Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland

As Tim Burton has always created movies that are quite strong aesthetically I've also been using his version of Alice in Wonderland as a reference point for much of my artwork. It brings in a slightly more imaginitve yet realistic version although I mostly used this to refer to the Cheshire Cat and the Mad Hatter.

Alice in Wonderland Disney

The Disney version of Alice in Wonderland is quite iconic in itself and perfect to use to bring the focus on the colour. I've used this as the basis for quite a few of my drawings, for example the pansies, by simplifying them further I think they created a bolder image that has a lot more impact. I also used this version of Alice when looking at creating images with typography and again this worked quite well because of the simplistic style, the words brought in the detail.  

 

 

 

Alice in Wonderland Illustrations

Since Alice in Wonderland is quite iconic in it's imagery I looked at different sources to base my own images on. The first were the traditional illustrations of the novel, however since I wanted my own work to be strong in it's colour I felt it was better to go for a more simplistic style.

 

Kelly Campbell Berry

Kelly Campbell Berry 3D Books

This is a very different method of book sculpting, and again given more time I would have liked to give it a try myself. However I like the idea of taking significant scenes from the story and using them to represent the story as a whole, especially as they tend to be more recognisable. Alice in Wonderland in particular has a few pivitol moments that are widely known, such as the Eat Me, Drink Me elements, the scene with the caterpillar, going down the rabbit hole etc.

Thomas Wightman

 

I found this artist on Tumblr and really liked his work, whilst I think trying anything with book sculpting may be out of my league given the time and materials available, however I really like the effect. His repetitive use of butterflies fits in with my body of work as I've been using this to symbolise the metamorphasis that is a central theme to the story. I also like the repetition of it and in using the pages of books incorporating the text into the work.

Nicole Andrijevic & Tanya Schultz

I saw images of some of Andrijevic and Schiltz's collaborative work and I loved the bright colours they used and their man-made landscapes vaguely reminded me of Wonderland.

These 'dreamscapes' have a very child-like look to them because of the subject matter, which is then furthered by the colours used. I've been trying to use bright and lively colours like this in my own work, as this seems to bring out the child-like attraction of it. The slightly montaged affect that pieces like the one below have is another thing that I've been trying to bring into my work, and works really well with these and brings it back to that child-like nature of distraction, moving on from one thing to the next quickly and sometimes without reason.

Pip and Pop

Metamorphosis

Metamorphasis is a central theme to Alice in Wonderland and quite a well known one to relate to it because of the appearance of the caterpillar throughout. Tim Burton uses this in his version of Alice in Wonderland when at the end of the film we see the caterpillar Absolum appear as a bright blure butterfly passing Alice.