It doesn't add up?

This piece is currently being scrutinized for what went wrong.  I love the individual parts but not the sum of the whole.  The colors are so much better in person and you can really see the shine of the wax.  The picture  was taken on the cuff in my work area.  I was hoping to be able to see and figure out what to do to make me like this piece.  I already have so many that I  don't like that i hate to add to the pile.  After several more days of sitting I will probably quickly do something that will either help or be destructive.  Don't get me wrong.  I want it to work  but I do love melting the was whatever the outcome and as I tell my students you can always scrape it off.  Costly but possible solution.

Now I do love this piece but probably not this orientation.  One of the laments of abstract artists.  The picture does not capture the lovely pale cream slightly yellow of this work.  This is one of the small pieces, 12"x12" that I made to help with the creative flow.  I think this one is staying home because of the small piece of peace I feel when I look at it.  It is already framed in a simple black outline.  I can turn and change its perspective as often as I wish.

I also did some citra solve papers that are drying.  Hopefully I will be able to share tomorrow.  I became a member of the "Love Mixed Media" group and they had a technique section which discussed these.  I tried the process several years ago and never did anything with the paper.  The stuff was still in my cabinet and I decided to use it up.  I had space on the table so I loaded up the magazine and am letting it cook away. 

The weather turned cooler.  I am so happy with a cool morning.  I really don't want to turn on the a/c in February.  The always wishing for the opposite of what we are given is so human and I definitely am terribly human.  Listening yesterday to Dr. Maya Angelou on NPR radio was so enlightening as to the human condition and how as humans we are all more alike than we are alien to each other.  I learn so much during Black History Month. 

Well, I have to do some housework so there is time to play later.  Hope you get to play also!!!!