ASL Hands

7th and 8th grade artists are working with my favorite medium for their current project: charcoal! After viewing a demonstration and practicing both additive (starting with a blank paper and adding charcoal to the page) and subtractive (starting with a darkened paper and erasing to show the picture) drawing methods, students chose which technique they wanted to do to draw their hands. Students must use American Sign Language to fingerspell three of their initials and draw what they see. Period 4 has had two class periods to work on their artwork so far, and I am impressed!