You in a cave painting from around 15,000 BC
Erafy takes a photo of you and paints a new picture from it in the manner of Lascaux and Altamira: red and yellow ochre and manganese black on raw limestone, seen by a flame carried close. The painters drew people crudely, and so does this.
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What a cave painting was
Around 15,000 BC, painters in the caves of France and Spain worked deep inside the rock. Their colours were red and yellow ochre, manganese black and charcoal, ground to powder, mixed with water or animal fat, dabbed on with a pad of moss or fur or blown through a hollow bone. A black contour came first; flat earth colour went inside it, two or three tones, never blended.
People were the rarest subject and the least carefully drawn: a near-blank head with no nose, chin or mouth, stiff limbs, a two-stroke stub for a hand, hair as a dabbed mass, hide and fur as one more flat field. A cave painting barely holds a person. How many people there are, how they stand and the mass of their hair may come through, and little else.
Erafy does not lay a filter over your photo. It paints a new picture from it onto the wall, among the wall's older marks: animals and a pale sprayed hand. With Situation on, you are placed in a scene, such as a couple at a shelter mouth at dusk or a woman gathering limpets at low tide. A pet comes out as a person with its own animal head. Cave painting is the oldest of Erafy's twenty crafts.
More pictures
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A hunt among reindeer -
A couple -
A white bunny as a person
Other crafts: Stone and clay
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Levantine rock artaround 6000 BC -
Egyptian tomb paintingaround 2400 BC -
Minoan frescoaround 1600 BC -
Assyrian palace reliefaround 700 BC -
Greek vase paintingaround 450 BC -
Terracotta armyaround 220 BC
Questions
Which caves is this cave painting look based on?
Lascaux in the Dordogne, France, painted about 17,000 years ago, and Altamira in Cantabria, Spain, about 15,500 years ago. Both caves are closed to protect the paintings, and Lascaux is shown to visitors as replicas. At Lascaux the painters built scaffolding to reach the ceiling, and the cave holds nearly 6,000 figures; at Altamira bison were painted over bulges in the ceiling so the rock itself did the modelling.
How old is the oldest cave painting?
Far older than this craft. A painted warty pig in a cave at Leang Tedongnge on Sulawesi, Indonesia, is at least 45,500 years old, and a panel at Leang Karampuang was reported in 2024 at about 51,200 years. The Lascaux and Altamira animals that Erafy follows are much later, about 17,000 and 15,500 years old, which is why the app prints the date as around 15,000 BC.
What would I look like in a cave painting?
Erafy makes a new picture from your photo in the style of the year you pick, so how much it resembles you varies from one go to the next. It varies most in the black-and-white years and in the crafts before 1900, where faces are drawn in the craft's style. We make no promise about how any result will look.
