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As part of the fund raising for my daughter's school I was asked to create a lunch bag that could be auctioned off.  This is the bag:

All images and text copyright 2014 Michael Smith - Doodle Bag Productions

Since we are in Nashville, the topic seemed appropriate.

Pitt Pens, copic markers, gel pens and oil pastel on a bag that I think came from a liquor store.  It is a little larger than a regular lunch bag.

6th Grade Lunch Bag - 18

All images and text copyright 2014 - Michael Smith - Doodle Bag Productions

This week we find that Sara has returned to Earth from her field trip to the sun to find her brother engulfed in a stack of books.

Col-erase pencil, pitt pens, copic markers, oil pastels and gel pens on a lunch bag.

6th Grade Lunch Bag - 17

All images and text copyright 2014 - Michael Smith - Doodle Bag Productions

This week we have Sara on her trip to the sun to return the wayward ball of energy to its original source.  She has exited her craft and the debris that wasn't tied down has started to float out along with her.

Col-Erase Pencils, Pitt Pens, Copic Markers, gel pens and oil pastels on a lunch bag.

6th Grade - Lunchbag 16

All images and text copyright 2014 - Michael Smith - Doodle Bag Productions

This week finds Sara has bottled the energy and realizing that the majority of all energy on Earth comes from the sun has put on a space suit and is boarding her spaceship to deliver the energy back at it's source.

col-erase pencils, pitt pens, copic markers, gel pens, and oil pastels on a lunch bag.

Robot Dragon Slayer sketch card

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This week's sketch card for my son's lunch lays out a little background on the hero robot.

Pencil and marker sketch, modified in PhotoShop with the text added.

6th Grade - Lunch Bag 15

All images and text copyright 2014 - Michael Smith - Doodle Bag Productions

This week we return to our normally scheduled programming!  Sara returns to her search for what to do with the energy that she discovered.

Col-Erase pencils, Pitt Pens, Copic Markers, Gel pens, oil pastels on a lunch bag.

Hark the Herald Angels Sing

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It is the time of the school year when Sara's lunch bags switch over the Christmas Carols. This week we start with "Hark the Herald Angels Sing". The angels are singing or harking away.

Col-Erase Pencil, Pitt Pens, copic marker, prismacolor, gel pens, and oil pastels are combined on the lunch bag to create the illustration.

There is a text insert that gives the history of the carol.

Lunch bag and insert side by side

6th Grade Lunch Bag 14

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This week Sara has to figure out what kind of energy it is that has escaped her science books. She is determining whether it is Potential, Kinetic, Mechanical and a couple of others that I have forgotten. She has placed the sphere on a high platform to see if it has potential energy, it has crashed down through the ground and she is looking at it.

Col-Erase Pencils, Pitt Pens, Copic Markers, white gel pens, oil pastels on a standard lunch bag.

6th Grade Lunch Bag 13

Last week was mis-labeled as #11, so I am back on the right track with illustration #13 for the year:

All images and text, copyright 2013 Michael Smith - Doodle Bag Productions

This week finds that Sara has made it out of the social studies books and into the realm of science.  Sara has found a little ball of energy that has broken free from the text books and needs to return to its point of origin.  She has to determine what kind of energy it is first, potential, kinetic, chemical, thermal, electric, mechanical, or nuclear so she can take care of the little guy.  She is surrounded with things that use or make energy.

Col-Erase Pencil, Pitt Pens, Copic Markers, white gel pens, oil pastels.