Sunday, July 22, 2012

Woman; Big Hand (2005)

Woman and Big Hand are a couple of drawings from life that I did in 2005.

These are conte pencil and colored chalk on paper.

SUBURBIA UPDATE:

An entry in the continuing battle to lower the number of mosquitoes without poisoning them (and us).

6 comments:

  1. Something tough about this leanness, musculature, especially on the left. I don't get a happy feel from these; the leanness could be athletic, but it seems a bit extreme, at least on the left.

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  2. The figure on the left was drawn from an older model. A lot of what you are sensing was also what I was getting from her.

    The torso on the right was a much younger model, graceful and pretty. I don' remember sadness, either from her or me or anyone else in the room.

    I have always thought of it as a pretty drawing, with an extremely large hand, the thing I was most interested in, besides the creation of a triangular composition (like that right angle).

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  3. *Warning*

    Never choose the drawing that the artist has gone to the expense of framing as the one to critique

    (wink)

    they're beautiful Jean (seriously, they are)

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  4. This reminds me of the Seinfeld episode where Jerry describes one of his dates as, "She has Man Hands!"

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  5. You are wise, Liz. Though even when these were framed, they weren't what I thought of as technically wonderful. Just right size and color for purpose.

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  6. Pup, me, too. That's why I think of it as "Big Hand."

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