![]() ![]() The title page features the ring bearer’s velvety green-gold ring pillow. The soft lavender echoes the colors on the book’s cover, which features our adorable ring bearer with the flower girl, presumably walking down the aisle. What a lovely touch and a promising beginning. ![]() This shade of lavender immediately conjures up fragrant, early-summer wedding flowers. Not that I wasn’t prepared to love any book by the masterful Floyd Cooper, but what an inspired choice of color. ![]() The Ring Bearer had me at the lavender endpapers. I find myself stopping to look at the colors, naming them, appreciating their nuances and blending, made more eye-catching because of his style. I get the idea, but this is sophisticated work, beyond a layperson, and I suspect, many artists. I’ve pored over his books trying to picture the process of washing color onto canvas and then erasing away layers to create the illustrations. I do not fully understand HOW his subtractive style works. The art he creates for his books is distinctive and unique. His contributions to American art and culture feel vital always, but especially when there are still too few African American authors’ and illustrators’ voices in U.S. I have long admired Floyd Cooper’s books. ![]()
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