Modeling the Hand in Clay

In this assignment, the hand gesture that I came up with was the "rock on." Once again, this shows the love I have for music. I thought it would be an interesting thing to do. It was rather challenging, I have never modeled a hand out of clay before. The first thing I did to start was form my palm. I then moved onto the fingers. I wanted to make sure I could get the appropriate width of my hand. Once I thought the hand was the right size, I was able to go back on work on the little details. I also ended up building a base on the bottom of my wrist to make it a little more stable from falling over. This also gave the hand a little different look of presentation in the end.

Cross Contour Line/Wire Assignment

For this assignment, I wanted to pick something that represented me. I love to go to concerts and when I do, I always wear a pair of one of my Converse Shoes. I decided to pick the pair with the lime green shoe laces. I was able to find some green wire at Hobby Lobby for them. For the wire, I used a couple different thicknesses to show color and width of objects on the shoe. Overall, I'm really happy with the end result. A lot of work I do ends up looking a little abstract. I enjoyed this project and it was a little challenge for me since I have never worked with wire. Hopefully I can experiment with some other objects down the road.