Part 5: Effectiveness of Action Plan

I used the two wildcard choices as my warmup studies.  Once I realised that I didn’t have to do a cold copy of the works and just zone in on what I found interesting with the works then I found it easier to make a start.  Also, playing with scale and ignoring my need for a ruler I ended up looking at shapes and colours instead of composition which help loosen me up.  I also left my William’s study as one side raw crayon, which is how I did it on the day and then with water to blend the colours after the visit.  I choose to do just the top left quarter of the image, to help find focus in the busy image.I then moved on to the Pop Art Room and started doing thumbnails of the work around the Hockney image.  It was interesting to see how the curator placed the works which were both 2D and 3D.  I got distracted with the Richard Smith’s part 3D painting and did a study for that work too.  With the Moore’s sculpture I chose to do a tonal study of it from all four angles and really got involved with the composition of the piece and thinking about how the room was lit.  So I think the action plan was a success and I came away with the 4 planned studies plus the bonus Richard Smith image.After the visit I went back to these Wildcard studies after the visit and applied water to the crayons to help build up layers of detail and discovered the mottled texture effect with correction fluid on the William’s study from the construction room.  Playing on this idea of construction, building materials, the correction fluid looks like concrete texture.  The artist used architecture to convey modernist ideas about how art can help rebuild and redefine society values.