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Drxx - your #69:
Left-hand-column's work involved 7 characteristics, not 4, of the pivotal subject - but I agree each in two variations. Four of these characteristics could indeed be relevant to your final remark.

However I think your proposal to use multiple crayons indicates that you're pursuing a red herring - which particular crayon do you propose to apply to which particular artwork?

I think that in the context of what LHC person's work was the foundation of, an appropriate homophonically thematic approach might be to use only blue!

Reposting my last, as something huge and nebulous seems to have got stiuffed into the middle of it - a ghost ad?

Drxx - your #69:
Left-hand-column's work involved 7 characteristics, not 4, of the pivotal subject - but I agree each in two variations. Four of these characteristics could indeed be relevant to your final remark.

However I think your proposal to use multiple crayons indicates that you're pursuing a red herring - which particular crayon do you propose to apply to which particular artwork?

I think that in the context of what LHC person's work was the foundation of, an appropriate homophonically thematic approach might be to use only blue!

OK. The initial Xing for the set of four is of 2 types, this produces a 2nd generation, all of the dominant type - the generation after this produces 3 of the dominant type + 1 of the other type. My colouring represents the initial Xing (50/50) and, as a symbolic flourish to my 'artwork', I'm foregrounding the dominant type - this is the darker colour of the two (but it certainly isn't blue - although I can see what you're getting at there, quixote).
Thanks for the extra information regarding the process, I must look up the other 3 characteristics (of the other 2 of my 4 characteristics, 1 is floral and the other fruity/textural).

Help please with 9 across. I thought I'd entered all the down clues correctly (all seemed straight-foward), but now find that no word fits 9 across.

Thanks a lot.

You should be seeing the single letter abbrev. for 'around' and the letter for '50' - the rest is an anagram of 'herons out' (they're possibly in the same league as 'influencers').

Thanks! I had the correct letters (and the answer) from the start, but I made the mistake of looking at my 4th Edition of BRB. Just looked in my 13th Edition of BRB, GRRRR! Maybe I should keep both books in one place.....

Drxx - your #73 -
That's a high bridge to figure!

- but I agree with your segregation and expression of elements.

I also agree with your artwork colouring, and your proposed foregrounding; but the orientational choice in each pair will be arbitrary I think ? - unless this is somehow spelt out in the decoding of the three pairings specified in the second sentence of the preamble, which I still totally fail to grasp... :-(

Oh dear, I'm a much simpler (or lazier) soul!

For me, the pairs are "thematically linked" simply by being X-ed in the grid. I haven't thought any further.

I have settled on a very literal interpretation of the instruction, guided by earlier posts: 8 small artworks. But I did use a green pen!

Albarone -#78
- yes - but what about the other three thematic pairings - six answers that don't cross in the grid? (Second sentence of the preamble).

I'm still baffled, although my non-Forum Listener-buddy has suggested plausible pairings based on non-thematic characteristics.

I have a horrid suspicion that these pairings, once sussed, would provide more concise indications about the execution of the 'artworks' - but maybe I'm attributing more 'deepness' to Karla's creation than is justified. ('depth' would have sounded rather demeaning to what is an excellent puzzle).

Your choice of crayon goes part of the way...

quixote - I've sent mine off now but I thought the six answers did cross in the grid