Aboriginal Art work by Emily

Today we started on our Aboriginal Art! Aboriginal Art comes from Australia, it is a piece of art made with lines and dots. We made this because our inquiry was on different cultures. We learnt that every symbol has a meaning. So when the Australians drew a picture it usually had a meaning or it’s telling someone something. We each drew an animal with symbols around it. For an example, Lian drew a big snake with some people at a campfire, showing the place the snake is at. Then she painted the snake with dots of red, black and yellow. The usual colours for Aboriginal art is black, brown, yellow and red. Though blue wasn’t a colour used in aboriginal art, some of us, like Rowyn, used blue because the animal she decided to do was a turtle. For the art we just used normal paint but the Australians had to make their own. I think the finished artwork looks awesome hanging up in our classroom - come in and check it out!