Last week I was asked to give a presentation to a very enthusiastic group of Primary School students at Seven Hills State School in Brisbane. It’s a beautiful old school, great grounds and the library is a unique open plan with big doors opening out to let in fresh air.

The kids loved the character design creation workshop and especially got involved with finding unusual characters in random scribbles and my double handed drawings.
They all had a go and as kids tend to do were soon old hands at it (so to speak!)
Special thanks to their equally enthusiastic teachers Andrea Anderson and Tony Grant.

Yesterday I ran two 2hr manga comics workshops at the incredible Casula Powerhouse Art Gallery in Sydney.
We did lots of imaginative character design using the right side of our brains and lots of Manga style comic book page creation and the kids produced some exceptional work.
The workshops were organised by Education and Public Programs Manager Nisa Mackie and the feedback I received from the young participants and staff indicated that they had a great time and ‘learned a lot!’.

The Casula Powerhouse is an incredible space, huge and open and really an inspiring creative and artistic place to visit. Highlights for me were the friendliness and helpfulness of Nisa and Vi and staff, the keen attitude of the children that attended and getting to see the Archibald Prize paintings ( I have missed seeing the Prize for a few years).
Always makes me want to paint!

I am looking forward to being invited again, this is now one of my ‘Sydney Favourites’!

Check out the Powerhouse at http://www.casulapowerhouse.com/