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 ...

 

The Satyr and the Traveller is a myth or parable based on a paradoxical aspect of a simple human action ... that we blow on our hands to warm them in winter ... but we blow on our soup to cool it ...

 

The Satyr and the Traveller - Wikipedia

... to be continued ...