The Moon Balloon

This piece follows a young girl, Eleanor, as she makes her way across the Pacific in the Moon Balloon fashioned for her by Artemis. On her journey she sees many wondrous things above and below, guided by her dead man’s compass — which points in all six directions — and her most precious possession, a telescope made from star glass. In this scene she spies Geronimo, the Last Pirate, and weighs the cost of helping him unmoor his ship from the jagged rocks below.

The original ink illustration was completed using a stippling technique, building form and depth from small dots.