Cups and Saucers (Alice in Wonderland project), painting as of Oct 12, 2024

Here is my painting as it looked by Oct. 12th.  This is for an upcoming "Alice in Wonderland" themed show at Porter Mill.  My painting is inspired by the Mad Hatter's tea party, hence the teacups and saucers and the "musical chairs" organization for the color scheme.  The quotation* is also from the tea party.  The style is a nod to the flat colorfield painting that I did in college.  Because I didn't want to be trying to mix colors, I bought most of the colors premixed, individual tubes.  This turned out to have some drawbacks (more later), but at this point I was just laying in the first coat, one color at a time.  At this point, I still hadn't noticed the mistake in the quotation.  (The last line should read "more than nothing,", not "less than nothing.")  

Here is the quotation, as it should be:

"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.""