1. Types of Aboriginal Art There are two distinct styles of Aboriginal Art:

2. Central (desert) Art FEATURES: Symbols Dots Aerial View Landscape Traditionally drawn in the sand and for body adornment 3. Northern Art FEATURES Real objects & figures (not symbols) X-Ray drawings Lines & cross-hatching Flat drawings Earthy colours Painted on bark 4. Contemporary (modern)Aboriginal Art Aboriginal artists of today combine traditional painting techniques with modern themes, images and colours. 5. Today, many Aboriginal artists incorporate dot painting into their art work. Also, with the availability of acrylic paints, the traditional use of ochre to make their paint, which gave the Aboriginal dot painting and art work their earthy colours, has given way to more contemporary and bright colours, as used by Bronwyn Bancroft in a lot of her book illustrations. 6. Sally Morgan My Place 7. Gertie Huddleston Garden of Eden 8. DJ (Danielle) Mate 9. Art of Papunya Tula 10. The emergence of dot paintings 11. Papunya Tula Traditional Aboriginal dot painting is an Aboriginal art form that was prominent in the Central Western parts of Australia. The dot painting style itself, originated from the Papunya art movement in the 1970s. Papunya Tula artists used a process of drawings in the sand to be used in spiritual ceremonies. In such rituals the soil would be smoothed over and used like a canvas to represent sacred designs, replicate movements of ancestral beings upon earth. These Dreaming designs were outlined with dancing circles and were often surrounded with a mass of dots. Afterward the imprinted earth would be smoothed over, painted bodies rubbed away, so as to hide the sacred secrets which had taken place. 12. How to dot paint 13. Aboriginal Art tells a story The narrative follows the lie of the land, as created by ancestral beings in their journey or during creation. The Last Journey of Christ Artist: Kutjunga 14. Aboriginal Iconography 15. Your Task Create a painting representing your journey through the landscape from home to school. 16. How? Find directions from your home to school on Google Maps. 17. How? Identify features of the landscape and develop symbols for them. 18. How? Draw a draft design of your journey, based on the Google Map, in your Art Diary. 19. How? When you are happy with your design, lightly copy it onto the canvas. Divide the background into sections. 20. How? Paint the sections using contemporary colours, adding contrasting dots using the paintbrush handle when dry. (Paint route from home to school in black).