Alice In Wonderland is one of my favourite subjects to carve and this is one of many that I have done but the only one that is this large. Using a old damaged French dictionary and just over 4KG in weight, this book was part of a 4 book set that was about to be binned by the previous owner, no one wanted them and they just wanted them gone, so I had them. I have always been fascinated with the Alice in Wonderland concept but have more often related to The Cheshire Cat and the Mad Hatter ( calm and chaos ) than Alice herself and constantly find myself drawn back to this story again and again. Using illustrations from the two different Alice stories ( Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Alice Through the Looking Glass) using modern printed illustrations I have created this book carving and this time I decided to use watercolour on the illustrations as well to give it a different look referencing the colours from a vintage colour illustrated copy that I own. This carving is one of my longer projects with just over 30 hours of carving to create this art work.
