Negative space painting acrylic

A negative painting is a technique where you paint the background around a positive image first. As a result, the background has darker colors, thus increasing the depth of the image. It is considered a negative painting as you work with negative space. This article will discuss what negative watercolor paintings are and some of our favorite tips for making them look amazing.

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In anticipation of a workshop that I am teaching on negative spaces tomorrow, I have been inspired to do some playing around with the use of negative spaces. I enjoy the somewhat mind bending tech…

Negative space painting

Negative space painting with thinned down acrylic paint and a brush

If you like drawing and painting, this could be the technique for you as this is a way to add patterns and draw some shapes on top of a painted abstract background. Painting from imagination can be difficult to do if you start from a blank canvas, but here we are going to use an abstract background as a way to get your imagination going! You might also like: Online art class: Painting Flowers from imagination in mixed media Here are the steps you can take to paint a flower still life using a…

By Brandi Bowman in Art Tutorials > Painting Tutorials Every painting is composed of negative and positive space. We tend to “see” the positive space—the apple in a still life painting, the person in the portrait—but there’s always more to a painting than that! Negative space is visually just as important as positive space, and it’s the area around and in between your subject matter. Those little glimmers of light through the leaves of a tree, the shape of the empty sky […]

Artist Linda Kemp uses the practice of negative painting to deconstruct how to paint the essence of a subject. Here are her tips.

In this mixed media on canvas piece, I wanted to experiment with techniques of negative painting, painting an abstract background and of course I could not resist adding some patterns 🙂 You might also like: Online art class: Painting Flowers from imagination in mixed media Here are the steps I took to paint this mixed media Flower painting: I started by selecting a few fluid acrylic ink paint bottles, I actually ended up using only the blue and green. I also used liquid matte medium. For…