Thursday, April 05, 2012

Hand # 4

Sanguine... Gwen Buchanan




"Will all great Neptune's ocean
 wash this blood clean from my Hand?
No... this my hand will rather
 the multitudinous seas incarnadine,
making the red one green "

Macbeth 2, 2, 60  .... Shakespeare




... experimenting ... something about the shade of sanguine...

6" x 10",  pen/ink, india ink wash, watercolor, sanguine conte, charcoal,chalk,  140 lb Arches watercolor paper


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13 comments:

  1. Penny02:09

    Nothing like a bit of colour to lift a hand, bloody or not!

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  2. Guillaume16:22

    I knew it was a murderer's hand!

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  3. Gwen Buchanan17:16

    ... can fool some of the people some of the time but I can't fool you Guillaume.

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  4. Gwen Buchanan17:21

    Penny, the hand has shown its true colours.

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  5. pauline10:40

    oh Gwen, i love this series of hands... the shading with sanguine is exquisite. i love it. And the quotes... all so fitting to the drawings. i love the colors you used in REACH, and that ring... THE GODDESS - omigod - do you still make it? I want. xoxo

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  6. Carol Steel 12:22

    Something powerful in that color...says so much.

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  7. Owen19:10

    You have a magic touch... no question about it for this sailor of the cyber surf...

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  8. Jenny Woolf04:08

    I admire your hand pictures. They're so hard to draw, let alone get lots of character into, like you do.

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  9. Tracy08:50

    The punch of color really adds so much to this "simple" piece, Gwen. I love the position of the hand... each finger curled & cradled upon the other, a kind of tenderness in this... :o)

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  10. Gwen Buchanan12:17

    Hi Carol, I always loved the red chalk drawings of Leonardo so I tried using it... to me it has a feel of the past, although I have a long way to go before I ever reach the tiniest of his abilities..


    Hi Pauline, Thank you.. I am really having a good time using the chalks and charcoal.. for a long time I had them in my desk drawer and hesitated to use them ..
    I only made one ring like that.. it was an experiment.


    Thanks Jenny, I love the many lines, wrinkles and life that hands tell about each one of us.

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  11. Gwen Buchanan12:25

    Hi Owen, Thank you... I have so much to learn so the best part of the whole thing is that I have to keep trying and what a luxury it is to have the chance.

    Hi Tracy, Thank you. I hoped the drawing showed the inevitable acceptance for the deed done..

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  12. Ruth08:12

    I'm smitten (haha) by the word "incarnadine"!

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  13. Gwen Buchanan06:49

    Ah, spoken by a true WordGirl!!

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