WELCOME TO Australia

A LITTLE ABOUT AUSTRALIA...

Australia is the sixth largest country in the world!

WHAT IS AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINAL ART?

• Dot paintings are unique and integral to Australian Aboriginal Art. 
• The simple dot style as well as cross hatching has a hidden meaning and deeper purpose; to disguise the sacred meanings behind the stories in the painting
• Before Indigenous Australian art was ever put onto canvas the Aboriginal people would smooth over the dirt to draw sacred designs.
• Body paint was also applied which connected to sacred rituals.  These designs were outlined with circles and encircled with dots.
• Aboriginal artists made abstract paintings to disguise the sacred designs so the real meanings could not be understood by Westerners.

Materials: 

• Paints 
• Paint Brush or Q-Tips
• Paper Plate
• Soap
• Rock 

​Instructions are below!

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