Paintings, sketches and research material for Creative project - Creative hands

Loads of sketches depicting hands at work, physical mastery and tools. (I didn't remember already putting these on, sorry)

'crochet'

 These top three are oil paint and charcoal, one and three on Gesso paper in sketchbook and two on canvas. These have been getting more delicate.

Acrylic on paper in sketchbook 'rubbing down a chair'

I looked at Henry Moore to see what I could do with even more delicacy and pen or pencil (maybe on top of oil paint)

Ball point pen on paper in sketchbook 'rubbing down a chair'

Ball point pen over oil paint base, 'crochet'

 I love the pen drawing, however I don't think the fine pen over oil paint works well, the pen is too delicate over the paint, it worked much better with charcoal over paint. It is possible that if the whole piece had pen it would work better than just the section with the hands.

I feel that I have to look from these sketches to incorporating the foregrounds and the backgrounds, so far the backgrounds are just colour and simple large shapes and are not yet an integral part of the paintings.

I want to achieve a more abstract feel to these pieces, I find it all too easy to try to be representational and illustrative, I am not very good at it and it looses all sense of immediacy.

I have to keep reminding myself I am trying to capture immediacy and be in the moment with the subject matter and with my responses to it. 

New oil painting on canvas