Events for October


Oct 1 & 3: Spontaneous Stories @ Awesome Festival

Join me for a laugh-out-loud session where the kids are in charge. Bring your weirdest and wackiest ideas for stories, because we’ll be mashing them up into the funniest Franken-tale you’ve ever heard – which I will illustrate, live.

DATE: Wednesday 1 and Friday 3 October
TIME: 11:15am each day
WHERE: Education Room, State Library of WA, Francis St, Perth
AGES: 6-12yo
BOOKINGS: essential via trybooking


Oct 4: Comic illustration workshop (for kids) **SOLD OUT**

Join this workshop where I’ll show you how to create characters, use speech bubbles, sound effects, panels and backgrounds to create your own comic stories.

DATE: Saturday 4 October
TIME: 1-3pm
WHERE: Conference Room, Wanneroo Library and Cultural Centre, 3 Rocca Way, Wanneroo
AGES: 7-14yo
BOOKINGS: essential via eventbrite – **sold out, but there is a waitlist**


Oct 11: illustration workshop (for adults)

Want to learn how to illustrate picture books? Join me in this session to find out how. Suitable for ages 16+.

Topics include: 

  • Research
  • Planning (storyboards and dummy books)
  • Media testing and final artwork
  • Characters
  • Point of view, image boundary, colour, medium, line quality, font, composition
  • Words vs pictures
  • Preparing a portfolio and submitting to publishers.

DATE: Saturday 11 October
TIME: 12:30-4:30
WHERE: Conference Room, Wanneroo Library and Cultural Centre, 3 Rocca Way, Wanneroo
AGES: 16yo+
BOOKINGS: essential via eventbrite


Oct 24: Mantle Conference for Teacher Librarians, Newcastle

I’m presenting at this year’s Mantle Conference in Newcastle, along with superstars Deborah Abela, Sean E Avery, Charlotte Barkla, Megan Daley, Kate Foster, Lara Cain Gray and Kirli Saunders. What a line up!

For more details, check out the Mantle conference website.

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Banksia Grove mural project

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Late last year I was asked by the City of Wanneroo to work on a mural project with primary school students.

Our task: to make murals for the Banksia Grove Community Centre, based on the theme of ‘what makes me happy’?

Here’s what we did.

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