![]() ![]() Attached, we are a permanent pair of magnets. The relationship between the negative and positive space was particularly significant here marking the fatal transformation from living to extinct penguins. Jennifer Helner is realist watercolor painter of flowers, landscapes. It is a competitive struggle with a strict but friendly adversary. make positive and negative space work together to create interesting painting. Order and disorder compete for attention, rearrange, sometimes switch positions. I am the victim it just carries on, crossroad following crossroad, brooking no hesitation or speculation on the continuing paths that wander, this way and that, across the page and canvas. I am always in a direct two-way conversation with the painting and drawing. Some are animated, none are preconceived. By using thin lines of skin, the tattoo feels crisp and intricate because of how it pops. Images, like moving clouds, occur in the recombination of lines. If you really want to make a huge visual impact with your ink, try using thin amounts of negative space juxtaposed against a solid black background. A new skill that I learned was how to balance positive and negative space. ![]() The paintings are free-brushed, arbitrary compositions in combination with memories of art history as I have come to know it. The flowers and vases around my house -The length of the flowers because the. Free shapes, they cavort and tumble about the surface, unpremeditated, without specific purpose or direction, a response to what the observer discovers. On canvas, the negative spaces emerge because they are bare and unpainted. The drawings are only guides to painting, not grid transfers. I also paint regularly, daily, generally starting with one or several of my drawings as a reference. ![]() The moment a mark or brush stroke is made, a new decision is required, part of an unending race to the finish. Choices and decisions are constant, from the simple to the complex. Samuel Gelber, Striding Still-Life, oil in linen, 40 x 30 in., 2020.Īlthough I am sheltering in place, this is a daily adventure, a walk in strange woods, a different locale every day, new patterns of travel, variable, fresh and related shapes, different options, complicated geometrics. ![]()
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