Back to work on the latest painting

The dish on the new painting

Prep for painting

My worktable is busy these days, I had to set some of the painting things aside to get some fabric cut. Any shirts I buy locally are too short so I've been cutting out squares for bands of patchwork to lengthen them. I'll cut the 3 small pieces of fabric that I bought (1/3 yard and 1/2 yard) and turn it all into a continuous roll that can be used as needed. That way it only takes up a few inches in the corner of my sewing basket.
While I was out shopping I also grabbed a few of the colors of paint I needed to paint good skin tones on those portraits. There are now 3 different ones in the works so it's all creating mayhem in the house because there are a lot of other projects going on here as well.
Someday I'm going to have to take another break and do some housework around here. I was so far behind on the dishes today that there was NOTHING to get a drink of water with.
I guess I'd better head to the kitchen-I hate that place!

Design concept for a new painting

You just never know where the ideas are going to come from, that's the great surprise that keeps me excited and headed back to work everyday. Today's inspiration was the reactions from people as I pulled different sets of teacups out of various places during the course of the afternoon at yesterday's tea.

I used to do paintings based on different dishes in my collection but now that I've been designing products for Zazzle I've decided to do a painting full of cups and saucers where I really let my imagination go wild and come up with as many of my own designs as I can. Even if some of the individual designs aren't successful the painting itself will look great in the dining room and pictures of it will make cute tea invitations or "Thank You's". 

No matter how it goes there is no downside to this project.