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A Hand Study

Date

August 3, 2026

Medium

Oil on canvas

Source

Photograph found on Pinterest

Painted from a real-life photo I found on Pinterest. I had just watched a color-mixing video and tried to compare my mixed paint with the colors in the photo. I abandoned that effort after ten minutes: first, I didn’t have the glass surface they used; second, I’m lazy; third, it was no fun. In the end, I’m very glad I followed my intuition instead of trying to color-match everything exactly.