Aboriginal Artwork + Storytelling

Aboriginal Art of Australia

First - we will learn about positive and negative space.
Positive space - the space occupied by the 'main' subjects (color, shapes, lines, objects)
Negative space - that space with an 'absense' of occupancy.  that area around the 'positive space'

Dreamtime- Time of Creation

Aboriginal Hand Stencils + connection to the land

We will be looking at Aboriginal symbols to help us tell the story of our walk-about.

Surrounding the symbols will be the focus of the Aboriginal dot painting.

These are some examples- only we will be creating a story of symbols also.

What are the color combinations you see in these examples?

We will work to create our story with our write tools format- Green yellow Green