Trying our hand at ochre painting

Yesterday I set up a table outside under a tree so we could have morning tea there and do art (without making my classroom/living room look like a bomb hit it). It is Reconciliation Week so we made our own pigments out of ochre rock. It made some amazing colors. We mixed the rock dust with white paint and water and it actually stuck to the paper quite nicely. Traditionally the rock painters use kangaroo fat and blood, but I wasn't going to go that far for a school project. We traced around our hands to replicate the traditional cave art and painted them using our own pigments. Angelina put nail polish on hers. I’m not sure that’s very traditional.