Yellow and black is a fairly common palette in illustration. Hildilid’s Night, Mo’s Moustache, The Happy Day, My Heart and Float are a few picture book examples utilising a greyscale palette with the addition of yellow.
Living Forest, Illustrator and Author Arthur Henry Howard Heming, 1925. Arthur Henry Howard Heming (1870 –1940) was a Canadian painter and novelist known as the “chronicler of the North” for his paintings, sketches, essays and books about Canada’s North. Interestingly, he was colour blind! worked mostly in black and white for almost all of his life, with the addition of yellow. However, near the end of his career, he started to paint using a much wider range of colours.
Andy the Lion: Story and pictures by James Daugherty
The Magic Spectacles and other easy-to-read stories, 1965 Arnold Lobel (1933-1987)
illustrations by Alexandr Mychajlow for Fairytales of Foreign Writers (Ukraine, 1988)
CONTEMPORARY FICTION SET IN AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND (2023)
On paper, things look fine. Sam Dennon recently inherited significant wealth from his uncle. As a respected architect, Sam spends his days thinking about the family needs and rich lives of his clients. But privately? Even his enduring love of amateur astronomy is on the wane. Sam has built a sustainable-architecture display home for himself but hasn’t yet moved into it, preferring to sleep in his cocoon of a campervan. Although they never announced it publicly, Sam’s wife and business partner ended their marriage years ago due to lack of intimacy, leaving Sam with the sense he is irreparably broken.
Now his beloved uncle has died. An intensifying fear manifests as health anxiety, with night terrors from a half-remembered early childhood event. To assuage the loneliness, Sam embarks on a Personal Happiness Project: