Negative Space Drawing

In these assignments, we were asked to draw the negative space. To accomplish this, I drew the shapes where the objects are not. So for the leaf drawing, I drew everything where the leaves were not, and as for the stool, I painted everything where the stool was not, this is always what you have to do in order to achieve negative space. Evidently, the subject of my painting is the stool. For both my pieces, I first drew the shapes where the stool or leaves were not, and then used watercolor to draw attention to these shapes; the negative space.

In my first negative space painting, I drew in pen around the white space. This drew attention to the absence of the object, but not to the negative space. To prevent myself from doing this, in my second piece, I decided to not outline, but rather have a darker value of blue around, and IN the shapes where the object isn't. At first I found myself only drawing the stool rather than where the stool isn't, to change this I had to start over and and find the shapes that are formed where the stool is not.

There isn't really any deeper meaning or story behind my artwork, besides the fact that growing up I was obsessed with bees. To make my piece remind my of that, I tried to make it more playful and fun, although the end product was not was I was expecting. I am most proud of my use of the watercolor. I only used to emphasize on certain elements, however in other places I left either no watercolor, or very small amounts on purpose to create contrast. As discussed in the previous paragraph, I originally struggled to draw by only using the negative space. As time passed I began to pay closer attention to the shapes that are created in the stools absence. Although I am proud of my use of watercolor, there seems to be something missing, as it is almost boring to look at. If I were to revise this piece I would possibly consider adding another element of art to draw the viewer in.