Students looked at both original Aboriginal artwork and student work form a website I found...http://www.bardaglea.org.uk/aboriginal/. We talked about the high design and the dot patterns.
To prepare for this lesson, I took an 18X12 inch black piece of paper and cut it into 12X12 and used the remaining sheet (6X12) for a warm up activity. Students were asked to fold the paper to create 8 spaces within it. They used construction paper crayons to create several designs in each space. Once time had run out I asked them to tape their work up on the wall so we will have a large idea base for our final work.
The students traced an oval to assure a large body. They very designed the animal off from the oval with very simple lines. The students then added 5 lines from the outside of the page into the animal.