At this point, I was multitasking big time. I continued to work on this painting for the Alice-in-Wonderland themed show at Porter Mill. The cups and saucers in changing colors are a reference to the Mad Hatter's wacko tea party, as is the quotation.* At this point I was beginning to apply a second coat of each color, starting with pink (cup number one) as you see here. I had already planned to modify a few if the colors quite a bit to get more contrast. But even the ones I was pretty happy with -- including the hot pink -- needed just a bit of white mixed in for the second coat, just to make them more opaque so I could get a smoother look. And I was concentrating so hard on the colors that I STILL didn't notice two mistakes in the text: a missing quotation mark in the top row (after tea), and an incorrect 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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