I recently did a painting of a whirlpool for Porter Mill's special "Moby Dick" exhibit, currently on display in the lobby. A recent email from Porter Mill announced that there will soon be a show based on Alice in Wonderland. An idea came to me right away: a quotation about the mad tea party and a painting of teacups and saucers. I sketched my idea right away (posted on September 14th). Today I am posting my second pencil sketch on paper, a revision of my original idea. I am keeping the idea of nine squares, but simplifying to one cup and one saucer per square, uniform shapes, but changing direction. The idea is bright colors, painted flat or nearly flat, like a color-field painting, but changing colors in every square. I want to convey the craziness of the madcap teaparty. I was trying to figure out the color scheme to make sure the colors would work in each square but then decided to just go with a random sequence. So I came up with nine colors* and then started numbering, first cups, then saucers, etc. I thought that the Mad Hatter would approve of this crazy idea, and that made me smile. Next step: Trying out the color scheme.
*The color scheme appears at the bottom of the image, but will not be part of the actual painting
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