Old Alice, In Wonderland Still.
This is a submission for Kelir, an Indonesian group of children books illustrators, to celebrate Lewis Carroll's "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" 150th year of publishing.
This is more of a tribute to the original idea of the story, so this one is not directly related to any of the famous scenes in "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland".
Here, I picture Alice as an old woman, enjoying a cup of tea under the famous "rabbit hole" tree, overlooking a scenery with familiar characters from the original story with (maybe) her grandson. I want to convey that she is still enjoying her own wonderland even at her later life.
I had a lot of fun with this one, as this is the first piece I digitally painted without using more than 3 layers in Photoshop. I also tried to paint a lot more loosely for this one - it was kind of meditative. :)
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Final Version
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Sketching phase
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Painting progress 1
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Painting progress 2
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Painting progress 3
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Old Alice
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A "Mad Hatter" boy - Alice's grandson?
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Alice's cheshire Cat
Thanks for checking this project out, hope you guys like it!