Assignment 2: Figure/Ground, Dropped in Color

In Assignment #2, students  drew and composed the flower on the page. They then painted the background first, leaving the flower untouched. To do this, they wet the whole page excluding the flower, and dropped color in.  After the background was painted, students put shadow and detail in the flower.  Because  the background was put in first, all their attention went into it, and the result is an  expressive and dynamic negative space (ground) wherein the flower (figure) can exist. Asija did an exceptional job in preserving the whites in her painting. This gives the work a high value range and creates luminosity.

 

Asija Wuorenmaa

 

David Baxter

 

Kathryn Zupsic

 Claora Styron

 Gladys Lyn Lapuz