Saturday, March 19, 2011

Earth Painting - 24 June 2010

A great homeschool activity and a lot of fun (and mess)...

We made our own natural paints using two types of soil, charcoal & turmeric.

Charlie pounding the charcoal with a mortar and pestle




Great earth shades of different textures & colours












Some of the finished masterpieces



These paintings led into great discussions of Indians, Aboriginals & American Indians paintings. How these different cultures all used natural resources around them to create beautiful works of art.

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