Today in drawing we learned about negative shapes.

At my job at home I regularly teach eight year old's about negative shapes by taking a puzzle, removing the pieces around the center of interest and saying, "See, look how important these are" and by the end of the five minute lesson they are negative shape masters. In college however, they make us draw pictures with lots of shapes and "play around" with the notion of positive and negative shapes. The professor told me I was doing a really good job. I promise I won't be like this all term, you know, super skeptical about everything we do in this drawing class that's not my drawing class, assuming that we move past the negative shape lesson relatively quickly.