1. Positive & Negative Space
AVI 101

2. Positive & Negative Space
Space plays an important role in determining the overall composition of your artwork.

3. Positive & Negative Space
Positive Space is the areas in a work of art that are the subjects, or areas of interest.
Negative Space is the area around the subjects, or areas of interest.

4. Positive & Negative Space
A good artist realizes that the space surrounding an object is just as important as the object itself.
Negative space helps define a subject, and brings balance to a composition.

5. Positive & Negative Space
Which artworks look visually more interesting?

6. Positive & Negative Space

7. Positive & Negative Space
What do you see here?

8. Positive & Negative Space
If you see the black hand, then the black shaded area is the positive space.
The white areas become the negative space.

9. Positive & Negative Space
If you see the white hand, then the white area is the positive space.
The black area becomes the negative space.

10. Positive & Negative Space
Therefore, Negative Space is the space around the object.
In the left image, the negative space is the white area around the bottles.
In the right image, the positive space is shown as the black objects.

11. Positive & Negative Space
So, Positive Space is the space that an object occupies.
In the left image, the positive space is the area that the bottles take up.
In the right image, the negative space is shown as the black area around the objects.

12. Positive & Negative Space
The artist decides which is the positive or negative space and if they should colour in the space or not.

13. Importance of Positive/Negative In Graffiti Stencil Art
Graffiti Stencils

14. Importance of Positive/Negative In Graffiti Stencil Art
Music-Themed Urban Spraypaint Stencil Graffiti Wall Art

15. Importance of Positive/Negative In Graffiti Stencil Art
Stencil Graffiti Art

16. Banksy Most famous modern day stencil graffiti artist.
His graffiti reflects on his political views showing a lot of dark humour.
No one knows his identity.
The only thing we know is that he’s from England and was born in 1974.

17. Banksy Exit Through the Gift Shop – A Banksy film, 2010

18. Girl and Balloon Girl and Balloon Banksy London 2002

19. Girl and Balloon Girl and Balloon Banksy London 2002

20. Flying Balloon Girl Flying Balloon Girl Banksy Israel, 2005

21. Stop and Search (Girl and a Soldier)
Banksy
Bethlehem, 2007

22. Rage, Flower Thrower Rage, Flower Thrower Banksy Jerusalem, 2003

23. Follow your Dreams, Cancelled
Banksy
Boston, Massachusetts 2010

24. Graffiti Is A Crime Graffiti Is A Crime Banksy New York, 2013

25. Keep Your Coins, I Want Change
Banksy
Melbourne, Australia

26. Security Guard With Pink Balloon Dog
Banksy
Back of a Police Station in Ontario, Canada

27. Positive & Negative Space Practice Assignment
Complete the following worksheet to practice your understanding of Positive & Negative Space.