Gone Bush (No. 2.1) Introducing Ted Wombat, our resident poet and philosopher

Gone Bush Series 1 - Publication announcement

Announcing the publication of Gone Bush: Series 1. Printed in Australia. Do yourself a favour, and buy some for Christmas presents!

Follow the link below to view the book. Available in hard cover and soft cover.

https://au.blurb.com/b/10192273-gone-bush-series-1

Chinese Dragon Boat Festival

Hot off the press!

A title page for Junior and Middle Primary, celebrating the Dragon Boat Festival.

Where does it go?

This is some of my very early work from back in 1996. I think it took me about three or four days to complete.

Time Lapse - Drawing a 3/4 Profile - Retro

Teaching Chinese with Rudi the Orang-utan

G'day! Check out the link below. I use a few of my Chinese flash cards in the show, too!

https://youtu.be/rkGlQTChe6Q

Chinese Flash Cards

I've been working on a few flash cards to use with my online classes this term. Here's a few samples. The Grade 1/2 classes are looking at the theme: Food (starting with fruit). The Grade 3/4 classes are looking at the theme: Vehicles & Transport. 

Rudi's Favourite Fruit

 

As the majority of the world starts looking to conduct education online, this is a work sheet I have created for my Grade 1/2 classes in Chinese. Rudi the Orangutan is showing the students some of his favourite fruit. Rudi is a puppet who used to help me teach Indonesian when I was working at Rochester Primary School. He is now making a a new appearance with my younger students. They find it funny how Rudi is fluent in Indonesian, but now he has to learn Bahasa Cina (Chinese)!

Tiga Sekolah dan CINTA - Board Display

This is a board display I created back in 2010 while hosting three teachers from Indonesia. Two of these teachers came form schools in Bali and the third came from East Java. At the time I had a network running with four local schools in Campaspe Shire (including mine). To help celebrate I created this display on my classes pin board. It took about a week to complete as I was trying to create a to-scale map of of Jawa Timur and Bali. A lot of fun to do and my students were able to learn a little of where our visitors came from.

Chinese Brush Painting

My wife gave me a Chinese brush painting set for Christmas. I've finally been able to set aside time to begin having a go. Today's lessons was learning the different brush strokes and developing darker and lighter areas. This was followed with having a go at painting pictures of bamboo. Not too bad for a first attempt. I finally worked out how to form the leaves by the time I had finished. A bottle of strong ink given to me as another Christmas present from my younger sister a few years ago came in handy, too.

Simon the Nexian - Simon gets cross!

Chapter 1 - After an argument with his best friend, Jason, our hero gets cross and sulky. Very selfish, indeed, but he learns to be a better person in the end.

Bread of Heaven - Easter Performance Poster

This is a poster that I drew for an Easter performance for church last year. The tricky part was making the middle-eastern style flat bread look like flat bread and not a chocolate chip biscuit!! (I think I'll need to practice this one a little more)

The Aussie Outback Baked Bean Beaky Bonanza

This cartoon was an entry to the "They Draw & Cook" bean recipe competition. It was a lot of fun to draw and I was able to use a little bit of a recent trip to the Northern Territory in the picture. Some of my "Gone Bush" and "Kevin Koala" characters make cameo appearances as the main characters.

Simon the Nexian - Space Drifters

A terror for all who endeavour in cosmic travel, space drifters lurk in asteroid fields and within the ice rings of gas giants. The unfortunate space craft that gets caught in it's tentacles has it's electronics overridden with energy pulses from the gigantic creature. The vessel and it's hapless crew are then consumed.

Simon the Nexian - Kutaka'a's space ship

...Taking off from the planet, Baydia, Kutaka'a leaves with a dark purpose for the royal family and the future of the Tapulea.

Simon the Nexian - A Tapulean Ha'uke

... Near the planet Tukala, a lone Ha'uke approaches.