A Blast from the Past – Art and Design Knowledge Organiser – Year 3 Key Vocabulary Cave 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) Cave of Altamira: dating from Neolithic period, discovered in 1880 in Spain. The closely spaced carbon dioxide breathed out by visitors, eager to see the cave paintings caused parallel lines damage to the paintings and the caves were closed. They created a replica for blending Mix colours together visitors. Lascaux Cave: located in France, discovered by children in 1940. The Cave Painter of Lascaux: Magura Cave: dating from Neolithic period, located in north-western Bulgaria. Bones https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ftd from different prehistoric species of bears and hyenas discovered. xiQ6084 Chauvet Cave: 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 Argentina: 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