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Children's Literature Course Posterby `Laurazee

Traditional Art / Paintings / Illustration / Conceptual

Poster for Children's Literature Course - July, 2011
Acrylic on 90lb paper, 12" x 18"

This is an illustration for a course poster for a Children's Literature class. The title and theme of the course was Sense, Sin, & Suspense in Children's Literature and it was based on a Lewis Carroll quote from Alice in Wonderland: "If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense."

So the lovely little Alice-girl is reading a book and imagining her house turning into a bird and flying away. Imagination is the best part of childhood, isn't it? When you don't know it, you imagine it.

In the final poster version, I scanned and digitally edited the poster image so it was longer and had more space between Alice and the house-bird. Alice became much smaller and the house-bird much farther away to accommodate the text.

~eiri-yuki-sama Nov 30, 2011 Student Digital Artist

very lovely piece

`Laurazee Dec 2, 2011 Professional Traditional Artist

Thanks!

~Jose-Garel-Alvoeiro Nov 14, 2011 Hobbyist Traditional Artist

beautiful!

`Laurazee Nov 14, 2011 Professional Traditional Artist

Thank you!

*keight Nov 9, 2011

Nice evocation of the light and dark sides of imagination in children's literature.

`Laurazee Nov 12, 2011 Professional Traditional Artist

Thanks. The books taught in the course were fairly gothic (e.g. Alice, Coraline, Grimm). Children seem to get gothic-y darkness and appreciate it the aesthetics more than adults do.

~Oxyvia Nov 8, 2011

This bird isn't joyful, he is rather threatening...

`Laurazee Nov 8, 2011 Professional Traditional Artist

Works for the course theme, I guess. Imagination can also be terrifying. Monsters under the bed and such.

~Oxyvia Nov 12, 2011

Yes, I know, I remember so many monsters from my children's room.

`Laurazee Nov 12, 2011 Professional Traditional Artist

Yep. My son's imagination never fails to impress me when he tries to explain his nightmares. I'm always like, "How'd you come up with THAT! Now *I* can't sleep, either!"

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