Do you hang your own artwork on your walls? It never occurred to me to do so but I had a bunch of frames and a friend suggested I could use my wall as a personal gallery of my work, so, that I did. I sell paintings both framed and as they are so I … Continue reading Silver Birds
New Birds, and More Field Sketching
The weather on Sunday was cool and a little cloudy, and I decided to Carpe the Diem and head over to Rye Harbour and try out my new-found field sketching information on some real birds. It was pleasantly busy and I got myself a coffee and a flapjack, dug out my bins and sketchbook, and … Continue reading New Birds, and More Field Sketching
New Peregrine Falcon painting
Peregrines feature quite a lot in my Birdwatching Logbooks and I love the previous gouache and oil paintings I have done. They are my son's favourite bird, and they live in the chalk cliffs and over the South Downs near Lewes, so they occasionally visit the fields behind my house to prey on the pigeons … Continue reading New Peregrine Falcon painting
Process: putting the books together
One of the exciting things to develop from the publishing of my birdwatching logbooks is the chance to work with other birdy venues to create a logbook of their area. I am currently working with Dr Barry Yates at Rye Harbour Nature Reserve to make sure I have the correct information for the Birds of … Continue reading Process: putting the books together
More illustrations
Oooooh I am getting in to the final stretches of the first set (you can reserve a first run on my dedicated webpage) and it is so exciting. I will then be able to approach bookshops which of course is a whole other aspect of publishing a book and one I am looking forward to … Continue reading More illustrations
New birds
I have finally sent my PDFs off to Newman Thomson and they will hopefully be printed at the beginning of next week. We had a bit of a sporty day yesterday as I had to get my ISBNs and barcodes from Nielsen, for which I needed to register my publishing name. I had thought of … Continue reading New birds
Sample books, and last-minute hitches
My sample books arrived! I was so relieved that they feel really nice: fabulous quality and beautiful smooth paper. I tried writing in them with a variety of pens to see about bleed through but only the Sharpie was a bit suspect, which frankly is to be expected. I didn't like the feel of the … Continue reading Sample books, and last-minute hitches
Preflight Checks
I have now finished the Coast & Clifftop book so am sending it around to various friends and family to read. InDesign has a spellcheck but I'm not using that, and the justification and hyphenation of the text boxes means I get some odd word splits, as well as the Latin needing the once over. … Continue reading Preflight Checks
Book Planning and a New Bird
I am rapidly accumulating lots and lots of bits of paper. And half-finished cups of tea. I was originally working on using Amazon's self-publishing (Kindle Direct Publishing) facility but as my book really needs to be printed - it's a logbook so you record your sightings - and it needs to be smaller than the … Continue reading Book Planning and a New Bird
New Project
I taught myself to paint with gouache when my son gave me a Windsor & Newton starter set for my birthday in 2017. I was kindly given a large roll of paper offcuts when I visited Jealous Gallery in Shoreditch, and because it was the cut end of their screen printing paper 29cm wide, I … Continue reading New Project
Jennifer Moore Artist 