Day 18 - A nice cup of tea and a sit down

[vilakins]

Today's entry for the naarmamo National Art Making Month challenge is number two in the Hot Beverage series and another hand-painted picture of a hand-painted cup - and teapot. The teapot is that shape because it sits neatly in the teacup when I'm not using it.

Hand-painted teacup and teapot



It's odd; it really didn't look right till I added the little white highlights.

My NaArMaMo 2007 Gallery is here.

Comments

[linda-joyce.livejournal.com]

Very good, I've got one of those sets at home, it looks like a cat. I'm off home today so that is a possibility for next week.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

I'd like to see it!

[linda-joyce.livejournal.com]

I'll give it a try when I get home but it will be a pencil sketch, I've come to the conclusion I need lessons before I do colour again.

[reapermum.livejournal.com]

Very nice, you're making me thirsty.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Do you take your tea black too? :-)

[reapermum.livejournal.com]

The only tea I normally drink is herbal. Though I have recently started drinking rooibos tea. Ordinary tea upsets my stomach. It's not an allergy, I don't think it's even an intolerence, I think it dates back to when I was small and a cup of tea coincided with being ill and I've never been able to enjoy it since.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

I have rooibos tea! Very nice too.

Yeah, there are some foods I can't eat because the same things happened to me: accidental aversion therapy.

[kalinda001.livejournal.com]

really do love your style...like the cup, this one makes me want to pick it up and take a sip...

the white hightlights do add something to it...makes it less flat

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Thank you! Yes, they add shine and depth.

I might make an icon out of this one too.

[kerravonsen]

I love how you got the colour and light of the tea.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Thanks! It's the right colour, but I don't think my attempts to make it look transparent worked.

[san-valentine.livejournal.com]

The proportions of each item are good, and your use of colour, shadow and highlights is excellent.
My only quibble would be that the cup/saucer and teapot are presented from different angles. The teapot is seen side on, while the cup is seen more from above. I wasn't sure if you were really aware of that.
Now read my first paragraph again, and feel better :)

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

The teapot is further away. That's how it looked to me. Try holding up a cup then moving it away from you keeping it at the same height; the angle changes.

OK, so I put the pot too far back. It fits in the cup so it's the same size.

[jaxomsride.livejournal.com]

I like it but the Cup looks a lot bigger than the teapot.
Those white highlights really make the China look real though.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

The teapot is further away.

[daiseechain.livejournal.com]

The highlights really make it. The teapot and saucer actually shine. Excellent work.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

[sallymn.livejournal.com]

You have lovely taste in virtual crockery.

And I now need... coffee (odd, I took after my parents and drank tea when younger, but once I joined the Public Service - coffee it became, all the way)

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

It's the same shape and pattern as my real ones!

I drink a lot more tea than coffee, but I have at least one coffee a day. and in the weekend Greg makes me cappuccinos. :-)