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This work reflects my impressions from Lewis Carroll's classic tale "Through the Looking Glass".
The box depicts Alice who sits in the wonderful garden surrounded with roses and lilies, and holds the smiling Cheshire Cat on her palm. May be at this moment she ponders what the world is like on the other side of a mirror's reflection. This magic world is painted inside the large mirror, and Alice is able to step through the mirror to an alternative world, the Looking-Glass Land.
The scene is painted in delicate pink and violet tones that help to reproduce vividly a magic atmosphere of the tale. In some parts of the composition this violet-pink palette is mixed with silver powder to create a sparkle from within. The fantastic world of the Looking-Glass Land is painted over mother-of-pearl inlay that shines with a variety of undertones. Mother-of-pearl inlays that shine brightly with green and blue undertones can be found in the flowers painted in the foreground and in the bows that decorate the girl's hair. Gold powder is used to highlight the flowers, the tree and the frame of the mirror.

Description
This work reflects my impressions from Lewis Carroll's classic tale "Through the Looking Glass".
The box depicts Alice who sits in the wonderful garden surrounded with roses and lilies, and holds the smiling Cheshire Cat on her palm. May be at this moment she ponders what the world is like on the other side of a mirror's reflection. This magic world is painted inside the large mirror, and Alice is able to step through the mirror to an alternative world, the Looking-Glass Land.
The scene is painted in delicate pink and violet tones that help to reproduce vividly a magic atmosphere of the tale. In some parts of the composition this violet-pink palette is mixed with silver powder to create a sparkle from within. The fantastic world of the Looking-Glass Land is painted over mother-of-pearl inlay that shines with a variety of undertones. Mother-of-pearl inlays that shine brightly with green and blue undertones can be found in the flowers painted in the foreground and in the bows that decorate the girl's hair. Gold powder is used to highlight the flowers, the tree and the frame of the mirror.