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Alice in Wonderland — Ink & Watercolor Pictures

Posted on April 18, 2009January 2, 2017 by Martha

My younger sister, Mary, completed these fabulous ink and watercolor pictures in the 1970’s and gave them to my sister, Sally, and me. I have all four of them now and I hope Sally doesn’t ever ask for hers back. Mary used the illustrations by Sir John Tenniel from the original 1865 Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and the 1871 sequel, Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There. If you don’t have a copy of these books, the 1865 illustrations are available online here, courtesy of Project Gutenberg and the 1871 illustrations can all be found on Google images.

Mary spent hours reading and drawing when she was young. She and I loved to draw our own paper dolls — one of our favorite subjects was Pearl Pureheart, the girlfriend of Mighty Mouse. Even though Mary was five years younger than I, she was the better artist. She always kept a sketchbook and drew lots of pictures of her favorite characters. The Zeffirelli Romeo and Juliet and Dark Shadows were a couple of her favorite sources for portraits. I know Mary still has her sketchbooks, so maybe she’ll let me scan some of her drawings for a later post.

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
Mary Dellasega
ink and watercolor
12″ x 16″
alice-1

alice-2

Through the Looking Glass
Mary Dellasega
ink and watercolor
15″ x 23″
alice-3

alice-4

5 thoughts on “Alice in Wonderland — Ink & Watercolor Pictures”

  1. Mary says:
    April 18, 2009 at 11:43 am

    Wow! It’s fun to see these Alice pictures again. I must have been 17 or 18 when I made them; it’s nice that they’ve been kept so well. I suppose today it would be simpler just to enlarge the Tenniel drawings and use them like a pattern, but back then I had to try really hard to get the proportions just right (using trial and error and a lot of erasing). I think I did best with the Cheshire Cat picture.
    Thanks for putting them on your blog. I feel honored.

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  2. Becky says:
    April 18, 2009 at 3:10 pm

    Those are simply lovely!

    Reply
  3. Bunny says:
    April 18, 2009 at 4:43 pm

    Amazing! Mary’s drawings so so close to the original illustrations. These are beautiful; I can see why you have kept them!

    Reply
  4. Jan says:
    April 18, 2009 at 7:44 pm

    Really nice! I can’t imagine doing anything in ink!

    Reply
  5. Karen Beigh says:
    May 7, 2010 at 2:20 pm

    These are beautiful! The colors so soft looking.

    Reply

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