Colors: Black and Brown

5 Comments

1] Pencil lead was once so rare that armed security guards in Northern England used to strip search miners.

2] White paint was a poison, although sweet tasting.

3] Black and brown paints were once said to be made from dead bodies.

4] According to one western classical legend, the first paint was black and first artist female.

5] Pencil "lead" contained no lead at all.



4 Questions

1] Why was lead so sacred in Northern England?

2] Why were juman corpses sometimes used to make black?

3] What are "chinese" pencils?

4] Who created the artbook of forging art?



3 Vocabulary

1] sublimed: elevated or lofty in thought, language, etc.

2] Papyrus: a material on which to write, prepared from thin strips of the pith of this plant laid together, soaked, pressed, and dried, used by the ancient Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans.

3] Impermanence: not permanent or enduring; transitory.

2 Literary Terms
1] "..a sick man's fierce determination.." - Oxymoron

2] "..missile pop out of the cast like a cooked cake from a buttered tin." - Simile.

1 Overview Sentence
The origin of the colors black and brown comes from many places, even outrageous ones like how brown paint used to be made from dead bodies.

Colors : Ochre

5 Comments
1] Ochre is used by almost every artist in history.

2] It has been used since the beginning of painting.

3] Ochre is also known as Iron Oxide.

4] There are big ochre mines in Luberon in Southern France.

5] Ochre was a popular trading item.

4 Questions
1] Who was Cennino Cennini?

2] What was so special about ochre?

3] Who where the Aboriginals?

4] Why was there a war about ochre that led to a massacre?

3 Vocabulary
1] Hematite: a very common mineral, iron oxide, Fe2O3, occurring in steel-gray to black crystals and in red earthy masses: the principal ore of iron.

2] uncannily: having or seeming to have a supernatural or inexplicable basis; beyond the ordinary or normal; extraordinary.

3] Disconsolate: without consolation or solace; hopelessly unhappy; inconsolable.

2 Literary Terms
1] "..blind woman bursting through the earth.." - Metaphor.

2] "..t wasn't right to look under the blanket of secrets." - Metaphor.

1 Over view Sentence
Ochre was a very common trading item, although it is now rare to find.