Snatching hours in between Christmas and other things to paint again the dragon, for the third time, trying not to make her scary.
And still finding time to walk on the beach and sail paper boats.
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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..
3 comments:
A very lovely dragon...i wonder if what the publisher thought was scary might have been the previous dragon's flaming red "hair" contrasting with her green skin? This dragon does look softer and gentler without sliding into insipidness.
This one definitely looks soft and gentle (to me!). I do love the way you paint eyes.x
Interesting to know that this is a "she-dragon." The red becomes her and she has a kindly eye.
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