For Bookings and workshops contact Megan : e: hello@meganforward.com p: 0403 873 805 Megan is an author, illustrator, educator and speaker who facilitates hands-on interactive STEAM (Science, Technology, English, Art and Maths) workshops for young children using her picture books as stimulus. She is passionate about teaching sustainability to young children and connecting them to…
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I had the pleasure of illustrating the cover of a new music CD that focuses on music and mathematics by musician and teacher Tricia Bawtree. What a great way to teach numeracy to young children!
Yesterday we took a little field trip to the foreshore to study nature and paint our responses in the style of traditional Chinese and Japanese Ink Paintings. We had lots of fun playing around with the ink to capture the essence of the natural forms around us. We even learned how to make our own…
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Negative space drawing is a key drawing skill for artists. You concentrate on all of the spaces and shapes between and around objects, and eventually the object itself magically appears. Seeing in this way is like turning a switch off in one part of your brain and turning another switch on. Eventually it becomes automatic,…
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I’m just watching the episode of David Attenborough’s Planet Earth 2 called ‘Cities’, looking at animals adapting to urban environments. The last 10 minutes is particularly inspiring about the cities of the future. I think it’s so important to teach our children to connect with and value nature -hopefully they will be the ones designing…
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Well we had our final art class for the term on Monday. I had the most wonderful time with my students – we explored tone and shape, line and textures, relationships and light and dark through still life studies, painting with watercolour, and developing a drawing into a lino print. I am always surprised to…
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I’ve spent the morning planting out some Lomandra grasses into my garden. This is part of a new book project I’ve been working on for a couple of years, I am writing a book to follow on from A Patch from Scratch about building a back yard frog pond. Records show that frog populations in…
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Saturday, February 25, 2017, 1 – 3:30pm NOTE Join children’s author and illustrator Megan Forward for a very special reading of her book, A Patch from Scratch. This is the story of Jesse and Lewis, who want to grow their own fruit and vegies, and raise chickens, just like people do on a farm. They’re going to…
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