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Rachel Allen Dillon Paintings inspired by Dreamtime Ground Ceremonies The Aboriginal people of central Australia and western deserts were known for their desert sand art To create their ceremonial paintings they cleared ID: 642271

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AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINAL ACRYLIC DOT PAINTING

Rachel Allen DillonSlide2

Paintings inspired by Dreamtime Ground Ceremonies

The Aboriginal people

of central Australia and western deserts were known for their desert sand art. To create their ceremonial paintings, they cleared a piece of land, and “paint” a story on sand, using small rocks, flowers, feathers and seeds.

The Dreamtime stories are up to and possibly even exceeding 50,000 years old, and have been handed down through the generations virtually unchanged for all those years.Slide3

Young

clan members

watched and learned their ancestor’s stories from the sand paintings that were mostly created during spiritual ceremonials and other religious rituals.

Paintings

on the sand

didn’t

last for

long of course,

so what there was to learn from had to be done instantly.

The Importance of Passing on TraditionsSlide4

Papunya Art Movement

The first Aboriginal Dot Paintings were created in 1971. A teacher named

Geoffrey Barton helped

Papunya

people in central Australia to transfer their sand paintings to canvas by using dots to paint their sacred designs which they used in ceremony.

This

became to be known as

Papunya

Art Movement.

Paintings are also used for teaching, as a visual story. There are strict guidelines on what stories get told and who can tell them. Example: A man cannot paint a woman’s story, and a woman cannot paint a man’s story. There are aspects of a story or ceremony that no one outside the tribe are allowed to see.Slide5

The Size, Scope and Colors in Aboriginal Paintings

Artists need permission to paint a particular story: Where ancient and important stories are concerned, and particularly those containing secret or sacred information, an artist must have permission to paint the story she or he paints

.Slide6

Respecting Tradition

Traditional

Aboriginal artists cannot paint a story that does not belong to them through family lineage.Slide7

Aboriginal Symbols

All

the different shapes in Aboriginal dot paintings

have

a meaning, and as the elders

painted

pictures they sang a Dreamtime song

.Slide8

Keeping History Alive

Aboriginal art has fostered cultural revival in an extremely good way for the Indigenous people. As they were placed on reservations, and often stripped of their land, culture and heritage, the Aboriginal Art movement has given it’s people a greater degree of self respect and standing and an important source of income. Slide9

Passing Along History

As the older artists teach the young, it has revitalized young Indigenous people's appreciation and knowledge of their ancient culture and drawn them back to it in a way that would probably not have happened otherwise.

In essence, Art saved an ancient culture. On the other side of the coin, westerners marvel at the beauty and spirituality of Aboriginal art - their interest and respect for the Aboriginal people has

changed

the old stereotypes to build stronger bridges of understanding.Slide10

Tools

DOTTER TOOLSBack of Paint brush (for 3-5th Grade)

Q-Tips (K-2nd)PAINT

Acrylic

OTHER

Palette

Paper Towel

PaperSlide11

PRIMARY COLORS

RedBlueYellow

SECONDARY COLORS ARE MIXTURES OF PRIMARY COLORSRed + Blue = Purple

Blue + Yellow = Green

Red + Yellow = Orange

COMPLEMENTARY COLORS ARE OPPOSITES ON THE COLOR WHEEL

Purple and Yellow

Blue and Orange

Green and Red

+

+

+

=

=

=

Mixing ColorsSlide12

Tips for Teaching

Dot spacingBe careful where the side of your hand goes when moving over wet paint areas. More times than I can count did I set my hand on wet dots and smeared them. There’s little you can do once the dots have smeared. Vary the dot size. You get about three dots per dip. When the dot edges start to fade, that is the time to re-dip. How hard you press down with the dotter can also determine the dot size.

Just the right distance apart

Too far apart

Too closeSlide13

Two Different

Tools

Using the backend of the paintbrush to create the dots

Using a cotton swab to create the dotsSlide14

Step One

Start with a couple of center dots.

Start with the

center dot.

PUT YOUR NAME ON YOUR PAPERSlide15

Step Two

Build rows of dots around the center one.

Try to keep the dots from touching.Slide16

Step Three

When the expanding circle hits the edge of the paper try to keep the illusion of the circle going.

Mix your paints to create different variations of a color. But if you mix them all together, you’ll get brown.Slide17

Step Four

Move the paper around so that the side of your hand doesn’t smear the wet paint.

If you have more time, get another piece of paper and try another circle.Slide18