Friday, October 11, 2024

Cups and Saucers (Alice in Wonderland project), painting as of Oct 11, 2024


Here is my painting as it looked on October 11th.  This is for Porter Mill's upcoming "Alice in Wonderland" show.  I began applying the first coat of color, beginning with hot pink.  There are 9 colors, and each color goes into 5 shapes, as you can see here: cup, outside of saucer, inside of saucer, elipse (inside cup) and background.  The cups, saucers, and  changeable color scheme is inspired by the Mad Hatter's tea part.  I also worked on the lettering for 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.""

And yes, I carefully lettered the mistake I had made. (The last three words should be "more than nothing," rather than "less than nothing.")  It took a long time for me to notice. . . .

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