In our second class tonight we didn't actually draw a thing! We reverted once again to childhood and cut-out pictures. Jan had printed out gorgeous black-and-white pictures of animals, real and imagined, from etchings and woodcuts. Our mission was to chop them up and create beasts of our own fantasies for future drawings. We will be creating our own medieval bestiary and these animals will form part of our book project if we wish.
The class was silent as 8 women concentrated on cutting and pasting; the blissful silence of people enjoying what they are doing. Jan brought us ginger tea and chocolate and it was over too soon.
To see some fabulous beasts from 30,000 years ago visit this site:
The Cave of Chauvet-Pont-d'Arc
and marvel at the rhinoceros, mammoth, aurochs, horses and lions.
For more medieval visions, visit
Aberdeen Bestiary
The Medieval Bestiary
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Lesley, What a fun class! Cutting up photos to make fantastic creatures from your imagination - each person in the class must have come up with something different from the others. That would have been fun to see and compare your own Bestiary.
Those are pretty cool links, too!
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