Here is how my painting looked on Nov. 4th when I had to declare it finished, not because it was perfect, but because it was time to stop. I needed to put a wire on the back of the painting, label it, and get it ready to deliver to Porter Mill Studios the next day. (In fact, even after I took this picture, I continued to fix very small errors until it was time to put it in the car and drop it off. But like I said before, it is hard to make something simple look good.)
I painted this for the "Alice in Wonderland" show at Porter Mill Studios here in Beverly, MA. The basic idea came to me as soon as I heard about the show. The painting combines a quotation* from the Mad Hatter's Tea Party with teacups and saucers in a changing color scheme that evoke the "musical chairs" aspect of that crazy tea party, as guests move around the table for no apparent reason.
*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.""
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