Sentence examples for sand drawings from inspiring English sources

VANUATU SAND DRAWINGS Multifunctional "writing," these drawings are produced directly on the ground.

Hart was a genuine pioneer in television art, sometimes creating giant pictures, such as those drawn with white-lining machines on tarmac, sand drawings filmed from cliffs on the Isle of Wight and mile-wide creations rolled out across the hills of Devil's Dyke, Sussex, with roller towels.

In interviews at a definitive exhibition of Papunya painting in Sydney two years ago, Mr. Bardon recalled asking his pupils to transfer images of the honey-ant, a tribal totem, from sand drawings to a school wall, using paints and brushes he donated.

In the artistic movement they founded, Mr. Tjupurrula and the other Papunya painters drew on Dreamings for inspiration, developing a kind of expression that owes nothing to European tradition but instead borrows symbols and patterns from body paintings and sand drawings associated with Aboriginal sacred ceremonies.

Given his findings, Cohn suspects that we should add sand drawings to those early proto-languages.

Sand artists are set to honour those who died on D-Day by creating 9,000 sand drawings on a French beach to mark Peace Day.

Not only are there a veritable gallery of sand sculptures and drawings, but Lucas, one of the best resident artists, offers lessons.

Mr. Bardon encouraged tribal artists of the desert peoples of central Australia to transfer their vivid images of ancestral times from sand and rock drawings and body decoration to paintings in acrylics on hardboard and canvas, thus making them permanent and portable.

The ancient Nascas scratched their drawings into the sand by digging away at the dark stones that covered the surface.

It incorporates aesthetic elements of dot painting, a style that developed in the 20th century, when aboriginal artists began to translate their works from temporary drawings in the sand to permanent abstractions in acrylic.

Draw several gesture drawings.