Off the Map Inspired Bike Art - a study of negative space

This was a fun project! We started out decoupaging a map to art board

While that was drying, we chose a bike photo and isolated a section with a view finder.  Next we drew the contour of the outline of the bike on newsprint then transferred it to the mapboard with transfer paper

Then painted in the negative spaces with gesso.

Next each student chose a color of gouache along with white and black to mix tints and shades

After painting in the negative spaces, we chose a color to outline.