Two of my paintings have me stymied. A few days ago I mixed up some glaze formulas suggested by Chris Cozen and Julie Prichard in their book Acrylic Solutions Exploring mixed media layer by layer. I liked the resulting colors and used them in the two paintings below.

I like the texture in these. The compositions are not working, though. Maybe these need to be backgrounds to something else.

The blue and green painting with geometric shapes started out as a grid painting. I now looks like a building or a bird in abstract. At one time during the transition, it had a nice shadow-like shape to the left of the light blue box above the center line that helped bring the box forward and the yellow-green shape back. But, I added more glaze and it was gone. I may have to put this one aside for awhile.

This next one started out as background color and texture and adding the Cozen-Prichard gritty color in watery green with drips made it more interesting to me. Still, I can't 'see' where to take it now.

What do you think, Helga? Should I start over with both of them? Carve out new shapes with negative spaces?

Eileen