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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