You can even try using stencils! Follow Rock Painting 101 on Instagram for more fun ideas. If you don’t plan to keep your works of art for yourself, consider making someone else smile by ...

A fragmented painting of a pig ... possibilities,” says Pike. Rock art may have emerged separately in these disparate locales. Given that simple hand stencils show up all over the world, he ...

arguing that children or even toddlers may have been behind some of world’s earliest known art. The findings suggest that ancient rock painting was actually a family-oriented group activity ...

The oldest Sulawesi hand stencil ... paint and carved geometric designs in chunks of pigment at a cave on what’s now South Africa’s coast (SN: 11/19/11, p. 16). No single method of dating rock ...

A number of caves in the Indonesian province of Kalimantan contain thousands rock art images of ... animals and create hand stencils. "We know that this phase of cave painting starts between ...

"Cave painting and related ... They include stencils that were created by blowing or spraying reddish pigment around hands that were pressed against the rock surface — as well as sketches ...

offering the possibility to obtain minimum ages for the underlying rock art. In some cases, hand stencils and paintings were made over coralloids that then continued to grow, providing an ...

Archaeologists in Australia believe they have identified a previously undocumented beeswax stenciling technique used by ancient artists to create cave paintings. Most rock art stencils are large ...