hand pictures!

Crap I forgot the picture. So here ya go, some cool pictures of hands (well..I think they're cool..)

Art Stuff

Alright...art stuff....let's see, what have I been up to lately? Well the barnacle hand is coming along nicely, although now I'm having doubts about whether or not I should actually put the barnacles on it or not. It is the most disturbing looking thing....a hand with big, golf-ball-sized warts all over it. It definitely looks diseased. If I throw the barnacles on, they'll just be around the edges of the warts, and they'll be tiiiiiiiiiiiny. Tiny for barnacles, at least. Uh, so not much more to report, I guess. I'm doing one of those free classes at OCAC for the scholastic gold key winners. Something about wood and instruments....should be fun. Is anyone else going to one?

bloggin

Hello everyone. So I got the wrapped hand done pretty quickly, and now it's gone to glazing and stuff. I'm thinking just underglazes and stains, nothing special. After that I couldn't think of anything to do for another hand...kind of ran out of inspiration and was discouraged after pushing through the last hand (even though it turned out well). So I took a little ball of clay and smushed it into a barnacle shape. Then I did it like....30 more times. I'm not sure what I'll do with the barnacles yet, but Julia thought I should make a hand with barnacles on it. I liked the idea, and for some reason barnacles on a hand reminds me of sickness or disease, so I'll incorperate that into my next project. I started on that today and will try and remember to post pictures once it comes along a little more. Also, for this hand I'm really trying to focus on form first, THEN distortion. I think that will make my projects a little more refined.

bloooooggg

Hello all other AP art blogger people. So let's see here...the glaze for the hand claw talon came out well, and the other hand I was working on with the twisted fingers is in the kiln. Because I had nothing to work on and was pretty undriven to do anything a couple classes ago, I started just making a general hand form, not really knowing where I was going to go with it. So it turns out, the hand I made was really horrible. I mean....I really hated it. I tried to fix it up a little bit...make the fingers longer, give more definition to the palm...but it just wasn't working. So I started to carve at it, just to take it in a different direction. I carved out most of it and got the idea to re-cover it up. It got a lot better, although I'm still working at it. Does anyone remember Alex's concentration pieces from last year, the apple and the pear? The ones that looked like mummified fruit? Well if not, here's a picture of the apple. The hand looks similar to it, how you can see the hollow inside, and how it looks like it's in wraps. Anyways, the fingers aren't coming together the way I had hoped...I'll probably do something different with them next class (maybe just take a few off all together?), but I really like the direction it's going so far. I'll let you all know how it turns out next week.