Description

A magazine artwork for The People’s Friend, by artist Gerard Fay

Illustration for a short story by the writer Alice Goulding.

Original Title: ‘The Clockwinder’s Daughter and The King’

Brief:

Plot: The clock winder’s daughter, Reenie, keeps the clocks wound until one day everyone in the village of clockwork people stops. As her clogs slow, Reenie remembers her friend, Leo. This is a sort of fantasy story set around the early 1800s.
Theme: Fantasy
Mood: Whimsical
Season: N/A

Characters description (inc. Ethnicity if relevant):

Wilhelm: is around 18 and dressed in the traditional German clothes of the time.

Scene to illustrate:

This will be a montage. We have Wilhelm in the forest. The background will be a large old-fashioned key and there are lots of old clock faces of different sizes. Just off to the side somewhere is a doll-like-looking young woman with blonde curls. Her eyes are closed. She is dressed in a traditional dirndl skirt and top.