Year 2 unit 3 Mixing things together Lesson
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Year 2, unit 3: Mixing things together Lesson 3 Using ochres to make paint © 2013 Education Services Australia Ltd, except where indicated otherwise. You may copy, distribute and adapt this material free of charge for non-commercial educational purposes, provided you retain all copyright notices and acknowledgements. 1
Ochre is naturally tinted clay used to make pigments (colours) for painting. Here are examples of red and white ochre. The black lumps are charcoal. 2
Grinding ochres into powder takes time and patience. 3
After grinding, ochre is mixed with a binding material. 4
Pandanus baskets were made from dried leaves and vines and then painted with ochre. 5
A cross boomerang made from wood and vine and painted with ochre. 6
A rainforest shield made from wood and painted with ochre. 7
A rock painting using ochre. This rock art is in the West Kimberley region in Western Australia. ©Grant Dixon/Getty Images 8
Image acknowledgements Slide no. Image title Source/author details 2 Natural ochres and charcoal © Joseph Sambono 3 Pounding red ochre © Queensland Museum, Gary Cranitch 4 Mixing red ochre © Queensland Museum, Gary Cranitch 5 Pandanus baskets, 1912– 13 Image reproduced courtesy of Museum Victoria 6 Indigenous cross boomerang from Cairns area, 1900 Image reproduced courtesy of Australian Museum 7 Rainforest shield, c 1980 s 8 Aboriginal rock art in gorge of lower Charnley River, West Kimberley Image reproduced courtesy of Museum Victoria © Grant Dixon/Getty Images 9
