Art Journal Inspired by Alice in Wonderland - The queen of hearts

Hello it's Diane, this is the final page of my Alice in Wonderland art journal where Alice meets the Queen of Hearts. A list of materials is included on my website how-to-be-a-bad-artist.com and I've included a link in the description area below. For this page I decided to use John Tenniel's original illustrations of the White Rabbit, the Queen of Hearts and Alice. I decided to paint the background in indigo and make it very simple. Here I'm using a large brush, then I'm dabbing with a tissue to create white areas. Then I'm using a sponge to add texture. I used white gouache paint to paint a very simple tree. Then used indigo paint to paint two more trees on the other side of the page. To create the White Rabbit I traced the original illustration with a pencil onto tracing paper. I turned the tracing paper over and went over the same line again on the back, and then flipped the tracing paper over again and placed it on top of the watercolour paper. I then went over the line again and this produces a very faint line on the watercolour paper. I use this line is a guide to draw the rabbit using a black pen. Next I used watercolours to complete the rabbit. I've included a list of the materials and colours that I've used on my website and I've included a link in the description area below. I repeated the same technique to paint the Queen of Hearts and Alice. Here I'm using white paint to go over the lines that I didn't quite like. I'm not entirely happy with Alice's hand but it will have to do. When all the characters were finished I cut them out with a craft knife on a cutting mat. I decided I wanted to have some hearts in the background and some flowers on the trees and this is a great way of using up your bits of scrap craft paper. Once you've punched out your shapes, use Distress Ink to create texture around the edges And here I'm using Indigo ink as well. These small playing cards are something I made from a previous project. All they are is card with check-patterned paper on one side and I've painted them and stamped them with hearts. And for the flowers, I glued the shapes together in layers. Here I'm using a sponge to add some leaves to the trees in the background and I'm also gluing down the illustrations, ready to add to the hearts, playing cards and flowers to the background. To add the flowers to the trees, I decided to pierce holes and attach them to the trees using brads. And here are the finished trees with the brads in place. Here I'm using watercolours to you add final details to the background. I added the playing cards with a brad and red embroidery thread. For more details visit my website how-to-be-a-bad-artist.com, or you can subscribe to my channel or leave a comment below. There's also a link to the full playlist of the other pages. Bye!