Zoo Animal Hands

About the last 2 weeks in Mr. Sands's class, we did animal hands where we painted our hands to make it look like an animal.  It was fun! :D  But I didn't do it since I didn't want my hands to get dirty.  Nevertheless, these animal hands were very interesting to look at.

First, we practice doing contour lines which is a method where you look at an object and draw that object without taking your pencil off the paper.  In this case, we did hand gestures; gestures that will make our hands look like an animal.  We drew those on our paper and then we colored them.  Depending on what shape we did with our hands, we determine what animal it was.  Example could be this:



After that, we took the liberty of painting our hands into almost "real-life" animals like this one shown below:

We were inspired by an amazing animal hand artist named Guido Daniele who lives and works in Milan, Italy, born in 1950. In 1990, he developed body painting technique and had used this for advertising images, commercials, fashion events, and exhibitions. He was awarded with 2007 Hero of the Year by Animal Planet television network.  He is famous for his animal hands worldwide.  His animal hand artworks really look like real animals before your eyes!

After doing this project, I felt I accomplished something because we were able to get very creative with this project.  Even though I may not be an official artist, everyone is a true artist at heart if they devote their time into it.  Everything worked out on this project.  Perhaps the only difficult part was thinking what kind of animal we should draw depending on the hand gesture we did because a single hand gesture could mean many animal possibilities we could draw.  Other than that, everything else seemed to follow through.  If we were to do this project again, we would paint our hands like animals once more and create a short film in a zoo scenario!