Map manicure

My hand love has made a natural development, I've done a manicure. It's not very well done, but the idea is fun. I based each nail on a section of the A-Z map of London, and used a cocktail stick to carry it out. And just so you know, the hands aren't mine, I could never paint my own hands even this neatly!

Palmistry

Finding this page in Foulshams Fortune Tellers rekindled my interest in the hand, and particularly in the art of palmistry. According to it, I am both timid and tyrannical. Hurrah!

Hands

Now that I've done my palm portraits post I have a new obsession: hands. Above is a little sketch that I did of my own hand. But far more scintillating than my scribbles is this film clip. I'd never really thought about hand puppetry, I can do the dinosaur-y swan thing that everybody can do (beak made of the thumb and forefinger, eye made of the other fingers curled over), but that's it. Whereas Edward Victor, who features in the clip, is mesmerising.