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Perhaps you have a macho little boy who likes all things primitive, and collects pterodactyls and dinosaurs. Or perhaps you just have a difficult room that you dont know what to do with - its square, its small, its boring. Why not create something truly unique - a wall covered in petroglyphs, also know as cave paintings. These stylized animal shapes and hunt scenes can appeal to the inner caveman in us all.

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Perhaps you have a macho little boy who likes all things primitive, and collects pterodactyls and dinosaurs. Or perhaps you just have a difficult room that you dont know what to do with - its square, its small, its boring. Why not create something truly unique - a wall covered in petroglyphs, also know as cave paintings. These stylized animal shapes and hunt scenes can appeal to the inner caveman in us all.

Petroglyphs are fairly easy to approximate, but you may want to practice a bit first. If you have an airbrush, this would be the ideal tool; otherwise, spraypaint held at different distances can achieve a similar effect. Stencil paint and stencil stippling brushes may work for you as well. For a truly authentic look, use Conte crayon; these colored chalks, usually found in black, white, and various shades of red and brown, approximate the materials the prehistoric painters used, in a much handier form. If you use Conte crayon, you will have to protect the painting with a coat of clear fixative to keep it from smudging.

First go to your library and check out some books on cave art. Lascaux, Altamira and Chauvet Pont dArc are all famous sites of prehistoric art; get a book with large color plates to work from. Sketch a few of the animals freehand in charcoal on newsprint to get the feel for the shapes, and relative sizes. Looking at the cave paintings in photographs will calm your fears; the cave painters themselves had a number of false-starts, many of which remain for you to learn from.

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