Cups and Saucers (Alice in Wonderland project), painting as of Oct 14, 2024

Here is my painting as it looked on October 14.  I am painting these cups and saucers for a special "Alice in Wonderland" show at Porter Mill..  The changing color scheme and multi-colored cups and saucers are inspired by the "musical chairs" aspect of the Mad Hatter's tea party,  where guests move around the table sampling (and not sampling) the tea.  I began adding one color at a time. (There are nine colors, and each color goes into five shapes: outside of cup, inside of cup, outer rim of saucer, center of saucer,  and background.)  This is just the first coat, trying to make sure the colors will work. (I was already noticing that the paint I was using was not opaque enough. . . )

The quotation is also from the Mad Hatter's tea party: At this point, I still hadn't noticed that I had made a mistake in transcribing 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.""

To be continued. . . .