100 day project: hands

I do a lot of artwork to honor my hands.

Drawing, calligraphy, finger touches, and farmer's walks 

are the ways I work on my flexibility and

range of motion. 

 

Crooked fingers, swollen palms, I still take

joy in creativity. 

 

100 day project: trinkets for journal

 Making flaps for my journal, I missed a few days posting.

 I make a new version of this one every so often.

 

 Are they sentient? Are they aware?

 

 

 

no ordinary hands

Of all the things I love and appreciate, it is my hands.


I care for my hands by:
keeping them warm
improve circulation by:
warm-up and range-of-motion exercises
rest days from the computer
hanging my arm off the side of the bed for pain and circulation
 ergonomic brushes or thick brushes

My range of motion exercises is gentile. I find it more fun and helpful if I have a few go-to exercises. What works the best for me finger touches with my thumb.

I have been doing this for years and have found flexibility and less pain and swelling in my weaker hand and lots of improvement in my most distorted hand.

Hanging my hand over the side of the bed increases blood flow and lowers pain before I go to sleep.

carrying weights when I walk, much like the farmers walks only not exactly, but using the same principle with weights that I can carry while walking. This has improved my hand strength amazingly, much better than hand grips or fist exercises which I can't do because the repetition causes strain.

supplements
relaxation
heating pad
self-massage

hard tipped pens

• Black pilot gel pens
• Pigma Graphic 1

Using these types of pens and finding the best hardness pen type and paper helps my drawing. I practice faux calligraphy for range of motion.

healing hands

 With love and appreciation for my hands.

This year my hands have had many challenges. Swelling, arthritic

changes, and pain to name a few.

They have served every request, and I am so grateful.

Things I have been learning

I am learning Inkscape and Gimp, and hope to be
more proficient in both next year. 

The banner classes are fun. I really like applying 

what I have learned from other classes.

Sticker class

Inkscape fabric repeat class 1st lesson

Sketch notes / journal

100 day project

I really liked having a challenge, and so for 2019 my challenge will be 100 day project.

Rules or limitations really help the project to focus and to get the work done. I am going to focus on handmade books. I will post other projects, but for 100 days I will be moving the hand made books forward.

I will work 100 days but its hard to post every day, so I will have to play with what works.

This will include a number of experiments that I want to conduct in the studio. The links to all 100 day projects will be posted here.

1. starting tags
2. finished tags for aliveness journal 
3. cartoon bubble  
4. painted tags 

These are my inspiration. A variety of items I started, and I want to explore more.

PS : forgive me for jumping in with a project already in progress.