I’m finding working on illustration board to be a lot of fun for Diane Cantrell’s children’s book “Good-bye, Baby Max.” It’s lovely applying tone on such a smooth surface. I’m kind of mixing up the layers here…a bit of watercolour, a bit of pencil, a shade-at-a-time as I’m trying to keep the colours pretty soft. On a couple of the spreads I’m tempted to keep it to a monochromatic pallet (the one of the kids looking at the eggs, and the one of the kids sitting in a circle when they first hear about poor Baby Max.) We’ll see how it looks once the others are more filled out with colour & detail.

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