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The Tale Of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle
By- Beatrix Potter

I picked this story because I loved the idea of drawing animals and humans together! It also had cozy indoor scenes and lovely outdoor moments. Plus, the simple , sweet story was perfect to bring to life with illustrations

Cover design choice.

While exploring options for The Tale Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle , I chose this quieter, forest side scene for the cover because Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle felt more like a gentle , elderly character to me. Some of the other ideas felt too lively for her cozy personality

This little snippet painted the picture.

Once upon a time there was a little girl called Lucie, who lived at a farm called Little-town. She was a good little girl-only she was always losing her pocket handkerchiefs!

One day little Lucie came into the farm-yard crying oh, she did cry so! "I've lost pocket-handkin! Three my handkins and a pinny! Have you seen them, Tabby Kitten?” The Kitten went on washing her white paws.

I chose to create a full-page scene to help set the stage. I included the barn and the hens in the background to help with the continuity in the next scene.

This little snippet painted the picture.

So Lucie asked a speckled hen "Sally Henny-penny, have you found three pocket-hand kins?" But the speckled hen ran into a barn, clucking— "I go barefoot, barefoot, barefoot!"

And then Lucie asked Cock Robin sitting on a twig. Cock Robin looked sideways at Lucie with his bright black eye, and he flew over a stile and away. Lucie climbed upon the stile and looked up at the hill behind Little-town-a hill that goes up-up-into the clouds as though it had no top! And a great way up the hill side she thought she saw some white things spread upon the grass

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First paragraph illustration

I chose to illustrate the hen scene in this way to keep the barn visible in the background while bringing focus to the hen- it helped tie the setting together across ages . With the robin, I wanted to capture how nonchalant he might have

been, calmly watching Lucie even a she was clearly distressed.

I used vignette layout with a spot illustration to connect the two pages. The clothesline carries the scene across, leading from hanging laundry to the quiet moment of tea- creation a gentle sense of continuity.

This little snippet painted the picture.

And she hung up all sorts and sizes of clothes small brown coats of mice; and one velvety black mole skin waist-coat; and a red tail coat with no tail belonging to Squirrel Nutkin; and a very much shrunk blue jacket be longing to Peter Rabbit; and a petticoat, not marked, that had gone lost in the washing-and at last the basket was empty

Then Mrs. Tiggy-winkle made tea a cup for her self and a cup for Lucie. They sat before the fire on a bench and looked sideways at one another. Mrs. Tiggy-winkle's hand, holding the tea-cup, was very very brown, and very very wrinkly with the soap-suds; and all through her gown and her cap, there were hair-pins sticking wrong end out; so that Lucie didn't like to sit too near her.

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Inspiration for The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle.

A collection of few visual references that helped shape the world of The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle from cozy countryside countryside backdrops and rustic barns to animal companions and clothing deas that guided the look.