Cups and Saucers (Alice in Wonderland project) as of Oct 31, 2024

On October 31, I kept going on this painting for the "Alice in Wonderland" show at Porter Mill Studio. The quotation*  is from the Mad Hatter's Tea Party, which also inspired the for "musical chairs" color scheme for the cups and saucers. I kept going back to this painting throughout the day.  This photo is the last one taken that day; it was already dark so this was photographed under artificial light which makes the colors look different.  At this point, I was going over some of the colors, but my focus had shifted to checking and rechecking shapes and measurements for consistency.  I used white paint to mark things that needed to be fixed, so you can see that at this point I was working on the elipses (circles at the top of the tea cups).  

*Here is the quotation:

"Take some more tea," the March Hare said to Alice, very earnestly. "I've had nothing yet," Alice replied in an offended tone, so I can't take more." "You mean you can't take less," said the Hatter, "It's very easy to take more than nothing.""

To be continued. . . .