Yesterday, Botany Downs Primary had an awesome, amazing opportunity to help get them involved with their new creative topic. The awesome opportunity was to see Stu Duval, live, in front of their eyes doing interesting, quick, detailed pictures.
He told them a lovely, detailed story about Piha beach and taught them a few tips and tricks about making cartoons. He also told them about how he began drawing and I wanted to know what he said. I searched through the school to find someone to tell me. Suddenly a Yr 6 girl offered to talk to me. She said, “He taught himself to draw because his teacher was bad at art. He was 5 when he started.
He started by looking around the class room and seeing the letters of the alphabet and made them into cartoons.”
Stu is now a famous author, illustrator, artist, story teller and a great cartoon drawer. He has a lot of fiction books where he has done everything himself. Stu has kept at it since he was 5 and now can draw a detailed picture on an A3 black piece of paper, in only two minutes. WOW!
The children went away from this very inspired and were eager to do cartooning with numbers and the letters of the alphabet. The day after, there was going to be a cartooning workshop and everyone wanted to go but only 5 were allowed. Most kids were trying so much to get chosen to. In the afternoon, the school waved goodbye to Stu Duval and hoped to see him soon.
By C.S.
2 comments:
this is a fantastic piece of work. i can see that you are the third person and you have done this really well. it is a very exciting article.
wow there is alot of detal in your story from E.M
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