Sneak Peek into Wonderland
I honestly don’t know ANY artistically inclined person, who wasn’t at least slightly fascinated with Alice and her Wonderland. Surrealism taken to the max, with vivid images just begging to be transferred onto the clear piece of paper. I don’t know how many times I oogled striking black and white illustrations of the Alice book I had when I was a kid (darn, I wish I had it now…). And there are so many others out there, that just fuel your imagination with sometimes naughty, sometimes nice interpretations of the same elaborate dream.
I really like the “classic” black and white Tenniel’s illustrations as well as muted colors of Arthur Rackham’s Alice:
And of course, the always clever pop-up book by Robert Sabuda:
I believe @JaDoodles, my Twitter buddy, shared a link to this awesome Collection of Contemporary Alices:
…and reminded me about an old yellow paperback that I picked out of library “discard” box sometime ago. A few days (and miraculously un-busy nights) later, here are the first 4 of my Alice interpretation. Each drawing corresponds to the contents of the page. Let me know what you think 
Incredible artwork! I especially love your Cheshire Cat (he was always a bit too creepy).
I love so many Alice illustrations, both modern and classic.
This 2-color Blanch MacManus is wonderful http://www.flickr.com/photos/picture-perfect-designs-jewelry/3350496608/in/pool-1013614@N25
And this painting by Krista Huot is so beautiful http://www.flickr.com/photos/kristahuot/4155167405/in/pool-1013614@N25
Thank you, Heidi,
I like the painting too! And thanks to your links I also discovered this delightful Flickr group: http://www.flickr.com/groups/1013614@N25/ It’s all Alice all the way!!! Whoo-hoo!
I love your Alice collection – and so many I haven’t seen before! Your artwork is also wonderful – I love this style of drawing on the page!
On its release last year I couldn’t find much to fault Avatar on. But after watching Alice – the first serious CGI-dominated 3D film since James Cameron’s immersive motion picture – there’s now a glaring issue with it: the bar was set waaay too high. Previously the computer generated effects in Alice would have knocked your socks off, however in a post-Avatar world it significantly underwhelms. Not an overly fair statement for a film which has consistently beautiful and detailed images – take the awe-inspiring climactic clash which is set on a chess board-esquire battlefield for example – but you can thank Cameron for that. Once you get past the fact that Burton’s creation does not aim to achieve realistic environments or creatures and that the actors will never appear to be anywhere other than in front of a green screen, you are in good stead to enjoy the colourful animation for what it was intended for: pure, undemanding, trippy wonderment.