Aboriginal Seasons

Gurreng

Wurrgeng

Yegge

Banggerreng

Gunumeleng

Gudjewg

I read the research again I thought a whole landscape would be better as you could see when it was flooded etc, which would make it a lot easier to distinguish each season.

Originally I was thinking about doing the image really complex and full of detail, but like this example shows that less detail can actually be just as effective and still show whats going on.

My first attempt was actually a painting to begin with, I did this because I thought I might be able to do each season with a single tree just changing the surroundings around the tree. E.g the animals. But also changing the tree, showing whether it had leaves or not etc.

I decided to make a diagram of all the things that happened in each season so I could try and come up with ideas of what could be in each image to show that specific season.

After researching the brief more and looking up what each season was actually about, I started thinking that painting this one might be a bit hard because I would have to try and repaint everything in the same position. Because of this I started worrying about how I was going to achieve my final pieces.

I thought that the newspaper task was going to be the worst project we were going to have, but once we got briefed on this one I thought differently. I love taking photographs of landscapes but I don't really like drawing them. Originally, I thought I could paint the landscape so started looking forward to doing the task.