7th Grade Art Counterchange
By Chris, 8th Grade Computer Class student
February 12, 2010
The seventh graders are working on a design called counterchange. Counterchange is the checkered effect of contrasting colors to create a dramatic break-up of different areas, forms and shapes, as one crosses over another.
They, the seventh graders, are using two colors, black and white.
The seventh graders will draw their design on a white piece of paper. Then, they will trace that design on a black piece of paper and on contrast-o paper. (They will end up with two designs when they are finished.) The contrast-o paper is a unique sheet of two layers of special plastic film of contrasting black and white. The layers are bonded together.
An X-acto knife is used to cut through the top thin white layer to expose the contrasting black color of the the base layer beneath, to create black and white art.
The class will go one stop further. The white layer that they cut will be placed on the black paper; just the opposite of what is being cut out. The result is that each student will have 2 pictures. One will be a positive picture on a negative (white) background; and the other picture will be a negative picture on a positive (black) background.
This information was provided by Mrs. Lucht, our art teacher.
