So I was doing some sketching this morning and I put down some colour – a really electric pink and a rich firey terra cotta – and suddenly I couldn’t stop thinking about Ezra Jack Keats The Snowy Day which I haven’t seen in years but immediatly had to do the google. I have such vivid memories of the colours in his books. The light the emanates from those pages on a cold gray day is fabulous. No wonder the colour is seared in my memory. These two examples are great.

Ezra Jack Keats / The Snowy Day / Ezra Jack Keats Foundation

Ezra Jack Keats / Keats’s Neighborhood / Ezra Jack Keats Foundation