Hand Drawing Studies Creating a unique composition using

Hand Drawing Studies Creating a unique composition using human anatomy as a subject matter

Hands in Art • How do hands show Emotion? What are the significance of hands in the following works of art?

Michelangelo, Sistine Chapel, The hand of God

Albrecht Durer, Praying Hands

Drawing Hands, MC Escher

Hand Reflecting with Sphere, MC Escher

Pablo Picasso Portrait of Igor Stravinsky

Carl Grey, Portrait of Hands Tells Lifes Story

Larry Tipton, Hand Studies

Harold Olejarz, With Two Hands • "I made it with my own two hands. " This is a phrase that, at one time or another, all of us have spoken or heard. It implies a pride in our ability to fashion something. It indicates both a mastery of materials and a mastery of our hands. In this series of images, my two hands are both the subject and the instrument, the fashioned and the fashioner.

Create a Contour Line Drawing using your hands…. • 3 Artworks • One of five different hands • One of hands with strings • One Sign language • Three letters • http: //www. youtube. com/w atch? v=FKHVqb. M_x. LU&featu re=related

Create a Composition using your hands as subject matter • Produce several studies to work out composition • • Contour sketches, gesture drawing, hand anatomy Plan out at least 5 compositional sketches for your idea Emotional content? Elements and Principals of Art? Big Idea Final Drawing rendered in full value with charcoal and conte crayon

Advanced Placement Penn Manor High School