Research: Children's books.
Winnie the Witch
Paul, Korky. 1989, Oxford University Press. 'Winnie the Witch'
This is another of the books I remember reading quite vividly as a child, and as such I think it's worth looking at. Winnie the Witch follows the story of Winnie and her pet cat Wilbur. Winnie lives in a black house (and indeed as the illustrations show, everything in Winnie's house is black) and as such, continually trips over her black cat Wilbur. Annoyed, she performs a spell to first turn him green (which works around the house but has limited success when outside in the grass) and then later, in a fit of rage, proceeds to turn every part of him a rainbow of different colours. Eventually Winnie comes to her senses, returns Wilbur to his original black and then paints her house a world of colours instead. Its a simple story but it has a way of sticking with you.
Korky uses a large pallet of blacks to paint the house originally, adding in a lot of fine details to the pages that makes what could have been quite boring images very dynamic and alive.
In contrast the house when fully coloured is bright and warm, Rich yellows and reds. Korky used a lot of full page images, with spaces carefully left to place the text in. The rich use of colour works well for a story primarily about such things.
Winnie the Witch
Paul, Korky. 1989, Oxford University Press. 'Winnie the Witch'
This is another of the books I remember reading quite vividly as a child, and as such I think it's worth looking at. Winnie the Witch follows the story of Winnie and her pet cat Wilbur. Winnie lives in a black house (and indeed as the illustrations show, everything in Winnie's house is black) and as such, continually trips over her black cat Wilbur. Annoyed, she performs a spell to first turn him green (which works around the house but has limited success when outside in the grass) and then later, in a fit of rage, proceeds to turn every part of him a rainbow of different colours. Eventually Winnie comes to her senses, returns Wilbur to his original black and then paints her house a world of colours instead. Its a simple story but it has a way of sticking with you.
Korky uses a large pallet of blacks to paint the house originally, adding in a lot of fine details to the pages that makes what could have been quite boring images very dynamic and alive.
In contrast the house when fully coloured is bright and warm, Rich yellows and reds. Korky used a lot of full page images, with spaces carefully left to place the text in. The rich use of colour works well for a story primarily about such things.