MATERIALS:

• Large sheets of thick paper
• Pencils
• Watercolour paints & brushes
• Flowers, seed pods or sticks
• Vases

HOW TO:

• Set up some vases of flowers, seed pods and sticks in a sunny spot where their shadows are cast across your paper. The first step is to trace around the shadow outlines with pencil. You can move your flower vases to trace multiple shadows filling your sheet of paper with drawings.
• Once the paper is filled with drawings, now it's time to add colour. We used a mixture of regular watercolour paints and natural plant pigment watercolours to fill our drawings with colour. I love how beautifully these painting turned out.
• Instead of using plants, you could also draw the shadows of other items like toy figurines or animals.