This is the first spread I have completed for the Carmelite Prize. It's a tentative step, as I try to figure out the style I would like the entire book to be in. It's a proposal of sorts.
Style notes, things I have been conscious of
- big big forms
- colourful
- texture driven
- daft expressive hens
Going back to earlier notes on adding more to an image, I've introduced the idea of extra panels within the image. Not quite a comic, but something that would suggest the passing of another event or sequence, a window into something external of the image that a parent could talk to with their child about. Here it is the passing of the day and night, and the flowers outside. I'm conscious that this won't happen in every spread (I think this could become quite cluttered), but it is a device that could be used. I'm not so sure of its success yet.
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