Okay so this week went pretty well. Started off by dealing with my light issues.
I wanted to contain the string lights I had so I put them in this plastic bottle.
Then I needed to find a way to defuse them so I wrapped a piece of paper around the bottle and I think it worked pretty well.
I set up a bunch of climbing supplies and arranged them in a way that made a pretty cool shadow. I wanted to combine my idea of creating a separate box world, and doing something with shadows as a part of the piece. I think one of my initial problems was I was focusing a lot on the art aspect and not as much on the light aspect, so I wanted to bring things back to the light.
This is another angle on the shadow I created, I especially liked the red cast my water bottle made on the canvas.
It’s hard to see in this picture, but I lightly traced the shadow in pencil on the canvas.
Then I took the backdrop canvas away and traced it out in black pen.
I started adding different elements of an imaginative world, including a pet snake tied to a tree that is trying to escape down a hole to an underwater world where a friendly octopus and jellyfish live.
So I put the canvas back at the set up and was having some trouble lining up the shadows again, but I think I got the basics. Some of the drawing was covered up by the shadow in a weird way, but I think I can fix it in the final iteration. I have added more details to the canvas since then, but was having trouble getting the pictures to transfer from my phone. Once I get the background artistic features set, I’ll enclose it further to create more of a separate space.