Every Thursday night at 9:00pm EST, there’s a Twitter chat using the hashtag #kidlitart. All you need is to write the hashtag with your tweet to join the conversation 🙂
Last night’s #kidlitart discussion was about color. We talked about color schemes, theory, color palettes we liked working in and shared a ton of references.
Two of my favorites were Adobe Kuler and Color Scheme Designer. You can click the images for links to the sites.
Books Resources:
- Art and Flair of Mary Blair: Couldn’t link to the exact book but links to an art book dedicated to Mary Blair
- Art of Pixar
- Color and Light, by James Gurney
- Color Mixing Bible by Ian Sidaway
- Alla Prima by Richard Schmid
- Journey by Aaron Becker
Inspiring Artists:
- Barroux
- Mary Jane Begin
- Mary Blair
- Calef Brown
- Pascal Campion
- Dave Cooper
- Christopher Denise
- Eyvind Earle
- Frank Frazetta
- Debra Hurd
- Molly Idle
- Oliver Jeffers
- William Joyce
- David Kassan
- Claire Keane
- Brian Lies
- Andrew Loomis
- Victo Ngai
- Dan Santat
- Will Terry
- N.C. Wyeth
Here is a list of all the website resources mentioned in last night’s chat:
- Kid Lit Art Blog– A blog full of interviews, resources and Picture Book Dummy Challenge
- Colour Lovers– A site to share color palettes
- Google Search for Dummies and Colors
- Color Palette of 1952 Little Golden Book
- Adobe Kuler
- Big Huge Labs
- Art Director’s Toolkit (app)
- The Road is Home
- Transcript of the #kidlitart chat on color
