Old Man & Hand, Pencil Drawing, 1986, 4 1/2 x 6 1/2 inches
Old Man & Hand {Detail}, Pencil Drawing, 1986, 1 3/16 x 1 7/16 inches
Old Man & Hand {Detail}, Pencil Drawing, 1986, 1 1/2 x 2 inches
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Old Man & Hand, Pencil Drawing, 1986, 4 1/2 x 6 1/2 inches
Old Man & Hand {Detail}, Pencil Drawing, 1986, 1 3/16 x 1 7/16 inches
Old Man & Hand {Detail}, Pencil Drawing, 1986, 1 1/2 x 2 inches
Notes for #16 Old Man & Hand
This 4 x 6 inch drawing was rendered with a mechanical pencil using 8H to 4B leads. The original inspiration for this image was an elderly gentleman who sometime between 1885-1905 had his likeness taken on a 5x7 inch glass negative at a portrait studio. About 80 years later I purchased the negative in Eldorado Hills {shop in Placerville}, near Sacramento California. I made a contact print positive from this glass neg, using AZO paper, and decided that I would try drawing this person. The difficulty was that the hand was double exposed, due to shaking, and this made all the wrinkles twice as many, meaning, exceedingly challenging. Anyway, I persisted and completed the work and this was to be the last drawing before I started incorporating ballpoint pen along with pencil in nearly all my works which followed.