Colour work / Finished pages

my first 'finished' page. I still need to overlay the text...but it is essentially finished, as it would appear in the book.....just another 30 odd pages to go! 

I have softened the colours to create a more relaxed and gentle mood, the more intense colours would have been overwhelming, particularly on the spreads with multiple panels. I am pretty happy with this, a little bit of an ode to Van Gogh's Starry Night, for those art history buffs, in terms of composition and the swirlies (a VG technical term!).

Now back to painting, another two of these need to be done by the end of the week to send off to macmillan's.