AMATE BARK PAINTINGS
This term, pupils who have attended Art club with Mrs Lea and Mrs Trembath, have been learning how to recreate Amate art, a tradition of the Atomi Indians of central Mexica who are famous for their hand painted Amate Bark Paintings.
Amate (pronounced 'ah-mah-tay') is a picture that is painted onto special paper created from the bark of the wild fig tree. In Art club the children used brown sugar paper to create the same effect.
The Aztecs used this type of paper to register data. People have been making this type of paper since before 300BC.