The Giant's Socks

Here is today's naptime progress.  I found some inspiration in one of the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators's previous Golden Kite Award winners:

You wouldn't know it to look at this tiny image, but Watson uses a technique not unsimilar to what I am building towards: a transparent medium on top of a drawing, that is then touched up with a opaque medium.  He uses watercolor and egg tempera, specifically.

I am particularly attracted to the way he handles his drawings.  The lines are painted over with lines of color.  Every object is essentially outlined with a darker shade of the color that it is filled with.  In this way, he carefully preserves his elegant and naturalistic representations of plants and animals, while addig an extra boost of saturation.  The amateur botanist in me swoons at the specific plants elegantly filling the corners of his action scenes!

Although I have no intention of imitating him to this degree, I could spend an hour staring at the knit socks he so lovingly painted onto the giant. Watson rendered each and every thread!