Technical Methods in Art by Shannon Warren

light drawing made by dancing around with glow sticks and then creating a big circle using the main torch.

This is one of my favorite light drawings because of the many colours captured by the camera being on a slow shutter speed.

After dancing around with the glow sticks I then moved the torch around to create the triangle in the center.

light drawing made using a torch from a phone and glow sticks.Since the light from the phone was bright it lit up the room.

So I danced around the room with glow sticks and then I tried to draw a square in the center by moving the glow sticks around. The camera was constantly set to a slow shutter speed which allowed trails of light to be captured.

So I placed glow sticks on a table and had 4 glow sticks hanging by string and then I took the photograph.

blue triangle. light drawing i did 

light drawing using glow sticks.

‘another light drawing that i did using many different coloured glow sticks.

This light drawing I did I really liked until I looked in the center of the image which looks as though a ghostly face is in the picture. Every time I look at this image it creeps me out quite a lot because the area in the center which is lit up seems to show a scary looking face that appears to be looking directly at the camera. I believe the face is probably my own, however I still think the face that I see in the center is rather spooky. In the future I will avoid trying to capture myself in the images.

‘blue and green’ light drawing using glow sticks.

Not only did I want to create shapes but I began thinking more about the lines that I was making while moving around with the glow sticks in my hand.

This was less successful light drawing  in showing a heart shape created using glow sticks. Though I still enjoy looking at the colours crossing over one another in areas.

using a red and purple glow stick I tried to create a drawing which attempted to capture the shape of a heart. 

When i created this light drawing I moved extremely fast which made myself appear ghostly. I really love how I appear very faintly compared to the trails of light. I used glow sticks first and then waved the torch around creating this image.

After working with Plasticine I felt eager to have another go at drawing using light once more. Though I wanted the lights to have colour and so I went and got some glow sticks to work with. This is the first light drawing that I created by setting the camera to a slow shutter speed and then dancing around with the many glow sticks in my hand. I love how the lines are loose and expressive and they capture my movement.

This model shows many squares that have been made out of Plasticine and then combined together to form a small model. I like the idea of shapes coming together and connecting. Even though the shapes are not accurate because they fail to have hard edges, I still like how the shapes come together to form a model and the form created appears natural and organic in comparison to the hard edged triangles created using MDF.