{"id":22993,"date":"2023-04-05T21:34:14","date_gmt":"2023-04-06T01:34:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/?p=22993"},"modified":"2023-04-05T21:34:14","modified_gmt":"2023-04-06T01:34:14","slug":"letters-by-lydia-positive-and-negative-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/2023\/04\/05\/letters-by-lydia-positive-and-negative-space\/","title":{"rendered":"Letters by Lydia: Positive and Negative Space"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Happy Wednesday everyone!\u00a0 This week I wanted to talk about using positive and negative space.\u00a0 If you don&#8217;t already know what that is, or need a quick refresher, here&#8217;s an example:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-22994 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/IMG_7745-300x148.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"446\" height=\"220\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/IMG_7745-300x148.jpg 300w, https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/IMG_7745-768x379.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/IMG_7745-1024x506.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 446px) 100vw, 446px\" \/>Positive space is the thing itself, and negative space is the lack of the thing, or what&#8217;s around it.\u00a0 On the left, you can see that the &#8220;Hi&#8221; is written using negative space, because the color exists all around it, but the letters themselves are empty.\u00a0 On the right, the &#8220;Hi&#8221; is an example of positive space, because it is the thing itself (by contrast, the white all around it is negative space).<\/p>\n<p>This is something a lot of artists make use of, or at least are aware of, and the lettering community is a part of that too!<\/p>\n<p>I was feeling inspired by spring (despite the icky weather today), so I drew some more in-depth pieces involving flowers that use positive and negative space.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-22995 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/IMG_7744-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"630\" height=\"353\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/IMG_7744-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/IMG_7744-768x431.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/IMG_7744-1024x574.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-22996\" src=\"http:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/IMG_7741-300x110.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"659\" height=\"242\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/IMG_7741-300x110.jpg 300w, https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/IMG_7741-768x282.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/IMG_7741-1024x376.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/IMG_7741.jpg 1989w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 659px) 100vw, 659px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Which one do you like better?\u00a0 I hope you all have a great week and hopefully we&#8217;ll start to see some flowers blooming soon \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy Wednesday everyone!\u00a0 This week I wanted to talk about using positive and negative space.\u00a0 If you don&#8217;t already know what that is, or need a quick refresher, here&#8217;s an example: Positive space is the thing itself, and negative space is the lack of the thing, or what&#8217;s around it.\u00a0 On the left, you can [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2258,"featured_media":20697,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[9,1126,1867,1381,1866,1902,549],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22993"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2258"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22993"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22993\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22997,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22993\/revisions\/22997"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}