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As part of their Stone Age topic, Year 3 have been learning about Prehistoric Art!

We focused on some amazing cave paintings discovered in France.

Having looked at them and discussed what they painted and why, we tried some of our own - sponging our backgrounds to give a cave wall texture/colour, we then used chalk and charcoal to draw our simple pictures, or draw round our hands: smudging it outwards a little to get a better effect.

We then thought about HOW they created Prehistoric Paint as they couldn't just pop to B & Q! We made our own paint by collecting different coloured soil, sieving it so we got rid of any bits of stone or grass. We then mashed it up using a spoon so it was nice and fine. We added a spoonful of vegetable fat, (in the Stone Age they would have used animal fat), mixing it into a thick paste, which we applied to our paper using our fingers.

It was very messy being a Prehistoric painter!!

To finish off our topic we jumped from the Stone Age to modern times, looking at the influence of prehistoric art on the artist Keith Haring - his simple outline figures and his use of stencils in his grafitti art. 

Here are some of our first Keith Haring style pictures as we get acquainted with his work.