Looking for the spaces and the shadows – that is the joy of negative painting.

The exercise today was to paint the space around the chair – not to paint the image of the chair – just the spaces around the chair. I enjoy approaching a painting this way. There is a challenge to see shapes in the negative space that I really enjoy … maybe it is just a reflection of how I look at the world 😉

I had the time to do two different studies of the chair – different angles, different spaces and different shadows. So much more enjoyable than just painting the chair itself!

Here are the two paintings: