New Ways of Thinking

 I'd like to expand on a previous blog post, as young artists continue to explore shadow and light in the studio. This class, paper was posted on the wall and light projected onto it.
Children were given markers and offered the chance to draw on the large sheets of paper.

As a mother and daughter played with the colorful transparent blocks on the projector, another child who had begun making marks on the paper noticed the movement of the blocks as they 

rolled up and down.

She began scribbling into the shapes she saw, and as they moved up she reached higher to follow.

Playing with the materials in a way she hadn't before, the young artist uses her understanding of cause and effect, as discussed in the previous post. Noticing the movement of the projection prompted a response to mimic this movement with marks on paper.