...a blog post at last!
We've been away a week, but spent most of that time on the road (or in a garage getting the exhaust fixed!!)...
....or busy being hot!
Sarlat was sooooooo hot on Friday - about 37 degrees - that it was difficult to enjoy the day...
...but Saturday we drove up to Montingac to get our tickets for Lascaux II - where it was only 13 degrees inside :-))))))
This is a replica cave as the real one had to be closed to the public because of contamination...
...bacteria and CO2 causing the paintings to suffer too much.
Lascaux II is a copy of only a part of Lascaux.....the first 2 chambers...
...and photos/video are not allowed so I can't show you any - sorry.
However, I had printed off a number before coming and I'd cut a number of stencils from my drawings...
...so yesterday, my first "sketchbook day".....I was able to get on without a hitch as the temperature was down to about 27!!
Here are some piccies of page #1...
The name at the top was cut from a paper carrier bag that held my purchases...
...and those are our entry tickets stuck in the middle of the page.
The bulls are done with my stencils and some Sennelier oil pastels....
....and to finish off I used a micro liner pen to do ga-zillions of dots to make it resemble the undulations of the rock surfaces.
2 Euros bought me a bank-note depicting a Lascaux panel....a nice addition to the page :-)
I shall move on to Page #2 next...
x C
