Studio in Art Lesson Plans

Negative Space Project

This project focuses on:

• Positive Space-the object or
• Shape itself
• Negative Space -the Area
• Surrounding the object (s) or
• shape (s)
• Cropped image
• Overlapping of shapes

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Assignment

Create a compostion of simple shapes that extends off all four edges of your paper (picture plane). Some shapes should overlap. Negative space will be developed with graded shadings. Shown below -- Negative Space Scissors Activity.

Negative Space Project Check Sheet

Notan Design 1
Notan Design 2
Greyscale Chart
SB 1 Negative Space and Value Development Assignment

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