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Jo Brown's news and thoughts.

Using Colour in illustration.

1/5/2022

 
photograph of Jo Brown's wooden trays full of artists materials
a desk with wooden trays filled with artists paint tubes, tin boxes of watercolours and various pots and cups filled with paintbrushes of different sizes
How I use colour in my illustrations.
I initially trained and worked as a textile print designer, (Trent and Manchester if you're interested) which involves working to exacting client briefs, including defined colour palettes. So you only use the colours that have been assigned to that brief.
Fashion colour forecasts are worked out years in advance and every season everyone works to a set palette (that's why all the shops are full of say mustard one year, and chartreuse another time - it's not coincidence!) So one season, orange is a particular Persimmon shade, or purple has to be Aubergine.

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