I have been fascinated with cave art all my life, and have researched and experimented with reproducing paleolithic-style painting for 15 years. I spend hours at the stone yard, looking at the colors and textures of stone, looking for the forms of animals or people that lie in them. I roughly shape the rock with a hammer and chisel then rub it with another stone to smooth the surface and edges, brighten the colors, open the surface for the paint, and give the stone a weathered ancient feel. I use the same painting techniques that paleolithic artists used, the main difference being I use an airbrush to blow light-fast paint onto stone, rather than spitting pigment mixed with cave water out of my mouth (I’d like to live longer than they did!) and my paintings are smaller than the originals for portability. I use the same pigments, and sgraffito scraping techniques and am constantly exploring prehistoric art imagery and symbols.
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