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Especially negative human handprints. They’re all over the place and doesn’t seem intuitive at all to me. Holding a mix of red ochre + water in your mouth and b
by trianglem 6y ago
Especially negative human handprints. They’re all over the place and doesn’t seem intuitive at all to me. Holding a mix of red ochre + water in your mouth and blowing it against your hand held on a wall. Incredible!
- Zuider 6y agoOne possible explanation is that, in order to produce the desired clear outline of a hand, it would be more effective to use the 'stencilling' technique than it would be to attempt to transfer paint directly from the palm on to an uneven surface.
- wombatmobile 6y agoif hand stencils aren't obvious what is? What would you have adorned your cave with 45,000 years ago?
- trianglem 6y agoI feel like I would do a palm print before a stencil print.
- wombatmobile 6y agoWith what sort of paint? Do you think the result would be as distinctive as the stencil?
- trianglem 6y agoThe same? Red ochre + water? Why would it be different?
- wombatmobile 6y agoConsistency of adhesion, consistency of transference, and contrast of outline, I imagine. I haven't tried it. I'm making speculative inferences from the existing data vs the non-existent data.