Kent Island Art Association-negative Painting Class

Here are some of the great pictures from the Kent Island Art Association Class on Monday.  I hope that this taste of negative painting will be helpful to everyone that attended and add a spark of mystery to paintings yet to be created!  The  house above is the art center. It is located in Stevensville, Maryland --over the Chesapeake Bay Bridge. Go to http://www.kifaevents.org for information on classes.

Georgette is an acrylic painter and was able to do a beautiful job with the  project in watercolor.  See our fall leaves above.

This is me explaining the importance of the under painting. This is the foundation of a great negative design.

This is a close up of the first layer underway. Many negative paintings are built up with many transparent layers  of paint. Understanding color is very important.

Jane's Color Clock Secret For Artists

 I have put my popular color theory  into a small book. I am dedicating it to my students who have asked me for this for years. If you have struggled with color, this book will  show  you how to look at color differently.

If you click the link below the book it will take you to Blurb.com and you can order your own copy.

Intuitive negative painting

I usually work from an established drawing before I lay down the under-painting in most of my work. In these two watercolors I did a dry on wet under-painting and then let my intuitive side see a scene and create it. The under-painting will lead you in a particular direction. It looks easy but it is very hard to get the perfect first layer. It helps to use paint right out of the tube and make sure both sides of the paper are thoroughly wet.   This is really the most sophisticated level of negative painting and if you want to give the right brain a work-out try it!  

I have two workshops coming up all about negative painting. Go to my web-site at www.paintpencil.com  and look under classes.