Negative Space better Art!

This Painting was a lot of fun again it's from a photograph. This is in Northwest  Michigan, a great trout stream and  the beginning of a large beaver dam.

One thing that defines this painting is the negative space, the space where the sky and trees come together, and the relationship that defines the tree form. this occurs both in the foreground and the background.

The mist and gray under story also defines the upper part of the middle ground, and tell us the pine trees are above that area.
I think it is so cool that just a little bit of information to the brain and we see or understand that is what we are looking at.

Other artist use this effect even better to define or refine the painting so we feel as though we are seeing great depth of field.

Love the beaver house as well in this picture.

So even though I'm mostly positive, lets use some negative space to define our paintings!