A last look at Bruce Whatley Unmasked

Bidding reserve: Highest Bid so far: $150


The Bountiful Bruce Whatley

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 The mask that Bruce made

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Title: il Dottore

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 Before Bruce worked his art magic, the mask looked like this

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About Bruce Whatley

Bruce  is one of Australia’s most highly regarded and talented authors and illustrators for children, both here and internationally. Bruce started his working life in advertising as an art director and illustrator and since then he has created over 60 picture books.  Many of his books have won awards both in Australia and overseas, including The Ugliest Dog in the World, Looking for Crabs, Tails from Grandad’s Attic and Detective Donut and the Wild Goose Chase.

Bruce has co-written a number of award-winning books with his wife Rosie Smith (Whatley’s Quest, Detective Donut and the Wild Goose Chase and Little White Dogs Can’t Jump) and his son Ben Smith Whatley (Zoobots).

In 2002 Bruce paired with author Jackie French and illustrated Diary of a Wombat – an iconic picture book that has become an international best-seller with foreign sales to nine territories.  Diary of Wombat was the start of an extraordinary artistic collaboration that sparked the publication of Pete the Sheep, Josephine Wants to Dance, Shaggy Gully Times, Baby Wombat’s Week, Christmas Wombat and Wombat Goes to School. Plus two delightful books about Queen Victoria, being Queen Victoria’s Underpants and Queen Victoria’s Christmas.

One of the most remarkable aspects of Bruce’s talent is the breadth of his artistic ability, which includes an appealing cartoon style to realistic representations using mediums ranging from coloured pencils, watercolour, acrylic and oils, and more recently, 3D digital software.

And accompanying that talent is an intellectual depth and curiosity that sees Bruce taking on large and complex projects, such as The Beach They Called Gallipoli, which is being co-created with Jackie French and will be published in 2014 to coincide with the centenary of WW1.

In 2008 Bruce completed his PhD titled Left Hand Right Hand: implications of ambidextrous image making. In his thesis Bruce looked at the image making of the non-dominant hand, making the fascinating discovery that in most people the ability to draw lies in the use of the ‘other’ hand.

 

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Now, all you need to do is scroll down through our galley of Bruce’s works, follow the links to see more, and then bid.  Remember if your bid is greater than the one before, every cent will go to our charities and you will receive your own marvellous Bruce Whatley work!

 

 


For more about ...

Bruce Whateley

visit his website by following this link

http://www.brucewhatley.com

or you can read an interview with him here

http://www.mybookcorner.com.au/articles/777-bruce-whatley-author-interview

 

 

 

Other work

 

 

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Mask bidding reserve: Highest Bid so far: $150


4 Bids

  1. Renae Gibson-Suzuki says:

    $75

  2. Amanda Cooper says:

    $90

  3. Renee Treml says:

    150

  4. S Vincent says:

    100.00