On the beach the colour of the sky and the setting full moon echo the colours of the painting I worked on yesterday.
Bright moon, beautiful, in blue sky with clouds.
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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
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2008
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December
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- 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
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December
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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..
6 comments:
Beautiful Jackie, just beautiful!x
Thanks Jess
Not sure about this one, but am showing all the work done so far to the publisher on Sunday. Hopefully they will like it and there will be no problem.
I have an exhibition in Milford Haven at the moment and some of the old work I did for this book is hanging there and is what people seem to like most in the show.
Jackie
I agree. It's perfect. You've really captured the transparency of the water brilliantly. The composition flows nicely too and I love that the little sailor is hidden peacefully off to the side.
You seem very prolific. I find it difficult to paint for longer than a couple of hours at a stretch. May I ask how much time you put in each day?
Books don't usually flow this fast. This one has been a bit like a dam. Took me ages to get going. Also the paintings are smaller than I usually do, each spread being same size as the book which is 245mm square.
When my children are home I will sit and paint for about 6 hours if I am lucky and sometimes go back for an hour or two in the evening.
When I am on my own my timetable still seems to flow as if I had to pick them up from school.
So much gets in the way of paining sometimes.
I have been 5 years late with a book before now but this is often because another book has stepped in the way. I wrote Tell Me a Dragon before The Snow Leopard but we switched the order.
With luck and a fair wind this one will be done by end Jan and then I hope to have pictures and info about what happens next, design, scanning, printing and shipping etc.
Meanwhile I make paper boats and look at the moon.
beautiful!
I love the painting & also the photo. Blues are soothing to my soul!:)
Jackie this is fabulous. That you have the photo below the painting for a moment had me wondering how beautifully you'd painted that moonlit scene! It looked almost as if it hadn't been painted... for a moment there!
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