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Lesson 4 WALT: use natural resources to create pigments of colour.
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Which colours can you see in the cave art below?
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Let's recap what we know about making colour
How do we use blue to create green or
purple? Yellow – to create orange or green?
Red to create, pink or purple, or
orange?
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Stone Age people created colour using natural resources. What natural resources might they have
used?
WALT: use natural resources to create pigments of colour.
TTYP
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berries
Wild Flowers
Natural resources Stone age people used to make paint were...
Stone Age artists relied on several different types of material to make the colour for their painting. Reddy brown Clay was the main pigment and provided three basic colours: yellow, brown and red. For the colour black pigment, they used or charcoal, or burnt bones (known as bone black). For the colour white pigment, they used ground up white stones (lime white).
Fun fact- historians have found that to make the colourful pasts thick enough to stay on cave walls, people used animal fat, saliva or urine to mix the paste!
white rock powder
Black charcoal from burnt wood ash
red clay
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ActivityToday we will use natural
resources to create different colours the way Stone Age
people did. We will be using water to make
your colour paste!
You will need a pestle and mortar to help you grind the
natural materials
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Activity
Create a table to show the different colours that you have managed to create
using the natural materials
Write a few sentences explaining how you made the colour paste