Go Go Gestalt

My Everyday students, often take a lot of convincing. Convincing them that they can create beautiful illusions with lines and shapes in graphite, charcoal, paint, et al is simultaneously challenging and rewarding. To make my point clear . . . and believavable, I set up four stations, each with black, white or gray scale media. Students could choose, and then rotate to each. In one, I hung a striped shirt on a display board, then placed easels around it. Their goal was to focus on its form and shape, by seeing, then representing only the negative space. The result is a gestalt. My student-skeptics, a few any way...did draw some contour lines as guides, but their drawings, albeit unfinished are quite nice.