Haphaestus Original Paleolithic-style Rock Painting by Lynne Gerard For this delightfully shaped Paleozoic rock plaquette, I thought for sure a large flying bird was waiting to wing its wait out to the surface.     With just water on my brush, I quickly sketched first an owl and then an eagle to gain a feeling for which bird it was that I thought I was listening to.     But nope!     The rock rejected such ideas.   The more I sat with this rock admiring its peculiar shape and wonderful series of ridges and textures, the sensation of an architectural bas relief sculpture came to mind.   I looked up some examples of bas relief from my massive old book on the art of Michelangelo and online images sources and did some quick water sketches on the rock.  It felt very receptive to such an idea. Kevin Droski The artist's husband and muse My next step was to photograph my husband for my model (not wanting to copy Michelangelo!) and things moved along rather fluidly after that until it cam

Atabis - Original Paleolithic-style rock painting  

Her Fragile Confidence  This is an image that came together from the way the shape of the rock and the pigments directed this artist’s hand.