A Journey in Color
The Art of Ellis Wilson
In a small Kentucky town where “witch hazel and shaving soap scent…the air,” a boy learns to love art by watching his father paint pictures before work. His father warns him, though, that art should be a mere hobby—it won’t pay the bills. Nonetheless, Ellis grows up knowing that painting is his destiny. Inspiration is everywhere—at church; in the barbershop—in this biographical picture book about an artist who ignored discouragements to nurse his dreams beneath a pastel sky.
Reviewed by
Michelle Anne Schingler
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