Please make an entry for the Jounal/Reflection on the POS/NEG Still life assignment that we did in class. Discuss the purpose of this assignment, the main concepts that were related to you during the class exercise. It really works best if you write your reflection first in a word processor and then cut and paste it into the entry space.

This exercise follows the same concept from the previous assignment, the positive/negative bird. We were to fill the negative space and leave the positive outline as is. I was absent during the class, so I used a picture one of my classmates took of the still-life (thanks, Kris!).

The still life consisted of a stool, a vase, a lamp, a frame, and what appeared to be another, smaller vase (was not too sure as it was behind a couple of things). I started out by drawing the easier shapes to outline (the outer edge of the frame) and from there, everything started to fall in place. Once the outer edges were finished, the inside edges were MUCH easier to place. It was hard to add value to different lines because we were creating a two dimensional image from a three dimensional image.

When trying to fill the negative space, I was at a loss…imagination is not my forte. As I looked at the positive image, I started to figure that it was hard to figure out what it was an image of without knowing what had been drawn as everything seemed to morph together. So I figured, why not bring in something that would not know what it is either? So I put in two extraterrestrial beings that looked confused (emphasized by the giant question mark). Their flying saucers are parked above them with two “gravitational beams” shown by using implied lines. Each flying saucer has a creature trapped inside, and they are obscured a bit by using a lighter value on their outlines.