St Pauls PS Gateshead cartoon competition winners ric woods cartoon workshop

History:As many of you know ric woods comes to photography from a painting background and spend thousands of hours painting murals at the local John Hunter Hospital from 1995-2000 (ric says, in his other life)


out patients treatrment room


paediatric outpatients ( son to be demolished for expansion)
This lead ric into teaching cartooning in schools,festivals etc
We can send you more information to take to your school, contact us maree@ricwoods.com

Here are our winners and finalists from St Paul's PS Gatesgead. The 3 winners recieved T shirts and highly commended artists won color pencils and colour in books.

Emily did a great collage.

I see Caitlin did a realistic job of ric's muscles

Bianca included speedy the snail in her drawing of ric

Samara shows ric very happy and colourful

Summer must have created a portrait of a young ric with a full head of hair

Holly draws ric in a vibrant T green shirt

Michelle has ric under the spot lights with a microphone, maybe ric could sing a song to us....NOT !

Well done all you little artists , keep up the graet work and keep practising your cartoons, see you next year !

ILLUSTRATIONS by ric woods artist photographer

Hi everyone we have been enjoying the break over Christmas and New Year. Maree and myself hope you have too.

We wear several hats here at the ric woods photography studio. Some clients have difficulty trying to put us in a pigeon hole because we have several skills under this roof. Another part of our studio is illustration. We are commissioned to illustrate for magazines and children's books.One regular job I enjoy is making a cartoon for the INSTITUTE OF MERCANTILE AGENTS private investigators , process servers collectors etc.As you can imagine the stories I hear and get to illustrate are very interesting.Below are a few....

A server not being able to contact a woman asked " if someone had entered a lotto game" she magically appeared for a "chat".

..a story about being able to "check out" a persons background on line through mobile phones

...a story "pre politically correctness" in the 70s about a vehicle repossession procedure..rather unorthodox by today's standards.

(above) One of my favourites..a stolen car was recovered and inside the car a mosquito was captured.The mosquito was taken to the lab and after analysing the DNA form is blood, the villain was apprehended...amazing.

We are also commissioned to create colour in books. Below is a page from a book we illustrated for Hunter Water about water conservation....more colour in pages are available from their link http://www.hunterwater.com.au/53.aspx

Although we have created hundreds of square meters of murals mostly at the John Hunter Children's Hospital as well as schools and corporate and private venues we do not do as many now. This room below is situated in a consultation room of paediatric out patients at the John Hunter Hospital , Newcastle Australia ( 1 of 22 murals over a 6 year project) Many more on our website http://www.ricwoods.com/

Another passion is that we love to teach.Cartooning in schools with primary school kids, classes for people with disabilities and mental illness for community services like Life without Barriers and Life Activities etc

Lately we have been conducting off camera strobe ( small flash units made by Nikon,canon etc)

you can see some of the results on the Flickr site, the participants moved to a new level in understanding light and the a rewarding ability to light on location

Maree is drawing up some exciting new classes for this year, if you are interested in more information shoot her an email on maree@ricwoods.com... cheers Maree and ric