My thumb nails. I had a few different ideas for sound illustrations. The class really liked the humming of the refrigerator, but I really liked the idea of the sound of silence. 
Once I decided on the idea I made this pencil com with all of the hands spelling out silence in sign language.
These are my two colored comps. Someone suggested raising the s above the other hands to make it look like it was a capital letter. I originally did the colored comp as all the same hand and then when we had to do a second one I decided to change the races of the skin. I liked the idea of doing a black background to add to the silence, and because I liked painting on the black board so much, and because I had so much left over from the postcard.
I did have a little problem counting with the second marker comp, can you find the extra finger? Just remember Rusty I'm not discriminating against digits!
This is my final painting of the sound of silence. I used gouache and some colored pencil to add in some more colors and do some more blending. I like the way the final turned out except I don't know why I choose to use the color I did on the L because I don't know of anyone who has that color skin. Besides that I had fun with this because I have found that I like adding lots of colors into skin, I also did it in the memory portrait. I think the nails turned out good on most of these, the one thing I'm not a big fan of is the way the gouache looked when I tried to blend it better, thats part of the reason I went with colored pencil on top. 
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