You may take pictures of the shadows or simply trace them. These solid shapes should then be drawn on paper and colored in with a single color. You are not interested in anything but the shadow itself, and you are most interested in shadows that don't look anything like the objects that created them; abstract shapes.. Choose either brown, pink, light green, orange or white. Use only one of these colors. If you would prefer you may cut out the shapes from colored paper. The shadows should appear on the page in a grid formation, in rows. Treat this like a index of shadows rather than a work of abstract art. The finished report should include 10-20 shadows and should be pasted on (or drawn on) white paper of any size (even if, especially if, the color you chose for your shadows was white.) Do not label this poster in any way, except to write your name and the date on the back. My god these are going to be beautiful.
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I picked this assignment because I thought it was an interesting concept. I usually ignore shadows in my everyday life, focusing on the object and not the interpretation of it created by lighting. As I walked around noticing shapes and figures along the walls, floors and tables, I really looked for the ones that didn't immediately jump out at me. I looked for construed elements in these figments, and picked the ones that are more challenging, such as the shadow of the glass candle-holder that was casted onto my glass living room table. I may not be an artist, but this is my interpretation of what I saw, in my methodology, which I think is the deeper meaning of this "assignment".
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