Two days, fourteen presentations, ten on-the-spot portraits…What a couple of busy author days at school! I added colour to the images later, but gifted the original sketches to the Calgary school. Thanks to Ms. McC. for inviting me!

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A selection of on-the-spot #portraits that I sketched during my school #author-illustrator visits in Calgary and Edmonton this last year. #picturebook #picturebookillustrator #sketchbook #artistsinschools #lifedrawing

Two colour photos on top of each other. Top photo is a classroom of primary students wearing maroon cardigans or jumpers. They are sitting at desks and speaking animatedly in pairs. Underneath a smaller group of students are kneeling and looking at Grant Wood’s American Gothic and making notes.

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Kahlo and Dali will be back on Friday to record the radio dramas, which will become a free sound walk around Chard, available for anyone to hear.

Keep an ear out for updates!

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Funded by Chard Town Council

Colour photo of 2 actors in a primary school standing either side of a teal filing cabinet on which is placed a pot of blue flowers, an old fashioned black telephone and a large old brown radio. Nearest the camera turned away from the camera a tall white man in his 30s wears an orange fedora, a large fake bushy black handlebar moustache, a navy short sleeved shirt with red lobster print and orange shorts. The other side of the filing cabinet a small white woman in her 40s wearing an orange headscarf tied in a bow on top of her head, a short sleeved orange dress with embroidered squares of black yellow purple and pink and leopardprint leggings. She’s speaking on the telephone.

Two colour photos one above the other. On top a group of primary students wearing maroon cardigans or jumpers are gathered around prints of the painting American Gothic by Grant Wood (a woman looking sideways at a man who looks straight out front while holding a pitchfork) and Mystery Tour by Beryl Cook (a red double decker bus driven by an older woman and full of worried-looking older people). The students are looking closely at the art and some are making notes on paper. Underneath one student in a red cardigan smiles while sitting at a table and looks at an actor, a woman who is sitting next to her with an orange headscarf tied in a bow and a royal blue fake fur jacket.

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The agents discovered many stories, from the startling, the shocking and the downright surreal. They are working the rest of the week on turning their stories into radio dramas.

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Colour photo of 2 actors in a school foyer standing in front of some pine doors . Above the doors a sign says welcome to the redstart primary school. On the left a small white woman in her 40s wearing an orange headscarf tied in a bow on top of her head, white plastic-framed sunglasses, a short sleeved orange dress with embroidered squares of black yellow purple and pink and leopardprint leggings. She’s smiling. On the right a tall white man in his 30s wears an orange fedora, a large fake bushy black handlebar moustache, a navy short sleeved shirt with red lobster print and orange shorts. He’s pointing at the sign and smiling.

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Agents Kahlo and Dali went undercover this morning at Redstart Primary in Chard, south Somerset.

They were working with Year 5 agents to investigate and uncover stories hiding in 10 intriguing works of art.

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