Monday, January 09, 2006


this one is one of my favorites. note the use of negative space. more to follow with photos of Banff Dangerman Posted by Picasa

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D.Macri said...
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D.Macri said...

Ok, it's very cool, but it isn't the negative space I like so much. I like the density (James favorite adjective).

Stan Dangerman said...

please do not deleate comments the blog. it is not for you to censor.

Quitmoanez said...

Oh, here we go!

:)

Quitmoanez said...

Yea, whose doing that?

D.Macri said...

Don't be silly. It's not censoring, it's editing. I deleted my own comments, and reworded it. Don't worry your not missing a thing.

D.Macri said...

or I mean "reworded them"!

Teaching english good ya.

J C said...

maybe the negative space is the shaded area at the middle of the page.

I had a prof who felt that negative space was a silly term. what's so negative about it?

I think we all know what he's talking about here, the areas we he hasn't drawn anything, which in this composition works wonderfully. It's a break, a point where the eyes can go to rest, a relief from the density, the madness, the twirling,twirling, twirling.

I think 'density' is my favorite becuase that's how Ivan Eyre described my work (which I think can be a pro and a con). It's one of those words that is so meaningful/meaningless at the same time. Like the word 'negative'.

Here's a trick: If you paint a sketch like this, that foreground would really pop out at you if painted with lots of detail, like a close-up(see clutch). And imagine if the line in the background had no line at all? whoa, I've said too much. :)