Aboriginal Country Landscape Paintings

Aboriginal Landscape Painting

• Map-like• Bird’s eye view• Meant to tell a story, record history, or share a

dream or vision• Often use the dot technique

Example

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Assignment: Your project must have each of the following:

• 1. Decide on a story, memory, or dream to portray.

• 2. Design a Border: create a design or pattern that goes around the entire outside edge of the painting/drawing.

• 3. Figurative Designs: recognizable figures such as people or animals.– Decide on what people or animals to include in the

painting/drawing.

Assignment Continued

• 4. Geometric Designs: shapes and patterns that represent something specific.– Decide on what shapes you can include that could

represent part of your story.

• 5. Dividing Lines create “feature blocks”, which create separate sections that represent different scenes of the story. The painting must be viewed as a whole to get the whole story. • Decide where to put these “feature blocks” in your project.

Assignment

• Overall Big Idea: Tell a story using symbols– Use aboriginal dot technique of painting

My Example: Annabel Lee, Layer 1: Paint/Blocking In

My Example: Annabel Lee, Layer 2: Adding the Dots