More on the portraiture of Hands
Emily Dickinson starts a poem I felt my life with both my hands To see if it was there— It is so interesting.....during this past month of focussing on hands as our artistic subject matter, I have come to have insights that paintings/drawings of hands are truly portraits. The hands hold so much character....even the age spots and wrinkles, the way the knuckles swell and enlarge over time. And young hands hold such innocence in their blemish free and smooth texture. And the way hands MOVE, the way they DO so many things......Consider the hands of a carpenter, a ballerina, your mother's hands, your father's, your children, your best friends. Yep, I stand firm: Hands are portraits. Here are a few of my hands experiments from this past month.... and i do mean experiments. Every month i do so many demo paintings, and i consider them painting sketches most of the time. They are done quickly, with abandonment to all rules, and with a medium that is within arms reach. It's so fun...
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