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PURPOSE OF THIS ASSIGNMENT
PURPOSE OF THIS ASSIGNMENT
Understanding and using Positive and Negative Space
Experimenting with acrylic and building up the surface to create a background for the forms that will be silhouettes. This should create depth.
Creating Composition using positive and negative space remembering to use variety to create interest
WHAT IS POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE SPACE?
WHAT IS POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE SPACE?
In art, positive space refers to the main subject or focus, while negative space is the surrounding background or empty area. The interaction between these two elements creates balance, composition, and depth, preventing a piece from feeling cluttered or flat. Effective use of negative space can define shapes, tell stories, and improve drawing accuracy.
Whitney Museum of American Art +5
Key Concepts of Positive and Negative Space:
Definition: Positive space is the "figure," or the object itself, such as a person, tree, or object in a still life. Negative space is the "ground," or the empty space around the subject.
Role in Composition: Negative space is not just "empty" space; it is used to draw attention to the main subject, making it pop and adding dimension.
Balancing the Image: A good balance between positive and negative spaces prevents an image from becoming too busy, as seen in M.C. Escher's work.
Defining Form: By focusing on the shapes created by the background (negative space), artists can improve the proportions of their subject (positive space), notes
Seeing and using Positive and Negative Space
Steps to create a gesson over painting:
Using Acrylic Paint, experiment with building patterns and shapes as seen in the video below where the artist has built up the surface of the canvas playfully experimenting with repeating shapes of leaves, circles, and textures. This can be done in various ways.
Create a completed underpainting where every part of the surface has a pattern that may relate to the environment of the forms that will be painted later, (for example she created a mixture of plant elements that will go well with the over painting of more plants and birds.)
Now, take a white colored pencil or chalk and draw the forms you will be painting around.
Mrs. Robinson will give you watered down gesso so you can create a light overpainting with the Gesso.
Add detail elements to enhance the shapes you have created.
EXAMPLES OF BUILDING UP THE SURFACE
EXAMPLES OF BUILDING UP THE SURFACE
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