Showing posts with label Tea Party. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Tea Party. Show all posts

Saturday, March 6, 2010

Tea Party Tilt

Here Alice is the Ghost in the Machine. All amusement parks, even the tiniest (I worked at one once for a summer job) seem to have the Alice teacup ride.

I'm thinking about doing some fairly simple papercuts for Alice and have been looking at the beautiful work here.

....and here there be dragons.

Friday, March 5, 2010

The March Hare

Here's another Tea Party participant. Just watched the 1966 BBC Alice in Wonderland last night, I am going to try to get a drawing of Alice and Peter Cook's Mad Hatter done in the next day or so for my movie couples series. Will save my thoughts about the film for that post.

For those of you who haven't done the blurb publishing thing, it's a hoot. I have a background in design and am having a lot of fun, design has elements of both language and visual art, but one is always trying to make it invisible, to let the work speak, so it is very restful. I'm finding myself sort of excited about the limitations, the gutter in the center and the right-hand edge of the two page spread. Makes me want to do something with the famous Oscar Wilde quote, "We are all in the gutter but some of us...."Any ideas?

One blogger who has used the blurb software is Tom at Half Moose with a Twist. His Post modern nonsense verse with illustrations is on blurb here. And happy birthday to the captain of the astronave.

Thursday, March 4, 2010

Too much Tea?


Alice never actually drinks any of it, so she does not feel its effects. I wouldn't want to give mine up, though.

Asja in Wonderland on flickr

Tuesday, May 19, 2009

Alice in Wonderland/The Tea Party

"Have you guessed the riddle yet?" The Hatter said, turning to Alice again.

"No, I give it up," Alice replied, "what's the answer?"

"I haven't the slightest idea," said the Hatter.

On the table on the left you will see a little cup with two Kate Greenaway children - this cup (with its saucer) survived the Oakland Hills fire of 1991, one of my parents' few possessions to make it through. It shows some additional cracking of the glaze as a result.

This is the image for August in the 2010 Wonderland Revisited 2010 Calendar.