Contour Hand

The subject of this piece is the world, with planets and stars abstractly placed behind it and then two large hands almost holding the world in place, I decided to fill in the each section of the contour hands with a different words in many different languages from all over the world, the words I used were Hope, Love, Peace, Home, Breathe, Faith, Share, and Live. To create this I used sharpies to do all of the lines and then water color in the background to represent outer space and the colors of the world and planets. I used contour lines, and then kind of a zentangle-ish thing to put the words in the hands. My project evolved a lot while I was working on it, this was definitely not my original plan and once I did decide to do it I was at first going to put the words on the land in the earth and not the hands but I'm very glad that I ended up making the choices I did! The meaning behind this piece is really the semblance of two hands holding the world together with the words I chose to represent, because for me ideally that should be the way it is. I think the way I did the background could be stronger at some points, but besides that I am actually really proud of the way this turned out!