mondrian inspired fall colors

i spent the day taking my 85 year old mom down to the Mayo Clinic for some blood work. we are lucky here in the Twin Cities to live so close to such a world class medical hospital. while the Mayo is only about an hour and twenty minutes from us, it takes the better part of a day to do these visits. but STILL blog never sleeps, so after dropping off my mom at her house, i grabbed these ivy leaves from the vines that cover three quarters of her house. this hurried composition turned out better than i expected. and got me thinking what a Mondrian painting might look with colors other than flat blocks of primary colors. what if each block was instead a richly hued gradient? it makes one wonder.

climbing boston ivy leaves in fall