SERIALITY / REPETITON

How might the vacation study be exploited in my new work ?

Agnes Martin experimented with a number of formats and sizes, eventually opting for a 6ft  square which she argued was large enough to not be taken in at one glance. Max Cole although operating at a broadly similar  scale opted for a landscape format which makes sense given her overt expression of interest in landscape

Proposed painting based on 'pulses of light' as in passing clouds
My choice is a standard 2.4 x 1.2m mdf board. Cut into 3 equal sections ( pragmatic -will fit in car!), Module therefore 3nr portrait panels.

• working with canvass units on primed mdf for textural contrast
• Colour - seeking backround colour which will be difficult to fix in space - plus foreground colours that would relate in a subtle way.

Experimenting with module size and colour

Backround / module trials
                                                                    
                                                                        


    Finished work

Observations

• pulsing rhythms not a strong as I had hoped. Discussion with Virginia suggesting reducing tonal contrast which currently runs almost from black to white

•  very time consuming in preparation- difficult to know how many of which hue/ sturation until placed prior to glueing. Positive side is that this works like a large collage allowing muchh trial and error

• textural difference between individuall hand cut canvas modules and mdf somewhat flat. None of the life found in hte works of James Hugonin, although his meticulous nad painstking appraoch requre months of input!