How Did the First Colors in Art Appear?

Imagine you're drawing with dirt and leaves, that's like what early humans did! They found colors in nature, like red from ochre rocks or black from charcoal. One day, someone might have crushed a rock and used it to draw on the cave wall, and poof, art was born!

Ochre is a kind of red rock, and when you crush it, it turns into powder that can make red paint. Early humans probably tried mixing different powders together to get new colors, like how we mix crayons now.