Year 2, unit 3: Mixing things together
Lesson 3
Using ochres to make
paint
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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.
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Grinding ochres into powder takes
time and patience.
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After grinding, ochre is mixed with a
binding material.
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Pandanus baskets were made from
dried leaves and vines and then
painted with ochre.
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A cross boomerang made from
wood and vine and painted with ochre.
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A rainforest shield made from
wood and painted with ochre.
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A rock painting using ochre.
This rock art is in
the West Kimberley
region in Western
Australia.
©Grant Dixon/Getty Images
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Image acknowledgements
Slide no.
Image title
Source/author details
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Natural ochres and charcoal
© Joseph Sambono
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Pounding red ochre
© Queensland Museum, Gary Cranitch
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Mixing red ochre
© Queensland Museum, Gary Cranitch
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Pandanus baskets, 1912–13
Image reproduced courtesy of Museum Victoria
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Indigenous cross boomerang from Cairns area, 1900 Image reproduced courtesy of Australian Museum
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Rainforest shield, c1980s
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Aboriginal rock art in gorge of lower Charnley River,
West Kimberley
Image reproduced courtesy of Museum Victoria
© Grant Dixon/Getty Images
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