Aboriginal dot painting

For the past two weeks we have been learning about aboringinal art that people did a long time ago in Austrailia.

First we started off painting some different symbols on a blank piece of paper. All of the symbols has a different meaning to it. We had to use different colours when we drawed the symbols. 

Next we watched a video on how a kangaroo got it's pouch and that video they used symbols as the pictures. When we finished watching the video we had to paint symbols that would tell the story on how the kangroo got it's pouch.

The final painting we had to do was going to be our art work which meant we had to use the symbols and the skills we learnt to this art work. We had to chose an animal to trace on a black piece of paper with a pencil and white chalk. Then we had to paint inside the animal we chose. The last part we had to do was draw symbols to tell our story.

I enjoyed doing this type of art work because I thought that the dotting technique was a good way to paint different symbols for our stories.