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Australian aboriginal art

Shruti Acharya | June 26, 2011 | 12 Comments

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Australian aboriginal art
What techniques are used in indigenous Australian art?
What do Aboriginal artists use to paint with?
How do you draw indigenous art?
Is it disrespectful to do Aboriginal dot painting?

Australian aboriginal art

Though I am no expert… I really wanted to try some simple local art from Australia for the Artsy-Craftsy June. [ Introducing various Folk crafts around the world to children]

.. Aboriginal art has been around for many hundreds of thousands of years. Aboriginal rock carvings and paintings date back at least 30,000 years and tell the stories of the artists who painted them. Australian Aboriginal art is the oldest form of artistic expression in the world. 

 

What techniques are used in indigenous Australian art?

There are several types of and methods used in making Aboriginal art, including rock painting, dot painting, rock engravings, bark painting, carvings, sculptures, and weaving and string art. A variety of colors are used, except for red, which symbolizes blood and is only used in other types of painting.

What do Aboriginal artists use to paint with?

Materials (colors) used for Aboriginal art was originally obtained from the local land. Ochre or iron clay pigments were used to produce colors such as white, yellow, red, and black from charcoal. Other colors were soon added such as smokey greys, sage greens, and saltbush mauves.

How do you draw indigenous art?

Only artists from certain tribes are allowed to adopt the dot technique. Where the artist comes from and what culture has informed his/her’s tribe will depend on what art technique can be used. It is considered both disrespectful and unacceptable to paint on behalf of someone else’s culture.  
 
 
 
 
 

 

 
 
 
 
 
 

Is it disrespectful to do Aboriginal dot painting?

Only artists from certain tribes are allowed to adopt the dot technique. Where the artist comes from and what culture has informed his/her’s tribe will depend on what technique can be used. It is considered both disrespectful and unacceptable to paint on behalf of someone else’s culture. 

Some of their gorgeous art [ via ]

My small attempt to recreate this style at home… the latest addition to my garden 🙂

Acrylic on stone

Notice how similar this is to gond style of India?? If you have posts on a DIY folk craft, link it in the Artsy-Craftsy-June challenge that happening this month.

Edited to add –
Over the weekend I tried my hand at two other art styles, the Gond & Madhubani folk crafts.[ Tutorial here ]

What do you think??

Lil p wanted to display these and her art work in her room and since we live in a rental place, options are limited. I just can’t go on hammering nails into the walls. So we made a makeshift clothesline in her room to hang all our art work..

Not too happy with the results… Might paint 2 electricity poles at each end & add a few birds.. [ a DIY project for next weekend ] The nails were already in place and so the crooked line 🙁 Any suggestions to improve this? [ without adding additional nails]

Linking this to patty’s Weekend wrap up..

Filed Under: Art ideas, Folk Art, Kindergarten Crafts & Activities Tagged With: Australia crafts, Folk Art & Craft Projects from around the world, world culture

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About Shruti Acharya

Shruti is a writer, photographer, DIY lover, passionate homemaker, and the chief dreamer at ArtsyCraftsyMom.com . Shruti lives in Bangalore, India with her husband and daughter. She loves showcasing fun art activities, crafts for kids, celebrations, childrens books & all the craziness that is India.

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Comments

  1. Swaram says

    June 26, 2011 at 10:45 am

    Niceee!:)
    Waiting for the next post 🙂

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  2. Shama Nagarajan says

    June 26, 2011 at 7:32 am

    too good dear…

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  3. Emreen says

    June 26, 2011 at 8:07 am

    Wow! This is incredible…!! Love it…!!

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  4. deepazartz says

    June 27, 2011 at 6:54 am

    Beautiful Shruti! Aboriginal art is GORGEOUS! They remind me of pointillism. Love the range of colours.
    I know how limiting a rental apartment can be…:(

    Reply
  5. Rema says

    June 27, 2011 at 6:57 am

    This is awesome.. I love the Aboriginal art too.. Character in dots 🙂

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  6. [email protected] Allthingsbeautiful says

    June 27, 2011 at 11:53 am

    The stone looks beautiful..very nicely done!

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  7. MindfulMeanderer says

    June 27, 2011 at 12:09 pm

    @Shama : Thanks 🙂
    @Emreen. Thank you. I used a tooth pick to put the dots.
    @Swaram: next post is up too
    @Deepa: yes i thought of the same thing. 🙂 there is a similarity between warli & ancient african scriptures.. and gond & aboriginal styles..
    @Rema: welcome here and thanks 🙂

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  8. nayana says

    June 27, 2011 at 7:13 pm

    turtle looks awesome, great job!

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  9. Patricia Torres says

    June 29, 2011 at 2:55 pm

    oh lovely!! this is so so pretty.. I’ll try my hands at this as well.. 🙂

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  10. MindfulMeanderer says

    June 30, 2011 at 10:39 am

    @nayana : Thank you 🙂
    @Patricia : Try it with kids. I’m sure they’ll love it too.

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  11. notyet100 says

    July 1, 2011 at 5:54 am

    Wow Tunis for introducing this

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  12. Swathika says

    August 7, 2013 at 2:32 am

    Hi Shruti, I was looking at some painting styles to engage my 2.8 year old and dot painting seems to be a fabulous idea! When I was looking for Australian aboriginal painting – I stumbled on to your turtle 😀 and that’s when it hit me, I should have searched on your blog than searching on google…Also, on reading your post, I cant help but compare the Gond style…I think this is a great post! Just needs to be shared more and loved more 😀

    Reply

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