Shadow Photos

We're getting a welcome break from the heat and humidity. The windows are open and I can hear the birds singing....the fresh air feels like a fresh start! 

When I went on my walk this morning I took a plain white piece of paper. Inspired by Rebecca Chapman....I was on a mission to take some shadow photos. She shared the idea in this post: https://www.instagram.com/p/DZ91YJvK4YK/

By taking the photo of the shadow on a white piece of paper you get a clean silhouette that can be printed onto tissue. Or in today's case....exam paper. Yes...that stuff that covers the exam table in your doctor's office. Roseanne gifted me as much as would fold into an envelope....and I'm going to be doing several experiments with it. 

Today I used it for printing shadow prints.

I cropped and resized this photo and printed along with a few others on some of the exam paper.

This isn't a great photo....but it shows how I print on tissue/exam paper. I tape the end that gets fed into my printer onto a piece of copy paper. You can see the resized shadow photo in the bottom right corner.

There was no better place to put it than my Playful Pages journal that I made in a class with Rebecca Chapman who inspired the shadow photos. This journal is an ongoing project....and plants printed on tissue is an ongoing theme throughout. 

I glued it print side so the ink wouldn't run using matte medium. You can barely see the edges. It works very similar to art tissue...but I do think exam paper is stronger.

Thanks Roseanne! More experiments to come.

There's a little something special tucked in the vertical pocket on the left page.

One of the only things I have of my mother's handwriting. 

This is just a few of the shadow photos I took this morning...Once I started I couldn't stop. I like that a bit of the actual green grass and purple salvia made it into the photo. Can you see them?

Here are the original photos of those two so you can see how the plant parts got into the photo. I also got the shadow of my wire leaf sculpture behind the salvia. I had a lot of fun taking shadow photos today!