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| If you seem to have some spare time on your hands and want to leave something of yourself behind in your school, how about
making a poster or two about Australia? Below is a description of how Mark went about it. |
| The posters were made from pictures taken from calendars, tourist brochures and information booklets about Australia. Each poster is roughly one metre tall and one and a half metres long. In the centre of the page I drew an outline of Australia in thick black pen (hand-enlarged using a grid-copy process). I sorted the pictures that I had into sports, scenery and animals and made three posters. |
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| With the scenery poster, I started with a large picture of Ayer's Rock in the centre of Australia and then used other large pictures to make a
collage/wallpaper that filled in the Australian outline. On top of this, I pasted smaller pictures of famous places (Wave Rock, Sydney, etc) or unusual things (road train etc) in the area in Australia where you might find them. These pictures came from the back of the calendars where a small version of each month's picture was drawn. |
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| Naturally there was a bit of overlap, so some things got moved a little but generally speaking, the snow was in the south, the desert in the middle, the big reef in the north-east and beautiful beaches all around. Around the picture of Australia, I pasted bigger pictures of famous places that I didn't want to cut up and use as wallpaper in the main picture. |
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| I then repeated the process with the animal pictures, again trying to put the animals in the right place on the map, and the sports poster. Each poster had a main title of "Australia" and then on either side of the main title I had some simple English. For example, "Australia has many animals. Which animal do you like?" |