In 2020, our online KOALA Awards ceremony featured illustrator Dub Leffler demonstrating his skill in creating beautiful illustrations. His imagination and creativity, as well as the use of interesting mediums including coffee and salt, were inspiring to see.

At the end of the ceremony, Dub revealed the completed artwork: a gorgeous tawny frogmouth owl perched on a branch. Students from Charlestown South Public School were the lucky winners of the Artwork Draw, and get to keep this incredible original illustration!

To complement this beautiful artwork, some of the students from Charlestown South have been working on their own pieces using Dub’s techniques. You can see their work below.

Why not get your students to have a go too? You can find the complete clip of Dub’s demonstration in the Members only section, to re-watch with your students. You could even create a display of Dub’s picture books in your Library and share some of these with your students for further inspiration (and maybe some ideas for KOALA nominations for 2021!), and then get illustrating.

We would love you to share your student artworks with us so we can display it online in our photo gallery.