Space

Artist Statement

The main idea that guided the first piece of artwork, the parrot, was the idea of zentangles. We were told to draw different zentangles. The catch was that they must. be a value strip. A value strip is where there is a gradient of colors going from light to dark. In this situation, we were told to create this value strip but using nothing but zantangles and within a shape of our choosing. I chose the parrot. The main idea that guided two of these pieces of artwork was the concept of negative space. Negative space is everywhere color doesn't touch. For example, the background or area surrounding your piece of art. This is contrary to the value strip piece because for that we were drawing inside of the piece whereas with negative space we are supposed to draw everyone but inside of the negative pace. The first negative space assignment was to draw the outline of our hands without showing inside lines or wrinkles. Almost as your shadow would look like. For the second piece we placed five differently shaped leaves onto a paper then transferred those designs to a larger paper making sure whichever leaves were touching, connected instead of becoming two separate leaves.

For this artwork, I used both 12" by 9" and 11" by 14" paper with Watercolors and Sharpie. I used a thin sharpie pen for the zentangles around the leaves and the watercolor for the rainbow drip in the center of the piece.

The process I went through with the negative space leaves piece was that I created one finalized piece but ended up not liking it as much. It felt more rushed and messy. I did this assignment twice. The first time going more drastically and making every space different with different colors and designs. Whereas the second time, I decided to keep five of my spaces similar drawing black and white zentangles and created a rainbow drip affect in the final, largest space to truly emphasize the colors which ended much better and I felt was cleaner in the end.