Think Draw - Picture - Knight of Lascaux

Title: Knight of Lascaux
created on 14 Apr 10

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Comments on this picture (29):
1. marky wrote: Nice,el matador type!
2. chelydra wrote: Added to plant showcase but sadly the plants are trampled into the dust... since the guidelines don't specify untrampled plants, I guess this can go in...
3. chelydra wrote: The Knights of Lascaux were diehard worshippers of the earth goddess. The aforementioned trampled plants grew in a monastery garden, mostly asparagus and radishes. (The Knights of Lascaux only ate meat and attacked vegetables ruthlessly.)
4. shosho wrote: wounderful,powerful impression!!
5. marky wrote: ha ha..
6. mum23 wrote: This is wonderful! You are amazing with beads!
7. Dreamy wrote: So neat! Although, I'm not totally buying the radish connection to this monastery.
8. five wrote: Lots of power in this. Next, do knights jumping bulls a la the Bull Leaping Fresco, Knossos, Crete (one of my favorite images)
9. hxxhxx wrote: stunning color contrast -- the ultramarine/black versus the golden rest of the pic
10. chelydra wrote: Dear hxxhxx, I really wanted to get a real sooty black... Dear five, I studied that image but can't see how to handle it (so far anyway).
11. chelydra wrote: Dear Dreamy, I neglected to mention that their hatred of vegetable gardens was a result of (a) their hatred of everything domesticated, and (b) their longing for the return of their beloved glaciers and a time when there was nothing green to be seen anywh
12. chelydra wrote: ...anywhere. There were never more than about a dozen of their knights and they rarely strayed from the Pyrennees. They fought with Charles Martel and the Spanish against the Muslims, since they regarded Christianity as closer to their own religion. Later
13. chelydra wrote: they fought rear-guard actions against the Inquisition, before disappearing into their ancestral caves.
14. chelydra wrote: The last unconfirmed sighting was in 1846 by three young nuns who believed they had shared a vision of Satan himself.
15. chelydra wrote: Since their diet was limited to brown bears, it is believed they probably went extinct (along with the local bears) sometime before the 1980s.
16. chelydra wrote: However, there are theories that they took in Mary Magdalen and her child when they arrived nearby, and have in fact been controlling European politics ever since â€” from behind the scenes of course.
17. danila wrote: powerful ...beautiful..
18. chelydra wrote: Thanx, Danila. Dear five (again), Went to work on a bull-dancer (one of my favorite images also) but the original is far too perfect as is. Anything I could make of it would be cramped and miserable. I could see it working in your own Wild West style mayb
19. chelydra wrote: e.
20. five wrote: I gave it a go... it is hard to fit.
21. chelydra wrote: And a very fine go it was!
22. clorophilla wrote: what an impetuous gallup!!
23. polenta wrote: good.... and difficult!!!
24. Normal wrote: Hilarious - and also beautiful!
25. polenta wrote: Chelydra, as for my "very mysterious" pic EVOLUTION, there are the pyramids on the right, the Greek-Roman columns on the left, a long path and a monitor-screen-TV on the foreground. Get it? LOL Yes, I know, if you have to explain... it's no good.... LOL,
26. polenta wrote: Now I realize I should've added Stonehenge and something else. LOL
27. bluemoon wrote: great work here
28. debray wrote: I love this pic...and I would love to pick your brain...Too bad you don't post more on facebook!! I am very interested in ancient mysteries and the current corruption that has control of the world!!
29. mum23 wrote: Just tried to fave this, but I'd have had to kick out one of your other four or Q's child to do so...