Waiting to hear from publisher again.
Band across top and bottom would be red. Stars picked out in gold or silver foil. Sea serpent would be red.
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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
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February
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- New cover
- Harmony
- Deja vu
- If you can keep your head when all about are telli...
- Revise, rework, recycle.
- Front cover sketch again
- Blue sky boat with ripples
- In a pool above the sea by golden reeds
- Poetry and paper boats
- Covers and covers and covers.
- Covers and cloth spines and paperboats and sea ser...
- Waiting and meanwhile making ecards
- Butterfly words and timeflies
- Where two blogs meet
- No work today, I can't get to my studio because of...
- What would you like?
- Making the words and the pictures speak
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February
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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..
9 comments:
I think this is looking really lovely. Tessa thinks the boy should look to edge of the book, inviting the potential purchaser to open the book; a nice idea...but then he won't be looking at the star. Hmmm... tricky!
I like all the stars and the forward motion very much. Also fluid type. I know that Barefoot don't want too much blue (!!!) but I think it needs to be dreamy and moonlit with a generally "night-time" (blue!) palette personally, and other colours should be jewel like details, and subtle.
Whatever you do it will be gorgeous. Tessa is sending some grid or other I believe so perhaps it's best to wait for that.
Anyhow I'm sorry it's been so hard opening up a sealed compartment of your creative mind. It almost hurts to do that...I know. But it'll all be worth it when you win awards!!!
James x
I think it is looking great. Looks like you managed to get back into the flow without too much trouble!
That sketch is lovely, too! (I agree with James about the blue! but also agree that whatever you do will be gorgeous.) I don't want to wish the summer away, but i'm so eager for September to be here so i can get my hands on this book!
I like it! Nice energy!
I like what James said about looking to the edge of the book, maybe so you don't have to loose the boy looking at the star the lil dog can point to the edge...
It's another great design Jackie i know it must have been hard to find your space again after mentally cleaning out the cogs and physically cleaning out the studio.
I do have to wonder though... how can there not be too much blue... it's night time and on the ocean and one would think it would compliment the back cover with it flowing. The world of publishing is Scary!
I am waiting for them to get the finished artwork for the cover and then realise that it now doesn't work with the back cover. Might paint them an alternative back cover so that I can preempt them, otherwise I am liable to spit the dummy, throw ALL of my toys out of the cot and then torch the cot!
Indeed the world of publishing is a strange place. I remember when I started working on The Snow Leopard for Frances Lincoln the sales and marketing team said that snow leopards were not as sexy as tigers and that the book would be "too white". Glad I don't live in their heads!
Dear Jackie,
I was looking again at those first covers because there was something about them that seemed "a bit off"--now I know what it was: the dolphins should be swimming with the boat, next to the bow, rather than swimming back towards the stern. Just thought I'd let you know, in case you were going to include them again. Of course I am totally wrong if the dolphins swim differently in dreamland!
It is because of the sales-and-marketing minds that I did not last long in advertising...
No, you are right. What the publisher have done with this is taken an image from inside the book and flipped it to try and make it work as a book cover. I don't think it needs the dolphins anyway, but they wouldn't be swimming like this.
So now I am waiting for the grid before I start so there is enough space for the type. And meanwhile I have plenty to get on with.
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