{"id":1859,"date":"2016-05-12T14:36:49","date_gmt":"2016-05-12T14:36:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elizabethfram.com\/Blog\/?p=1859"},"modified":"2016-05-12T14:36:49","modified_gmt":"2016-05-12T14:36:49","slug":"hands-on-hands-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elizabethfram.com\/Blog\/hands-on-hands-off\/","title":{"rendered":"Hands-On \/ Hands-Off"},"content":{"rendered":"

This past week marked the end of the second round of the online Journal Project that I am participating in this year. As a quick reminder, we are a group of 14 artists across the US and in Canada who are\u00a0creating a 12″ x 12″ interpretation of a one-word prompt every 60 days. You can read more about the project in my post “Creative Yoga”<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Flight of Hand \u00a0\u00a0<\/strong> \u00a92016 Elizabeth Fram<\/p><\/div>\n

This latest challenge was “hands”. My contribution integrates a shadow puppet with American Sign Language (the signs at the bottom of the piece represent “b”, “i”, “r”, & “d”), inspired\u00a0by watching a sign language interpreter at our annual Town Meeting in March.<\/p>\n

I have included images of my hands off and on in my work since college. In many ways, I identify with them as a more apt representation of myself as self-portrait, than I do my face. After all, I only see my face when I look in the mirror, but I watch my hands all day, every day, as they express the core of who I am through the things I make and tend.<\/p>\n

Below are a few of the pieces in which my hands have stood in for me in one way or another, pointing toward\u00a0issues I was moved\u00a0to express at the time.<\/p>\n

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Beneath the Layers<\/strong> \u00a9 2001 Elizabeth Fram<\/p><\/div>\n

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Crossroads IV, Detail<\/strong> \u00a92002 Elizabeth Fram<\/p><\/div>\n

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Knock on Wood<\/strong> \u00a9 2013 Elizabeth Fram<\/p><\/div>\n

No question, hands can be a huge challenge to draw. But I found Jon deMartin’s<\/a> article\/lesson in the Winter 2015 issue of Drawing Magazine<\/strong><\/em><\/a> to be very informative and a big help. You can buy a back issue, in either in paper or downloadable form,\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

To end on a humorous note, enjoy these links on the subject of hands: You can tell a lot about a woman by her hands<\/a>\u00a0and Irish Hand Dancing…or something<\/a><\/p>\n

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