Hands

1. Hands

2. Our hands as IDENTITY

3. Our hands are all made up of unique shapes, lines and wrinkles These might be used to tell our future/fortune or in solving a crime

4. Those shapes can often tell us about someone’s line of work…

5. Hands can tell us someone’s age

6. How people decorate their hands can tell us something about them

7. FREEZE. Look at your hands. Are they moving? Are they resting? Are you calm, restless, happy, nervous, or angry? Our hands often reflect how we feel.

8. Hands show EMOTION

9. Open your hands and hold them up like this statue in Turkey. What does this mean?

10. Hands COMMUNICATE through greetings, signs and symbols

11. Our hand shapes can spell things…

12. There are entire languages using hand symbols!ASLAmerican Sign Language

14. Hands are hard to draw! Many artists spend time studying the shapes and lines of hands Picasso Rivera Da Vinci

15. Photographing Hands… • In a pose

16. At rest

17. In Action

18. With faces

19. Four photographs of hands with a theme. Create your own filter and record it as a Photoshop Action. Adjust the Levels, Curves, Color, Saturation… Tone your image by creating a box of color Overlayed on top of your photos… Size your images to be similar/the same…think about printing them! (200 dpi)

20. Your theme can be as simple or complex as you make it. Hands of friends Hands of family Hands and Technology Hands and Music Hands and Art Working hands Hands at rest Cooking hands Writing hands Hands making symbols Hands as letters Decorated hands Hands and adornment (jewelry) Dramatic hands Joined hands