Thursday, June 21, 2012

Negative Space

Negative painting means you paint around an object to show that it's there.  I created the painting below as an exercise from Linda Kemp's excellent book, "Painting Outside the Lines".  Notice that I don't actually paint the trees, I paint the background around it and the tree shape appears.


This is a powerful technique and one I'm going to really have to work at to master.

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