Jessica Backup

Hello again my wonderful friends! At the start of the year, I closed my shop for a while to sort some things out, but it’s been up an running for over a month now and I haven’t mentioned it on here. So I thought I’d talk a little bit about the shop update with you in this post, tell you a little bit about the pieces I’ve added and stuff like that! The two above are my new favourites, they’re made in a new way that I got the idea for while I was creating another piece that didn’t go well at all. They’re also part of my new exploration of negative space, which has by the way really kind of revolutionised my creative style right now! They’re called “Krossa”. I’ve been giving all my new pieces of these negative space-creations Swedish names, I just feel like they fit the Scandinavian aesthetic more than anything I’ve created before, and I do think the Swedish language has a bunch of pretty words. “Krossa...

I’ve always enjoyed art with that perfect amount of negative space so much. It just feels so balanced, with a lot of room for the art to breathe, and for the viewer to rest. Despite this I’ve never really used a lot of negative space in my own work – they’ve always been a bit intense all over. I’ve decided I want to learn how to use negative space, and have therefore challenged myself to use it for a while. Very specific challenge, I know. Basically I want to actually practice on the things I want to improve, rather than repeating things I’ve already “mastered”. I also knew that this would mean I would have to introduce some new type of elements into my art, which made me turn to the ever growing resource for artists that is Unsplash . The first original picture below is actually found through a site called Pexels  (which I found through this post by Outline Amy! ) but basically they’re all royalty free stock photos that I...