For my cave pictograph pictures, I chose Jiffy Pop popcorn and Sharpie permanent markers. I selected modern inventions that cave dwellers could use independently of other modern items, making their functions and implementations easy to understand.

For the Jiffy Pop (popcorn), I illustrated the process of a caveman starting a fire, placing the product over the flames to pop the popcorn, and finally enjoying it with his family.

For the permanent marker, I illustrated a caveman creating cave art the traditional way, followed by a modern-day salesman offering him a permanent marker to try. Finally, I depicted the caveman using the marker to draw an image resembling Picasso’s horse on the cave wall.

This assignment was a great opportunity to think about how cave people lived, using the materials available to them in their daily lives to create art and record events.

I am late to post, but better late than never. Sometimes. So far, 427 has been very interesting. I have enjoyed how interactive the class is. Having the opportunity to participate in the design of assignments goes above and beyond an average course experience and taking turns with leading discussion gives us the opportunity to steer the discussion to what we found most important or interesting about the particular lesson.