Thanks Guys.

What keeeps me going creating on this theme is not my imagination but the real life positions of my hand.
Here is another one. I am currently working on two more positions.

i think it is awesome...and barb is right..its great to always have your subject 'handy' and ready when you are.. all of them have been awesome so far hon, i still like the vitruvian man the best,

Kay, love the under the sea idea.

Philosopher King , I think the eyes are my fave as well.

Elena, I like your little rodent. You & I must have been on the same wavelength, I was thinking I nedded to start on a hand (have been busy with swap cards) and I did this little fellow below.

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yayyy...i finally finished it...it looks pretty good hunh? i spent most of the day working on it

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Sue your lil mouse is exactly as he is supposed to be: a lil shy.Nice sketch.
Kay, you underwater drawing is great. Very detailed.

Here I have two positions of my hand holding the tweezers.
THanks to Kay, I had the opportunity to practice real life drawing and study of my hand and these sketches are the base for drawings and even charcoal works. I am very thrilled with the different positions that can be drawn only using one hand.

sue that is sooo cute..elena..you amaze me with your never ending well of great ideas..

you guys all rock!

perhaps the real challenge will be to try switching hands..i dont have very good luck with my left hand at all.. how bout you guys?

Kay, nice finish on the sea pic!

Elena, I am beginning to think that you have a pencil permanently attached to your hand! Boy you are prolific and good!

Well I seem to be stuck in the creature features so I have done a little banded python (not that I have one to pick up) But I am tying to think how to use the Huntsman spider calling my walls home at present (please excuse the web in the pic the huntsman has eaten its creator & when he moves I'll get it down). In case you are wondering he is about 5" in diameter as he is there - perhaps a little bigger when his legs are all spread out.


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eeeeeeewwwwwwwww!!! girl 5 inches...OMG..i would be FREAKED right out...i cant even do the little jumping spiders...lol..i have a touch of the acrachnaphobia..

the drawing is really great sue..but i am still trying to get that spider out of my mind

wow Sue you are ready for Halloween

Here it is my latest.

Elena..you are doing so awesome..thank you my friend for your participation..and your hands are well rendered

Oh my gosh!!!!! I wouldn't be staying in the house with a spider like that! I have to admit, I do not like spiders of any sort and one that big would definitely have to go!!

lol...lmao...rotflmao...NO DOUBT..me or him for sure, but i couldnt sleep until one of us was out of there..

I used to have arachnophobia Kay.

It was so bad that I used to hyperventilate and pass out! I actually had redbacks under the windowsill outside in a flat I was in years ago & I figured out that even if no-one in the world would help me if I was bitten I would have 48 hours to get to hospital and I could crawl there in that time (that's how irrational I was with spiders). So I slowly started to look at pics in books (I couldn't even do that without feeling nauseous) and from there I just kept doing more & more until now I am OK with them, mind you though I still can't watch the movie Arachnophobia & if I come across one unexpectedly or walk into a web my heart still races irrationally.

But the Huntsmen are the good guys - they eat the mosquitos. If you don't want them in the house they are easy to get rid of by shooing them into a container - they'll just walk into a plastic ice-cream tub if you shoo them with the lid - and you can pop them outside again. My chap has gone out by himself, no mossies and he's eaten the little spiders in here, so he's off looking for more food. And I have swept the cornices to get rid of those recurring webs !!

Thank goodness - so they don't bite? It isn't that I am afraid of the spiders themselves, I just don't want to have one bite me that is poisonous, and we do have some poisonous ones around Nebraska, both black widows and brown recluse. They are both fairly small so one could get to you before you know it if you aren't careful and they like to hide!
I actually really like snakes - particularly the garden snakes that live around my home because they eat spiders!! I watch for them and make sure they don't get run over by the mower and such.

They can bite but they never seem to - they don't build webs and just sit on the wall waiting for something to eat to come by.

We have some nasty spiders but its the snakes I worry about here because we have so many of the world's most poisonous. I went to one of my patient's homes and her son was killing a deadly brown snake on the front verandah. I look really hard before I get out of the car there now, I can tell you!! We have Red-belly Black Snakes around my place & I am sooo glad, they are not as poisonous or aggressive as the Browns, and they eat baby Brown Snakes so not as many get to grow up, thank goodness !!

Anyway I thought I would try a quick 'scape' with my hands so I did a 5 min bridge sketch, sorry its a little blurry.

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Sue what a wonderfully charged idea your bridge is...i love it..

now that spider topic...we have none poisonous here that i know of in maine..(that I myself have knowledge of) or poisonous snakes either..i have a rock wall here at the house that is loaded with garden snakes andt they are my buddies and i too protect them from the mower..i also get at least one perfect shed snake skin every year..course none longer than say maybe 12 inches..several varieties and all of them gorgeous..before we sold our old farm house up north i painted the exterior..and if there was a spider i would paint around it and when honey got home he took care of the spider then i would finish up painting..mind you these were not little spiders either..they were harmless but huge and ugly with massive bodies that reallllllly grossed me out....i did the drawing lesson here on drawspace with the spider and it was like totally ooooogie to draw..lol..i am sooo silly..

two more very common real life positions of the hand.

I'm sorry madam, i am going to have to ask you to please extinguish your cigarette as this is a non smoking forum..

cool..wow you are getting some awesome hand drawing practice in and some juices flowing freely..i am so glad..i am at the moment trying to do a mermaid in aquarelle and it is at that ugly duckling stage and i am hoping it comes out ok..

as you can see Kay, vices can be an inspiration fro drawing....

lol..indeed they are..i too am a smoker..you can picture me fully concentrating cigarette burning in the already overfull ashtray ( up in smoke..), my hubby is not a smoker and when he sees me smoking he says " take that thing out of your mouth it makes you look cheap" to which i respond.."well looks are deceiving arent they..? ah he is always nagging me about this my one and only vice..and with my luck i will quit my cigarettes and a burger cooked with mad cow, topped with salmonella tomatoes that i grab at some restaurant will be what takes me out..boy wont that pis me off..lol

we don't smoke.main reason can't stand the smell.But for the position of the hand holding the cigarette i used a ...pencil.I go back to draw some more positions. Three ideas came to me.

Ha Ha Ha You sound like my mother. I don't smoke but she does. She's 82 and on oxygen. She takes her oxygen off to go in the garage to smoke so she won't blow up. She said she would probably die from her love of tomatoes and the salmonella. She won't smoke in public though. Except when I bring her lawn chair and stop in the shade somewhere that she can get out of the car away from her oxygen. Then she will make an exception.) She's soo funny.. gotta love her!!

here i am alone tormented by the Muse. Help

Too funny you guys! My palliative patients when I first visit glare at me as they smoke & my answer is "Im not about to try & stop you now - too late!" they then relax because even though they are incurable every doctor they talk to tells them they have to quit - my opinion is why? Let them die happy!

But what is all this about salmonella from tomatoes??? Never heard of it??? I suddenly had visions of that terrible "B" Movie 'Attack of the Killer Tomoatoes'

Elena - take aim - shoot the Muse! - its the only way to escape - I know I have been there before . And believe me the next time you have a wine and relax another Muse will attach itself and you will be enslaved again

lol...sue..that is tooo funny!! our elena is really doing sooo awesome with these hands and the ideas are great, she just keeps em coming..i am glad to hear you say that sue..when i was a cna that bugged me so much that they would suddenly and cold turkey make these people quit smoking..no wonder they could be sooo cranky..poor darlings..when i am 80 just please let me be..

cyn,yes..your mother and i sound very much alike and my husband is always telling me..you know i am not carrying your oxygen tank around for you...lol..
sue the USA is having a salmonella scare, i myself had a case of it roughly a month ago, i thought i had the flu but it wouldnt go away..now they dont know where it is coming from but at first they blamed the tomatoes..and yes..that attack of the killer tomatos had crossed my mind too..it is getting so its like playing russian roulette everytime we set at our table for a meal..

lol.... oh my dear elena...that is too funny...a great big hug to you my dear..and your hands are awesome...

lovely bridge Sue
And Elena, wow you have been busy lady wonderful scketches.

I just wanted to say something about those...spiders.... I too am not fond of them, I used to be quite afraid of them but never was arachnofophic. here as well here are many spiders, I guess they are all harmless, but even if they don't bite, when they pass over you, or even over your hanging clothes, they can leave some poison and if your skin gets in toutch with it, it provokes these little shiny pimples (irritated skin), and it itches a lot and starts spreading if not treated. I have learned that its easy to cure with garlec, just cut a garlec and rub in all over the iritated skin, do it twice or three times a day, until the pimples dry out and the irritation goes away. Some people here go to the hospital and the doctors perscribe gel or lotion, sometimes even pils, and it doesn't heel it just keeps spreading! There is this old man in my village that makes this special medicin to cure this, with plants, but when someone doesn't have a man like that around, garlec it the best because it cuts off the poison. Of course I'm not talking about tarantulas or anything like that.

Wow Clara that sounds like some nasty spiders! Fancy being able to get you just by touching your clothes!

We have one called the white-tailed spider which is only little but when it bites it causes the skin to ulcerate and it just keeps spreading - rather like what you describe - but it has to bite you - you've only got to touch yours - way too scary!

Kay, does CNA stand for Certified Nursing Assistant? If so it sounds like what we call an AIN over here whch is an Assistant in Nursing they do what is called a Certificate 3 (I think that's what they do) and help with personal care and such. Along with Enrolled Nurses we couldn't get things done without them!!

Yes Sue, a nasty one got my finger about a month ago, still hasen't healled properly, and I dont think it bit me, unless it was in my sleep.

yep that is just what cna stands for sue..a field that is always in need of good help..wow clara,,them spiders do sound oogie...

hi, I'm back with more hands, not mine this time.

Wonderful Elena!

I had thought of shadow puppets (I do a mean gorilla) but I couldn't use two hands to make puppet & take pic or draw. Excellent getting your talented assistant in on the act!!!

Sue is actually a ref pic from the web. This is my hand at my grandmother's mandolin. I used to play as a teenager but never learned it properly.

sorry for the awful background

Elena, i think this one might be might favorite of them all...this one is lovely

to my friend Kay, a new favorite

i love it..the apple looks great with the darkness of the lines in the hand.. i have used it as my wall paper here on my laptop as a reminder of your encouragement

two more from pics and two from real life

Elena...i cant get over these...they are all wonderful and unique..the puppets are awesome and that is a challenge to draw all those fingers correctly..great job

Hey Elena you've been busy lady, lovely hands, all of them.
I really like those shadow on the wall one's And the one playing the mandolin

I did two sketches of my hand, while sitting at a coffee bar with nothing to do. Pen in thin napkens from the bar.

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Elena they are so great!!!!

Nice hands there Clara! You are going to have to start carrying a sketchbook - I have one with me all the time, just a little 5" x 3 1/2 " fits into the teeniest handbag ( but then I also carry a 2B mechanical pencil, clic eraser, kneadable eraser, 6 watercolour pencils, and a homemade watercolour travel kit, and a waterbrush (but they fit in a very small space, really I promise!).

clara, how come one of those hands dont have a drink in it..?

Sue,after reading your post..i think i shall put together a lil draw sack for my self to bring everywhere i go..

Thank Sue, My bag wont be a problem, all my bags are huge I never liked small bags. Its that I just went for a cup of coffee, but my hubby found some guys to talt to so we stayed longer than we where suposed to. next time...... sketchbook in my bag for sure !!!!!!!

Kay, no drink in my hand, isn't that depressing just had a cup of coffee I'm geting old

Hi, girls, keep drawing, sketching hands

my hand holding a fan. I have a few more ideas but only two hands to draw them

another lovely hand..love the fan idea too...

both my hands in action

Great fan Elena - and I love that tribute to Escher! This is my work week & I don't get a lot of drawing time - but on my week off I like to deny that the housework needs doing and get stuck into the art!

cool..i should try this one too..both hands..i will post it later and Elena, yay i got to the po yesterday so in a day or two it should arrive

hugs

one more position

very nice...i would say my friend that you have mastered hands very nicely

Thanks, waiting for my gift now.