VALUE: Deep Space

Brian Watts

Yesterday students finished up their shallow space compositions and started a deep space or 3-dimensional space painting.  Unlike 2-dimensional or shallow space which concentrates on the surface, the elements within a deep space will appear to recede into the picture plane. Stronger contrasts in value will yield a deeper sense of space. In Brian's painting above, depth is achieved by the use of a gradation in the background as well as the size change of the cubes (bigger in the foreground, smaller in the background). Students will have the first hour of class to finish their paintings before the critique and we move onto COLOR.