"Hear This, You Creators!"

Above is an image by Vija Celmins, a spiderweb from 1999. In truth she has erased the white web from a toned charcoal ground but at other times she paints with light grey or whites on black painted grounds (see video below) so I thought the image still worked here. The purpose of this post is to provide some solid examples of working with dramatic bold light and dark, thanks in part to starting with a black ground. Unfortunately many of the google image results that come up when you google this topic provide very little substance (a leopard emerging from a dark cave, Jimi Hendrix playing his guitar, a screaming face, etc you get the idea).