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.

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..




11 creative quips:

Shama Nagarajan on June 26, 2011 at 12:32 PM said...

too good dear...

Emreen on June 26, 2011 at 1:07 PM said...

Wow! This is incredible...!! Love it...!!

Swaram on June 26, 2011 at 3:45 PM said...

Niceee!:)
Waiting for the next post :)

deepazartz on June 27, 2011 at 11:54 AM said...

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...:(

Rema on June 27, 2011 at 11:57 AM said...

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

Neha@ Allthingsbeautiful on June 27, 2011 at 4:53 PM said...

The stone looks beautiful..very nicely done!

MindfulMeanderer on June 27, 2011 at 5:09 PM said...

@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 :)

nayana on June 28, 2011 at 12:13 AM said...

turtle looks awesome, great job!

Patricia Torres on June 29, 2011 at 7:55 PM said...

oh lovely!! this is so so pretty.. I'll try my hands at this as well.. :-)

MindfulMeanderer on June 30, 2011 at 3:39 PM said...

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

notyet100 on July 1, 2011 at 10:54 AM said...

Wow Tunis for introducing this

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