Negative space Warm/ Cool painting

Fourth Grade finished their negative space paintings by filling the negative space with their choice of warm or cool colors, students were required to use all three warm or cool colors

Warm colored bird

Cool colored fish and sky

Cool colored panda

Cool colored winter scene

Warm colored cupcake

Students enjoyed the colors and how they are bright against the black positive space and it also shows student knowledge of warm and cool colors

4th Grade Positive Negative painting

Fourth grade is working on positive and negative space.  I like to relate positive space with addition (+) and negative space with subtraction. (-) Relating art to other subjects, like math, keeps students engaged and helps connect the dots on a new topic like positive/negative space.

Week 1:  Students practice both positive and negative space on one paper.

Week 2: After students have practice with Positive and Negative space, students sketch out a negative space animal, person, or place, they trace this object with a crayon to create a wax resist.  I always like to trace drawing with crayon when working with watercolor so the colors don't mix into the white space. The students use black watercolor to create the negative space of the object and will finish them off with colored watercolors next week.

Loon

Owl

Tree

Bunny and Cat

House with both positive and negative space

Tap shoes

Positive Negative Space

Fourth Grade is learning about positive and negative space.  In this project they demonstrate an irregular pattern on both sides of this diptych piece.  One side shows the tree in the positive space, and the other side has the patterns on the outside of the tree creating a tree shape in the negative space. 

Next week students will paint over the crayon to further demonstrate their knowledge of positive and negative space.