![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() That opened the door for me into picture books, so it was quite influential. When I discovered his book, Crocodile Tears, I was already a storyteller with my friends and to myself, but when I read it, I realised that this was a way I could put the stories together and that I could actually be an author. He inspired my generation because they weren’t just joke drawings they were art. I looked at other cartoonists, as people do, and the one that I loved was André François, the French artist. I drew regularly for Reader’s Digest actually. I’m quite happy to have a red, pink or yellow sky.īy 1962 I was drawing cartoons for the national press. Elmer’s Colours is probably related quite directly with that book colours are very important to me, more important than just if the sky is blue. You couldn’t take it out of the library, you could only take it out in the reference section and I discovered so many painters through it-people such as Matisse, Duran and Marquez- I discovered the world of colour. I would go in to the library practically daily to look at it. One day, they start to have an argument about the sunset which escalates into a period of terrible, violent rock-throwing. Around 1951, when I was in art college, colour printing was taking on a different quality and it was this book of paintings that enlightened me. A red monster and a blue monster live on opposite sides of a rocky mountain: they can’t see each other, but they can speak through a hole in the rock. ![]()
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