On Oct. 18th, I continued to work on this painting for the "Alice in Wonderland" show at Porter Mill Studios. This piece combines a quotation* from the Mad Hatter's tea party with teacups and saucers. presented in a changing multicolored and random pattern, influenced by the "musical chairs" aspect of the tea party everyone moves from chair to chair. At this point, I had just completed the first coat for all nine colors. I wasn't yet worrying about precision because I knew I would need a second coat. My goal was to make sure that all the colors would work together. And as you can see here, in some cases, they did not. (For example, the light blue and the turquoise don't contrast enough.) So I would need to change some of the colors as I painted the second coat. And no, I STILL hadn't noticed two mistakes in the text: a missing quotation mark in the top row (after tea), and an incorrrect word in the bottom row (which should read "more 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. . . .
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