After a can of tomato paste exploded in our kitchen today, I did this shadow doodle

Nothing like spending an hour cleaning tomato paste out of the dining rug, off the kitchen walls, etc. to make me want to draw something completely goofy before finishing dinner prep:

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Jeff says he'll probably have to take apart our phone to get the tomato paste out from between the keys on the keypad.

The only clue that the tomato paste can was Not Good was a hint of rust along one edge. I just thought it was rust, and went to open it to use for some slow cooker pot roast. Ironically, I thought doing a slow cooker recipe would free up the rest of the afternoon for book illustration work.

HA. HA. HA.

For my other shadow doodles, see my Pinterest Board Of Shadow Doodles. More info about my Found Object doodles: http://DebbieOhi.com/LookAgain.

p.s. On a completely unrelated note: We did have an ant problem in our kitchen, but it seems to be okay now.

p.p.s. And before anyone asks: NO, I was not at all compelled to do any food art before cleaning up the tomatoplosion. :-)

Hat Lady Shadow Doodle

Doodle in ink and shadow. For other shadow doodles, see my Shadow Doodles on Pinterest.

I love creating found object doodles and post them on Instagram, "Found Object Art" gallery on Flickr, Pinterest, Tumblr  and in my Found Object Art portfolio.

Shadow Laughing doodle, plus setup video/photos of my process

Thanks for the kind comments and encouragement re: my recent shadow doodles on Twitter and FB. Much appreciated!

One of my goals with this most recent shadow doodle was to NOT have to enhance the shadow in Photoshop afterward. I like the idea of just taking the photo and not having to add anything else to the image except for copyright info.

And yay, SUCCESS! What I did: turn off the room lights except for my iPhone 5s and one floor lamp situated in such a way to provide enough ambient light for the final photo but not so much light to add an extra shadow.

I'm still using the lovely bouquet of flowers that my friend Hazel Mitchell sent, and I took a very short video to show how I looked for a good doodle shadow:

After I find the right shadow, then I add the ink line drawing bits directly on the paper/shadow using my Pentel Pocket Pen Brush. I do this while the paper is still taped up.

Here's a photo showing more of the setup:

As you can tell, I've changed my setup from my first shadow doodle four days ago and even from two days ago. For one thing, I find that setting up the light to shine horizontally rather than straight down gives me more flexibility in positioning shadow subjects. In this case, I didn't have to take the flowers out of the vase but just needed to rotate the vase until I found a good shadow.

Also, I find it far easier to do shadow doodles indoors. Outdoors, the shifting sunlight as well as wind forces me to work quickly. Which is fine once in a while, but keeps me from working with fine details in shadows. I also like taking my time in choosing an interesting shadow.

This is what the setup looked like after I turn off my iPhone 5s flashlight:

I've only just started experimenting with shadow doodles, but you can see my Shadow Doodle collection so far on Pinterest.

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I love creating found object doodles and post them on Instagram, "Found Object Art" gallery on Flickr, Pinterest, Tumblr  and in my Found Object Art portfolio.

Evil Shadow Guy doodle & setup photo

Here's the setup for the photo:

I love creating found object doodles and post them on Instagram, "Found Object Art" gallery on Flickr, Pinterest, Tumblr  and in my Found Object Art portfolio.

Shadow bird in our garden this morning

I love creating found object doodles and post them on Instagram, "Found Object Art" gallery on Flickr, Pinterest, Tumblr  and in my Found Object Art portfolio.

For fans of my shadow doodles, I'm collecting them in my new Shadow Doodle board on Pinterest.