The Curiosity Lab, Children's Museum of Pittsburgh

F.I.N.E. Artist Wade Kramm in the Curiosity Lab! Nov 20th

I had such a fun day running back and forth in the Curiosity Lab helping Wade and the visitors play with light and shadows. Wade was making some initial investigations into his F.I.N.E. Artist in Residency project and he needed some volunteers.  We found some helpful, patient, children that were willing to stand still for about 5 minutes.  Trinity and Ian were great!  They had their shadow portraits made by Wade in a multiple stage process.

Wade had Trinity and Ian stand in front of white paper mounted on the wall and traced their shadows.  Wade then placed the white paper with the tracing on the floor in front of a clear mylar screen.  He traced onto the clear mylar screen the lines on the white paper.  He then used the tracing on the clear mylar as a template to cut out a shadow portrait from cardboard.  The shadow portrait was stood up in the Curiosity Lab to cast a shadow on the floor that was the exact size of Trinity and Ian.

Here’s some photos from the day.

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Paul

November 21, 2010 at 12:37 am Paul Leave a comment