How to radically transform an illustration: add a cloud! But not just any cloud …
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The bolder and brighter is often the better when it comes to floor covering, but when it comes to endpapers in individual books, you can't go past clever, subtle, elegant, moody and evocative.
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Let's not be fooled by largeness or loudness, wherever we may be looking. The most dramatic things often come in tiny packages, and that includes drama in narrative illustration.
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Whenever I want to play with the power of illustration to give me the feelies, I look at picture books in a language I don't understand. That way, I am able to wallow unimpeded in the waves of feeling the pictures inspire.
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I'm recklessly cutting right to the chase here. I'm jumping in with a bold proclamation and a hands-on experiment that may seem super-obvious to you, but that pretty much underscores anything and everything I will ever say about quality picture-books.
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