My left hand
I decided to work in pencil for this Everyday Matters “hand challenge.” I like the softness and tonal range of pencil. It’s so elemental, so basic. A pencil, not one of the millions of pens I own and carry in my purse and that spew out all over the floor of the car if I come to a sudden stop while driving. Among friends I am known as the one who always has a pen—or a dozen—with me.
Can’t remember how many times I’ve drawn that hand. I’ll be ready for bed, but feel I have to do a drawing before the day is through, so it’s that hand again. It’s the perfect model, always there and ready to pose.
Karen Winters said,
April 20, 2005 @ 1:41 am
Good hand! I know how you feel about making it the last drawing of the night. I’ve done that so often, it’s always, well, handy, when you need one last thing to draw.
Peter Bryenton said,
June 8, 2005 @ 4:41 am
I love that left hand of yours. I like the way you concentrate on the detail in parts yet leave the rest sketchy and incomplete. I wish I could learn to do that more, instead of trying to complete every detail.
When I was at art college, people used to poke fun at my hand-knitted pencil case full of sharpened pencils in various grades, with a sandpaper block and a putty rubber.
Later in life, as a lecturer, I was, teasingly, nicknamed “Peter Pointy Pencils” by my colleagues.
But guess who they came to when they suddenly needed a working pencil?
Cheers,
B.