The Early Pigments and its history

http://webexhibits.org/pigments/intro/index.html

This is a website that talks about how pigments have been around through the years. They also mention that before the normal and basic pigments were made out of dirt or clay and now days they are made with chemicals. They are made out of different chemicals but yet there are some articles that say that pigments are not toxic. Now days, you can make better and more colorful pigments than back then. The first drawings that were made were the ones in a cave that our ancestors would draw. These drawings were painted with pigments made out of dirt, charcoal mixed or animal fatness. This was the only pigment that would stay there because the fatness of the animal would stick there when it would dry up. Also this web talks about how people in the ancient would put over someone’s body red pigment because this would mean that their life was over.