Fingerspelling
Jun 6th, 2010 by J. O'Brien
I’m working on a series of fingerspelling images. This is the letter “N” I drew at church this morning as a quick reference drawing for the project. I wanted to add some hand lettering and “Luke” came from today’s lectionary (I know, begins with an “L” but I didn’t hear any interesting “N” words and couldn’t remember the sign for “L”). A couple of things I’ve learned about fingerspelling…
- bridges sign language and spoken language to represent words that have no corresponding sign1
- can be one-handed or two handed1
- a person fluent in sign language reads fingerspelling by looking at the speller’s face rather than their hands, reading what is being fingerspelled through their peripheral vision1
More to come…
Hi Jim,
Love this. My daughter is an interpreter in Rochester working on her masters degree. Love the brush lettering:)
thanks Peg!