Wednesday, 27 August 2014

Dot Painting and Elephants

One afternoon a week staff have to run activities for students after school.  As a late arrival I was allocated to support the Arts and Crafts group of elementary students.
Today's activity was to commence work on a mobile of elephants.  Given my great artistic skills I was given the task of cutting out elephant templates.  Miss Muyassar the art teacher from Uzebekistan, introduced the students to today's project of decorating an elephant with dots with a story about the Aboriginals of Australia using this technique in their artwork.  Very cross cultural.  All was good until she said they traditionally decorated their homes with dot paintings - Ahh that would be a no, but way too hard to explain.  Anyway Bashie above did a very fine job with her elephant.

1 comment:

  1. Imagine Santa Teresa with dot painted houses...it'd look beautiful

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