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. All links were mentioned in the chat last night.
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
