Inspired by The Wind in the Willows
Messing About in Boats
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The Scene
From The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame (1908), Chapter 1. Ratty opens the picnic hamper on the riverbank for Mole, and the list that follows is one of the great food lists in English. Here it is exactly as the book prints it, in one long word, curving round the hamper.
The Style
A soft English watercolour on plain white paper: light washes, fine pencil-thin line and lots of open space, like the nursery books of the 1900s.
The Inspiration
The look comes from Beatrix Potter's watercolours for The Tale of Peter Rabbit (1902): the soft washes, the fine pen line and the small animals at home in a garden. The hamper and the riverbank are my own.
How It's Made
A print of a digital artwork in the style of an Edwardian children's book watercolour, not an original. Each carries my printed Chapter & Scene signature.
Sizes and Frames
A4, A3 or 12 x 16 in, unframed or framed (slim pine in black, white or natural oak, ready to hang). Made to order on heavyweight 200gsm+ archival matte paper. Free delivery to the UK and US.
