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I have a deep fascination with hands. Whenever I walk around I must carry with me a piece of clay to ease my anxiety and mild ADD, and inevitably I make a hand as a starting point--or include a hand at some later point in making a sculpture.This is a work in progress, but I thought it was at a stage where I could share it!
Any feedback on proportion or details I would like very much
I based it on a drawing by Stephen Rogers Peck from his book, Atlas of Human Anatomy for the Artist (page 126).
Made with sulfur-based, grey clay.
See other side here: [link]
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I see here is where handlovers gathered. I just obsessed with hands. 
And you've created a very nice hand!
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Hands will always be my goto project 
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Art will alaways be a part of something I can't tell in loud, but would like others know about my personality.
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I remember a quote that said something along the lines of "If you want to know what a person is really feeling, look not at their faces, but at their hands and feet." And I agree with you: art for me is a message that I can't articulate using words. It is therapy for me, and for those around me, in a way.
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Suppose that quote was about nonverbal communacation.
From day to day I'm convinced more and more that art is pure therapy. People can express something they don't want to say, but at the same time they want it to be visible even if metaphorically. Inner thought and feelings must put their way out. Art is the best way.
P.S. Sorry for my bad English.
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Yeah, it most definitely is. I'm very much intrigued by how humans interact with each other, even animals. Moreover, for me, I consider my craft a portal that allows others to enter the mind of my hands and "see" what they would rather not hear.
P.S. your English is excellent!
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"Mind of my hands", sounds nice.
You know, sometimes I think hands are not under our mind control. It is wierd,but it feels like they have their own conscious.
Interaction of any lifeform is always some kind of intrigue.)
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I believe that, too
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Thank you
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I'm the same way...I'm loving this...even the color evokes a strange emotion in me. I also am super obsessed with hands....but they are so hard to draw, I'll be taking sculpture for the 3rd time so maybe hands would be an interesting way to go. Thanks so much for the gorgeous piece...even if your not done.
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Thank you! After my friend took the picture and I saw it on my computer I was awed by how natural light can instill a lingering sensation, kind of like a touch of light, on an inanimate sculpture. It excites me to make more! I'm also taking some more sculpture classes, hoping to hone in on new techniques! If you're interested, I think this book, Drawing Dynamic Hands , by Burne Hogarth, is a really amazing resource. Cheers!
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Aww thank you, you are a peach! I looked at the book that's super amazing, and on my wish list... now my new thought is more along the lines of attempting to translate a hand like that into painting...now you have my brain on different mediums (super ADD with art). Sculpture classes are the best ones for me ...I'm so glad you take them too. cheers to you too!
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My pleasure
If one way of doing what you do does not jive with your vibe, try learning how to do it in different ways to achieve your goals! When I learned how to look at my body parts as lines and differing planes--everything changed. From your paintings I can see you have an appreciation of anatomy--that also was a turning point for me. Not just sculpture, though; I felt like all my past experiences and skills converged into a physical representation by my hands.
Anyway, thanks for letting me rant
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hahahaaha I'll always listen to a good rant, planes a re super important when sketching anatomy, and for me I didn't truly see it too well until i started painting nudes. It took a while to grasp it but now i feel like i can't see anything but planes. Anywho I'm glad I was rantworthy.
You said in your journal that your were going lifesize...you doing it in clay?
Hope ou have a wonderful inspiring day
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I don't know, yet! I've been extremely inspired by the hyperrealist Ron Mueck [link] but I have only worked with a few mediums so far--the big stuff needs different materials, I'm assuming, as well as a different casting process. But, if I get lucky, I'll jump on the opportunity!
And yeah, I didn't really "get" how lines and planes were essential until I took a class with live, nude models. Now, I see those lines in everyone and everything!
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you have to do lost wax casting...with bronze...it is soooo freaking amazing i'll be posting my sculpture I did in a few its....sooo much fun! Also have you tried stone, it is one hell of a stress releaser I love working with it.
hahahaha I had this older lady in my live painting class, and she's like now that i understand naked people i see everyone in the classes planes, and picture you all naked. She is a riot.
By the way, Ron Mueck is bloody phenomenal we went over his work in my post modern art history class a few semesters ago!
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Hmm, I think I might have done that, actually with this piece [link] and I had a blast making it! They didn't let me do the casting myself--but, I'll learn that in time.
I have not worked with stone, but I have done a plaster carving [link] and you're right, even though I was skeptical of being able to make anything, I had a bizarrely zen experience carving away my worries and anxieties!
That old lady sounds like one of the nude models we had that just kept making funny remarks as she was changing poses lol.
And yeah, Ron Mueck is pretty much the reason I decided to take sculpture seriously last year
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OOOOh i love that sculpture, that's pretty amazing I love the contrast between the two hands.
Stone is where it is at, its stressful a bit because you really have to put some elbow grease into it, but it's seriously worth it.
I'm down with the zendom, because when i paint...it is all this problem solving coming in my head up with sculpture it's so much more calm....
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Heh, I love the feeling when I chip away a piece and it flies away, like a puzzle piece that I'm destroying, only to make something entirely new
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Man when you get a big size chunk break off it's exhilarating....anywho I'm glad you have the same enthusiasm for art that i have
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I have a deviously enthused appetite for that which requires only my true essence. The gliding focus of creating something out of nothing! I look forward to seeing more of your stuff
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I hope to do more sculpture but lately i've been doing watercolor pencils, when i get back home I'm going to do some more sculpture. I'm glad you have a healthy appetite for art, because that's my life as well...I don't know where I would be without it.
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Indeed, I feel as if my craft has somewhat taken me out of my depressive states and into another realm where, if I am true to the medium, the subjective universe stops its schedule of fate to help me on my trek towards greatness! It is not a normal appetite in that it can't be truly sated--It is our curse and privilege, responsibility even, then, to engage our curiosity wherever it takes us. I may be a figurative explorer, but I would like it if I could take it another step into objective reality where what I create is not art for art's sake, but is also a force for the inception of ideas that would have otherwise never been exposed, say, to a young mind, for example. Or maybe even an older person that has never greased the wheels of their brain to accept new ideas. To that end, fine art is the wedge that cracks the dogmatic wall of indoctrination and ignorance.
I can't wait for my next semester to start!!
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Sorry i didn't reply right away it's been busy over here... I always feel like art is my therapy..when i'm sad or uncomfortable i do art and it puts me at great ease. hahaha when you said the curse thing you sounded like spiderman....."with great power comes great responsibility." Maaaaan you just mentaallly went off on me, that was wonderful hope you are creating and having a wonderful summa....deb.
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Haha no need to apologize. I would not mind it even if you replied a year later. The Internet, dude--it's freaking amazing
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