Masterpiece: Black Bull Artist: Unknown

Concept: Texture Lesson: Prehistoric Drawing Objectives: A. To create a prehistoric cave drawing using earthy colors B. Students will learn to draw on a textured surface. Vocabulary: Cave Art, Texture, Line, Color, Prehistoric Materials: * Brown paper bags (grocery bags) torn into pieces roughly one foot square

* Black, brown, yellow and red crayons (paper removed from crayons) * Glue * Masking tape * Black construction paper for mounting (9X12)

**Note: You can attach the project blurb on the back of the black paper before the class begins.

Process: 1. Give one piece of paper bag to each student.

2. Look at the Black Bull paintings. Briefly talk about the kind of animals most often seen in cave paintings and show pictures. Some examples are: bison, buffalo, bulls, woolly mammoths, horses, goats, rhinoceros, and other large mammals.

3. Ask the child to put his or her name on the back of the brown bag paper. You may have to help them with this.

4. Ask the students to crumple up their brown bag and then flatten in out. This will make the bag look like cave rock!

5. A brown crayon can be lightly rubbed on its side over the surface of the paper to enhance the appearance of a stone texture.

6. If you wish, tape the brown bags to the wall with masking tape, to simulate drawing on a wall.

7. Turn off lights to simulate cave atmosphere. 8. Give each child black, brown, yellow and red crayons to draw an

animal. They can draw a bull, horse, rhino, mammoth, big cat, deer, sheep, etc. (no dinosaurs). They can draw people, too.

9. Put laminated sample symbols on each table for students to look at for ideas.

10. Remind students to press hard with their crayons. 11. When the drawings are done, assemble them on a piece of black

paper with hot glue or white glue. 12. Hang your Cave art masterpiece on the wall outside your

classroom with staples, or if you have a cinder block wall, use hot glue and clothespins.

KINDERGARTEN--PROJECT #1 Artist: Unknown, Cave Art Masterpiece: Black Bull Lesson: Cave Painting Project Sample:

Art Masterpiece

“Black Bull” Unknown artist

We studied the prehistoric cave-painting called ‘Black Bull”. Prehistoric drawings are pictures inscribed or painted on stone. We discussed the terms texture and neutral colors. Your child used

his/her imagination to produce a masterpiece inspired by this artwork.

Art Masterpiece “Black Bull”

Unknown artist

We studied the prehistoric cave-painting called ‘Black Bull”. Prehistoric drawings are pictures

inscribed or painted on stone. We discussed the terms texture and neutral colors. Your child used his/her imagination to produce a masterpiece inspired by this artwork.

Art Masterpiece “Black Bull”

Unknown artist

We studied the prehistoric cave-painting called ‘Black Bull”. Prehistoric drawings are pictures inscribed or painted on stone. We discussed the terms texture and neutral colors. Your child used

his/her imagination to produce a masterpiece inspired by this artwork.

Art Masterpiece “Black Bull”

Unknown artist

We studied the prehistoric cave-painting called ‘Black Bull”. Prehistoric drawings are pictures

inscribed or painted on stone. We discussed the terms texture and neutral colors. Your child used his/her imagination to produce a masterpiece inspired by this artwork.

Prehistoric paintings Lascaux Cave, France

Deep in a cave at Lascaux, France, are wonderful wall paintings of cows,

horses, bison, stags and even a woolly rhinoceros. These pictures were painted thousands of years ago, but no one knows exactly why. Some people think that the cave was a place of worship. These cave paintings are thought to be over 15,000 years old! And there are other caves with even older cave art!

Four French boys discovered the paintings by accident over fifty years ago. They were out for a walk when their dog disappeared down a hole in a hillside. One of the boys went to search for him. The ground beneath the boy gave way and he tumbled into a cave, followed by his friends. They lit matches to see where they were and were amazed to find hundreds of animals painted on the walls. In fact there are over 1,500 paintings and engravings in the Lascaux cave. The cave itself is over 320 feet long – longer than a football field. The prehistoric artists used soil and rocks to make red, black, yellow and brown colors. They mixed them with sand or clay, crushed them with stones into powder and added water from the cave. They painted with their fingers, with brushes of animal hair or used twigs with chewed ends. They worked by the flickering light of tallow (animal fat) lamps. The artists were very skilled. They never changed or rubbed out any of their marks. They used bumps and cracks in the walls to bring out the shapes of the animals. Their paintings are full of realistic details about the animals. The Ibex (mountain goats) are shown fighting, and bison are shown shedding their winter coats. The paintings were probably thought of as magic and were painted in special places away from where people lived. These paintings were large, too. The bulls in the cave at Lascaux are all 16 feet long! Some people think that the artists were trying to paint animals they admired for their strength or speed, in the hope that they could capture the animals’ powers for themselves. One strange thing about these paintings is that almost all of the paintings are of animals that the cave-people did not eat for food. Another strange thing about the paintings in this cave is this: even though there was lots of room on the cave walls for separate paintings of animals, they all appeared to have been painted in the same places at different times and on top of each other!