The story:
Some time ago I started a business of selling and promoting Venezuelan handicrafts. Through it I met many valuable people, I discovered that most of the artisans, as artists at last, are endowed with a high sensibility.
The workshop:
That's how I met the Tovar and Tovar artisan workshop, they made - I don't know if they still do - ornaments, paintings and utilitarian pieces, mostly with pre-Columbian indigenous expressions, making representations of petroglyphs found in the country. In addition to the interest I found in the reproduction of the aboriginal symbolism, and later discovering the history behind the petroglyphs and their way of diffusion as historical and cultural heritage of our country, I was struck by the technique used to make their pieces.
The technique:
The technique is called: lithic painting. This paint is created with stones and rocks of medium and low hardness that are pulverized and later mixed with aloe vera, flaxseed, glue, sometimes earth or resin, until developing a spectacular range of colors that when applied are with a certain relief and texture quite interesting. I'm sharing some photos with you:
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Ingenuity, creativity and innovation are what drive us forward as a species.
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"Curiosity about life in all its aspects continues to be the secret of the most creative people." Leo Burnett.
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