Hand Harvested: The Final Pick

I would like to invite you all to my final exhibition, Hand Harvested: The Final Pick, created for the course Art Education in a Web 2.0 World taught by Rebecca Alm and Emily Hoisington.  It has been a wonderful class and I have been introduced to many Web 2.0 tools and many wonderful artists.

I have chosen a few hand-themed series for you to enjoy, and I have added a few watercolor sketches that I think pair nicely with my photographs. Feel free to peruse my exhibit on my flickr site to view the set Hand Harvested: The Final Pick. If you would like to leave comments for me, please do so on either the flickr set or here on my Handtastic blog. If you would like a more interactive venue to leave video, audio, text, and doodle comments, please visit my Voicethread.

To all my fellow MCAD Web 2.0 students, thank you for all of your valuable feedback over the past three weeks. I have really enjoyed learning the more interactive (and sometimes intimidating) corners of the web with you all. I hope you all have a wonderful summer!

Tuesday's Child

For the arranged set, I have stuck with a loose chronological progression. I have chosen only from photographs in which my hand is interacting with the object in some way, and have not included any of the Gathering where my hand was used solely as a back drop.
Hyperlink to Arranged set in flickr

A stranger lends a hand

 

I took a few photos of a tiny white prairie flower while I was away in Wisconsin this weekend. (Above). In order to label my photos in flickr, I searched for the name of this blossom, and it appears to be Queen Anne's Lace. My search for the name brought me to a wonderful website, with photos that are of a higher quality and I thought I would share them with you all on my blog. (Below).

Hand to Mouth

The discovery that I have made is that the photos in which my hand is interacting with the objects are more interesting than the photos where my hand is simply being used as a background. Above are a few photos illustrating this point. 
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 My plan for how this discovery will emerge in my work will be through a variety of media explorations. My comfort zone is in realistic-ish drawing, so  I would like to start out exploring the structures in these photographs in my sketchbook, and once I feel comfortable, I will then attempt to combine the shapes and possibly abstract them a bit. I would also like to use this time to learn screen printing and I will try to create a screen print using "in the hand" as my guideline. I am not yet sure if the screen print will be my culminating piece or if I will make a few runs and add paint/drawing on top of them.