We continue our journey into the Napkin’s archives with a collection of hands.  This collection also happens to contain my favorite quote of all time.  See if you can find it.

 

Hands are Handy

One of the reasons I used hands when I first started doing these drawings for my daughters was that they were very easy and fast to draw. I was drawing 3 drawings per morning to stick in their lunches so I had to be fast. I could quickly draw the hand with one line and have it express an idea.  I liked that. Then add in that it was easy for the hand to represent something greater than self, from another world, and it was a no brainer to use the hand for ideas related to God, religion, hell, heaven, theology, etc. It came to represent more than that but that is where it started.

Here is a selection starting in 1998/99.  The first napkin is undated but the only undated drawings I have are, for the most part, from those 2 years.

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1998/99

 

sleeping girl

 

Original post – ‘Sleeping Girl’

 

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2001

 

Atheist thank god

 

Original post – ‘I Am An Atheist Still’

 

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clenched fist

 

Original post – ‘Thinking Clearly’

 

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2002

 

facts

 

Original post – ‘We Are All Imprisoned by Facts’

 

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2003

 

fingers_sm

 

Original post – ‘The Fingers Must Be Educated’

 

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2004

 

unexpected2_sm

 

Original post – ‘The Unexpected Life’

 

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Religion Test

 

Original post – ‘The Test of a Religion’

 

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2009

 

Atheism

 

 Original post – ‘If There is a God’

 

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theology

 

Original post – ‘The Intent of Theology’

 

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2010

 

value

 

Original post – ‘Man Must Be Disappointed’

 

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2011

 

evolution

 

Original post – ‘Religion Was Science’ – Creation vs Evolution #4

 

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2012

 

perfectionism

 

Original post – ‘Perfection and Progress’ – The Perfect Perfectionist Series #3

 

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2014

 

wealth1-2014_sm

 

Original post – ‘The Moment of Good Fortune’ – Wealth #1

 

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Drawings by Marty Coleman

 

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