Stone Pigment Paintings
These paintings were created using natural stone pigments using ochres I collected myself. Please see “Making Art Like a Cave Woman”.
Running Herd (SOLD) 8x11" Stone pigment on canvas (sold)
Running Trio Stone pigment and fiber paste on canvas board 10x10"
Woman Be Wise 9x12" stone pigment and fiber paste on canvas board Based on the Willendorf figuring from 25-30,000 years ago, this image imagines how the Woman feels inside
Three Bulls 8x10 stone pigment and fiber paste on canvas board (SOLD)
Dancing Herd (SOLD) 20x30" stone pigment and fiber paste on canvas
Kate Mam-moss 16x20" stone pigment and fiber paste on canvas This mammoth is convinced of her beauty, quite rightly
Whistlejacket 20x20" stone pigment and fiber paste on board. Based on George Stubbs's famous portrait of the Thoroughbred racehorse Whistlejacket.
Forging Forward 9x12" stone pigment and fiber paste on canvas board
Raging Bull 20x20" stone pigment and fiber paste on canvas (SOLD)
Wisent Bull 8x10" stone pigment and fiber paste on canvas board
Spring Bear 18x24"" stone pigment and fiber paste on canvas. Cave bears were generally more massive, but this one has just emerged from hibernation, and is in search of food to make up for lost fat.
Frosty Morning (SOLD) 8x24"" stone pigment and fiber paste on canvas Kicking up snow and blowing out their breath on a cold day, these three young females are feeling frisky
Leaping Bull 10x10" stone pigment and fiber paste on canvas board Sometimes a bull has to jump for joy
Morning Bugle 12x24"" stone pigment and fiber paste on canvas This elk is more related to the North American Cervalces Scotti than the Irish Elk that would have been found in Europe during the Pleistocene. However, it is similar in appearance to the cervids depicted in Lascaux.
Musk Ox (SOLD) 8x10" stone pigment and fiber paste on canvas board Massive, but dancing!
Rainbow Herd 14x18"" stone pigment and fiber paste on canvas. Each horse is painted using a different color of ochre, to demonstrate the range found in the color bands at one of my collection sites. The black pony is painted using charcoal.
Reclining Goddess (SOLD) 8x10" stone pigment and fiber paste on canvas (SOLD) Based on the Woman of Willendorf (25-30,000YO, German), this image imagines the Woman relaxing after a long day posing for the sculptor.
Yes? 30x30" stone pigment and fiber paste on canvas The wisent, or European wood bison, still exists, and is being reintroduced to the wild. This female still would like to be left alone.
Roger Rhino 9x12" stone pigment and fiber paste on canvas board I'm sure that some of the artists of the Pleistocene had a sense of humor
Golden Horse 8x10" stone pigment and fiber paste on canvas board This ancestor of the Przewalski's horse is doing a capriole 2023
Three Aurochs 14x18" stone pigment and fiber paste on canvas board The aurochs featured prominently on cave paintings of western Europe.
Two Lions 24x24" The cave lion, panthera spelaea, was larger than modern lions, and males had very little mane (though how paleotologists determine this from the fossil record I don't know)
Cave Bear (sold) 8x10 stone pigment on paper
Enough 12x16" stone pigment and fiber paste on board Even a pushy auroch bull backs off from the Woman of Willendorf
Natufian Head 10x10" stone pigment and fiber paste on canvas The Natufian civilization of the Paleolithic Levant was utterly fascinating and you should look it up. I created this head in bas relief to emphasize its emotion
"Pigs Flew Then, Too" 11x14" stone pigment and charcoal with fiber paste on canvas
"Bison , Walking" 8x24" stone pigments and charcoal with fiber paste on canvas
"Fighting Ibex" 16x20" stone pigment and fiber paste on canvas
"Leaping Bull" 11x14" stone pigment and charcoal with fiber paste on board. For this piece, as with the Natufian Head, I built up the forms with the fiber paste to create a bas relief, which the Paleolithic artists did, both with clay and the stone of the cave walls.
"Wisent" 12x16" stone pigment and charcoal with fiber paste on canvas. The bison on the cave walls look odd to a modern viewer, because we are used to North American bison. The cave painters, however, would have known the European bison, or "wisent," which looks exactly like their paintings.
"Adornment" 2024 24x30 stone pigment and charcoal with fiber paste on canvas humans have been adorning themselves for as long as we've been humans--probably before then. Chunks of ochre believed to be used for body paint 100.000 years ago have been found in Blombos Cave, South Africa.
Shaman 2024 10x10 stone pigment, charcoal and fiber paste on canvas This is a North American bison, rather than the European wisent, so a bit of an anachronism for me, but I couldn't resist his hairy legs.
"A Hero for All Times" 2024, 18x24 stone pigment and charcoal on canvas Here's the Venus of Willendorf in the superhero landing pose--because I'm sure that she would've if she had known about it
"Half Shell" 2024, 18x24 stone pigment and charcoal with fiber paste on canvas. Usually I use a water base, but here I used linseed oil, which gives the pigments a real richness.
"Minotaur" 8x10, stone pigment, charcoal and fiber paste on canvas board. This bull is based on the frescoes at Crete, as well as cave paintings of aurochs
"Mirrors" 2024, 16x20, stone pigment and fiber paste on canvas This is one of those rare paintings where the Muse reached down to me and gave me the entire painting as one. It just flowed out and was what it needed to be.