1. Inorganic Pigments

2. Pigments
Any intensely coloured compound used to colour other materials.
They may be inorganic compounds (usually brighter and longer-lasting) or organic compounds.
white - titanium dioxide.
Carbon black
Iron oxides - browns, ranging from yellowish through orange to dark brown.
Chromium compounds yield chrome yellows, oranges, and greens;
cadmium compounds brilliant yellows, oranges, and reds.
Prussian blue

4. Great Hall of the Bulls
Mainly metal oxides, iron and manganese, were used. No trace of charcoal has been found contrary to the caves in Lot, Ariège or Ardèche. This region has many manganese deposits, a phenomenon which didn't escape the notice of Palaeolithic man.

5. Chumash Rock Paintings
Shamans, or Chumash priests, are thought to have made these paintings to influence supernatural beings and forces to intervene in human affairs.
Red - iron oxide (hematite). Black - charcoal or from manganese oxide.
White - gypsum or diatomaceous earth.

6. The Anza-Borrego Desert's Forgotten Artist
The Indians of the Anza-Borrego Desert, the Cahuilla, Cupeño, Diegueño, and Kumeyaay, left a legacy of art: an open-air gallery of rock art. These petroglyphs and pictographs are eyewitness accounts, vivid on-the-scene reports that give us some idea of what was important to the people who once inhabited this desert.

7. C h e m i s t r y & A r t Verdigris Cu(OAc)2 Cu(OH)2 5H2O
Lead-tin yellow
PbSnO4
Viridian Cr2O3
Prussian blue
Fe4[Fe(CN)6]3
Cinnabar, Vermillion
HgS
Red Ochre, red earth
Fe2O3