Hand Drawing Practice
I continue to practice figure drawing even though I have yet to go to a Figure Drawing class. There are many drop-in places in New York City, so I have no excuse now that I'm retired and have more time to just play!
In these two journal pages I sketched hands from ads in the New York Times Fashion Magazine and then started to work my way through photos showing American sign language letters. The drawing was done with a watercolor pencil and then water was applied.
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I studied Sign Language years ago and I never thought to use any of those books on the shelf for hand and/or people models! Thanks for the great idea!
Posted by: Possum Patty | September 5, 2009 9:04 PM
What a cool idea! I think I am going to try it too!
Posted by: Dan Kent | September 5, 2009 10:07 PM
THanks for the email and your comment :) Yeah it was Tanna's idea to include the meaning of Double Happiness into the card. We were trying to keep it simple yet self-explained, easy on the eyes yet sophisticated, classy yet cute, western yet eastern... It took me a lot of thinking how to do that, but I have achieved something at least...and more importantly everyone likes it ^^
Oh, I like this "Hand Language"(手语）sketches of yours...I think if there's a language that you could describe as beautiful in the world, it'd be Hand Signals...because it's truly a universal language =)
Posted by: Alex Tan | September 6, 2009 9:35 AM
Oh great idea! I will have to borrow an ASL book from my daughter. Thanks for sharing your work.
Posted by: Deborah | September 6, 2009 1:03 PM
Well done, Shirley, and what a great idea for getting hand practice! Thanks for the inspiration.
Posted by: Casey | September 7, 2009 4:34 AM
This is a great way to practice. Super idea.
This workshop doesn't exactly fit what you're working on, but check out an upcoming one-time class at the Morgan. I think it's a Friday night in December. I don't have the date handy because I can't make it, but I think the topic is anatomy, and it's reasonably priced (and such a pretty place!).
Posted by: Art is for the Making | September 7, 2009 5:47 PM