First thoughts, something completely different and elegant, with white background and cloth spine and gold foil.
Much of the design would depend on some very elegant calligraphy.
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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
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:
That's some great art right there. Keep it up.
Well if it needs elegance, then you're the perfect one for the job, say I. From your notes I imagine it looking rather lovely. I love the lettering you've drawn in. And who cannot love a dragon, let him/her be silent... say I... again.
Since they're so bewildering skeptical about the first cover, I'm glad they've come back to you for a third-time-is-the-charm version rather than going with the interim horse-designed-by-a-committee version.
But I wouldn't be surprised if they come around to using the first version after all(!) Sometimes you just have endure everyone's "input" until they get comfortable with your idea.
All paws and claws crossed for luck and beaming encouraging thoughts your way. . .
Can I be a butt about this? I love the larger letters, and the dolphins leaping around the paper boat are awesome!
Here's the 'butt' part....does the balloon need to be on the front? Can it be 'chasing' the dragon on the back?
Since I don't know the whole story...yet, I can only guess and be a butt, if need be.
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