NOT FINISHED, AFTER ALL

Sometimes, I set parameters for a work in order to teach myself.

This 1995 self-portrait was to compare ultramarine blue and thalo blue.

This was an exploration of using Hansa Yellow (PY3) instead of and with cadmium yellow medium (PY 32). I recently noticed that I really didn't finish the painting, being too distracted by the "problem". Now I'm going after it to tune it up and push it. Is this all about  the poem, now?