Australia!! :)

AUSTRALIA

We travel to Australia and focus on the art of the Aboriginals! The aboriginals are known for creating two styles of painting. The first is the Xray style of painting/drawing. In this techniques Aboriginal artists use line and shape to create the view of the animal as though taken with an Xray machine! Students discuss the bones and the organs that would be visible and created animals that showed the ribs, and bones using lines and shapes! Below are examples of Aboriginal Xray Style!

Students also learned about the dot painting style. This technique is what the Aboriginals are most known for! Students had fun using qtips and circle stamps to create lots and lots of dots!

Students in PreK created Sea Turtles, 1st grade made boomerangs, 2nd created Xray Snakes, and 3rd created X ray drawings of fish, turtles and geckos. 6th grade had a lot of fun painting their Australian animal doing a fun activity then creating the dot technique in the background Below are examples of the student work!

PRE- K TURTLES :)

1st graders learned about the creation of the boomerang in Australia and focused on a symmetrical design to create these bright, dot filled designs!!

2nd graders combined both the Xray style of art and the dot style in these colorful Aboriginal snakes! Students explored color mixing as well, only receiving the primary colors to paint!

6th graders personality animals :)