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Hello Art Club!   Sorry for being a few days late! I'm aware some of you are on break now so I decided to combine the next two months for monthly submission and we'll return to doing solo monthly once the new year for Greenwich starts in September!!    Reminder: Please let me know if you are unable to submit for a month so I can mark your participation in the club since the monthly submission is the mandatory requirement for the art club like attending meeting for other clubs. However, please also remember you can submit any artwork for your monthly submission whether finished or not, so don't feel like you need to submit artwork according to the monthly theme although it would be beneficial to your journey as an artist to give them a go since they are designed to push you past your comfort zone and develop your skills!   1) Balancing Negative Space • Carefully use negative space in your work to create interesting composition • Negative space is a term to describe the space surrounding a subject.  • Also known as white space, negative space is typically empty or lacks details so that the artist can simplify the image and draw focus on the subject which is known as positive space. • It is the artist's job to proportion the ratio of negative space to positive space. In a composition, there can be mostly positive space which can be both focusing heavily on one subject or focusing on many subjects in order to portray a sense of chaos. The proportion can also be mostly negative space which can be used to illustrate scale and the internal emotional state of the subject, usually isolation (think wide shots in cinema). It can also be balanced between positive and negative space. • The use of negative space in an artwork can help to create weight, focus, rhythm, atmosphere, symbolism and symmetry in a composition. • Furthermore, using negative space can help refine your drawing skills as focusing on the negative space around a subject can help ensure you capture the big picture so you don't get bogged down in the details. Here is a nice video that explains how to use negative space to enhance your drawing skills: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWtvhSckezE (7:36) • Here are some examples of the use of negative space in art: Poplars on the Bank of the Epte (1892) by Claude Monet - Here the negative space is the sky and the positive space is the trees and surrounding foliage Posters for the National Theatre of Korea's production of Macbeth directed by Yuni Yoshida and photographed by Noh Junhan Shichirigahama in Sagami Province by Katsushika Hokusai   2) Artist at Work • Create artwork based on where and how you make your artwork or research how and where other artists throughout history have created their artwork from the bottega to the studio to the open air (En Plein Air)  The Artist's Studio (1854-55) by Gustave Courbet Monet Painting on His Studio Boat (1874) by Édouard Manet   3) Movement and Dance • Whether depicting the solemn or an expression of elation, Artists have been inspired by the movements of dancers throughout art history, using dance to express various emotions and honor the art of dance in their own art. So, I challenge you to depict movement and dance in your own artwork, creating powerful expression and emotions. The work of the Wassily Kandinksky who is considered a pioneer of abstract expressionism La Carmencita (1905) by John Singer Sargent Oberon, Titania and Puck with Fairies Dancing (1789) by William Blake   Have fun and create!!

Hi, these are my two attempts on using salt and watercolour to create texture in these strawberries.

This is my interpretation on the texture prompt for May to June. This is done in Blender, utilizing its noise texture node to imitate the surface of a planet, its atmosphere, and its rings.