The Art of Smoking #1

I cannot help: I find a smoking hand very aesthetic! And there are so many different ways to hold a cigarette, which is the reason why I start this series of sketches, a part of the more general series:

“The Arts of Everyday Life”

Hands are anyway a wonder of natural technique, with so many freedom parameters. No wonder that the everyday tasks which they have to accomplish can be so different from one hand to the other. But exactly these parameters are the reason why hands are so difficult to draw…

Please don’t look too exactly at my hands, they are only meant as a quick impression of the gesture. I have anyway most of the time only 1 second to catch them in one position!

May 1, 2008 - Posted by Miki | art, caricatures, life, The Art of Smoking, The Arts of Daily Life, women | acuarela, aquarelle, caricaturas, caricatures, esbozos, esquisses, hand drawings, ink, pastel, portraits, watercolour sketches

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This is just awesome for so many reasons. I love this.

Comment by artrockpoetry | May 1, 2008
I must go to a cafe this very week and observe and sketch hands. Somehow I think it might not be as interesting here in California where you cannot smoke either inside of or even in outside cafe tables! How boring we are and would be perhaps healthier (if we didn’t have this obesity problem in the US!)

Comment by Susan Cornelis | May 4, 2008