With the restrictions of being at home pretty much full time I joined a small on-line challenge this week.  Entitled Notan/Counterchange, it was described as follows:

Notan is a Japanese design concept involving the play and placement of light and dark or two different colour elements.
The word ‘counterchange’ means to change parts or (poetically) to chequer, for example with contrasting colours.

It took me a while to come up with an idea but the result has come out better than I anticipated.

Having used white paper as one of the two colour elements this part has, obviously, merged into the background of my website and created a very interesting finished image.

However, if I want to maintain a ‘framed’ look to my piece I need to either increase the size of the red paper to surround the white section or choose a second colour to mount the piece on to.

I don’t think this is half as interesting as the first image.

And there’s always the possibility of adding another colour.

Not quite in the spirit of a counterchange once a third colour has been introduced but it could be the start of an interesting lino or woodcut with added chine collé.  These are only very basic beach hut shapes but a long row of individual huts with added colour and counterchange might be worth exploring.