Cups and Saucers (Alice in Wondersland project) as of Oct 17, 2024

On October 17th, although I was also painting mountains, I continued to work on this painting for the "Alice in Wonderland" show at Porter Mill Studios.  The multicolored teacups and saucers and the quotation refer to the Mad Hatter's tea party.  I continued adding colors.  The idea for a changing colorscheme was inspired by the "musical chairs" aspect of the tea part.   At this point, I was just putting down a first coat, to make sure all the colors would work together. I wasn't yet worrying about precision because I knew a second coat would be needed.  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. . . .