Monthly Archives: April 2012

The first two images are instances of bounced color I found out and about.  It is a glass vase with a light pointing down through it.  The colors from the vase are bounced off the ground plane to create interesting … Continue reading → Continue reading →

I wanted to investigate light and shadow in relation to translucent and transparent materials. The  first investigation was of vellum with slits cut into it to allow light through.  My hope was that the vellum would allow a little bit … Continue reading → Continue reading →

I set up a white room with light bouncing off a diagonal wall into the room and then changed the color of the diagonal wall with construction paper.  The first image is a white wall, then the color parade starts. … Continue reading → Continue reading →

I started with a laser cut panel and explored various lighting conditions, including backlighting through translucent paper, before moving onto a printed tree pattern, and finally layering the two. Here I played with motion of the light source.   Continue reading →

light and shadow assignment 1 My experiments from the first day of class inspired me to continue experimentation with patterned light and shadows.  I decided to use circles, squares, triangles, and an arabesque pattern. The movement of the sun during … Continue reading → Continue reading →

  As I have not really experimented with light and shadow before,  I was interested in how different shapes could wash surfaces and bounce light.  My first shadow panel was based off a panel system I have been working with in my studio.  I used tapered pieces to create a patten that moves back and […] Continue reading →

Using a 9-bulb LED bicycle light produces interesting effects on a backdrop wall as the distance from the light source to aperture changes.  In this case, what starts as the expected shadow of the chair on the wall (perforated with … Continue reading → Continue reading →

From these three shadow samples, I have discovered a lot about the behavior of light.  The first sample was created during class using a variety of lights coming from multiple directions; all being filtered through a wire mesh material.  The … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Here are some early explorations from our first day of class. Some of these effects were created using a light shining into a translucent cylinder of paper. Different colored lights, different materials, and different objects were used to get various … Continue reading → Continue reading →

We used Grasshopper to map (at a low resolution) images of vegetables onto a surface using varying sized ovals.  We then laser cut 20 chipboard panels and hung them in a composition.  These images show the affect with daytime backlighting. … Continue reading → Continue reading →