I have decided to call my project Shadows and Colors of the Seasons Lantern since what I wanted to play with was shadows and colored lighting while showcasing what I love about each one, the plants and flowers. I wanted to document my lantern in the dark to show the brilliance of the color and…

There was a lot to be done this week to be ready to present! I started by dying my flower motifs black so that they would give more of the illusion of a shadow, then had to block them again so they were the size I was expecting. Luckily they didn’t shrink in the dying…

These last couple weeks don’t look like as much as I had hoped. Since there is an order to how I have to do everything, there isn’t too much that I’ve completed yet. So far I have finished the crochet aspect of the project, since each piece took about 10 hours to complete, not including…

For my Mock up I decided to experiment with cut outs and how light would show the shadows best. I started by finding some acrylic in the makerspace to simulate glass. Then I discovered I had some gel highlighters that perfectly spread onto the acrylic and changed the color as if it were colored glass….

At first I didn’t think I had a lot of failure this week since it wasn’t in a three-dimensional space. However after thinking about it this week came with a lot of failure. I decided to do a test block of a different flower pattern that I found online in the size of yarn I…

Stained Glass Lantern I have always been interested in working with stained glass as I love the visual effects of it. I was thinking of having four different stained glass pieces held together by a wooden structure. Each stained glass piece would be a different flower design. My idea is to have each of the…

I thought the concept of light color blending was interesting because it’s so different from color blending with paint, the more commonly thought of medium. I am also very interested in stained glass, which has an aspect of color blending when the light goes through to project colors. I learned there are two different types…

Paul Friedlander is an interesting light artist since all his art stems from a love of kinetic art. Friedlander graduated from college with a degree in physics, before learning his love of art and getting a second degree in fine art. He has spent his whole life investigating different types of technology to make light…

Hello! My name is Macayle Wells, mostly known as Mac, my pronouns are she/her and I am from Connecticut. Art plays a big role in my life and my future plans. Currently it is a way I express myself and learn new things which I find interesting. While in the future I hope to get…