Finished artwork from Ice Age

sarah816202
Jan 16
3 min read

Ice Age and art made for a magnificent backdrop; a great deal of enthusiasm and thought went into these pictures. At the time, the temperatures were below zero, which added to things with some areas with snow lying around. With those thoughts in mind, excellent work and memories were sparked, giving way to some inspired, enlightened, amusing and beautiful art. Take a look at this week's gallery.

Blue and white ice background scene, muted orange cut out in mid section; picture centrally placed. Top is a brown toned cave painting shows stick people and animals; lower is a ice scene with a man sat by a fire, axe in front. tent to left and in the distance a brown woolly mammoth, long cream tusks — Donna's Ice Age artwork ❄️

Donna - A fabulous scene depicting an Ice Age cave painting in keeping with the time, great scene with the large sabre-toothed cat and deer hunting, and a family group. Love the detail. The fire below, with the axe and the woolly mammoth in the distance, captures the essence of survival and the chill of the Ice Age. Felt-tip pens were used.

Blue and white ice background scene, muted orange cut out in mid section; picture centrally placed. Five digitally generated photos of a man with his mum and others in cave man style clothing in different settings in present day and the Ice Age — Phil's Ice Age artwork ❄️

Phil - A great fun piece of digital artwork made by Phil using the app Google Gemini. He spent a while choosing photos and made himself laugh, and we joined in with him as he added the Ice Age theme to himself and the people around him during our art session. Fun during art!

Blue and white ice background scene, muted orange cut out in mid section; picture centrally placed. Background white lined pad with black and white outlined images top left snowman, bottom left sabre toothed tiger character. Top right Ptarmigan bird, top middle; 2 stick men throwing snowballs at each other; bottom right Scrat the character from Ice age with their Acorn — Vicky's Ice Age artwork ❄️

Vicky - An awesome collection of icy and snow-filled characters showing some activities. A lot of inspiration! My favourite was Scrat, the fictional squirrel from Ice Age, closely followed by the Ptarmigan. Vicky always shares bird facts and species with us. This one blends in with the snow, changing to white in winter, and lives in the Highlands. Ink sketches.

Blue and white ice background scene, muted orange cut out in mid section; picture centrally placed. Tall glacial structures left and right, a waterfall central flowing into a river with a rocky bed. Left is a cave in the rock face and on frozen valley floor there is a large skeleton lying of a horned prehistoric animal. Sky has a blue/purple/grey colour — Sarah's Ice Age Artwork ❄️

Sarah - 'Impression of the Ice Age'... Looming glaciers, a powerful icy waterfall with a plunge pool, and a fast-flowing river carving its way through the ice and rock. The skeleton of a woolly rhino lies, fallen on the bank of the river, not far from the entrance of a large cave. The harsh and formidable scene of the frozen era. This is the scene that appears in my mind when the Ice Age is mentioned. Sketched using graphite and coloured using watercolour pencils.

Blue and white ice background scene, muted orange cut out in mid section; picture centrally placed. White background with a large green and red coloured sketched drawing of a woolly mammoth. Above is a red square with some small outlines to represent of symbols of people and animals of cave painting style. Left a red and yellow topped glacial type rock. Top right a sun shines yellow in the sky. On the left other green, red and orange items. — Noor's Ice Age Artwork ❄️

Noor - Fantastic Ice Age artwork. Centrally, Noor decided to draw an impressive Woolly Mammoth; the trunk and tusks look great, and I really think the added detail with the mop of hair on their head adds to this picture. The Ice Age cave painting is a great touch too. Ink pens and colouring pencils were used.

Blue and white ice background scene, muted orange cut out in mid section; picture centrally placed. White background a large skeleton centrally placed of an enormous Elk, front facing, with huge antlers, skull facing forward and rib cage bowed slightly outwards. Upper parts of leg bones are drawn. All sketched and painted in white/grey shades — Barbara's Ice Age Artwork ❄️

Barbara - A superb painting, love the detail and the immense presence of the antlers of this beast! An impressive Ice Age skeleton of an Irish Elk. Barbara explained that she had seen this in a museum she had visited in Ireland. This huge, majestic animal had been found, preserved in Peat Bogs in Ireland. She also commented that the Irish Elk stands at around 9feet tall, similar to a deer, but larger. They have extremely large, powerful antlers which are about 12feet wide, similar to a moose/reindeer, sketched in graphite and painted in watercolour.

Blue and white ice background scene, muted orange cut out in mid section; picture centrally placed. Picture of a penguin, placed to the left side white chest and belly, pink beak, underside of flippers and feet, black back and tail. Sky deep blue with some white clouds on a light blue/white iceberg, a little green surrounded by a blue ocean. — Andy's Ice Age Artwork ❄️

Andy - Decided to research animals that live in Icy/Arctic conditions, and here is a well-adapted penguin species, living in the frozen glacial conditions. Great use of blue tones with some green and white to give an icy feel to this picture and an impression of the depth below the surface of the iceberg in the ocean. Soft pastels were used.

A fantastic array of artwork this week from our creatives, taking us on different journeys. Hoping you enjoyed the adventure, leave a comment if you have any favourites.

There are some more exciting topics coming up. We have just had our first teaching-led session, by Portrait artist Barbara Hulme, with step-by-step instructions and individual advice; a Part 1 recording will be available for that soon.

Still to come are: Scotland in Colour - Burns' Night (21 Jan) and

Renew and Refresh*MH (28 Jan), for this month.

Remember, you are always welcome to join our chilled art group sessions, which run on Wednesdays 7:30pm, UK time, see link below.

https://linktr.ee/all4inclusion

2 Comments

barbarahulme

7 days ago

I love checking out the blog - looking at everyone's interpretations of each weeks theme. Superb artworks this week, particularly liking Donna's cave art and Sarah's Glacial scenery. Lovely work everyone :)

Sarah Morris

5 days ago

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Thank you, B. It's a fantastic collection of icy artwork interpretations this week, I agree. I really was fascinated by the discussion we had around the giant Elk skeleton you painted, absolutely awesome xx