Negative Space Letters

First Grade students learned that negative space is the space around the main object of an artwork. Most of the time, artists spend a lot of time drawing or painting the postive space of an artwork, and much less time on the negative, or background space. Students practiced painting negative space by taping the initial of their first or last name and then painting all of the negative space with analogous colors. When the paint was dry, they peeled the tape off and discovered that the letter(positive space) was still the focal point of the artwork without even painting it at all!