Maintaining your simple marks, draw the triangular wedges of negative space between the fingers. Try not to draw the fingers at all, just concentrate on the shapes themselves and let the rough ...

Thanks to ample negative space, ... With this concept in mind, look for furniture with silhouettes that yield interesting anti-shapes, like Jonathan Adler’s Riviera Waterfall Console.

In an age of Y2K-inspired loud graphics (think neon chrome, pixel motifs and holograms), a contrasting movement has quietly ...

Gillian Linden’s slim debut novel, “Negative Space,” explores the being and nothingness of modern motherhood. By Lynn Steger Strong Lynn Steger Strong is the author of “Flight,” among ...

Negative space in painting, photography, and music. Let’s take the well-known oil on canvas painting “The Starry Night” that Dutch post-impressionist Vincent Van Gogh painted in 1889 from ...

Lee loves negative-space designs on this nail shape, while pastels look super ladylike. Ballerina Nails. Ballerina nails. Instagram/@bio_sculpture_official, @sculpturesbys. Ballerina nails.

Space out vignettes. As I experienced while curating my office bookshelves, there’s a fine line between cluttered and composed. “Negative space helps keep tabletop clutter in check,” Malina ...

“Negative space helps keep tabletop clutter in check,” Malina says. That’s why she’ll group together objects with one theme (say, vintage glass vessels or antique candlesticks).