Asl Art - Blog Posts
Name Change
Guess what I did today!
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Name: SigningSavvy, Lifeprint, ASLDeafined
Change: SigningSavvy, Lifeprint, ASLDeafined
[Image ID: Name and Change in American Sign Language. Both signs start pink and end blue.
Name is two hands in H handshape palms facing signer. Dominant hand taps base hand at the fingers.
Change is both hands in X handshape crossed at the wrists. The hands rotate around each other to cross with the other arm in front.
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Kamala
[Image ID: Kamala Harris's sign name. Hand in a 3 fingered O handshape twists and opens in a 3 handshape with palm facing signer. Hands are blue line art. Kamala is written along the thumb. End ID]
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I ment to post this sooner because it's the last day to pre order but...LOOK AT THIS!
[Image ID: a book called Visual Stories in Sign Language by Brittany Castle. Illustrations show how various classifiers are used to describe birds. Text underneath reads:
Love American Sign Language? Support Deaf Artists!
ASL is a real, valuable, and beautiful language, used every day by members of the deaf community. It has a rich history, its own rules, and culture. Even better? When you purchase from a deaf artist, you are connecting with and supporting the deaf community and you can be confident that the signs in your art are correct because you bought from a native signer. 58 Creativity was founded to show ASL in clear, visual art that is easy to understand, even if you’re seeing ASL for the first time!
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Halloween
Sources: SigningSavvy, Lifeprint, ASLDeafined
[Image ID: Halloween in American Sign Language. Both hands in bent B handshape, palms facing the signer with fingers pointing up, twist back and fourth over the signers face. The hands are orange and purple and a purple face has fangs. End ID]
Bat
Sources: SigningSavvy, Lifeprint, ASLDeafined
[Image ID: Bat in American Sign Language. Both hands with wrists crossed over signers chest flick out into the 1 handshape. Hands are purple with black nails. End ID]
Spider
Sources: SigningSavvy, Lifeprint, ASLDeafined
[Image ID: Spider in American Sign Language. Both hands in clawed 5 handshape, palms stacked with fingers out to represent spider legs. The hands are purple with sharp black nails. End ID]
Pumpkin
Sources: SigningSavvy, Lifeprint, ASLDeafined
[Image ID: Pumpkin in American Sign Language. Hand starting in 8 handshape flicks base hand in S handshape. Dominant hand is green and base hand is orange. End ID]
Ghost
Sources: SigningSavvy, Lifeprint, ASLDeafined
[Image ID: Ghost in American Sign Language. Both hands in F handshape. Dominant hand moves up in a wobbly path from base hand. Hands are different shades of blue as the sign progresses and a ghost is depicted as coming out of the base hand. End ID]
it felt like was the only one learning asl for nonverbalism reasons and i always felt weird about it cus there was never really any information about using asl for mutism like i'm appropriating deaf language or something? but i just got so sick of typing things out to communicate and people getting annoyed with how long it takes. its embarrassing. i've found that a sentence that comes out garbled and incomprehensible or doesn't come out at all when i try to speak verbally comes out easy as shit in sign. i also don't need captions for asl movies and videos (i got audio processing issues) so i'm working on my receptive skill also. anyway if you haven't done it before, what's the sign for selective mutism?
I am definitely grateful to the deaf community for sign languages. I don't think there would be sign languages if they hadn't developed and fought for it. But I don't think its appropriation to learn it for nonverbalism. For me personally, I'm just excited there's another person in the world I could sign with! I think it sucks that others assume people would only wanna sign if they have to! I've been in a number of situations in which I'm signing with someone, they ask if I'm deaf or hearing, then immediately start speaking when I say hearing. ASL is a wonderfully expressive language that feels so much more natural to me than spoken language.
Selective Mutism
Source: Lifeprint
[Image ID: Selective Mutism in American Sign Language. Hand in 4 handshape over the signers mouth, like the sign for "talk" then closes in S handshape over the mouth. The first part of the sign is red, and the second half is blue. End ID]
Vampire
Sources: SigningSavvy, ASLDeafined
[Image ID: vampire in American Sign Language. Hand in bent V handshape taps the side of the signers neck. Hand and mouth, which is depicted with fangs, are drawn in red. End ID]
Technology
Sources: SigningSavvy, Lifeprint, ASLDeafined
[Image ID: technology in American Sign Language. Hand in 8 handshape taps the side of base hand in open B handshape. Hands are robotic with frayed red wires coming out of the dominant hand's pinky finger. End ID]
Had to do a PowerPoint for school and decided it needed more art at the last second.
[Image IDs: 7 drawings of signs in American Sign Language along with English translations. Movement is shown by various shades of blue going up in brightness. In order the signs are immersion, great, goal, topic, success, learn and experience. End ID]
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Most of my art is digital for cost and convenience, but my favorite medium is paint. I usually use acrylic paint because I have not yet mastered watercolor and I don't have any other kind of paint.
Paint
Sources: SigningSavvy, Lifeprint, ASLDeafined
[Image ID: Paint in American Sign Language. Hand in H handshape mimics the stroke of a paintbrush on base hand in open B handshape. There are green, blue, and purple brushstrokes on the base hand coordinating with the colors of the dominant hand as it moves through the sign. End ID]
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I really like hiking, painting, and game nights. My favorite games are Hand and Foot, Rummy, Spit, Spanking Yoda, Dinosaur Tea Party, and Quiplash.
Game
Sources: SigningSavvy, Lifeprint, ASLDeafined
[Image ID: Game in American Sign Language. Both hands in open A handshape palms facing signer. Knuckles tap each other 2-3 times. Hands are black and red with card symbols cut out. End ID]
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My favorite cheeses are Belavitano(basically any variation but Merlot if I have to chose), Talegio, Stilton with blueberries, smoked Mozzarella, and Mimolette.
Cheese
Sources: SigningSavvy, Lifeprint, ASLDeafined
[Image ID: the sign for cheese in American Sign Language. Both hands are horizontal, palms touching in B handshape. Dominant hand on top twists back and forth. Hands are designed to resemble various cheeses. End ID]
I had to "Post a GIF that describes your understanding of this topic" so I made a quick gif of the sign for Understand. You will not believe the amount of ads I suffered through to bring you this:
[GIF ID: a figure thinks with a finger on their chin as their eyes move back and forth as if reading. They pause then make the sign for Understand in American Sign Language. End ID]
Cow
Sources: SigningSavvy, Lifeprint, ASLDeafined
[Image ID: Cow in American Sign Language. Both hands in Y handshape, thumbs touching temples and palms facing forward, then hand twists downwards. Hands are on a cow face. End ID]
Pig
Sources: SigningSavvy, ASLDeafined
[Image ID: Pig in American Sign Language. Hand in B handshape palm down rests under the chin then changes to Bent-B handshape. Above the hands is a pig face. End ID]
Autumn
Sources: SigningSavvy, Lifeprint, ASLDeafined
[Image ID: Autumn in American Sign Language. Hand in B handshape brushes down across the base hands elbow. Base hand is brown. Dominant hand goes from green to yellow to red to orange. End ID]
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Image 1: Graphics representing the American Sign Language signs for Halloween, Bat, Vampire, Bone, Ghost, Spider, Pumpkin, and the I L Y sign.
Image 2: same as image 1 except each sign is labeled in English.
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I'm thinking of making sticker sheets.
My school had a back to school bash with arts and crafts so I painted the ASL sign for Dinosaur
[Image ID: Dinosaur in American Sign Language in acrylic. A hand in flat O handshape is painted with a yellow eye, a nostril, green scales, and teeth lining the thumb and index finger. End ID]
Sources: SigningSavvy, Lifeprint, ASLDeafined
Chuck Baird's Crocodile Dundee, 1992
Sources: Deaf-art.org | Profiles, Chuck Baird, DeafArt.org | Artworks, Descriptions
[Image ID by Dawn Sign Press:
Mirroring a crocodile's huge, fearsome jaws, a pair of arms lies directly beneath them, parodying their drawbridge motion. (DSP)
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Chuck Baird is a De'VIA (Deaf View / Image Art) artist, and he's got a lot of cool stuff that incorporates American Sign Language! I think this one, Tyger Tyger, and the whale one are my favorites. Check him out!
It's been awhile since I did an actual painting. I chose this sign, poem, specifically the express version, as a sort of love letter to the language and community. I've been studying American Sign Language for a few years now. Verbal communication has often been a struggle for me. With ASL, I have been able to meet and communicate with many wonderful people in a way that feels freeing. I am still learning. There are things I can't sign because I haven't learned the vocabulary yet. And there are things I can't say because they can only be expressed in sign.
[Image ID: a painting of a yellow and orange figure. Their arm starts clenched at their heart and opens as it extends forward. End ID]
Got some cool stuff from 58creativity!
[Image ID: a picture of 5 items:
1: a tan T-shirt. The design has a mountain, trees, and play outside in English and ASL.
2: a sticker of the sign grow, which is green with a plant coming out of the top hand.
3: a sticker of the sign for tea with the base hand replaced with a teacup and leaves.
4: a blue button that has the sign for support and a heart under the words "Support Deaf Artists."
5: a note from the artist that says, "Thank you so much for purchasing and sorting my business as a deaf artist. Your support means a lot to me as it inspires me to create more." There is line art of the artist signing thank you.
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Intersex
Source: Rogan Shannon
[Image ID: Intersex in American Sign Language. Hand in I handshape, palm facing out starts infront of the signers face then twists and drops to their chest in X handshape. End ID]
Vote
Sources: SigningSavvy, Lifeprint, ASLDeafined
To register: vote.gov/register
For more information, like registration deadlines (30 days before an election in TN) or to confirm or update registration: usa.gov/voter-registration/
[Image ID: Vote in American Sign Language. Hand in F handshape taps inside base hand in S handshape. End ID]
The Knoxville Center of the Deaf is having a gala and I wanna go! Tickets are $90 so I'm doing commissions. The KCD offers great services and I'd love to support them. Here's a link for anyone that wants more information or to support them directly!
Request a commission through my ko-fi or message for details. My venmo is @Lloyd_E
[Image ID: a menu for commissions. Each category has examples.
15 dollars per sign. Examples shown are "Good" and "Behavior" for $15, "Good Night" for $30 and "Anthropology" or "the Study of Human Behavior" for $45.
25 dollars per stylized sign. Examples shown are "Bones" drawn with a skeletal design and "Frog" which has a frog face included in the design for $25. The signs "Lesbian" "Gay" "Bi" "Trans" colored in their respective pride flag colors together are $80.
5 dollars per fingerspelling. Examples shown are "Nonbinary" and "Name." End ID]