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Visual Arts Exhibition

(More pictures to come of our Fantastic Feast and Delightful Dancers!)



Indigenous Dance

Traditionally, Australian Aboriginal people are excellent at non-verbal communication. Watch how they use their faces and bodies to communicate about animals in these videos. Maybe you can use your body and face to show something 🙂

 



National Reconciliation Week

Last week was National Reconciliation Week. It’s all about building mutually respectful relationships between Indigenous (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders) and other Australians to help people work together to solve problems and help each other. Reconciliation involves learning about Indigenous history and culture, making positive attitudes, correcting misunderstandings based on myths, and encouraging action to improve relationships.

Enjoy this traditional Aboriginal dreaming about two boys who go camping and get more than they bargained for! It’s from the Ngiyaampaa people of Western New South Wales. It includes a goanna called Koochard and a pair of kookaburras.

Aboriginal Goanna



X-Ray Animals

Subject: the picture is about lots of animals.
Lines: there was squiggly, thin, thick, outlines.
Shape: the art was 2D.
Colours: the colours were warm, cool, blended, black & white.
Texture: the colours was smooth but the back round was roughTo make this artwork you need:
Black paper
Pastels
And a pencil

Steps
1.write your name
2.sketch the animal
3. draw where the bones go
4. colour your work
5.outline your work in black

Written by Serena

We were inspired by ‘The Aboriginal Art Project‘, and this was one of our favourite artworks.



Warriors

Subject: It’s about Aboriginal warriors.Lines: These are the kind of lines we are talking about: wiggily,straight,diagonal,zigzag and side to side lines.

Shapes: The picture has different kind of shapes like: circles , triangles, squares and rectangles.

Colours : They are warm and bright just a bit of hot colours.

Texture: Looking as if it is rough and it is rough.

Style: It’s got a desert style

How it’s made

THINGS WE NEED:

. PASTELS
. PLAIN WHITE PAPER
. LEAD PENCIL

STEPS

1. WRITE YOUR NAME
2. SKETCH ART
3. COLOUR WITH PASTELS
4. OUTLINE ART

Written by Anastasia S. and Charisse

Miss S. says: “We looked at pictures of masks, pictures of traditional Aboriginal people, and pictures of Aboriginal body paint patterns, and combined our ideas to make these portraits.”



Symbol Stories

The subject is another way of writing a story in Aboriginal way of life. The lines are straight,thin,thick and curvy. The art is 2D shaped. There are warm colours, cool colours, bright colours, dark colours and they are blended. The colours and textures look smooth and the brown bag looks rough.To make this art work you need

-glue
-pastels
-2 pieces of paper 1 dark brown and 1 light.
-1 big paper 1 small paper.

Steps
1 Stick the small paper on the big paper.
2 Draw the symbols that are in aboriginal
3 Write the story at the back of the paper
4 Stick the art work on the wall
…and that’s the way you do it!

Written by Diala and Anastasia M.

The orange poster shows some of the symbols and what they mean. We found them at the ‘Cooinda Gallery: Aboriginal Art‘. Below are two pictures that use Aboriginal symbols to tell a story.



Dotty Animals

It is a picture of lots of cool animals and the line are curved and the dots are going side to side. Our picture is 2d and our beautiful colours are hot colours. Our work is very smooth and we made it beautiful and we used paint to made dots and that is how you made the dotty animals art.

STEPS
1 Get a black paper and get some paint.
2 Use the paint to draw your Animals.
3 At the end you get your paper and you get your paint and start to get some ear buds and you have to dip the ear bugs into the paint and make dots with them and that’s how you make the dotty animal.

Written by Kevin and Amir

We were lucky to have a painting that Miss S’s sister had made using dot painting to show the story of the Rainbow Serpent. Here is a different dot painted picture of two serpents.



Aboriginal Art Links

Below are some links on Aboriginal Art to inspire some of our upcoming work in class.

http://www.bardaglea.org.uk/aboriginal/index.html

http://free-art-lesson-ideas-for-teachers.blogspot.com/2007/02/aboriginal-dot-painting.html

http://www.princetonol.com/groups/iad/lessons/middle/austral.htm

http://www.la-art-tutor.com/2007/08/29/sample-lessions-aboriginal-art-australia/

http://www.dickblick.com/multicultural/aboriginal/

http://teachingtreasures.com.au/teaching-tools/WorksheetsK-3/art.htm