My ‘Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland’ journey.

 

Some close up pictures from the poster I did for this blog hop, and a couple of embellishments.

    

For someone who has never read the book or seen the film this project was a bit of a challenge.  I had never been even tempted to find out anything about this Children’s Classic, so being invited to take part in the blog hop celebrating the 150th anniversary of its publication made me go out and investigate.  True I could have just done a quick internet search and found out about the basic story then done my own twist, but that’s not really me.  I am not a purist, but I did want to do something with the characters from the book before branching out into my own thing. 

Just imaging not knowing that it was the rabbit who had the lines ‘I’m late, I’m late, for a very important date.  No time to say Hello – Goodbye.  I’m late I’m late I’m late.’

Well that was me, 51 years old and I had no idea where that had come from.  Not sure even now if it is part of the book or the film.  Who made the film?  I don’t know. 

What I did discover on my journey was that the blue dress Alice is wearing in nearly every picture I have ever seen is not the colour of the dress she is wearing in the earliest coloured images I found.   She did however have a blue belt round her waist an a blue ribbon in her long brown hair. The dress?  Well it was an orange or brown colour.  Also the Cheshire cat?  Not pink and purple, but brown striped.  I do like him better pink