Negative Space Leaves

For this project we had to get leaves from outside and put them on a piece of paper, and there had to be at least five spaces not covered by the leaves. We drew the outside of the leaves onto another piece of paper, and drew patterns in the space not covered by leaves.

Artist Statement

I made a drawing where I re-drew leaves onto a piece of paper, then filled in the negative space with colors and patterns. I used different types of graphite pencils and colored pencils.

I used value, because at first I was going to use value instead of color, but I realized that just value would look bad, so I added in color.

My artwork would be better if I didn’t use regular pencil, because the gray looks bad with the color.