logo (in my mind). Their logo is orange in reality but in the subcockles of my brain it is green and purple, and that is what my painting reminded me of after I added in the purple line.



So after that fiasco, I decided to concentrate on the knitted squares again. One of my classmates commented that it kind of looked like the swatches were falling into a pool of acid and that maybe if I rotated the canvas it would give a different feel. After rotating the canvas (which just made it look like the acid was oozing onto the swatches) I decided to add more knitted squares to the canvas to make it look less like a diving feel.


Then I decided it was time to deal with the acid pool. I like the green on its own, but I felt (and others agreed with me) that the green was doing nothing for the composition of the piece, and the knitted squares did not agree with the colour. So this is what I did:


Hence the two steps forward one giant step back. I feel better about the piece now. It doesn't bother me as much as it did :P

Now to figure out where to go next!