For three days Dorothy heard nothing from Oz. These were sad days for the little girl, although her friends were all quite happy and contented.
Chapter 17! Skipping around a little here. This is actually the very last drawing I made for the Oz book: I finished it last week and now the book is DONE AND READY TO GO VERY SOON. I’ve been posting art early on the Patreon.
Oz’s balloon from his story about his arrival, and the new one he and Dorothy make.
The balloon was by this time tugging hard at the rope that held it to the ground, for the air within it was hot, and this made it so much lighter in weight than the air without that it pulled hard to rise into the sky.
“Come, Dorothy!” cried the Wizard. “Hurry up, or the balloon will fly away.”
Dorothy and Oz.
I’ve tweaked Dorothy’s post-Winkie costume a little, and haven’t updated all of the art on this blog yet to reflect it. She gets a gold belt, to match all of the other gifts given to the party by the Winkies, and to have her dress match the shape of the blue dress she was wearing at the start. The belt is not in the text– she’s given a bracelet instead, but that’s too small to be legible as I’m drawing, and the belt makes more visual sense! I constantly get the sense that I’m paying way more meticulous attention to details like this than Baum ever did; there’s a looseness and a discontinuity sometimes in how he deals with the stuff.
Maybe the dress should appear green here, actually, because she’s in the City. Ok.