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Negative Space

Posted by Kennedy Coverdale in Art - 9 - Hull on
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1. Negative space is the opposite of positive space. It's the spaces in between objects, not the object itself.

2. I found the negative space by drawing the object, but coloring in everything but the object. For the cutout, I just cut out on side of one piece of paper and used everything i cut and pasted it on each side like I was supposed to.

3. It helps because it can give them a better view of the art and it can give them ideas to make better paintings. It gives them a better view of the object or objects they're painting.

4. Not really because seeing the negative space is like seeing the positive space. It doesn't enhance a drawing any better.

Proyecto de Conversación - Post #2

Posted by Allison Patterson in Spanish 3 - Gierke on
This week I spoke with Maria about the amount of criminal activity in her home country, Venezuela. For this post I follow the same question path I followed in my first post with regards to trying to be direct with out being offensive. Maria explained to me that there is a lot of drug activity that the government trys to stop however, the president is not very efficient so, he fails most of the time.

I chose to speak to Maria because I am close with her so, she'd know I was not trying to offend her and she comes from a country that is less expressed in the Latino population of Philadelphia.
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-Negative Space Reflection

Posted by Gabriel Musselman in Art - 9 - Hull on
  1. ​Negative space is the part of a drawing that is not the object being drawn or the things behind it. If there is no object in that part of the picture then you get negative space.
  2. I cut out the picture and then used reflection. The parts that were left were negative space.
  3. If an artist can see negative space then he/she can better understand the shape of the subject.
  4. Yes. It defines edges and shapes.
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Proyecto de Conversación 2

Posted by Ronald Jackson in Spanish 3 - Gierke on
What does communication look like in Colombia? Conversation with Karlo, from Bogota, Colombia.

My partner taught me that life for a teen in Colombia is much like life in America. When conversing, they text more that they talk on the phone: similar to Americans. I learned that my partner is a very nice person, as he invited me to stay at his house if I ever go to Bogota (although this will not happen). I learned that I enjoy talking to others, as our conversation lasted for half of an hour. As we spoke more and more, I became increasingly interested in his cultural traditions. I was surprised that he was so friendly. If someone tried to chat with me about a school project, I doubt that I would be as cooperative as he was. I am proud that I learned something from the chat. I had a fear that it would be useless because no one would actually accept my chat request. My follow up questions would be about their religious culture. I am curious to learn what they do for holidays. Next time, I plan to talk with more than one person at a time. This way, I can choose which conversation I like the best.
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Msanders blog 2

Posted by Michael Sanders in Spanish 3 - Gierke on
​Who did you speak with and why?
I spoke to a girl name Keyko Meza from Peru. She invited me to a chat.
What did you learn about the person? What did you learn from the person?
I learned that again shes from Peru. She is 17 just like me although she is 4 months older then me. I also some new words I never saw before. Also peru is divided into 3 parts that learn different things.

How did the interaction help you with your personal goals?
I wanted to learn some new cultures in different countries. I learned that there are 3 sections of Peru Coasta, Syrial and Seria. Each section has different music and activities they do.

What did you do well to achieve your personal goals? What do you need to improve on to achieve your personal goals?
I achieved my goal. I learned something new. Although sometimes it was hard to understand. I want to understand with out using word reference of=r the Internet at all. O-yeah also Peru seems to love using facebook and youtube.
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Goal #2: Have a normal conversation

Posted by Longnu Nhan in Spanish 3 - Gierke on
  • Who did I speak with and why did I choose that person?
    -I spoke with Diana because she's a very close friend of mine & I just wanted to test out my spanish skills.
  • What did you learn about them? What did you learn from them?
    -I learned that she loves Italian food! 
  • How did this interaction help you move towards achieving your personal goal?
    -It helped me a lot because I was able to act normal and not try so hard.
  • What specifically did you do well according to your goals/expectations?
    -I tried to conjugate at the right moment.
  • What specifically do you need to improve on? 
    -I think I need to improve on my vocabulary. 
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Negative Space Reflection

Posted by Klarissa Hudson in Art - 9 - Hull on
A. Negative space is the parts of the picture where there is no object. It's like the empty spaces in pictures that make up the back round.

B. For both mini projects I just looked at all the places where there were no objects. Like with the cut out I looked at the back round for the negative space. For the stool drawing I just looked at where none of the chairs and signs were.

C. If an artist can see the negative space then they can make a picture look mirrored, reflective, upside down, etc. They can understand the picture better.

D. If you can see negative space you can understand the drawing better and be able to see hidden pictures as well if there are any.

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Conversation #2

Posted by Sabrina Stewart-McDonald in Spanish 3 - Gierke on
Who did you speak with and why?
I spoke with a 25 year old man named Carlos Gonzales. I spoke with him because he invited me to chat on Sharedtalk.

What did you learn about the person? What did you learn from the person?
I learned that he is from Santiago, Chile. From him, I learned that there is also a lot of crime and violence in Santiago, though tourists usually find it peaceful.

How did the interaction help you with your personal goals?
I want to learn about the daily life in other countries, mainly because when I picture other countries, I think of them as being way different from the US, but this is not the case. So, in talking with Carlos, I proved, even more, that other countries are very like the US and there is just as much violence, though we may think not. 

What did you do well to achieve your personal goals? What do you need to improve on to achieve your personal goals?
I did well with finding a person who had a lot of information. I chatted with a few other people, but Carlos had provided me with the most information about his country and the life there. I think I could've done better by finding more than one source; maybe getting more than one perspective.

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Second conversation.

Posted by Marley Utzig in Spanish 3 - Gierke on

Second Week:

Partners Name: Robert/ Mauro

City y Country: Peru/Buenos Aires

(The people on Livemocha would only talk to me a tiny bit.) 

 

 


Who you spoke with and why you chose that partner.

I spoke with a man on Livemocha, he messaged me because he was learning English and I am learning Spanish. Both men messaged me to talk so I just went with it.

 

What did you learn about them? What did you learn from them?

I learned Mauro lives in Buenos Aires, and Robert wants to learn to speak English.

 

How did this interaction help you move towards achieving your personal goals?

The more I speak in Spanish the more comfortable I become, Mauro knew no English so speaking to him forced me to only speak in Spanish. This was helpful but difficult and I found myself looking at word reference a lot

 

What specifically did you do well according to your goals/expectations? What specifically to you need to improve on? (Quote specific things you said or did and what you would have done or said if you could do it again)

I spoke only in Spanish and tried to keep a basic conversation. This needs to change, these conversations are awkward at best and using Livemocha is harder then expected. I want to figure out how to hold just a basic conversation before I try and learn anything about their culture.

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Week#2 All about Kleber and I's convo

Posted by Imani Johnson in Spanish 3 - Gierke on
This week, I only got in contact with my one helped Kleber.

He/she hasn't gotten back to me after responding to their questions but it was going having to answer the questions asked. But I tried to not use wordreference to help form my sentences. I think I would be good to just stick with communicating with Kleber, and send messages with me in Spanish and him/her in English so that way we both can learn. I only asked Kleber to ask me questions since I wasn't sure what to say, plus I didn't want to put too much of my business out there to someone I didn't know. Sadly Kleber didn't give me questions that required me to respond using different tenses meaning I would have to constantly conjugate my verbs. But we could work on that more this upcoming week.
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Deportes en Mexico

Posted by Chelsea Smith in Spanish 3 - Gierke on
What does sports look like in Mexico?

¿Qué déportes important en Mexico?

¿Haces deportes?  

¿Qué deportes en muy grande en Mexico? 

¿Haces ves fútbol? 

¿Deportes es mucho importante en Mexico o arte es muy importante? 

¿Deportes en las escuela?

What are you looking forward to about this conversation?
I am looking forward to learning about the sports in Spain. I know Soccer is big but I am curious to see what else is big. 

What are you nervous about?
I am kind of nervous to talk to someone that I don't know over the internet.

  • Who did I speak with and why did I choose that person?
    I spoke to some boy in Mexico. I choses him because he was the only one out of like 6 people that actually wrote me back.
  • What did you learn about them? What did you learn from them?
    He plays tennis. 

  • How did this interaction help you move towards achieving your personal goal?
    I didn't know they played tennis in Mexico. He didn't really answer my questions. He was confused. Was my spanish not good enough? 

  • What specifically did you do well according to your goals/expectations?
    I learned a little bit about some sport stuff. It also wasn't to bad talking to someone I didn't know that lived in a different country. 

  • What specifically do you need to improve on? (Quote specific things you said or did and what you would have done or said if you could do it again)
    I said "¿Qué deportes en muy grande en Mexico?" I meant es not en so I fixed it by doing the * and maybe thats why he was confused and signed off? 
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Rugeiatu

Posted by Rugeiatu Bah in Spanish 3 - Gierke on
Pre Question
De donde eres? que hiciste alli?
lo diferente que es aqui y alla?
Dime algo sobre su país? heres
¿como es la musica en la Puerto Rico ?

How do you anticipate your partner will respond to your questions?  
I have no idea towards these questions, because a lot of people I have been asking, reject me and curse at me. However when I find the right person, I think they are going to help me understand and tell me what I need to know. Also conversation is going to go smooth and friendly as I hope.
4.What are you looking forward to about this conversation?
I am really looking forward to a nice and respectful intelligent person that would be able to help me and learn what I have in plan for them.
5.What are you nervous about?
I actually kind of nervous about what they would say to me, since I have asked couple of other people and they reject and behave rude towards me.

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Who did I speak with and why did I choose that person?

I spoke to Pricilla, Pricilla is one of my good friends and she saw that I was in need of her help so she offer to help me accomplish my Spanish goals.

  • What did you learn about them? What did you learn from them?

I learn a lot from her, their music and the way it is similar to the United States. For example  is sometimes hot and cold there same as America. I thought it was always hot in Puerto Rica.
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Negative Space Drawings

Posted by Jasmine Nieves in Art - 9 - Hull on

    A negative space is not an actual picture. Negative spaces tell whats outside of an image. I found the negative space in my cut out by first cutting out all the pieces then placing and flipping them on construction paper. In the stool drawing, I found the stool drawing was harder then it looks. I found the negative space in the stool by trying not to draw the actual stools. This part of drawing the stool was hard. This helps an artist to see in a negative space because it tells them what outside parts of the picture, make the image. This does enhance drawings because it gets people's creative side out of them.


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Negative Space

Posted by Adam Feliciano in Art - 9 - Hull on
​A. What is negative space (explain this concept to a fourth grader that has never heard of it)

 Negative space, in art, is the space around and between the subject(s) of an image.

B. Explain how you found negative space in 1. your cut out?, 2. in your stool drawing?


I found negative space in the cut out by simply cutting out all the gray areas and paste it on one half of the page the the white area on the other side of the page which showed symmetry. The green represented the negative space.

C. Why does it help an artist to see in negative space?


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


D. Does seeing in negative space enhance drawings, why or why not

Negative space enhances drawings because you focus on the negative space instead of the actual object which might be harder and take more time.
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Negative Space Reflection

Posted by Sieanna Williams in Art - 9 - Hull on
Negative Space Reflection:

1. Photograph your negative space cut outs

2. Photograph your negative space drawings

3. Upload them to your blog

4. Answer the following questions in full sentences.

A. What is negative space (explain this concept to a fourth grader that has never heard of it)

B. Explain how you found negative space in 1. your cut out?, 2. in your stool drawing?

C. Why does it help an artist to see in negative space?

D. Does seeing in negative space enhance drawings, why or why not


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A. Negative space is the empty space/shapes AROUND and/or INSIDE the object itself. It is NOT the object's space, it is what is NOT visible. For example, when drawing negative space of a chair, you don't color in the chair, you would color the four spaces at the bottom of the chair that you can put your hand through. Coloring in these shapes makes your object appears.

B. I found negative space in 1. my cut out by first identifying the orange paper as my entire bird. Then I took my green paper as my negative space. I collided my orange bird with negative space green and placed it over my bird.

C. Negative space helps artists' create shape and it helps composition and add more emphasis to the subject.

D. Yes because it makes the actual subject stand out even more than it would if you would have drawn it itself. With negative space, the drawing is clearly visable with nothing else and it helps the artist focus on the actual subject, or what's important in the drawing.

Negative Space

Posted by Amy Chen in Art - 9 - Hull on

Negative space is the space around and between the objects.

In my drawing, I found my negative space by taking a look around the object and picture how it would look like with the negative space cut out. Therefore, I use my imagination to figure my negative space for both cut and stool drawing. 

It helps an artist to see negative space because it creates a contrast of the image for the artist.

Yes, negative space enhance drawing because it gave me a good look of what the image is suppose to look like.  

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Negative Space and Clouds Feat Green and Orange

Posted by Alex Marothy in Art - 9 - Hull on
​Negative space is the space in between objects. It is the shapes in the background. 

The year was 1972. I was a ripe young 6 years old, and ignorant to the world around me. I was highly educated from a young age, and had matured beyond my age level. It was a past time of mine to simply stroll through the streets of the Manhattan Village in which I presided. I would examine the sky, I would take in the street lamps, I was fascinated by the glow of the city, and imagined a future as great as the one I dreamt. There was a bench on the pathway that I enjoyed resting my fine buttocks on after a brisk walk through the village. As I sat there one day, legs crossed, I observed my surroundings and taking in the beauty of the oasis I had found. I stared up at one of the street lamps, noticing the space behind the bulb. I looked closer, and identified something incredible. I like to call it, NEGATIVE SPACE.

Negative space enhances drawings, and makes it easier for an artist to see the actual object, and really internalize it. I found the negative space by looking past the still life, and looking through the vail that is POSITIVE SPACE.



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Negative Space

Posted by Kenny Nguyen in Art - 9 - Hull on
​ Negative space is basically the shape of the object. The object is not seen, meaning that only the space around the object is seen. It forms the object because of the negative space around the object. I found the negative space in my cut-outs by doing an outline of it. It is quite complicated to explain the process of this. But I did a trace of one of the object to another paper, so I can find the negative space. Drawing the negative space of the stool is basically drawing the shape of the stool. The space around the stool are the negative space.

This also helps an artist to see the negative space when drawing, so that the artist can see the exact shape of the object that the artist is drawing. It can also enhances the drawing because you have the exact shape of the object already through negative space.
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Posted by Kenayah Cerdan in Art - 9 - Hull on


B. Explain how you found negative space in 1. your cut out?, 2. in your stool drawing?

In my drawing I drew the out line of each object and erased the lines where they intersected. 

C. Why does it help an artist to see in negative space?

It gives me ideas on how i should see things and what need to be fix. 

D. Does seeing in negative space enhance drawings, why or why not

It enhances drawings because it gives you the basic shape of the drawing and it makes it easier for the viewer to identify what the picture is supposed to portray. 

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Posted by Melanie Harrington in Art - 9 - Hull on
​A. What is negative space (explain this concept to a fourth grader that has never heard of it)

Negative space is the space an object does not occupy. It's also the outter shape of the object. 

B. Explain how you found negative space in 1. your cut out?, 2. in your stool drawing?

In my drawing I drew the out line of each object and erased the lines where they intersected. In my cut out I cut out the different layers of the bird and then I put every other layer on oposite sides of the paper. 

C. Why does it help an artist to see in negative space?

It gives them an idea of how to start and portray their artwork. 

D. Does seeing in negative space enhance drawings, why or why not

It enhances drawings because it gives you the basic shape of the drawing and it makes it easier for the viewer to identify what the picture is supposed to portray. 
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Negative Space

Posted by Briana Bailey in Art - 9 - Hull on
dong this project was very complicated at first and i still didn't fully finish it. negative space is nice and easy when you have the right eye and with practice. the house that i put together has cuts and rips which means its been through a lot to only get to where it is now.
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