While drawing this hand turkey for today’s blog post, I just had to laugh. At the age of 16 I picked up a pen one day, started to draw, and knew how.  At the time it was generally assumed by all that I would grow up and become a writer one day, which come to think about it does seem to have come true after all. But drawing kind of took over there for awhile, and then onto painting, and fiber art and on and on.

Anyway, I illustrated many of my teenage poems and stories with simple line drawings. A family artist friend, the now famous Pennsylvania born and bred Kitty Wallis (known for her beautiful pastels and pastel paper she invented) commented that there were no hands on any of the people. Look Ma! No hands!

So true! They were stuffed into pockets or behind backs, or sometimes  just cut off at the wrists. I was clearly avoiding them. They seemed really hard. She told me that hands are easy. You just have to look at them closely, and then draw what you see. Those words of Kitty wisdom are true for anything you want to draw. She didn’t mention anything about tracing. But what’s a Thanksgiving weekend without a hand turkey?

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