You may even do that unconsciously (tentative? aggressive? honest?). ![]() You can infer your own ideas of personality traits from each one. Since I intended the paintings to be portraits, they have a lot more detail than the large ones (the shapes of the nails, the wrinkles on the knuckles). These paintings are from photos of my friends’ hands as well as one of my own, captured as I walked around a party while they, playful extroverts, gamely grabbed and mimed for the camera. The smaller paintings are sexual hand positions, ways we use our hands to perform sex acts. They are meant to be universal (in our culture, at least), not a specific person’s hands. I painted them in a very simple style, with simple lines. The larger paintings depict iconic sexual gestures, ways we use our hands to signify sex acts. Drawing a person’s hands is like drawing their portrait – in some ways hands reveal as much about a person as their face does. “Working hands.” “Piano player’s hands.” People fall in love with other people’s hands. When we speak of someone’s hands, we often mean this as a metaphor for a person’s character. As tools, they play a role in practically everything we do, but they have much more character and significance than that. Hands are an extremely rich subject to draw. ![]() Me and Dani Cone, owner of Fuel, three fabulous coffeeshops in Seattle:Ī lovely lass reading my Artist’s Statement:Ī friend of mine asked me to post my artist’s statement, so here it is. If you’re in the Seattle area and didn’t make it to the show, you should totally go and have a drink, the art will be up at Liberty until August 1. But it was awesome, and packed with people who gave me flowers and kisses on the cheek, and told me how great everything looked. Very fun night, lots of people! I have post-hostess syndrome: I said “hi” to so many people and had so few conversations, everything is kind of a blur.
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