Illustrating a Picture Book: Part 3 - Color Palette

My upcoming picture book TWILIGHT CHANT is all about a specific time of day – twilight – and progresses from sunset to full night. This meant that when planning the art I needed a color palette that would work with very different lighting situations, and that I needed to plan out the sequence carefully, so that the time of day progresses smoothly from one image to another. 
© Jen BettonThe first step was the color palette. I worked with two different images from two parts of the book...