MA: Notan Light Dark PC

Let's do more with negative space. Create one postcard using notan. It's a (paper cutting? and) collage technique and Japanese for "light dark harmony". Not complicated (unless you want it to be)

Take a square of dark paper, a white piece of paper (or one covered with small patterned paper), adhesive/glue, pencil and pair of scissors. Draw several simplified images. Cut half of each image in the dark square and flip the cut-out piece over to complete the mirror image of each image. Then attach/glue all the bits to the larger sheet of paper. The "square" in the initial image is 3" x 3.5" for on a 6" x 4.25" postcard. The yellow in it does not provide as much contrast as I think it "should".

I've collected some tutorials and notan pictures that I liked on a Design-notan Pinterest board. You can see the board without a Pinterest account but you won't be able to follow links, so here are links for the tutorials I found:

• https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/fc/4d/b4/fc4db4e94caad3fc9d3fc18c7c9bdf4a.jpg
• http://www.teachandshoot.com/2014/05/art-room-handouts-round-one.html *http://createartwithme.com/positive-negative-space-collage/
• You Tube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFbsrJSJjho&feature=share, and
• Examples from an IB high school are here and here. I see this more of a "challenge" swap than an "art" swap, but I suspect many of the results will be both.

Size is sender's choice. Whatever's legal to mail from your country. Seems many folk seem to like the 6x 4 inch size. I tend to use 6" x 4.25" since it's the largest I can mail within the USA with a postcard stamp.