Notan art design

Graphic Design

When talking about space, it refers to the space that an artwork fills. With a 2D space, we are referring to the space within the canvas or piece of paper. When you fill a space on paper (for...

in art, is the space around and between the subject(s) of an image. Negative space, in art, is the space around and between the subject(s) of an image.

Description My first homework assignment in art school was to do Notan for my Fundamentals of Design class. The piece itself is 14"x14" and all the black was a 7"x7" square of black construction paper that was cut out with an X-Acto knife. I don't have batteries for my camera, and I don't know where the USB cord for it is anyway, so my apologies for the low quality picture. I had to use my webcam. That's also why the right side appears bigger than the left -- the piece was angled slightly…

Not an Design on the Little Red Riding Hood story

This is a lesson I've posted about before. It is based on artwork by M.C. Escher, and introduces the concept of negative and positive space, as well as negative/positive space reversal. One thing that is really awesome about this lesson is that there is no trash! Every single piece of paper that gets cut out of one side gets glued on the other side. With many other paper cutting lessons, the paper scraps all over the tables and floor take some time to clean up, but with this lesson, the only…