We've continued down the arm and into the forearm this past week. Monday we learned about the elbow and its connecting muscles. Some of the landmarks on the arm were the Medial Epicondyle and the Ulna. The Medial Epicondyle is the bone that stick out on your elbow, and the ulna is the part of the bone closer towards the wrist that has a slight bump. I don't know why, but I think this bone is really lovely.. Its a simple little 'chink' at the wrist that really adds so much beauty to the arm. The muscles on the arm, such as the Flexor Carpi Radialis make quite the twist in the arm when changing from a 'palms up' to a 'palms down' view. When the palms are up and bones are parallel, this is called "supine" (untwisted). When are palms are down and the bones are crossed, this is called "prone". Its interesting to think this way, because I've always thought that when we have palms up are arms are being bent a twisted way, but its actually the other way around, so when we're casually walking are muscles are slightly curved/twisted... Humans are so weird.
The clay has been getting really complicated in the arms....at first mine all started out very small and thin because the book never really has accurate pictures of anything...but after looking at other classmates and the teacher example...and of course the live model, I realized people, in fact, do not have spaghetti strings for arms. ;)
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