Like most illustrators I grew up drawing, and like most children who grew up drawing I loved painting with my fingers. There is just something about putting your hands on it that makes art that bit more fun. But what really makes it beautiful is when you can see yourself in what you make and find it special too.
At every step of experimenting with mixing colours this little girl finds something new about the world, and perhaps herself. By recognising the colours on what revolves around her, the girl also explores her understanding of how different colours work in life. It starts with simple things like yellow and red makes orange, orange is also a fruit, fruit that comes from a tree,… juice is delicious. But soon, she observes something more profound. Everything is made of colours, everyone has a skin colour, I mix colours, red and yellow and blue, I find brown, brown is my colour.
When she finds a way to reach her own skin colour in paint she understands that she is also beautiful like her art.
Colour and Me finds a simple way of stating the obvious, that we are all part of a colour wheel and that everyone should agree that every colour is special, including the one like me.
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