If we’re looking for a challenger to
Beatrix Potter’s crown as top British writer/illustrator, then we probably
don’t need to look any further than Raymond Briggs. In fact, you could make a
case that Raymond Briggs is more versatile than Beatrix Potter was, since he has
proven he can write equally well for children and adults. Twice winner of the
Kate Greenaway medal, he’s unlucky not to have won it a third time yet. Mind
you, nobody else has won it three times either.
I thoroughly enjoyed making my copy
from “The Snowman”. It was interesting to read that Raymond Briggs chose to use
coloured pencils for the book because he wanted to do something quick, clean
and fresh – his words. Personally, I found that as much as I enjoyed trying to
imitate his style, it was by no means a quick process. Quiet a rewarding one,
though.
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