{"id":1309,"date":"2008-02-18T15:11:14","date_gmt":"2008-02-18T18:11:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.provoprimaryblog.com\/?p=1309"},"modified":"2008-02-18T15:11:14","modified_gmt":"2008-02-18T18:11:14","slug":"aboriginal-art-in-grade-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/provolearning.com\/blog\/year-3\/aboriginal-art-in-grade-3\/","title":{"rendered":"&quot;Inspired by aboriginal art&quot; in Grade 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: 1px solid black;\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.provoprimaryblog.com\/wp-content\/blogpix\/aboriginalhands8.jpg?resize=460%2C345\" border=\"1\" alt=\"aboriginalhands8.jpg\" width=\"460\" height=\"345\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Australian Aboriginal art is the oldest living art tradition in the world, with paintings in rock shelters dating back 20,000 years. The art includes naturalistic paintings of humans, plants and animal figures.<\/p>\n<p>Aboriginal art involves story telling, myths, rituals, sorcery, and magic.\u00a0 Artists describe their dreams, the stories of creation, their beliefs, and their spirituality.<\/p>\n<p>Grade 3 have been creating their own artwork inspired by aboriginal designs. Click here to see the children hard at work!<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\nFirst, we chose an animal.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.provoprimaryblog.com\/wp-content\/blogpix\/aboriginalanimals3.jpg\" border=\"1\" alt=\"aboriginalanimals3.jpg\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Then we sketched a rough outline of the animal.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.provoprimaryblog.com\/wp-content\/blogpix\/aboriginalanimals21.jpg\" border=\"1\" alt=\"aboriginalanimals21.jpg\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p>After that, we used our fingers and paint brushes to produce our own inspired artwork.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.provoprimaryblog.com\/wp-content\/blogpix\/aboriginalanimals1.jpg\" border=\"1\" alt=\"aboriginalanimals1.jpg\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We had lots of fun!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.provoprimaryblog.com\/wp-content\/blogpix\/aboriginalanimals6.jpg\" border=\"1\" alt=\"aboriginalanimals6.jpg\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In our next lesson, we used black paper, paint and our fingers to create an Aboriginal pattern of our hand prints!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.provoprimaryblog.com\/wp-content\/blogpix\/aboriginalhands2.jpg\" border=\"1\" alt=\"aboriginalhands2.jpg\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We got very messy!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.provoprimaryblog.com\/wp-content\/blogpix\/aboriginalhands1.jpg\" border=\"1\" alt=\"aboriginalhands1.jpg\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.provoprimaryblog.com\/wp-content\/blogpix\/aboriginalhands3.jpg\" border=\"1\" alt=\"aboriginalhands3.jpg\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.provoprimaryblog.com\/wp-content\/blogpix\/aboriginalhands4.jpg\" border=\"1\" alt=\"aboriginalhands4.jpg\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.provoprimaryblog.com\/wp-content\/blogpix\/aboriginalhands5.jpg\" border=\"1\" alt=\"aboriginalhands5.jpg\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.provoprimaryblog.com\/wp-content\/blogpix\/aboriginalhands6.jpg\" border=\"1\" alt=\"aboriginalhands6.jpg\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australian Aboriginal art is the oldest living art tradition in the world, with paintings in rock shelters dating back 20,000 years. The art includes naturalistic paintings of humans, plants and animal figures. Aboriginal art involves story telling, myths, rituals, sorcery, and magic.\u00a0 Artists describe their dreams, the stories of creation, their beliefs, and their spirituality. 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