Tonight was a fun night with a new challenge—seeing and drawing NEGATIVE SPACE. Negative space is the space around things. By practicing seeing and drawing the shapes made by negative space, we improve our ability to again "draw what we see and not what we think we see". It's really about learning to be able to look at things from new perspectives or angles.
For tonight's warm up, we looked at vases that were wrapped in ribbon. Then, instead of trying to draw the full vase or even the ribbon, we tried to draw the shapes made by the ribbon only. Here are some samples:
Playing on this idea of negative space, I challenged the students to draw something by trying to focus more on the space around the object than the object itself. In this case… a horse. For our project, we use pencil to draw the space around the shape of a horse.
This was also a chance to have some fun with some texture effects done with erasers. In my example below, an eraser and erasing shield were used to create white lines through the drawing giving it a texture that makes the paper look old… almost as if it had been crumpled up and then unfolded again.
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