Here’s a set of five macabre artworks drawn close to each other in time. They all feature deformed hands in some kind of distress and are drawn in red, black and grey shades. These drawings are closely connected with my pain experience with rheumatoid arthritis. The pain fuels the art and the art deafens the pain so drawing these things seems to be a win-win situation. And, by the way, I have always been deeply fascinated with hands and weird stuff, too.
Some mornings it is hard to move my fingers as if tight bandages are holding them firmly. Sometimes my palms and fingers just hurt a lot without any fathomable reason. They just do. And sometimes my palms itch a lot as if tiny monsters are scraping them with their little sharp teeth. And everything comes from inside, from my own immune system which at some point has taken a wrong turn and attacks its own host. But, as these sensations fuel some of my art, at least there is some kind of benefit coming out of them.
As for the medium. Some of the artworks are drawn in Procreate – the rose hand with thorns on its fingers, the hand stabbed from a spiky ball and the hand bitten by a monster with big sharp teeth. The skeleton hand with ghosts is drawn in Affinity Designer – mixed vector and raster techniques. and the fist with monster ring is an ink drawing shaded with greyscale COPIC Markers. Mixed media kingdom. 🙂
So, I’ve added these artworks to my Art Prints Store at Redbubble. If you are into dark, macabre art with a touch of creepy horror, you can buy some strange unnerving T-shirts, phone cases and other products with them.
Or, if you have a peculiar wish to support me in my art journey, you can always just buy me a coffee.
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