"Notanarama"
Notan is a
Japanese design concept focussing on the relative placement of light and
dark within a composition.
It's like ying and yang.
This use of light and dark translates shape and form into flat shapes on a two dimensional surface.
Notan is traditionally presented in paint,pap ink, cut paper, but it's relevant to a host of modern day image making techniques, such a lithography in printmaking and rotoscoping in animation.
We can start our work with a black square, triangle, rectangle or circle to represent shapes.
