| Vocabulary
Terms: positive space, negative space, positive/negative
reversal
Objective: To create a
design using a detailed drawing reversing positive and negative space.
Understand organic shape and geometric shape.
Motivation:
Look at pattern in nature - study patterns of bugs - Draw from bug
collections (or photographs).
Procedure:
1. Draw a bug that fills a 5
1/2 inch square paper (or six inched square). Use plenty of shape details,
no plain lines. Patterns can be real or invented. Organic shape.
2. Go over the drawing in
marker. Trace on 18 x 18 inch square of white paper in a popcorn pattern -
alternating random pattern.
3. Fill in practice small bug
drawing in a positive pattern to use as a guide. Color in some shapes
black and leave some white.
4. Cut out a geometric shape
from a 6 inch piece of tag board.
5. Trace shape on large square of "popcorned"
(alternating/random pattern) bugs, with at least one shape
overlapping each bug. Avoid tangents (an edge touching a rounded edge at
one point - as this creates tension - overlapping the shape is better).
6. Color in the bugs on
the large pattern with space reversal. Color all areas of the bug OUTSIDE
the shapes the same as your positive pattern (the color pattern on the
original 5 1/2 inch piece). All areas INSIDE the geometric shape should be
colored in the exact opposite.
Examples submitted by Tina Moulton,
St. Mary in Lake Forest, Illinois
Click images to see larger views
Rubric: (from rubric by Marianne
Galyk)
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