during week one, our younger grades of art learned about positive and negative space. Positive space in a piece of artwork is basically the focus or subject of the art. The negative space is all of the background space around the subject. To help understand this better, our students viewed the video below:
To reinforce the element we just finished, the K-1 class created "tye-dye lines". They colored a tye dye design and then drew and cut different types of lines. By separating them and gluing them to black paper, the lines created positive space while the tye dye became the background negative space.
Cutting and gluing these "puzzle pieces" neatly really pushed the K-1 classes abilities; it's harder than it looks!
I was so impressed by Riah's gluing abilities! And though a tinge off-kilter, Kassie's spacing is awesome! 
The 2nd and 3rd graders created a snowflake that emphasized positive and negative space. I tried to trick the students when having them identify the positive and negative space, thinking that the black and white would throw them off, but they knew with certainty that no matter what it's color, the snowflake was the positive space. Here we really worked our fine motor skills when cutting the delicate snowflakes and lining up our paper to glue.
Aren't these dynamic looking?!
Our 4th and 5th graders created positive space with sea creature silhouettes. The farther away our creatures swam, the smaller they became.
If you look really closely, you may be able to find Mayra's mermaid. The movement of the delicate fish bodies in Samuel's underwater scene is spot-on!
Woah! I think Abigail's sea turtle is about to land overhead!
Who's ready to see how the other Space projects turn out?! If their other art turns out anything like this, I look forward to it!
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