The power of the putty rubber! Rough amended with child now looking at the edge of the book.
Back cover rough to go with new front cover rough.
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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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2009
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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..
4 comments:
I really feel for you Jackie and I hope that this wont end in dummy spitting and burning of anything. I do love the dragon for the "possible" back cover.
It made more sense with the lad looking up at the star ("Star light, star bright!")--what do publishers know?! It must be incredibly hard being a working artist and have to put up with revisions--especially when you think you are done with your part.
But I greatly enjoy voyeuristically watching the process!
Looking good - and you do really neat dragons!
Well well well...what an epic! I really admire your tenacity on this and as always the sketches are lovely. It seems unneccessary to stick my oar in as I'm sure my view will be over-ridden by the publisher. But here goes anyway. I quite like the idea of the dragon being hidden within the book - a surprise - in the same way that you didn't want the text to refer to a "paper" boat. I think it's a real shame that you feel obliged to lose integrity to aid sales.
She looks spectacular, though.
Wouldn't it be lovely if you could just craft a book according to your beliefs and talents and visions...follow your star!??? !
I can really sense the frustration, Jackie, but hang in there, and THANK YOU for believing in the whole idea and doing such rare and remarkable work so far...
James x
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