Shadows trace the passing of time as they move across a scene in time with the movement of the sun. You may well have done an experiment at school where you place an upright stick on a sheet of paper outside in the sunshine so that you could plot the shadow positions at various times throughout the day?
Monet famously set up several canvases at his house so that he could work on the same scene at different hours of the day without losing the shadows at any given time.
Look at shadows and make some studies.
Consider how they distort and move (surprisingly quickly) and how they become stronger or fainter with the interplay between cloud and sun. You may have an object with contours that casts an interesting shadow.
Play with the idea of shadows; perhaps overlapping, abstracting and experimenting with colour.
Develop your ideas – what if you replaced a real shadow with another? Perhaps the figure of an old man casting a child's shadow...
Some of your ideas could work well for reflections too.
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