So, I've been working on another canvas. A color field painting of consuming jealousy, the passion of jealousy. Thing is texturally it is nearing my personal best. Although it's not purely non-representational as the others are. (Their are some vague brush stroke references to fire and flame, I couldn't resist) So, I've got these textures building and building, the color modulations are some of the most complex i've attempted, but just now compositionally I've hit a brick wall. I just realized it's not balanced at all. I just jumped up and added another layer of glaze over one of the elements that was drawing your eye away from what I consider the main visual element of the piece. A heavily textured, ruby, fresh blood, wound of an area built up with translucent layers literally peeled from the surface of my pallet, the rims of paint tubes, the dimples of a water color tray that i'm using as a pallet for another piece. Anyway, I want this raw wounded flesh area to be the key visual element I should have initially brought the broad sweeping arch of gold leaf closer in to the wound area to embrace it and support it. I placed it in a position, that I now realize, is in opposition to the wound feature. Anyway I think by building up even more layers over the gold leaf I can push it back visually and let the wound dominate the painting yet again. besides the gold leaf is to pretty to be to prominent in a painting about the black, festering pit that is jealousy.