That damned hand…
Work on my large canvas was going well. I was painting every other day on areas-so that there was always a dryer area to work on – this kept painting flowing in the time scale.
One area that really got me hung up was one the hands/ wrist. Somethings work in a photograph because we know a photograph is taken directly from reality. A camera can’t make a mistake. Sometimes even if you paint something accurately it can appear wrong because it doesn’t look natural.
This is what I told myself whilst I battled with that damned hand!
I went through book after book looking at other depictions of hands and wrists to try and knock myself into a painting epiphany! An example being a page in ‘Paint’ by Jeffery Camp.
There were various stages where areas of the wrist or hand felt like bone and flesh – there was a sensation coming from the paint – but that was removed when your eye travelled up to an area which wasn’t working. It was a battle to try and fall in between paint which described bone, flesh – wrist and hand and paint that felt like it.
