I'm starting a couple of new pieces for a show coming up in July to benefit the Nevada Rock Art Foundation. They are a group dedicated to the preservation of Nevada's petroglyphs. I wanted to do something a little different, so in this first piece I wanted to depict an early indiginous inhabitant looking at some petroglyphs carved by some of his contemporaries since one must imagine that petroglyphs originally were meant as forms of communication. I researched what this person might have looked like and what he may have worn. It seems, almost universally, in warm weather at least, males wore breechcloths made of either leather or plant material and mocassins with a single seam in the center.

I need a place for this character to stand and look at his petroglyphs...I wasn't able to visit any of the actual petroglyph sites in the area prior to this painting, however, Cherlyn Bennett has been gracious enough to provide me with plenty of references. The place shown to the left, however isn't one of those sites, however, I'll add some actual petroglyphs that I do have reference for to the rocks shown here by the end of the painting...so, here's how it begins.