Negative Space Art Projects for Kids Negative Space Art

Before we talk nearly shape and space, we need to discuss line...

A shape is made of a line or lines.

A shape has an within and and an outside.

The line or lines that make upwardly the edges of the shape must completely enclose the space within.

For this project we will be using lines to create shapes.

Since we will be cutting our shapes out of construction paper we will exist keeping them very elementary.

Start with a 9x6 piece of blackness construction paper. Place it in the heart of a 12x18 inch piece of white paper. Put minor marks on the  white paper to point where the corners of the blackness paper are.

At present start to draw  and cut out two identical uncomplicated shapes starting at contrary sides of the black paper.

Have your first two shapes exist made of  curved lines. Cut them out and flip them over. Do non practice whatever trimming at all.

Shapes fabricated from Curved lines

Continue to cut out simple pairs of shapes from opposite sides of your black newspaper, using the basic types of lines. Do not brand your design too complex or scribbled. Remember that yous have to cut out every shape that you draw.

Shapes made from Curved Lines and Zigzag Lines

Shapes Made from Curved lines, Zigzag Lines and Straight Lines

Last Design

Earlier gluing downwardly your terminal blueprint, carefully remove the big center piece and have a quick look. You should be able to run into a ghost image of the original rectangle.

You can see the white rectangular shape in the heart of the paper even though it's not really at that place at all. That is what artists are referring to when they speak of the 'negative space' or 'negative shapes' in a composition. Negative infinite is equally important as positive space when designing a moving-picture show. This is why we fine art teachers are forever telling our students to fill up the page! If you lot draw something large enough, information technology volition become off the side of the folio and divide the groundwork into interesting negative shapes.

Here is an instance of a photo where the negative shapes of the sky are as important as the trees.

Next time you take a photo try zooming in on the most important detail, even if it ways you don't capture the entire image. If yous have your photographs stored on your computer, try cropping some of them.

When taking this photograph, I thought near the blue shapes framed by the leaves.

The more enlightened you lot are of negative infinite the more engaging and dynamic your compositions will be.

Student Gallery:

7th Grade Pupil

6TH Grade Student

7TH GRADE STUDENTS

seventh Course Student

Big shout out to my friend Kiki, a helpful art teacher from Kentucky, for letting me know that this type of cut out is called a 'Notan'. Notan is a Japanese word that means low-cal and dark. The helpful art teacher is e'er grateful and e'er learning.

Successful photographers are aware of negative space. Check out this beautiful composition by lensman Lyle Booth

Helpful links for this project:

Examples of Notan in Japanese Fine art

(balance of low-cal and night and positive and negative)

"Moon Pine, Ueno, No. 89 from I Hundred Famous Views of Edo

In Edo, there was a particular taste for naming trees that were distinguished by their age or their form. Pine copse, which tend to live long and grow in strange shapes, were the most common of these. The example seen here was called the Moon Pino, not merely because of its full, circular shape but also because one could discern diverse phases of the moon by looking at the tree from dissimilar angles. One twentieth-century commentary as well referred to it equally the Rope Pino, presumably because of its resemblance to a loop of rope."*
* (Information from this picture quoted from the website of the Brooklyn Museum)

Artist: Utagawa Hiroshige (Ando), Japanese, 1797-1858
Medium: Woodblock print
Place Made: Japan

Dates: seventh month of 1856

Period: Edo Menses, Ansei Era

Use the 'rule of thirds' (likewise sometimes referred to as the 'dominion of three')to create dynamic photographs and paintings. Worksheet created past The Helpful Art Teacher, 2013, using a Japanese woodblock impress book illustration from the Metropolitan Museum of Art's digital library

Here is a college resolution prototype of the illustration.

Try printing information technology and adding your own grid lines.

Analyze printouts of your favorite paintings to run across which ones follow the 'rule of thirds' and which practise not.

Impress out low resolution black and white versions of famous pictures and draw your grid direct on the image but brand absolutely sure the prototype y'all are using has not been cropped!

New Bailiwick of jersey Cadre Curriculum Content Standards that tin be applied to this art lesson:

1.3.5.D.3 Place common and distinctive characteristics of genres of visual artworks (eastward.thousand., realism, surrealism, abstruse/nonobjective art, conceptual art, and others) using age-appropriate terminology, and experiment with various compositional approaches influenced past these genres.

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