Grinning Cheshire

 

I love Alice in Wonderland.   As a kid I watched the cartoon series in French. (as I did most cartoons since it wasn't available on Dutch tv) But the new movies Alice in Wonderland (2010) and Alice through the looking glass (2016) are superb. I love a lot of the characters, but the Cheshire cat might be my favorite. 

This page started with leftover pink and purple paints. When I got a pot of crackle paste delivered via post, the jar was broken, so I decided to use some immediately and put it on these pages. After I drew the Cheshire's cat face, I decided to write a little poem I came up with a couple years ago when I was helping my daughter with a school assignment. 

Even after I bordered the page it still looked empty so I tried to draw some tree silhouettes with Tombow markers in different pink and purple colors. With the different colors I tried to make it look like some are far away and some closer by. 

I already made a page with an Alice in Wonderland character once, even in this Art Journal. Page #10 I didn't make a blog post about it, but I did post some pictures on Instagram. I'm sure more characters will follow in the future :)