About Painting Hands
Hands can be as expressive as faces. As a young artist, I noticed that a huge number of figurative paintings - even by REALLY FAMOUS ARTISTS - posed the models with their hands behind them, covered by an object or tucked into pockets. Or the artist simply cropped the painting so that hands were somewhere unseen, off the edge of the canvas. Check it out next time you go to a gallery or museum. That led to a revelation: it's really hard to paint or draw hands. And the message:
