During our critique we talked about positive and negative space and how many of us were already using it without knowing. The way my hands made a heart is a good example. The hands are the positive space and the heart is the negative space. This was our next project and it was all about negative and positive space. We used special "paper", I put it in quotes because it was really plastic but I don't remember what its called. It had 2 layers, the first was the white and it was one big sticker that we cut through to the second layer which was black and not sticky at all. To begin we cut it so there was a white rectangle is the middle. Can you see where it sort of still is? We were told not to cut the corners and to be like Tim Gun and "Make it work". For a perfectionist like me it was hard when thing were completely symmetrical. I started in the top left corner and did somewhat of a diagonal. The bottom diagonal is like a mirror image of the top diagonal. The zig zags in the middle were the hardest to "make work" I didn't know where to put them on the outside of the rectangle. Cool fact! On the web sight we use to post our artwork on for school Artsonia (there is a button with a link to the right to check it out) this was up for artist of the week! It didn't win but that's okay!
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CategoriesTessaArt student Archives
May 2016
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