Alice and Dinah Zentangle Print

I have always loved Alice in Wonderland, since I was a very small child (1970s). She has just always been a character I could identify with, as my world during childhood was very upside down and confusing. When my college drawing instructor gave us an assignment in zentangle art, I decided to do mine centered around Alice. I feel like this illustrative drawing brings a touch of surrealism with the strange pond and fish, and Beetlejuice with all those black stripes into the Alice scene. I feel like that gives it a fun aspect. The isolation of color to be only on Alice, herself, shows that she is the only thing that is real, in the image. As I was in a college drawing class at the time, the medium of paper and some kind of drawing instrument was required. I loved working with colored pencil in that class, and I wanted some color to be somewhere in this image, but I also knew that if I added color to the whole piece, it would mute some of the striking aspects of the black and white, so I decided to be selective about where the color placement would go.