make something with your hands
Exploring the Portrait/Self-Portriat
Glenn Hirsch, Instructor
hand to foreheadsuggests thought
Take away the hand …and you take away someone’s freedom.
Arshile Gorky self-portrait as a child with mother (from an Ellis Island photograph)
Nicolas de Largillierre, 1715
right size intentionally too small
hands appear bigger as they get closer
first break it down into geometric shapes
exaggerate the geometry of the fingers
foreshortening
fingers like “hoses” coming toward you