about 'messing up' your work......

here' s a photo of a painting i created a couple of weeks ago

i first created a bronze textured background, then added some blue and yellow glazes, mixing and blending them into two horizontal greenish rectangles. i went on with different shades of blue, creating some elliptical shapes and letting some of the lighter paint drip down toward the bottom of the painting.
finally, i poured bright red-orange on the blue shapes, then put the paper upright, to let the paint drip down all the way to the bottom edge. to add some more texture and relief i drenched tissues in the red  paint,  crumpled them and stuck them inside the red pools of paint.
this shot i took of the painting shows the sunflower-covered plastic table cloth  and part of the foam brush i used to paint the bronze background.

here's what i came up with after the first 'round'....

love lies bleeding

like you said: deliciously gross, this....:-)
but i wanted to try something different, so i decided to completely deconstruct and reconstruct my image, by putting it through the hyperDroste app

very interesting, a bit like descending a vortex.... love the way the sunflowers and the foam brush add to the effect.

here is the final image

love's bloody labyrinth