Shading the imagination

Remember watching the clouds roll by and using your imagination to visualize the many different images...white whales jumping over cars, and sailboats passing over the circus of elephants and horses. In my two-dimensional art class this week we are practicing shading techniques. We did this project by attaching a studio light to the end of a table, then we turned out the lights and traced the shadows of a pair of scissors held in about five to six different positions and lengths in front of our blank paper causing short and long shadows of the handles and blades. We finished by shading each new shape formed by the scissor overlaps from darkest to lightest.

so....Sit back, relax and 'cloud gaze' away! Add 'what you see' to the comment box below.