Contrast in art ideas

Conflict Paintings- Conceptual art tells a story AP sample Complementary Colors

This is a simple exercise that uses positive and negative shapes and lines. 1. Give each student a tall white rectangle, and a black piece of paper that is half the size of the white.

On a double chromatic gradation painted with acrylic paint, was pasted the skyline of a city cut out from a black cardboard. The color gradation was painted starting from a central yellow stripe, with

contrast through line and color

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…

Description My arm plus a mutant tree stump. Done with graphite and charcoal. Original size is 18x24 inches. [EDIT]: A couple people apparently wanted prints for this, so that option's now available to whoever those two individuals were. Enjoy. Apparently it gives deviantDollars or something like that, so it's money for the website and points for me that I can use to buy a snazzy button perhaps. Maybe a sticker or two. Everyone loves stickers.

For Macro Mondays: "Opposites"

Montreal-based artist Sandra Chevrier is creating some of the best pop art I’ve seen in quite some time, mixing her own...

"We absorb a lot of different things and Frankenstein them together in our own way." - Craig Redman

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