Negative Space Drawing

Negative Space drawing Artist Statement

We started off this piece by learning about negative space and its use in art. We then used viewfinders to sketch a still life Mr. Andreson had set up for us. The still life was of upside down stools. We had a smaller A1 piece of paper we sketched a thumbnail on. The idea of the sketch was not to draw the stools, rather the space around them. That's why there is no "inside lines." After we had sketched the thumbnail looking through the viewfinder we then transferred that drawing to the full size, final product paper. Next I traced over the lines of my pencil with a black sharpie. After I had completed tracing I took blue painters tape and went around the inch border so I didn't get any water color outside the border. Next I took a thin blue sharpie and roughly went around the lines I had already drawn. Finally I started with warmer colors then shifted to cooler and worked my way out from the stools to the outside of the page.

This piece has less elements of design than the blind contour or the line drawing because it has almost no story at all. Undisputedly, though, it does have lines and space being the most prominent aspects in the piece. There is no actual recognizable form or object in this piece, so texture is non-existent. Harmony and rhythm are very present with the subtle change of colors from warm to cool.

To be honest this project was not my favourite, I did not like or really understand the purpose of drawing the negative space as opposed to the object itself. The biggest challenge for me was just trying to comprehend the whole project. Once I got into it though I realised that it's not that bad. It was really hard to decide what I wanted to do for the background so I just started drawing lines. Once I had the lines I looked at a watercolor palette and saw the warm to cool color ratio. That was how I decide to do that background. I am most proud of the way the watercolors blend into each other.

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