A Blast from the Past – Art and Design Knowledge Organiser – Year 3 Key Vocabulary A natural underground chamber in a hillside or cliff. Draw/sketch Produce an image of (someone or something) by making lines and marks on paper. HB system – The label on a pencil Key Skills which describes the 2H, 2B etc As an artist I will .. degree of  use sketch books to record my observations and use them to review hardness/softness of the lead and revisit ideas pressure How hard you press  improve techniques related to drawing and painting down with the pencil contour The French word for outline

Key Knowledge I will learn - stippling Making dots  Most cave paintings were of animals or hunters. A cave could be full of many Hatching/cross used to create tonal paintings by many different painters. Many hand stencils have also been discovered. hatching or shading effects  They used natural colours from mineral pigments. Some of the most impressive cave by drawing (or paintings have only been found in the last 100 years. painting or scribing)  : dating from period, discovered in 1880 in . The closely spaced carbon dioxide breathed out by visitors, eager to see the cave paintings caused parallel lines damage to the paintings and the were closed. They created a replica for blending Mix colours together visitors.  Cave: located in , discovered by children in 1940. The Cave Painter of Lascaux:  Magura Cave: dating from Neolithic period, located in north-western . Bones https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ftd from different prehistoric species of bears and hyenas discovered. xiQ6084  : located in Southern France. In addition to paintings and other human One minute cave art history evidence, the three speleologists (scientists who study caves) who first explored it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ftd discovered fossilised remains, prints, and markings from a variety of animals, some xiQ6084 of which are now extinct. Virtual tour of Lascaux Caves  Cuevas de las Manos (Cave of the Hands) in : Cave paintings around the https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ug world often include hand stencils, impressions left by blowing paint around a hand. UopbEdfPM Caves of Cresswell Crags, in Nottinghamshire UK