Traci Van Wagoner

Let the Painting Begin! The sketches have been approved, and now it’s time for the paint play to start! Splish, splash! I've started with getting base colors into all the spreads — the sky, hills, grass, base colors of characters — blocking out the scenes so I can see how the volume of the images works against the white space, giving the reader’s eyes a journey with rests when needed. It’s important to provide enough white space to provide a break and a place to breathe now a