Embroidered Collage

I started a new set of 6" square pieces, this time on unstretched canvas, which I haven't done at this size before.  I wanted to keep the four similar enough that I could work on them at the same time but different enough to play.  I painted the backgrounds and adhered the pretty handmade marbled paper.  Since I used the same foam brush, some of the collaged papers were tinted by the paint and other weren't.

For my next step I pulled out the watercolor crayons and liquid acrylic medium to extrapolate pattern.  I hate the one in the bottom right, where I tried to overlay a semi-grid with green outline squares.  That will be considerably reworked.  I love the one in the bottom left where I extended the pattern the gold was making and added extra bits in red.  I'm reasonably happy with the direction the top two are taking.  I added multiple lines to the left and on the right tried a different approach by greying out most of the image, except for one scrap of bright paper as a focal point.