Experimenting with watercolour; negative and positive space

---Medium: Red and Blue watercolour, Paint brush

My aim today is to use watercolours and create a negative space around a building.

I started off by using a thick paintbrush and dipping it onto blue paint with lot of water on the paint, I then drew the outline of the building. I held my sketchbook upright and watched the paint drip downwards. After this, I drew the outline of the bottom of the building to make it look palpable; meanwhile, I added red watercolour instead of blue in connection with the second picture I took in the night whilst walking home. I thought this worked well because I was able to paint the outline of the building whilst dripping the paint also. One of the unsuccessful points in this experiment is that, a passive viewer seeing this work would probably not identify my art piece as a building. I asked some people of what they can see in this painting: some people could not see the building but some could.  What I would do differently, is not drip the paint and instead paint just the outline of the building. On the other hand, this would be quite simple and may not have as great as an effect.

--- Medium: Watercolour, Paintbrush, Sponge

My plan is to paint a negative space but this time not adding anything in the object to create the negative space.

Using the hard part of the sponge was a little tricky as I didn’t want to create a pattern in the sky. To solve this problem, I poured water on the page and dipped the sponge on the paint, I then dipped the sponge onto the page not realising how strong the colour would still be. I added more water to make the dark blue fade a little. After creating the clouds, I started drawing the buildings with a paintbrush whilst smudging the wet paint unto the line making sure it does not cross the line creating the negative space. I liked how the background showed the exact outline of the buildings. I mostly liked the sponge technique as it creates a nice effect and makes the blue look more like clouds. The gaps in the background that were not covered in paint did not work well as it made the painting look unfinished and quite rushed. If I were to change something, I would colour the whole background pale blue and add some heavy blue unto the paper to make it look smooth and less obvious that it is an outline of buildings. When doing this little experiment, I realized that I preferred seeing the buildings in the midst of the sky instead of focusing on the basic “Sky Line.” After my own experiments I will be focusing on three or more artists that I found interesting and relevant to my work. When looking at artists who focus on skylines, I noticed that they focused more on negative space, instead of negative space; I have decided that I want to see a mixture of buildings and skyline.