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

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

3. Michelangelo, Sistine Chapel, The hand of God

4. Albrecht Durer, Praying Hands

5. Drawing Hands, MC Escher

6. Hand Reflecting with Sphere, MC Escher

7. Pablo Picasso Portrait of Igor Stravinsky

8. Carl Grey, Portrait of Hands Tells Lifes Story

9. Larry Tipton, Hand Studies

10. 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.

12. 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

17. 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

18. Advanced Placement Penn Manor High School