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Aboriginal ArtToday we will be: Creating pictures using the Aboriginal style of cross-hatching.
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What can you see in this picture?
What do you notice?
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The picture is of a boat. It was painted using an
Aboriginal technique called cross-hatching. These pictures were often painted in natural colours like black, yellow, red,
brown and white.
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Australia is a long way away from the UK. It is on the other side of the world!
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Aborigines were the first people to live in Australia. They have
lived there for a very long time.
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Aborigines believe that the world was created in Dreamtime. They tell stories to explain how the world, the plants and the animals were made. When
they told these stories a long time ago Aboriginals often drew pictures or symbols in the sand or on rocks.
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A long, long time ago the earth was dark. There was no light. It was cold and dark. The clouds were so low the animals had to crawl around. The emu was bent over, the kangaroo couldn’t hop and the birds couldn’t fly. The wombat was so fed up that he dug a burrow and went to sleep.
Only the snakes were happy.
The First Sunrise, a Dreamtime story.
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How do you think the animals would be feeling?
Pick an animal and freeze frame what you think it would look like.
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Now you are going to create a picture of the
animals from the story using the Aboriginal cross
hatching style.
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Here are some of the cross-hatching techniques you might use in your animal pictures.
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Eventually the birds decided they had had enough! The magpies collected sticks and began to push the sky up. They kept pushing until the sky was higher than the tallest mountain. They gave one last heave
and the sky flew up high. It split open and the world was filled with light and warmth. It was the first sunrise. All the animals were delighted. The magpies sang and the animals jumped with joy.
Plenary The First Sunrise continued
What do you think the first sunrise looked like?
