Day: December 29, 2023

SLJ Shadow art Step It Up

This afternoon, I made a shadow art like before but in time lapse. So instead of just plain shadow art, I waited in periods of time and drew the shadow. When you look up to the sky, you would see the clouds moving. And if you look carefully at the sun, the same thing happens. The fact is because the Earth keeps moving, so it looks like the sky is moving when it is actually us that’s moving.

Now, if you place something that creates a shadow outside on a sunny day and trace (and colour with colouring material) the shadow, you’ll see it will of have moved in a period of time. Trace and colour that with another colour, not caring it overlaps. By choosing colours, I suggest contrast colours e.g. black and white so it stands out more with that effect. It starts to appear that effect on the second so on the third, you can choose to be ready. If you keep going, the effect may stand out more. If you keep going, it may look alike to something like this (but this is not mine).

I chose to do it three times, starting with red, then blue and lastly green. I found it not easy but also not hard because it was not easy for my surface was not totally flat but it was not hard for the last activity to me was harder. I did it with a wooden cat and this is how mine turned out to be.

What figure would you choose to do it on?

SLJ Shadow art Kick Start

This morning, the task was creating shadow art. Firstly, you need an object or something that creates a shadow, paper, pen or pencil (I recommend pencil), and colouring materials. Then you trace over your thing and colour it. Your art is finished!

I did it with a baby animal and it did not work well. I had my mum help me because a baby animal about 6 days old is very jumpy. So from my experience, I rather recommend using something that DOES NOT MOVE! Otherwise, it is very challenging. That was the hardest part.

To me, the easiest part was colouring. I got out my colouring pencils and coloured so it was easy. Also, another thing that made it easy was the fact that they didn’t really have much colour. So at least that helped.

Now, finally, I have completed my art. Can you guess what I traced? The answer is a code on the paper…

For another hint, here it comes…

The answer was Quail chick Japanese.

Which type of animal are you a fan of?