Hands

Recently I found this piece of sculpture "conductor's hands." It was made by me when I was in junior high. At that time, art class was my favorite class. Every time, my art teacher always had different kinds of ideas. He would tell us the long history of art and bring us pictures of those famous painting. Besides, he would let students do the activity, like painting or sculpturing. My art teacher really knew how to combine art knowledge with interesting.

One day, he asked us to fing a picture of hand's gesture from newspaper and brought it to class. All of my classmates brougt one hand's gesture ,but mine was different. My art teacher said we had to make the sculptures of hand. Everyone made only one hand, but I had to make two hands. I was wondering if I could only do one hand. However, my art teacher told me that it wouldn't be a finished work if I only made one hand.

First, we use thin steel sticks and wire. Circle some wire as the palm and use thin steel sticks which entwine a piece of newspaper around the sticks as fingers. Then arrange the sticks in the right order like fingers and combine sticks with wire.Use a chunk of wood as the base and nail the hand on it. Finally, use a big lump of clay to cover the hand and adjust hand's gesture. Then begain to shape it.

This experience of making sculpture was really interesting. Although this work wasn't very pretty, it still had its value in my heart. It always reminded me of my art teacher who love art and enjoy art very much.