„Heidi“

An A4 coloured pencil illustration inspired by this section of Joanna Spyri’s classic tale “Heidi”.

‘On a clear sunny morning in June two figures might be seen
climbing the narrow mountain path; one, a tall strong-looking
girl, the other a child whom she was leading by the hand, and
whose little checks were so aglow with heat that the crimson
color could be seen even through the dark, sunburnt skin. And
this was hardly to be wondered at, for in spite of the hot June
sun the child was clothed as if to keep off the bitterest frost.
She did not look more than five years old, if as much, but what
her natural figure was like, it would have been hard to say, for  she had apparently two, if not three dresses, one above the  other, and over these a thick red woollen shawl wound round  about her, so that the little body presented a shapeless  appearance, as, with its small feet shod in thick, nailed  mountain-shoes, it slowly and laboriously plodded its way up in  the heat.’