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Our fourth grade artists have been studying the way that artists use shadow and light to create realistic looking objects in their work. These are a few of the practice sketches that were made. Students learned how to vary their pressure upon the crayons to create dark areas and light areas. Vocabulary for this lesson: cast shadow, light source, highlight.