Oh, well

Two more studies from La Tour paintings. You may have recognized them as these are details from some of his most famous paintings: first one is the cheater from The Cheat with the Ace of Clubs, and second one is the “play of hands” from The Fortune Teller.

I did the second one because I have a crush on La Tour’s way of depicting hands. Their fingers bend and stretch in such an elegant manner they sometimes seem not to have knuckles or joints at all (please check this in the original paintings, not in my drawing!) Also, see how the hands in this painting are nicely arranged in a circle, and how this small portion of the picture conveys, in a condensed way, the whole theme of the canvas. Sorry, I didn’t mean to sound like one of those “How to appreciate art” books, it’s just that I love these paintings.

As some previous drawings, these are done on a Muji craft notebook with sumi ink and white acrylic ink. In the second one I also used reddish brown (that’s what the bottle says) drawing ink.