Negative painting in its simplest form:
To do a simple demonstration/exercise to understand negative painting, we drew some simple shapes on white paper, just a few. (The lower picture) Then we painted around those shapes with a light value. (White shapes were painted around with pink)(You can vary the colors, but the value is light here). When dry, we added a few more shapes, overlapping some of them. Then we painted around all the shapes with the second value. This top picture shows more pink shapes added, and then painted around with blue.
More hearts were added, then everything was painted around with a darker value blue
.Finally, more shapes added, then everything painted around with dark blue and purple.
There is a similar exercise in my blog of Nov 1, 2018
We also made a background for next week's process, a negative painting over a background with texture.
You make that by wetting your paper, then randomly add color, keeping it fairly pale. You can cover it with plastic wrap, bubble wrap, wax paper, or other texture making materials.You can salt it, score it with the edge of a credit card or comb. Just make some texture on it. Leave any plastic wrap on it until it is dry completely. Save it for next week.
Here are some previous blogs on negative painting:
Peaches--part negative/part positive: https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/8812132386157895665/1859509093000056145
Here is a good YouTube describing the process, by Elaine Rimmelin. I chose this one out of many because I wanted you to see how she used several colors, not just one color for each layer; that the emphasis is on increasing the VALUE of each layer.
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