Eyes, Nope

by Cooper on 4/7/2010 10:30:21 AMComment on this

Greetings,

Welcome to the Cooper studio, Jefferson, Iowa. I have determined today's discussion will focus on body parts. This is NOT because I skipped my morning run today. Do I have an excuse and is it valid? Yes. It's cold, gray, and the wind is blowing 739 miles per hour. Or there abouts. If it was only gray and cold, I'd have covered it, but the wind, that's just insulting. And besides, the next two mornings are supposed to be fabulous, according to Jeriann on Channel 13. Catch up time then.

You might have noticed that title up there, "Eyes, Nope" But, yup, everybody has a couple. There's a phrase that mentions eyes are the window to the soul, and I guess that's pretty important But let's put them in the context of a painting. After all, that is what we do around here. I haven't been able to find a way to focus a painting on a figure's eyes, without making it resemble a portrait. And in my opinion, that makes the viewer try to figure out what the person is about, and not even notice the story being told by the figure in the setting. We'll blame this problem on Mrs Hyland then. She's the elementary school teacher who taught me to love a story through the adventure of a good book. And so I continue to think about the story.

So if the eyes are the windows to the soul, then what tells the story? Opinion? Hands down, it's the hands. And look, I found a whole page of hand phrases, interesting, eh?

Hand Phrases

The hands of time                           Hand me that bottle         Hands up
A bird in the hand                          Hand-le with care             Hand over your money
Second hand Rose                          Un-hand me                     The touch of a hand
First hand information                  Hands down                      Give me a hand

The hand that rocks the cradle     Hands across the water     Wash your hands
Helping hands                               All hands on board             Hands off
Helping hands                              All hands on deck                A backhanded compliment
Time on my hands                        Hands on                             Hand in hand
Dishwater hands                          Clap your hands                  Melts in your mouth, not in your hands

One hand scratches the other      Hand-some                          One hand washes the other
Hand it over                                 Hand in marraige               Handy man
Raise your hand                           A handout                           Hand me downs
Hand-el, the music                      Shake hands                        Use your hand

Hands across America                One handed                         I want to hold your haaaaaaaaaaand
Whole world in His hands           Don't let the right hand know what the left is doing
Handful                                       Underhanded                      Handmade
Hand in hand                              A handful of silver              Lend a hand

A mother's hand                         Handlebar mustache           Heart in hand
The hand of God                        Winning hand                      Clean hands & a pure heart
If thy right hand offend thee      In good hands                      Cold hand of death
Idle hands                                   Lilly white hands                 Nature's sweet cunning hand
Cash in your hand                      Deal a hand                         Bite the hand that feeds you
Hand of justice                           Hat in hand

           Contributions submitted by the members of the "Beyond Tags" E-group

I try to keep a study project going around here as well. February was hand study month. I must have been having a good time with that, because March became hand study month as well. That launched me into a painting with hands, front and center. A photo you ask? But of course, but you'll have to make do with a little HP pic version, as the good camera seems to have gone away to college again.

We are still working on this one, but it's beginning to live up to it's predetermined name: smells like summer. Oh, and if you are the person who made that list of hand phrases up above, you forgot one---hand jive. :) Thanks for stopping by, and have a lovely day.

Later, Cooper