Some ideas for negative painting

SOME SIMPLIFIED DEMOS ON NEGATIVE PAINTING. 

With all the youtubes out there, it's hard to sort through them. So here I have included some simple ones to further illustrate the concept of negative painting.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DtQuspqHjS8

 This one is a monochrome of simple pebble shapes. It illustrates what I was trying to demonstrate using one shape repeated, adding more color each time. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOovfu4r5pk

Linda Kemp, author of Painting outside the Lines, gives a 5 minute demonstration of what negative painting is.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRpVi9jaJxM

.Jessica Jidas demonstrates doing trees in several layers, using several colors. This is 17 minutes long.

A similar tree painting is in an earlier blog.

FOR A PREVIEW OF MORE ADVANCED NEGATIVE PAINTING:

Most of these begin with washes of color, as we are doing this coming week.

Complex pattern of leaf branches (This is over an hour and a half, but nice to watch how she does it)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5Bwma6O49k

mind of watercolor green leaves over background. Here Steve Mitchell shows practical application of using negative painting to paint foliage. About 13 minutes. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5RWQKBWTkI&t=573s

Steve Mitchell in Mind of Watercolor does a beautiful job of fall leaves. 19 minutes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfusxMWre04

black and white water lilies: This is just video without a lot of explanation. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8NMQ4nzLuPI

bodhi leaves. A good explanation with an interesting subject. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1z5jZeWhONo&t=354s