New Tea Cup

Things have a funny way of ending up on my shelves of still life objects. Every morning I wait for the bus in front of a shop which sells collectibles. Last week they had an array of porcelain tea cups. I don't really use them for drinking but, this morning, their possibilities for still life painting were very obvious. I stopped in after work and bought a few! It seems the price of collectible tea cups has dropped drastically lately, making them affordable for my purposes!

Classical

The shapes and colours of this painting remind me of Classical Greek architecture.

Morning Light

Using artificial light can be very liberating as it allows me to paint at any time of day.

It can, however, limit the drama which can be achieved by using natural light at 

certain times of day. With this in mind, I intentionally created more 

contrast while working on this painting.

Toward the Sun

November Garden

As much as I hate to see all the flowers fade and die at this time 

of year, sedum keeps its delicate beauty for months.

Inktense Experiment

I painted this composition in my usual way and let it dry.

Then I brushed water over a couple of areas and scraped

bits of Inktense watercolour pencil into the water.

I like the effect but find it difficult to get the bits to go exactly 

where I  want them to!

Cold Remedy #2

This is the same setup as the one I used for yesterday's composition

 painted from further back. 

Cold Remedy

(Private Collection)

The theme for the Daily Paintworks challenge this week was "Hibernation".

Since we can't really hibernate and have to deal with winter in all its glory which includes

colds, I decided to paint the ingredients for a cold remedy. Lemon, tea and a secret ingredient!