artists' studies of hands ... in about 1970 i was mortified by my mother's observation that i could never be a proper artist because i hadn't learned to draw hands ... fair comment ! ... she was right and here follows a scrapbook of hand-studies to commemorate that occasion ...

goltzius, 1588

rubens, c1630

leonardo da vinci

ingres

nicolas de largilliere

albrecht durer

anton berjon

degas

andrea del sarto

maurits escher

michelangelo 

... to be continued, as & whenever ...

 

MONITORING THE SUN ... magnetic storms, increased radiation and the flood of charged particles emitted with solar flares can play havoc with power transmission and with satellite communications ... this site samples the different observatories in real time ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSlPyfmFLOo

https://chatgpt.com/share/6a3030fc-cae0-83eb-8166-861fe6158008

THE MASTER OF CLAUDE DE FRANCE'S BOOK OF FLOWER STUDIES ... a lovely old manuscript, beautifully photographed at THE MET

https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/book-of-flower-studies/

THE HEREFORDSHIRE POMONA ... mostly small print, famous for the delicate illustrations ...

etc, etc ... https://archive.org/details/herefordshirepo00bull/page/VIII/mode/1up

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herefordshire_Pomona

PAUL MANSHIP ... just a scrapbook ... an amazingly skilled American sculptor ... with a great neo-classical / art deco imagination

https://pookandpook.com/the-moods-of-time/

much of his work was produced as multiple variations ... see below, or research his output ...

... and his engineering skills are remarkable to this day ...

... to be continued, as & whenever ...

SMUG, the wall painter ...

 

... to be continued, as & whenever ...

big hats for fine wimmin

 

... to be continued ... as & whenever ...