Dreaming of Wonderland

As you can see, I had a lot of fun with this project because I was able to take many artistic liberties!  To create the multimedia effect in this piece, I ripped up pages of old books into strips and glued them to the corners, and in addition to that, I took cards out of a deck and glued them onto my canvas.  The cool thing about what I chose to use as my multimedia is that they both have meaning that relates to Alice in Wonderland, the fact that she is "reading" a book in the first place when she sees the White Rabbit dash by, and the cards are representative of the the soldiers and the Red Queen [I made sure to include the Queen of Hearts ;)].  I painted the canvas first with orange, red, pink, and yellow tempura paint to create the effect of this dream-like sunset that Alice is engulfed in.  I then used the effect of photo transfer to place the images on the canvas.  Some of the varnish came off when I was removing the paper in the photo transfer process, leaving "holes" in some of the images.  The effect produced by this mistake was the concept that Alice was "dreaming" of Wonderland as the images and cards swirled above her.  To increase the visual presentation of this effect, I colored in the Chesire Cat/White Rabbit/Queen of Hearts/Mad Hatter/Caterpillar less than I did Alice to give them a sense of not existing in real life, and part of her dream about the fictional land of Wonderland.  Lastly, I added glitter to everything except Alice to make everything else look like it was in a dream!

Ok!  That was a mouthful, but I hope you enjoy this piece.  I had an amazing time creating it not only because I love Alice in Wonderland but because it also had an intricate meaning behind it :) 

xx, em

 

(left) you can see the 3D effect created by bending the cards and then hot gluing them to the board!

(top) The Chesire Cat with a small amount of purple and pink paint.

(left)  Drama!!!! Alice was my first photo transfer ever and she turned out flawless!  As you can see she is the Disney version and quite beautiful against the freshly painted background!  (this is before she got painted)

(right) Pieces of the book pages in a collage at the corner of the board.  In addition, a birds eye point of view of the 3D card which has been altered with some paint and glitter.

The Queen of Hearts <3

 (top 2) The finished product of Alice!!!!!!  Using small brush strokes, I tried to color her in just enough to make the difference between her and the rest of the figures visual.

(left) The Mad Hatter ladies and gents :) 

(right) Some more Queen of Hearts action and of course the White Rabbit!