The Dictionary of Human Form

A selection from The Dictionary of Human Form is presented here, over two pages of this website, and offers a mixture of drawings and paintings from the hands and mouth sections of the book, subjects which artists traditionally often find difficult.

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THE HANDS
Mrs Alan Merrill.
Oil. 30 x 25". 1963.

THE HANDS
1. Layered sections.
2. Step-like arrangement of
structures.

STRUCTURE OF THE HANDS
Deni Lamont, in ‘Harlequinade.'
(Detail.) Black chalk on prepared
paper with erased lights.

STRUCTURE OF THE HANDS
1. Left hand fitted to the shape of
the right arm 2. The wrist section.
3. Body of the hand and knuckle
ridge.

STRUCTURE IN HANDS
1. Schematic shape.
2. The heel.
3. Ball of the thumb.

STRUCTURES OF THE HAND
Study of two hands. Copy after
Jean-Baptiste Greuze.
Sanguine chalk.

STRUCTURES OF THE HAND
1. The thumb section.
2. The heel.
3. Wrist section.

STRUCTURE IN THE HAND
Hand studies. Pencil.
From a class lecture/demonstration.

STRUCTURE IN THE HAND
The influences of gesture.
1. Projection of softer forms.
2. Knuckle alignment.
3. Separation of knuckles.

STRUCTURE IN THE HAND
1. Curved alignments
2. Radiating forms.
3. Layering.

STRUCTURES OF THE HAND
Portrait of Alyssa Cigarroa.
Oil. 24 x 20”. 1998.

STRUCTURES OF THE HAND
1. Larger structures.
2. Layered forms.

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