It can make our eyes wander and never stop on a specific element in the frame. Getting this balance right is tricky and rather subjective, but its something youll get better at with time and practice. When used properly, negative space provides a natural balance against the positive space in a scene. In art and design, negative space is the empty space around and between the subject (s) of an image. Students will present their final piece during a class critique or in small group critiques. Students will write a written response comparing and contrasting their work to that of Keith Haring. We might consider these as the ‘positive’ space and the ‘negative’ space. We call these two characteristics the ‘figure’ and the ‘ground’. When we create images with lots of elements, we can easily create a very distracting scene, and it’s hard to know where the main subject is. Negative space provides breathing room and draws your eye to the main subject. Review images of Haring’s work allowing students to point out the positive and negative space within each image. Most pictures focus on something and we distinguish between this thing and its background because there is contrast between the two. Finding the right balance is achieved by proper composition, which I teach in detail in Food To Frame. When it comes to busier scenes, or whenever you add additional elements to the frame, you must also look at the space between the elements and how negative space creates a connection or separation between them.
In the left photo – a minimal scene – deciding where to place negative space is just a matter of left, right, up, and down. Positive space is necessary in addition to empty space if you want to. Let’s look at these two photos and see where I’ve placed the subjects in relation to negative space. The primary subject or focal point of a photograph is the positive space of the image. You might be thinking: Negative space only works in minimal scenes, with only a main subject and all that negative space.
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