Aboriginal art tells Dreamtime stories through pictures and symbols representing the natural world. Aboriginal artists use earth colors from the desert landscape and apply paint made from natural materials with their fingers or sticks, as there were no art shops selling brushes. Aboriginal paintings depict the Dreamtime through symbols and patterns of dots representing the flora and fauna of the Australian environment.

1. Aboriginal Art
From Australia

2.
Aboriginal people are indigenous (the first)
Australians. They tell stories in words and pictures
about how the world began. They call this
Dreamtime. Their stories are called ‘Dreamings’.

3. Aboriginal art uses 'Earth Colours'.
Why?

4. These are the colours of the desert. Aboriginal
artists made their paints from natural
materials.
Aboriginal paintings also use lots of dots.
Why?

5. They used their fingers or sticks. There weren’t
any art shops where they could buy brushes!
Aboriginal art includes lots of symbols for the
natural things around them.
Now create your own picture using patterns and
dots, of something that lives in your
environment.

6. They used their fingers or sticks. There weren’t
any art shops where they could buy brushes!
Aboriginal art includes lots of symbols for the
natural things around them.
Now create your own picture using patterns and
dots, of something that lives in your
environment.