Stone Age Pilot on a Primitive Glider

An oil painting in rich impasto: a Stone Age pilot stands at a cliff's edge, preparing to launch a primitive hang-glider made from wood and tanned hide. He wears a fur cloak, a leather aviator hood, and bone goggles; a spear is slung at his side. The landscape below shows a prehistoric valley with mammoths and distant fires; a cave wall behind him is decorated with simple hunter-gatherer paintings. Warm earth tones, dramatic light and shadow, thick brushstrokes, and a heroic, mythic mood as the glider lifts into the dawn sky.