Yellow and black is a fairly common palette in illustration. Hildilid’s Night, Mo’s Moustache, The Happy Day, My Heart and Float are a few picture book examples utilising a greyscale palette with the addition of yellow.
The Happy Day by Ruth Krause 1949 (Japanese edition)Marc Simont, illustration for The Happy Day by Ruth Krauss, 1949Mark Alan Stamaty, 1971Joe de MERS from San DiegoLiverpool America Dock (1955) Christopher Chamberlainおだんごぱん 2003 Dumpling BreadIn the Dymkovskaya Slobada written by Vladimir Krupin, illustrated by Aleksander Zemsha 1989Bernadette Watts – The Snow QueenKing Kong 1933 theatrical posterMarcello Dudovich, 1905 black hat on yellow background, the inverse of how yellow is mostly used as a spot colour.JOHN AUSTEN (1886-1948) Finally, on the morning of the fourth day, Odysseus finished squaring the helm 1923Uncle Mac’s Children’s Hour Story Book Ed. Derek McCulloch, Various authors and artists London 19471910 Tentoonstelling van het werk der leden, in den Rotterdamschen Kunstkring, Exhibition of the work of the members, in the Rotterdam Chen Kunstkring, Secessionist posterCat Fancy Edward Gorey; 1925-2000Il giornalino della Domenica cover by Ottorino Adreneini, 19101968 Lemon Kelly E.W. KellyFrank Tinsley (1899-1965) Lunar Unicycle, 1958 In the neighborhood of ‘Rossiya’ cinema painting by Yuri Mogilevsky, USSR, 1960
Living Forest, Illustrator and Author Arthur Henry Howard Heming, 1925. Arthur Henry Howard Heming (1870 –1940) was a Canadian painter and novelist known as the “chronicler of the North” for his paintings, sketches, essays and books about Canada’s North. Interestingly, he was colour blind! worked mostly in black and white for almost all of his life, with the addition of yellow. However, near the end of his career, he started to paint using a much wider range of colours.
The Magic Spectacles and other easy-to-read stories, 1965 Arnold Lobel (1933-1987)
Arnold LobelArnold LobelArnold LobelArnold LobelArnold LobelArnold LobelCover design and illustration by jorj (Georgette & Benjamin Harris), 1936Adrienne Adams. A Woggle of WitchesAnton Seder The Animal in Decorative Art, Birds (chromolithograph) published by Gerlach & Schenk (Austrian), 1896Major Felten Stalking Panther 1934‘Ladies of Fantasy’ by Manley Seon & Lewis Gogo, 1974 Edward Gorey
illustrations by Alexandr Mychajlow for Fairytales of Foreign Writers (Ukraine, 1988)
