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**Egyptian Artwork**

Egyptian art is of high order and is in Ancient Egypt. Smelters, painters, sculptors and potters spend hot days melting gold, painting on tomb walls, making sculptures for the royals and create beautiful pots that tell stories. Art was valued by Egyptians and artists were considered to be a little higher than the poor peasants. Today we look at these beautiful pieces of art and are astounded on how detailed the art is. =__**Paintings:**__= There are three main genres of painting. Mythological painting which is about the mythological creatures and all beliefs the ancient Egyptians have. Ritual painting which portrays gods and all their beliefs about gods(connected to mythological paintings). Last, biographical paintings which is the art of drawing and painting humans and living hings. The paintings look childish today as there is no perspective but are valued for the years it has lived. Artists always drew people with eyes at the side of their head, the shoulders broad and facing straight and the rest of the body side ways like the head. It was also observed ny modern painters that the left leg was always drawn before the right leg. This is because there were strict rules about how to show a figure and this was changed a little bit by Akhenaten. //Painting Tools:-// Artists used wooden sticks with split ends as a brush. They also used palettes. Black was made out of crushed charcoal;red was made out of iron oxide;blue was made of copper-calcium-tetrasilicate;yellow was made of earth pigments
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that change colours over the year;green was made out of Malachite or mixing yellow and blue;brown was earth/mud. All powders were mixed with egg white and gum arabic.

**Tomb Paintings:**
Why are tomb paintings not mainly potray the dead person but tells stories on daily life? Tomb paintings are mainly tell stories of the kingdom while that person was alive and what will happen to them after they reach god. Artists spend many hours in very hot and stuffy conditions with no fresh air to breathe. They always made the important people larger than the others to show their importance. To make tomb paintings artists practise their drawing on a board before atuallly drawing it on the tomb wall. First the stonemason smoothes the wall with a layer of plaster. Next the outline scribe draws a square grid in red with long strings. Then the outline scribe draws the figure on the square grid to proportion. Later the stonemason carved the main figure out of the background( this happened mainly during the New Kingdom). Last the painter colours the figures, other thingd and the background.
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Papyrus paintings and Hieroglyphs:
Papyrus paintings are mainly about detailed paintings on living creatures, spells that the ancint egyptians believed in, and any other beliefs they had. Detailed pictures of birds and animals have been found in some tombs and spells written in colour to protect the royal for after life. Hieroglyphs are also a form of art as it is basically drawing smaller pictures to form a meaning and were only used in tombs and monuments. They are really hard to understan d and were taught to experienced scribes. Before the scribes were to learn hieroglyphs they would have to master hiaratic which was for listing taxes and recording account.

Statues:
Egyptians thought statues were live gods. they treated gos statues with care, bathed them, kept food for them, dressed them and put make-up for them. Statues could be made from many materials and the egyptians did not have much trouble of carving designs into them. The statues had every single detailed and that is what Egyptians are known for. Statues could be made from granite, basalt, albaster, limestone, gneiss, graywecke, gypsum, glesso, ebony, sandstone and marble.

**Pottery:**
Pottery in Ancient Egypt are beautiful. Pottery also tell stories on daily life if designed to be that way. They could be very simple for carrying water to houses or could be made to decorate the palace of the royals. Pottery to be made in the Ancient times were very hard. Instead of having a wheel to spin and potters just shaping while the wheel spins they have to actually**.** Pots made in Ancient Egypt are made of either clay from the river banks of the Nile, brass, copper or any other material that can be shaped. The potters first made the bottom, flat part of their pot or vase**.** Then they made very long clay ropes and coiled it into the shape they wanted. They might want a wide opening or a narrow opening and might want their pot to be straight. After coiling it to the shape they want it to be they smooth it so that the coils are not seen and so that the pot looks smooth. To make any designs or pattern the potters used stones, combs and paints. After finishing their design the potters would keep their clay pots in an oven to dry called a kiln. This would also dry the design.
 * Sequence for** **making clay pots:**

Other metal pots are usually beaten into its shape. Glass vases were also made but the blowing glass technique was learnt only after the Roman period.

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