Art_Positive & Negative

The girls have been practicing "seeing" negative shapes – the shapes around the positive shapes. they could not have drawn the chair from observation without this new skill!

Drawing the complicated form of the chair was just the first step. Then, they colored both the positive and the negative shapes with colored pencil. 

Next, they cut out the negative shapes noticing how size, angle and placement matter a lot. They also had to keep track of all of them!!!

Finally, they glue down the negative shapes to recreate the chair that's not there, but is made only by negative shapes. They also glues down the positive chair drawing. This pair emphasizes the dynamic relationship between what is and what isn't. 

In reflection, the girls write about how their personal negatives "hold up" their positives and vice versa. They comment on how their struggles have helped them grow stronger and that the things they don't know or aren't good at are balanced by the things they do know and are good at.