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PAINTER
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Trudy White likes to work with pencils, watercolour, ink, nib pens, brushes, biro, computer graphics programs, collage, acrylic paint, oil paint, and textas, in books, on small pages, on large rolls of paper, on canvas and on wood. She also likes to make things out of clay and plasticine. |
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Trudy has had three illustrated books of fiction published so far, starting with TABLE OF EVERYTHING (Allen & Unwin) in 2000. Combining intimate illustrations with stories of everyday places inhabited by extraordinary things (a poetry-reciting cat, morning street music), Trudy brings a funny, crooked and questioning journey through life that "can be read to a child or your grandpa".
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In 2005, Trudy published JAPAN
DIARY, two diaries in one book. It
is based on her time in Japan, as well as
interviews she did with exchange students.
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first part of the book is an illustrated
diary of Australian student, Amelia Deerson's
exchange trip to Japan, titled My Double
Summer. When you flip it over, Dragon
Boy, Hero! is the illustrated diary
of Taro Nakagawa's trip to Australia.
This
book was commissioned by the Asia Education
Foundation and is a great insight into cultural
differences. |
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A page from JAPAN DIARY
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Her third book is COULD YOU? WOULD YOU? (Allen & Unwin 2006), a book of whimsical pictures, questions and ideas to tickle young children's imagination, to get them thinking, talking, drawing, writing and exploring the world.
It offers a beguiling series of pictures, questions, thoughts and anecdotes to get young children using their imagination to explore ideas about themselves, the world, their hopes and beliefs.
COULD YOU? WOULD YOU? will be useful in schools as a stimulus for writing, drawing and talking about the major themes of grades Prep to 3 SOSE: self, home, family, community, pets, transport, environment (the natural and the built world), time, change, continuity, traditions, rules. |
Trudy also illustrates other people's stories
and books as well as her own. One of these
is Markus Zusak's THE
BOOK THIEF, published by Pan Macmillan
in 2005. The picture on the right is taken
from this novel and is painted over Hitler's
Diary, Mein Kamf.
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"Out
of sheer luck and many footsteps, I made
it."
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her school visits, Trudy combines interesting
drawing exercises with creative writing activities.
She likes visiting both primary and secondary
school classes - she is prepared with both
animal costumes and power-point presentations!
Trudy's creative workshops give students new
skills to make something they didn't know
they could. Her enthusiasm for her work, and
for helping students find their own way into
art and literature, makes Trudy's school visits
inspiring. |
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