South African Stephen Townley Bassett creates detailed replicas of rock art using traditional materials and methods, ...

Yellow ochre is still an earthly pigment found in the palettes of oil painters today, recognized by its warm hue and vividity. It can be seen everywhere: from cave paintings, to landscapes, to sunlit ...

“Virasat Trust supplies free red oxide and yellow ochre to the villagersThey are also given blankets, sarees, led bulbs and wall clocks every year as gifts for keeping this art alive. The Trust ...

It bridges the divide between art and science.” Ochre, which ranges in color from yellow to deep purple, has been favored by humans longer than any other pigment. Philippe Psaila/Science Source Ochre ...

When the prehistoric peoples of Ethiopia wanted to make a new cave painting, it appears they ... was used to produce ochre, a brownish-yellow pigment often used in prehistoric artwork.

It's not clear what the ochre paint was later used for ... "In one [of the shells], there was a tiny piece of a yellow mineral called goethite, which may have been added to change the color ...