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. Artists describe their dreams, the stories of creation, their beliefs, and their spirituality.
Grade 3 have been creating their own artwork inspired by aboriginal designs. Click here to see the children hard at work!
First, we chose an animal.
Then we sketched a rough outline of the animal.
After that, we used our fingers and paint brushes to produce our own inspired artwork.
We had lots of fun!
In our next lesson, we used black paper, paint and our fingers to create an Aboriginal pattern of our hand prints!
We got very messy!
Wow you are very talented Grade 3, I love your Aboriginal artwork!
IT IS VERY NICE. IT MUST HAVE TAKEN A LONG TIME. WELL DONE GRADE 3
FROM MYLES
Great job girls and boys…Your paintings are beautiful and I’m sure the stories were very interesting. I look forward to seeing your next projects.
Johanne Karam
Dear Grade Three,
Your artwork is very fascinating. We enjoyed looking at all your pictures, it looks like you all worked very hard. How long did it take you to create your artwork?
From Grade Four
Bon dia Boys & Girls of Grade 3,
‘Bon Dia’ means ‘Good Morning ‘ in Papiamento. That is Aruba’s local language.
I love what you all have done. That’s outstanding work. Will someone make me one too, so I can hang it in my office in Aruba? A special hello for KF.
Dear Grade Three,
We loved looking at your blog. Can you teach us how to make aboriginal patterns of our own hand prints?
From Kindergarten
We liked your art work. It looked like you had to really take care to make them. We liked the bright colours.
From Grade 2
I am from England, and we have been studying Aboriginal art in our school. It was really interesting to see your artwork. You’ve all done a really fantastic job! Well done!
From Emily in England
Thank you Emily, I’m glad you found it helpful. Do you have a school website we can visit to see your artwork?
I am glad to see the kids work on aboriginal art.
Their painting shows the real inspiration and deep love with the aboriginal art.
And their work shows that they will be the well-known aboriginal artists in near future.
My best wishes are with you.
Best of luck!!!!!!!!!