The coloring of the illustrations is complete! Mitch has done an amazing job with watercolor on all of his ink drawings. There is still a bit of work getting the pictures ready for publication, though. Each one needs to be cropped, with a clean white border. Some of them need to be straightened, or even skewed to make them fit a square frame. All of this needs to happen without detracting from the artwork.
For example, here is one of the raw scans:
After a quick retouch, it looks like this:
Hopefully a subtle difference. For variation, some of the images are not cropped on all sides. For example:
Others have cool little overlaps, extending beyond the crop area – I’m trying to keep these, for sure!
There is still plenty of work to do as we go into production. Keep checking back!
Love is Magic 
Jun 20, 2014 @ 06:38:40
Wow! Amazing! Impressed! Will be purchasing for the preschool when you let me know ones available ;0)