Glenn Hirsch, Instructor www.glennhirsch.com

1. make something
with your hands

2. Exploring the
Portrait/Self-Portriat
Glenn Hirsch,
Instructor

3. narrative

4. Michelangelo

5. Emma Mankin

7. Nelly Nassif

8. Rob Huegel

11. Bing
Zhang

12. Bing
Zhang

13. Peggy Millar

14. hand to
forehead
suggests
thought

15. Cynthia Kanios

17. Max Beckmann

18. Matisse

19. Janet
Benjamin

21. unusual

22. Botticelli

23. Botticelli

25. pointing

26. Leonardo

27. props

28. Max Beckmann

29. Kat
Mergens

31. Ilya Repin

32. Max Beckmann

33. Otto Dix

34. Edvard Munch

35. Steve Chapman

36. Take away the hand …
and you take away
someone’s freedom.
Arshile Gorky self-portrait as
a child with mother (from an
Ellis Island photograph)

37. Structure of the Hand

38. Nicolas de
Largillierre, 1715

39. the hand
is as big
as the face

40. Carolyn Wales

41. Kathe Kollwitz

42. right size intentionally too small

43. hands appear bigger
as they get closer

44. John Reamer

46. Gene Faktorovich

47. first break it down
into geometric shapes

48. Find the
rectangle

49. exaggerate
the wrist

50. start with a
simplified
“paddle”
shape

51. August Macke

52. exaggerate
the geometry
of the fingers

53. Cynthia Kanios (detail)

54. Steve Chapman (detail)

55. Steve Chapman (detail)

56. Emma Mankin

57. foreshortening
fingers like “hoses”
coming toward you

58. Michelangelo

59. Practice!
Leonardo da Vinci