I had a lot of fun last weekend at the Zilker Park Botanical Festival, sharing a “Botanical Art” booth with two other artists. We discussed many things, art among them, and met a lot of nice people. For a while, I tried to draw a tree, but the sun coming through the crape myrtle behind me kept making moving and detailed images on my paper. I tried to draw the shadow outline, then decided it would be interesting to take a photo of the shadow on the paper itself. My friend Sally and I ended up traveling through adjoining booths and taking photos of tree shadows, cactus and palm shadows and sun bokeh on a blank sheet of drawing paper. Quite a few people offered advice on which would be most interesting. Only one photo actually has a physical part of a plant in it – the rest are simply shadows. I’ve always been fascinated with shadows – hence the name of my website…
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1 Jo Castillo // Mar 31, 2009 at 9:20 am
Hi Regina, these are great photos. I especially like the last one with the pine needle (?) in it. Or cactus needle?
Looks like you had fun.
2 Regina // Mar 31, 2009 at 11:36 am
Jo – It is a cactus needle or spike or whatever they are called. It was being obstinate and wouldn’t move for us to take the shadow picture.
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