Crayon

A crop of Taro Yashima's art from Umbrella. Click through to enlarge.

Crayons are dry binded colored sticks.

Crayon is a pointed stick of colored clay, chalk, or wax used for drawing or coloring.

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Cover. Click through to enlarge

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Process Art. Click through to enlarge.

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Process art. Click through to enlarge.

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Crop. Click through to enlarge

Taro Yashima: Umbrella

Each sketch and drawing in Umbrella is a burst of vibrant color. Within the drawing of the young girl's face, we observe green, pink, brown, blue, and yellow crayon. The image of a saddle shoe shows the soft, darker, muted colors that can also be created with crayon. Both the second and third images are from a preliminary mock up of the picture book pages, called a dummy, forUmbrella.