Artists will understand the term “negative space”: it just refers
to the space between objects in a drawing or painting, and it can be an
important element in art. I thought I’d play around with the idea of negative
space in embroidery, and came up with this version of a seabird.
A seabird in negative space
The bird shape
itself has no outline: it exists only as a gap between the blue waves. It was
an interesting exercise and I think I may try to push it further, maybe by
using painted fabric as a background and then just embroidering the negative
space rather than the subject of the embroidery