Outside the studio, looking in on a winter's night, paintings glow with lights and gold. Inside the book to be, lanterns hang in a dragon's cave and small eyes watch as children search for the dragon.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
skip to main |
skip to sidebar
Every book starts with an idea, a spark, a moment of inspiration, and travels through many hands until it ends its journey with a child. This blog will track the journey of one book, written by James Mayhew, and illustrated by Jackie Morris.
Artist by day, troll by night
- Jackie Morris
- St Davids, Pembrokeshire, Wales
- Illustrator, artist and writer, mother, baker of bread, slave to many cats.
Blue moon for stargazers
CURRENT MOON
Exhibition and festival dates etc
Star gazers
Blog Archive
-
▼
2008
(43)
-
▼
December
(20)
- Paper boats, sunrise
- Christmas, cold, hospitals.
- Not quite right, too fierce and just right......
- My Favorite Barefoot Book
- Red Dragon
- Artist's cave, dragon's cave
- Dragons in a starfilled sky
- Gifts, mermaids and conversations with the editor.
- Blue sky and the studio blues
- More sketches
- White paper waiting
- The red carpet, artwork and bookshops
- Echoes
- Leaping whales and hot air pirate ships
- Into the Dragon's Cave
- Bagpuss
- Dragons and kingfishers and bears drinking tea
- Thinking aloud again
- Build a castle high as high
- Front Cover
-
▼
December
(20)
Random wanderings
- James Mayhew's Blog
- Dark Sky Awareness
- Harbour for paperboat adventures
- Facebook Group/ Jackie Morris
- Slide show of some of my work.
- A moment of peace and beauty in a busy day
- Blog from one of James's students in Cambridge
- Children's book blog with a difference
- day to day wanderings of a painting person
- Dutch illustrator, beautiful work
- Dutch illustrator, Lotte Klaver, lovely drawing.
- Eclectic blog of writers
- Ginger cats blog
- Home on the web, Jackie Morris
- How to make a paper boat
- Illustrator in Yorkshire
- Inspirational.
- Music, Sufjan Stevens
- Nicoletta Ceccoli, Italian illustrator of exceptional beauty
- Otters from The Toymaker
- Painting and drawing and thinking from Joel Stewart
- Publisher of beautiful books for children and people who love stories
- Rebecca Dautremer, stunning illustrator
To buy Starlight Sailor
Under my pillow waiting to be read is..
2 comments:
Wonderful.......and not a bit scary...although the dragon looks scared. :)
That painting really glows. It's gorgeous :)
Kim x
Post a Comment