NOTANS

"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.