I have finished stitching 4 more circus blocks, and should get them sashed and posted tomorrow. In the meantime, I thought I would share some more illustrations from this old coloring book.
Most of my coloring books from the 1930’s are very different from the other decades — they don’t have an overall theme and there are obviously several different artists included in one book. The styles vary wildly and some of them are pretty weird. This book had a few pages with Alice in Wonderland drawings which I thought were nice. These pages are very dark and brittle, so I had to take the book apart in order to scan it.
Almost makes me want to get the crayons out.
It is interesting to see how we are used to the ‘Disney-fication’ of stories. These illustrations are kind of ‘dark’ for a coloring book these days! Poor Alice is being pelted with metal projectiles!