Negative space painting
Discover Pinterest’s best ideas and inspiration for Negative space painting. Get inspired and try out new things.
In this project, we'll be painting the negative shapes, instead of the trees themselves. With each step, you'll see the trees emerge, further and further back in space. This is a great way to get a feeling of depth in your landscapes. To download a PDF of this tutorial, for $6, click here. __________________________________________ The first step is to choose three colors (a triad). I chose quinacridone gold, quinacridone rose, and cobalt turquoise, but you could use any yellow, red, and…
Note- this exercise is severely out of sequence in the assignment; despite being a trained horticulturalist my ability to kill pot plants is legendary, so having found the perfect specimen I really needed to seize the moment. On another note, my main camera has died and the photos here are taken on my back-up compact camera, apologies for the inferior quality. Amid the instructions for this exercise was this rider: "you may need to add enough lines to make the image readable to the viewer"…
We’ve all experienced a creative rut, and it’s always nice to have a helping hand to pull us out. To the rescue today is Staci Swider!
Artist Linda Kemp uses the practice of negative painting to deconstruct how to paint the essence of a subject. Here are her tips.
By Brandi Bowman in Art Tutorials > Painting Tutorials Every painting is composed of negative and positive space. We tend to “see” the positive space—the apple in a still life painting, the person in the portrait—but there’s always more to a painting than that! Negative space is visually just as important as positive space, and it’s the area around and in between your subject matter. Those little glimmers of light through the leaves of a tree, the shape of the empty sky […]
