hansel+gretel

this is a painting i did for ilustration, based on Through The Magic Door by Arthur Conan Doyle which talks about how books are like portals to a fantasy world free from the constraints of reality.
In my illustration of this text I looked at how the process of reading is like a journey. Physically from the front of a book to the back, and how this is projected into the readers mind taking them from reality and drawing them into the story.

so the painting is of a pop up book of hansel&gretel and iv shown the journey aspect by having the 2D forms of the popup book become 3D as you get further into the composition.