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| © Jennifer Noel Bower 2012 - "Alice" |
Life is a wonderland if we but only open our eyes to it all.
I realize the more I OPEN myself up
the more WONDERFUL
LIFE becomes.
I am blessed with wonderfully supporting Blogger friends & SCBWI friends
who just continue to help me learn and grow!
A few of us have formed a critique group & then challenged each other to submit to the SCBWI-Carolinas Region 3rd Annual Art Contest.
Our challenge was to illustrate the opening 2 paragraphs of Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.
(I can't show it all but here is a sneak peek)
The most valuable lesson I learned was to own my process...I HATE sketchbooks!!!! There, I said it. My favorite way to work is on loose leaf & tracing paper. I find I hold my sketches as less precious which really opens me up to rip them apart until I get just the right image.
I also don't go into the painting process with super tight sketches...amazing magic happens when I allow the work to evolve even more in this stage!
Here is my sloppy copy sketch for Sunday Sketches!
A WONDERLAND of possibilities have opened up for me as a result of this project and the wonderful group of ladies that spurred me on.



