Aboriginal art has depicted animals for at least 30,000 years, including extinct species, with notable examples like Tasmanian tigers. The paintings often feature intricate techniques such as rarrk cross-hatching and convey secret Dreamtime stories linked to the depicted animals. The document highlights various notable Aboriginal artists and invites interaction by suggesting the practice of filling in animal shapes using traditional methods.

1. Animals in Aboriginal Art

2. Aboriginal people have been painting animals
in rock shelters for at least 30,000 years

3. Some of the paintings are
so old they include animals
that went extinct tens of
thousands of years ago

4. This aboriginal
rock art of a
Tasmanian Tiger
in the Pilbara was
done before the
last ice age

5. Aboriginal paintings of
animals often show the
bones and internal organs
as if the animal was
having an X Ray.
That is why it is often
called X Ray Art.

6. Animals in Aboriginal art were often a part of a
dreamtime story
These stories
are secret and
only known by
a few people
and had
hidden
meanings.

7. Instead of colourng in the painting in blocks of
colour Aboriginals use paralell lines or cross
hatching.

8. Rarrk cross hatching can be hard to do with a
color pencil but is much harder to do with ochre
paint brush.

9. Can you tell what
Animals these are?

10. All these animals
are in Aboriginal
stories.

11. Soon it will be your turn
to try and fill an
Aboriginal Animal with
Rarrk.
Don’t fill it all in and
remember to use cross
hatching

12. You can get some great
effects only using just a few
earthly colors

13. Aboriginal Artist in this presentation include
Lofty Nabardayal Nadjamerrek
John Marwurndjul
Yirawala
Dick Murra Murra
Milaybuma
Namarrnyik
And of course unknown artists
from eons past

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