As well as the photographs capturing the moments of the shadows existence, I have been doing shadow drawings, as shown above – literally drawing round the outline of the shadow. When on paper, the negative and positive space and area of blackness and shadow become worthy of note. I like the somewhat sketchy nature of these drawings, done on the spot and in seconds, however, they become something completely different when you block in the area of shadow...the tension of the black and white edges, the edges are what the drawing becomes about. I tried to fill in the area with first charcoal, but the laborious sense of the task was evident in the final outcome, so I then tried ink – the washy quality, the fact that there are some areas darker than others, like pools of darkness, is pleasing. Another contributing factor is the fact that they are all life scale; they are the size of the shadows in real life – or at least a section of the shadow that I choose. Playing with scale, sizing them up or down may have interesting effects. Also, the cropping and framing of an area of shadow to fill the paper is almost like considering the design and layout of a page – something that could be perhaps looked into.
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