Fearless Friday, Tea Party
Let’s have a tea party today!
Pick out a pretty cup!
The photo below, from Amber @Follow the Yellow Brick Road, was my inspiration
It looks complicated, but one step at a time makes it doable
I started with a pencil sketch,
sketching the bottom cup first and then adding the rest of the cups
There was plenty of erasing and adjusting as I went along
The saucers were giving me fits,
but I decided I would ignore them for now
and do an ink outline on the cups
I have a love/hate relationship with watercolor brush pens,
sometimes they work great and others, not so much
I began doing the pattern on the top cup with watercolor brush pens
and quickly discovered they weren’t going to blend out the way I wanted
I returned to traditional watercolor
I use a combination of watercolor tubes and pan watercolors
Now I was getting the soft blends I wanted
I always keep a color chart handy for reference
The intricate flowers and pattern elements are merely suggested with a few strokes
Painting the design on the saucers helped get them to look better
I put gold dots on the bottom cup and saucer to fill out the pattern
and added shadows
I used a black fine liner pen for final details
“Tea Party” 5″ x 7″ watercolor and ink, on mixed media paper
Tea Party is available in my Society 6 shop on 12 items
Tea Party Cutting Board, Canvas Print
Try something out of your comfort zone and have fun!
Be Fearless!
I will be joining these fabulous parties and blogs:
Meal Plan Monday Love Your Creativity What’s for Dinner?
Between Naps on the Porch, Make it Pretty Monday
Turn About Tuesday Celebrate Your Story, You’re the Star
All About Home/ Common Ground Follow the Yellow Brick Home
Tasty Tuesday Oh My Heartsie Girl Full Plate Thursday
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Jenna, a stack of lovely tea cups and saucers, does it get any better? Oh, how I love this! You are an amazing talent…Happy Friday!
thank you Pam, I really enjoyed doing this one 🙂
That’s fabulous! Amber should be very happy with the inspiration, and you should be quite happy with the results!
thanks Rita, it was lots of fun 🙂
I love floral teacups. This is beautiful!
thank you!
I have collected teacups and saucers for years and your print captures their delicate nature and colorful designs that have made me so enamored of them. Well done, Jenna. Another wonderful way to start off Friday morning!
thanks so much Rosie! Have a wonderful weekend 💕
I love teacups and yours are fabulous, Jenna!! Such pretty colors and designs. 💚🌸
thanks Patty Anne, this was lots of fun!
Beautiful! Love the wash of blue for the shadows! I predict it’s a best-seller 🙂
thank you Mary 🌷
Love this to the max! It’s darling. And a wonderful exercise, too. I might have to try this one. Teacups I do have!
This definitely was a challenge, but lots of fun, thanks Jeanie!
Your teacupstack is fantastic, Jenna! I love it! I admire your watercolors. Watercolor is such a hard medium!
Thanks RJ, this was really fun!!
This is so pretty!! Have a wonderful weekend!
Thanks Michelle, you too!
Very pretty. Each cup is unique! Well done!
Thank you Cyndi!
Beautiful – I love how you break apart things that look complicated, and make me realize that maybe I could actually draw something similar. I also enjoyed seeing how you shifted away from watercolor brush pens when they weren’t quite working without throwing the partially done picture away and starting over.
Thanks Sheryl, art always comes with lots of “happy accidents,” the challenge is to make them work for you! I really enjoyed doing these teacups, it was out of my comfort zone which is what I think made it fun…the hardest part was the basic drawing, getting the shapes right…I did a lot of erasing 🙂
I love this picture and I love tea parties.
Thanks Carol ☕️
Love the painting.
I LOVE how you get inspired and just go for it, Jenna!! Your teacup design is just darling and turned out so cute.
Thank you Kitty! I really had a lot of fun with this one, and of course I couldn’t help but think of you with all your beautiful tea cups!
Yes, your inspiration photo looks daunting, but you make it look so much easier with your tutorial. Visiting from OMHG Wonderful Wednesday.
Thank you Allyson, it was a challenge at first but then it was so much fun!
Oh, those are so gorgeous! Very very pretty and delicate. Great tutorial too!
Thank you, I had a lot of fun painting these pretty cups!
Your teacups turned out amazing!! I just love how you did this! The floral patterns you painted are so lovely. I have several teacups given to me by family. Some day I may try to paint them too. ❤️
This was a challenge at first for me, but once I got going it was really fun, I hope you trying it!