 Hello, everyone. Welcome. My name is Joseph and I'm a youth librarian for San Francisco Public Library. We are so happy you're here with us to kick off the first Black History Month program for youth and families in a drawing workshop with the Museum of African Diaspora, or MOAD. This is the first of the two workshops with MOAD. The second one will be male art that will take place on February 19th at 2pm. For today's workshop, you will need a few supplies that you can easily find in your home. One of them is a dull pencil, two sheets of plain white paper, and optional q-tips or cotton swabs and eraser. And my friends, my colleagues will share the supply list on the chat. This workshop is part of more than a month program series in which we celebrate Black history, culture, and heritage. This celebration is titled more than a month in an effort to emphasize that reflection, open dialogue, interdisciplinary education, and shared advocacy needs to take place in our communities during Black History Month and throughout the year. Again, thank you for joining us to continue understanding, respecting, and celebrating Black history and culture in San Francisco and beyond. Check out San Francisco Public Library's webpage for more than a month to see our amazing upcoming events, check out our curated book list, and much, much more. Before we begin, let's give a thank to friends of SAPL for their generous support of this special series, Make and Do series. We can't do this without them, so thank you friends of the SAPL. Without further ado, let me welcome Sadeh Gabreyes, Education Program Manager. Sadeh Gabreyes, born in Ethiopia, is a multidisciplinary artist, educator, and beekeeping enthusiast. Her creative work and teaching style are greatly influenced by the wonderful visual artists, theater performers, and storytellers of our childhood community. So everyone, let's give a warm virtual warm welcome to Sadeh. So take it away, Sadeh. Thank you. Thank you, Joseph. I'm so happy to be here and, you know, representing MOAD and with San Francisco Public Library, two of my favorite organizations here in the Bay Area. And happy Black History Month and it's more than a month. I really like that and I really appreciate that. And so I'm going to start by sharing my screen. And I have some presentations for all of you. So if you can see my screen, well, great. Awesome. Well, also, welcome to Museum of the African Diaspora. And as Joseph introduced me, I'm the MOAD's Education Program Manager, and today I bring you a drawing workshop. It is simple. It is relaxing. And the point and the goal of this activity is not actually to finish it, but to get you started and to get you inspired. Before I get way ahead of myself today, I would like us to stand in solidarity with Black Lives Matter. So we're going to have a couple of quite moments, a couple of quite minutes, and then we're going to move on. Thank you. Before we start, I would also, before we start the activity, I would also like to read our land acknowledgement. As many of us are settler, immigrants and descendants of those forcibly brought to this continent, our institutions were founded upon exclusions and erasures of the Indigenous peoples whose land we are located. With deep respect, MOAD acknowledges that even in virtual space, our people, our work, and our network servers are on native lands. And thank the Indigenous people of the Bay Area who have started this land throughout the generations. All right. Who's ready? Who's ready to get started and to start drawing? It's a beautiful day. It's raining out here in San Francisco, so I think the sun came out, so I think it should be fine. But it's such a nice activity to start noticing our hands and to draw our hands. The first thing I would like us to do is to look at our palm. The palm of our left hand. Sorry about that. Some of you might need your right hand. If you're right-handed, then use your left hand. If you're left-handed, please use your right hand. But the one that you're not going to be using, just look at the lines. Look at the lines going up and down on your palm. How many lines can you find that are really dark and prominent? Darker than the small lines that you see? And what do they remind you of? What do these lines remind you of? Reverse, maps. Anisa, I see that. A horn. I'm really curious about that. We have one question. Olivia wants to know if we're looking at the top or the bottom of our hands. That's a great question. All across our palm. Top and down. That's a great question. You might see where you can find more lines and you can just focus on that. Like Monique says, the lines are like the small cross-tree branches. That's what I was thinking too. I keep thinking they're kind of like branches. Yeah. Now we're going to turn our hand around and now we're going to look at the back of our hand to the opposite side of our palm. Can you find the smallest line, the finest line, the thinnest line? Do you find dots? I'm finding dots on mine. Anyone has dots? Power finding dots? What do these lines remind you of? I'm going to be specific. The ones on your knuckles, the lines on your knuckles, what do they remind you of? Ingrid says, everybody's hands that have lines that are unique, for sure. That's a good point, Lynn. Train tracks, cracked earth, scales, walnut, bird's nests, rings on a tree, elephant trunk. Oh, elephant trunk. I can see that. Oh, wow. I appreciate your imagination and I'm definitely inspired by it. How often is it that we look at our hands? And how often is it that we look at them in Olivia animal footprint? Pokemon, Addison. A lot, yeah. And how they do so much for us. And to take a moment to look at these lines, to take a moment and to really examine what is going on, it really grounds us. Corderoi, Monique, I see that. And so it's a good exercise to do, but it's also helpful because we're going to be working with lines. And today, drawing, the drawing workshop is value of shapes. And the shapes are going to be made with lines. So lines are really, really important. They are one of the most important elements of art. The artwork that you just saw, just, just previously that you saw is by Henry Asawa Tanner, and he is an African American artist. He's an artist and as an American artist that spent a lot of time in Pennsylvania and also in Paris. And this is one of his studies. He studied, he's a fantastic painter. I really, really encourage you to go and look at his art and it's very inspiring. And he did some of his best works in 1930s. You can find so many things out there in the public domain. And so one of the things I would like to show you is the one that you see that is on the right side is his study. The one on the left is mine. Clearly, they're very different. And I'm going to show you another one of his creations. That's actually his own hand, where it's a self portrait of some sort. And that's what we're going to do. If you have any questions, comments, put them in the chat. I'm reading them. Joseph is also reading them. Christina is reading them. I really appreciate the team. And, and today, what we'll be doing is we just did the introduction so we can put a check mark by it. We will look at examples of shading. We've already started with a couple of those. And we practice types of shading, then we'll start our drawing project together Q&A and we'll close 45 minutes go so fast. So I'm going to have to hurry up and get to the meat of our activity. So for this workshop. Thank you so much for putting it in the chat earlier for this workshop adult pencil two sheets of plain white paper. Optional is Q-tip or cotton swabs, but don't worry if you don't have it, a piece of paper will do. Actually, I'm going to show you how I do that with with all the materials that are optional and without them, and an eraser. Now, of course, we're drawing. Why don't we need an eraser? We need an eraser for a drawing, right? Not necessarily. And I'll show you why that could be an optional material as well. One of my favorite things to talk about, of course, is value. So value in art is basically how dark and how light an object is, right? So one of the things that we're going to look at really quickly. And value can be so many things. Value can be how dark and how light your pencil, the darkness of your pencil is or your charcoal, whatever material you're using, or it could also be where the light lands and the shapes that it creates. So let's look at, let's look at our hand again, the back of the hand that you're not using. Let's look at the back of your hand. Where's light landing? Is it natural light? Is it artificial light? Natural light as the sun or fire? Where's the, where is it that, where is it dark? Where is it darker? Is light landing on a specific part of your hand? And how does that affect the color and the visibility of the dots and the lines that we looked at earlier? The second thing we're going to do is look at shading. Now, this is, these are five. But if you think about it, there's so many ways of shading. And I'll show you where we'll repeat these with pencil and I will show you in a couple of slides. I'm going to switch on to my workspace and I'm going to show you how these are done. So we're looking at hatching, which is kind of like the feather with, if you've ever kind of done the feather rhythm, as if you're drawing a feather, they're mostly straight, or the, or the line is continual. Contour hatching is making sure that you follow the shape of the, the, the subject that you're drawing. If we follow the shape to make that and then crosshatching is, oh, let me see, Olivia has a question, excuse me. Can we draw on both sides of the paper instead of using two papers? Of course, that's a great idea. That's a great idea. One of the reasons why I asked for a second piece of paper is because we don't want to smudge the, the lead or, or whatever material you're using to draw, you don't want to smudge it with the back of, with the side of your, your hand. And that's, I use it for, you know, just to guard that and I'll show you why. But if you have other things to you, and you can use newspaper, anything really, so you're fine, you're, you can do that as well. And I'll show you why I was asking for two pieces of paper. And stippling is the dots. If you've noticed dots on your hands, we can definitely achieve that by looking at the stippling and scumbling, scumbling. You might have seen it to show hair, to show other kinds of shading, but also you might be able to find it on the knuckles earlier when you looked at the knuckles of your, of your hand, probably notice lines like that. What is the photographer of riveting back black and white photos on the walls behind today, that Chanel stone. That's Chanel stone, she was an emerging artist, she's an emerging artist at, at Moa, her show was just about a year ago, she was showing at Moa. Thank you for asking that question, Chanel stone. And going back to Henry I saw us work and this is another study. And you can see all these lines we just talked about, you can see all these lines in his art and we're going to take a closer look at his art. You can see, you can see the hatching, you can see the cross hatching can see the, this, I don't see any, oh, I do see dots so you can see the stippling. You can also see this, a bit of scumbling. And this is, you know, he did this is what he did in France, when he was studying. He studied this in France and of course he was able to, is one of his drawings. Another drawing that you see which has a softer side it looks a bit more delicate and you've seen it earlier is this one. This is study of of two hands. This is another study that he did and you can, you can see why I asked for cotton swabs. And I'll show you, it's optional I'll show you how that can be that can be done with a piece of paper or a tiny piece of paper so Olivia just to go back to your question, it would be beneficial to have another piece of paper, especially if we use it for smudging and I will show you what that is. Let's take a moment to look at how he has done, how he would have moved his pencil, or in this case I believe he used charcoal. Another one is his own hand, which is pretty much what we're going to do. We don't have the materials say we don't have a crayon. So it's, we're going to have to do this with pencil today, unless you have it. That's totally fine. But that's similar to what we'll be doing. You start seeing how the sketching happened. All right. And this is what I've done this is this is my hand drawing my hand. So I kind of took it to a different level. And you can do that, maybe not in the next 15 minutes. But you can do you can do that as well you can do two hands. Great. While I set up my second screen, I want to remind you to get these, these materials, and I'm going to set up my workstation. I'll see you in just 30 seconds. Okay, we're waiting for the second screen to stop mirroring. And we will be there. I will show you I use a number two pencil thank you Ingrid for asking. I use a number two pencil for this activity but I also use charcoal and I will show you how that would work. Great. Looks like my screen is coming up. Perfect. Thanks for the questions, Ingrid. Awesome. Are you able to see my, please give me a thumbs up or yes, if you are able to see my second screen. Okay, thank you. Thank you, Lisa. Thank you, Francisco. Coffee that. Okay, so what we just saw is. Thank you, Olivia. So what we just saw is the work that I have done. And I will show you the easiest way to do this. And we studied our hand we talked about shading. Now the next thing we're going to do is start drawing. If you want to take a closer look. These are the lines I used. Perfect. So in my lifetime what I will do is what I would ask is to trace our hand. So to put our palms down on the one one piece of paper. This is a number two pencil. So I just use number two pencil. I also have another lead that I use. It's six B that stands for the value of this. And this is six H which is so light. I don't think you'd be able to see it with this camera. I don't think I don't think it will show enough. But I also use this sometimes. If I want to do very, very little light. But for now, the usual number two pencil. Or mechanical pencil would work. I dropped a pencil, but I'm okay. So I have two other things. So we're going to trace. You can trace your hand. Or you can also trace, for example, just the side of you. It takes a little bit more time to do the shading if we do something like this. But for now what I'm going to do is trace my hand. Just like this. Isn't it wonderful that we're working with our hands? I just traced my hand. It doesn't have to be so dark or prominent on the paper. Because you're going to go in and add lines, which would show it. And do you remember we talked about hatching. We talked about contour hatching, cross hatching, sibling and scumbling. So we're going to do that. So hatching is basically this. So you can use your piece of paper. Your extra piece of paper. Or on the side of the paper that you're using to draw your hand. You can just practice that. We'll start feeling like it's a feather. You'll start to look like it's a sort of feather. Lightly. Oh, I see a comment. Ingrid, I make a lot of my drawings on. Oh, right. Okay. Nice. I know I have never tried that. So I should try it. If you had a circle or have a circle, it's just following the shape of the object. It's just following the shape of the object. Cross-hatching is just as it sounds. You can do it top to bottom, side to side, left to right. So you can create that. You can do that. Stippling is, my desk is shaking a little bit, but basically dots. Small dots, bigger dots. Something is basically this. Great. So we're going to now look at our knuckles. Look at our knuckles. The way that I do it is to start with my pinky. Kind of do a small mark to us where they are. Many other ways of drawing your hand. You can spend time, measure. And I'm just going to skip around. And I'm going to focus on my nails. Now let's take a look at our nails. Get them really close to your eyes. So you can see if they have lines. In which way the lines go. If they reflect. Oh, Bruce, I can do that. I can do that. I can do that. I can do that. And as I shade, you'll be able to see it. To see it much darker, but I will. I will darken some parts. So you're able to see. And see where the lines are on your nail. And if it only on nails and if. Light is landing. And I'm pretty sure. Light is landing on them. From which side is the light coming? Are you wearing your ring? Are you wearing your ring? Do you have a scar for that? Do you have a tattoo? You have a scar for caps. A cut. A bandaid. Could you maybe at the. Let's go back to the nails. I got carried away a little bit. Let's start with the nails. And they're kind of like mine are kind of like you. The letter U. that might be kind of like a teacup. People have long nails, painted nails, my nails. I see the colors are different. On the bottom quarter of my nails, the colors are a little bit different, a little bit lighter. It's cold here and sometimes that happens when it's cold. And if you see lines on your nail, try to show them on your drawing. No need to press hard on your pencil. If you need to press hard, you will know. You will know if you need to press harder on your pencil with your pencil and darken. And just so you can see it, I have darkened some of the lines, but that's not the lines with us. Really not necessary. Let's do straight lines. You know, do you remember that little second piece of paper? You can definitely use a pen, Dahlia. Thank you for watching on YouTube. Yes, you can use a pen. My screen just went really dark, the window I think. There we go. Perfect. The second piece of paper, I usually use it to rest the side of my hand, so that way it doesn't get all the lead on the side of my hand, so I don't smudge it everywhere. So you can do that. How are we doing any questions? On the side of your nails, a little bit darker, the lines over there, a little bit darker. We just used hatching. What about the bottom? Are there lines? Mine have lines. The bottom of each nail, there is a soft line. We have about 10 minutes, so I'm going to show you the other types of shading around my knuckles. I'm definitely going to do cross-hatching, because I see that. I see scumbling and cross-hatching, so I'm going to do that. Remember how we talked about earlier? Some of you said they look like branches, they look like elephant trunks, so this is the time to kind of study that part of our hands and kind of see if our drawings also look like them. Do you have any comments, questions? Let me know. So many lines. We talked about value earlier. What I've noticed is that where the light lands, I'm going to do a very faint line to separate the area where light lands. I'm noticing that the bone, the bones that go through my fingers create this line and that's to my knuckles. I'm using cross-hatching and scum. This one is definitely scum. I see my pinky has lights crossing right over here. The next thing we're going to do is, do you remember how I showed you earlier? Yeah, I asked earlier if you can use a Q-tip. I think I have my tools here. There's a Q-tip, so I take a piece of my paper and right about here where on the side of my pinky I see lines going up and down and they're diagonal as well. Some of them are dark, some of them are well apart from each other. They're really close to each other. It's all about paying attention to these lines. But then you remember, we talked about, we looked at Henry Asawa's hand, the hand that he drew. He drew his hand and there's something soft about his study, the study that he did with his hands for the hand study. What you do is you take your Q-tip, that softness. You can still see the lines. It's hard to see on my paper. I'll show you an actual drawing that I did for this activity. You can still see the lines, but I can also make them really soft, just like that. It creates value. Another thing is, if you look really close, you start seeing dots where the follicles are faint dots. They're more darker than others. Does anyone in your family, does anyone in your family have similar hands as yours? I have my mother's hands. If you're wearing a ring, just look at where light is landing on it. If around your ring is darker or lighter on your finger, for jewelry, I like to use my Q-tip or a piece of paper. As I mentioned earlier, you could do the same thing with a piece of paper, just like this. Anisa, yours too? Yeah. It's kind of nice to have family. It's always for my mother. I like to use a piece of paper instead of Q-tips if you don't have them. It's perfect. All right. Well, if you remember what I mentioned earlier, this is merely to get you started and to get you curious about this activity. I am so, so curious to see what your artwork looks like. You can always email me at educationmoadsf.org. You can take a photo of it and email it to me. I would really appreciate to see your art. How was the experience? Does anybody have any questions, any comments? I think everyone is busy drawing. Thank you, Anisa. Thanks for joining us. Pamela, she says, but my hand looks like it belongs to monsters. I'm glad you enjoyed it. Thank you so much. I think February 12th, right? February 19th. That's right. It's on my calendar, Joseph. I have not forgotten. Well, that was powerful and relaxing. Thank you so much. I'm so glad. Thank you for sharing your amazing skills and your hands. They're the most beautiful hands. Thank you so much. It was so relaxing. And thank you for all. Thank you, everyone, for joining us. We'd love to see your creations by tagging us at SF Public Library and using the hashtag, hashtag, SFPL make and do, hashtag more than a month. Be sure to check out our calendar for future virtual programs for more than a month programs. And don't forget to save the date for the next workshop with today, February 19th at 2 p.m. And today's workshop will be available to replay any parts you need to view again on YouTube and share with your friends. And that's all, folks. Take good care of yourself and keep drawing. Yes. Continue drawing those hands. Thank you so much. Thank you, Joseph. See you soon. We have more questions. Thank you for joining us. Keep typing your questions. We could always answer them for you. Your feedback is appreciated. Thank you so much for joining us. I'm with everyone. I wish it was longer because it was fantastic. It was very relaxing. Thank you. Thank you for joining us.