yes very popular because you can tell stories and painting with them
http://www.aboriginalartshop.com/Ochre/ochre-aboriginal-art.html
Yes, but there are different shades of ochre. There is red ochre, orange ochre and yellow ochre, for example.
ochre is used with Marzia
on ceremonies and more
This flag symbolises Aboriginal identity. Yellow represents the sun (giver of life) and yellow ochre. Red represents the red earth (the relationship to the land) and the red ochre used in ceremonies. Black represents the Aboriginal people.
They dig up dirt from da ground
Aboriginal tribes would use materials from the earth to paint with. They would grind ochre and use different clays to use as paint. .
Solution
Wikipeda tells us: Traditionally, paints were often made from water, animal fats or spittle mixed with ochre and other rock pigments and sometimes had vegetable fibers added. Aboriginal art online says: painted fragment yielded ochre, burnt bone, stone artefacts and charcoal. For more of this article, visit: http://www.aboriginalartonline.com/art/rockage.php
What is ochre mixtures
In South east Australia there are petroglphs (rock carving) and dendroglyphs (tree carvings) that use symbolism that is recognised today as art. In other parts of the country ochre was painted on bodies and sometimes inside shelters. Ochre painting on bark is the most recognised form of Aboriginal art but it is specific to only a few regions. other forms of art are rock painting and the designs that were etched into the wood of spears, shields and clubs.
Designed by Indigenous Elder Harold Thomas in 1971, this flag symbolises Aboriginal identity. Yellow represents the sun (giver of life) and yellow ochre. Red represents the red earth (the relationship to the land) and the red ochre used in ceremonies. Black represents the Aboriginal people.