#lascaux horse

[jbbartram-illu]

Un autre reminder!!! Shop will update on Saturday, May 25th @ 3pm est & also now I have the last couple listings up (peeks below) + all the descriptions/sizing/etc, so you can hop on over to the shop for a proper full preview this time :)

[dsudis]

My cross-stitch nemesis (in a very Kate Beaton sense of nemesis)

Scarlet Quince's rendition of the horse painting from Lascaux, which is fully stitched 208 by 142 stitches (a bit over 29,000 stitches total) on 18-count aida.

The beginning: March 6, 2021

June 23, 2021, approximately 11% complete by total stitch count.

One year on, March 2, 2022, approximately 18% complete.

March 28, 2022, the top twenty rows are complete all the way across and it's 22.5% complete by stitch count.

July 13, 2022, the top thirty rows are complete and it's 27.7% complete.

October 8, 2022, 40 rows complete and 35.6% complete by stitch count.

50 rows complete as of today, July 16, 2023! Very crumpled and no stitch count percentage because I last worked on it while I was on vacation and it was long enough ago that my phone browser lost all my pattern data and I have to rebuild it from the last backup, which I cannot face right now because UGH, NEMESIS.

(The lighting mostly does not represent how absolutely impossible it is to distinguish all those gray/beige/blue colors that are forming the background, and I was Very Clever and did this project on cream-colored fabric that doesn't show through gaps so obviously, which means it... blends together and is Worse, Actually.)

[shadyufo]

Few more shots of the Cave Ponies going up in my Etsy shop tomorrow (3/16)!

I bought these sweet little wooden horses years ago at a craft store and finally got around to painting them recently. Their coat colors and markings are inspired by horses depicted in Paleolithic cave paintings <3

[claypigeonpottery]

all sold

some of my cave painting pieces

[artofmaquenda]

My two new cave pins are finally here as well and I'm so happy with them! :D They are much thicker, sturdier and larger! They are available here: Stag: https://artofmaquenda.etsy.com/listing/1702729943/large-deer-cave-pin-lascaux-chauvet Honse: https://artofmaquenda.etsy.com/listing/1688551436/large-horse-cave-pin-lascaux-chauvet

[spookyvalentine]

what the calling does to a guy

[the-cricket-chirps]

Horse, the Lascaux Cave, Montignac-Lascaux, France, ca. 15,000 BC

Photo: N. Aujoulat, Ministére de la Culture et de la Communication, France

[alphagodith]

my favorite crafting/survival game is getting a big update soon that will really open up the exploration aspect and i'm SO excited! these are screenshots from that game- you can upload art into it and use it as decals that conform to uneven surfaces, which is perfect for cave art!

[careful-disorder]

A horse colored with yellow ochre from Lascaux cave

“Yellow, in the form of yellow ochre pigment made from clay, was one of the first colors used in prehistoric cave art. The cave of Lascaux has an image of a horse colored with yellow estimated to be 17,300 years old.” - Yellow

[sixbucks]

Detail of cave painting at Lascaux

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[luannudell]

WORDS TO HOLD IN OUR HEARTS

A very tiny migration! But as a fan said, it’s a FAMILY, so it’s an important one. Finally working on my single-box artwork! Small shrine series We make our art for ourselves, first. A couple years ago, I had the opportunity to share my work with a new gallery in a small town here in Sonoma County. The owner loved my work, and did a great job of displaying it. After six months, they had me take…

[jbbartram-illu]

Would you be open to sharing your lichen tattoo? That sounds awesome!

Totally!! I love showing it off & as a bonus (?) I'll also throw in my latest tattoo (from february), a hand-poked Lascaux horse (I plan to add two more so I have a small bicep-herd)!

Lichen:

& Lascaux-horse (the closeup was from right after it was done, so it's a little angry-looking...I still need a proper fully-healed photo, but the awkward, look ma, same horse! snapshot is all I have for now)

[berrymeter]

for the record yes that is a cow however there are more animal's on that wall

[elodieunderglass]

for the horse asks: appaloosa?

Appaloosa - What's your favorite horse color(s)?

I don’t really have one but I LOVE when horses and ponies are what they’re supposed to be!

I’m also a huge fan of the primitive markings, and general Lascaux cave horse appearance.

So like I wouldn’t say flaxen chestnut is my favorite AT ALL, but the Haflinger!! . yes you are a cobby little horse with a big butt that needs to be a flaxen chestnut!! and everyone understands this. Perfect animal. No need to track changes. Also I do love when a horse has a bit of texture in their mane and tail, so respect to Haflingers for being the rare wavy-haired horsie. I don’t even like blondes so you see what I mean here about it just being the pure synergy of intention and form and style, the Haflinger just is perfectly complete.

And then a brunblakk fjord horse. The mealy muzzle. The dorsal stripe. Black ear tips. Someone from 20,000 years ago is grasping my hand across space and time and we are crying together about how perfect a thick little horsie can get. Granted the fjords always have the weirdest haircuts in the world, but you can see exactly why. This horse is so perfectly what it’s supposed to be that you can’t resist scrungling it a little bit. Also another animal that IS its name like: all Norwegian Fjords LOOK like the breed name is Norwegian Fjord, and they ARE all named things like Freya. As they should be. This is an animal that is exactly what it should be.

You know how horse people compliment each other’s horses by saying they have a kind eye? It’s hard not to have a Kind Eye if you are a brunblakk Norwegian Fjord.

And of course, my baby, my darling, my moorland mousie, the feral shaggy brown/bay with mealy markings that is the Exmoor Pony. You look at this tubby beastie and you say YES. YES YOU ARE BORN TO BE A LITTLE BEASTIE ENCOUNTERED SUDDENLY ON A MISTY MOOR . The sculpting of the contour colours! Some sculpture artist would spend hours with an airbrush trying to do that! and they just wake up in the morning , eyeliner: on, eyeshadow: on, lipstick: on, cheeks: contoured, muzzle: mealy, dapples subtle, ready to go. Can’t even see their eyes half the time, but underneath 25 pounds of luscious pelted mane they’re wearing natural mascara. And for what? Living full time on rocks in the rain, baby!! This is a cave painting horse and it always will be!

The reverse of that of course is horses who Shouldn’t Be That Color. For example I am a little bit upset by this chestnut Shire, who isn’t a flaxen chestnut and probably should be. What are you doing baby? You need some leg markings sweetheart. Can we just dye your mane and tail black maybe, you have bay energy. Ughhhhh I’m trying not to be prescriptive. Ughhhh all horses are beautiful and beauty standards are fake but ———— - sweet child we HAVE to style you somehow!!!! You are a Shire!!!!! WHAT IS THIS??

And I love - LOVE! - a grulla/grullo. Obvious reasons: I like primitive markings, and I have the aesthetic taste of a small child. Who doesn’t secretly love a deviantart sparklehorse?

but I will be the first to admit that it is a razor’s edge between a really lovely grulla horse who reaches back to touch our shared history and knowledge of ourselves, an unbroken thread of beauty that should be painted in a cave under an ancient mountain, like a jewel of the earth: and a necromantic vessel that was bred to encourage possession by evil ghosts, to be harvested regularly and sold at retail prices by some midwestern white woman as part of some tortuous work-from-home scheme. And I do understand this. I know this about myself and about grullas. Like, this one is a horse that probably shouldn’t - we probably shouldn’t have done this. You know?

Do not ask about cremellos.

[museum-of-artifacts]

A herd of wild Przhevalsky horses in the Chernobyl exclusion zone. Photograph: Tatyana Deryabina/University of Porthmouth. & a 17,000-year-old horse painting at the Lascaux cave in France

More: https://thetravelbible.com/top-artifacts-from-the-stone-age/

[pangur-and-grim]

the Lascaux cave art pins are now live at greerstothers.shop

I’ve loved these for ages, because of how they show the colourations of extinct animals! that’s something that is so hard��to preserve through fossils, but now we know that prehistoric horses had Przewalski-esque coats, that giant elk had these dark shoulder humps, and that cave lions were tawny with dorsal stripes