The guest-posted Diva Challenge this week is to Bring Your Own Beverage. And what a delight that invitation is - it feels like permission to be a child again, to play with my food, to make a mess, to make things up as I go along..JPG)
I'm English - I bracket sections of my day between cups of tea. I don't have blue blood but significant traces of tannin surely run through my veins. The first cup of today, we save a teabag. I plonk it down on a round of paper - once, twice. It makes strange rose-like imprints - ghost roses, or fading photos of continents long lost beneath the seas. I squeeze three drops and let them sit before running them off the paper - far more Miss Marple than Jackson Pollock. And finally I tear open the bag and scatter some leaves on the paper. Later it is dry, I brush off the leaves and take up my pen - ready to read my own fortune in the patterns left behind.The bag-printed rose islands seem too precious to overload with tangles. I decide to merely aura them and anchor them with a stem. A cluster of Pozer works well over the leaf-tinted area. I think of how the touches of colour look like real-flowers, the way nature does random so well. And those drips turn into wonderful Zingers - if you could shake them you would hear them rattle - dried and full to bursting with seeds ready to fall and grow next year's dreams. A little border to hold it all in place and I'm done. I sit back and sigh and feel as if I've just enjoyed a good cup of tea.
This is a lovely tile, and great choices of patterns. I love the shapes the plunking on the tea bag made!
ReplyDeleteReally like the way you've incorporated Zinger into your stains. This would make a really nice coaster if it was laminated!
ReplyDeleteAbsolutely beautiful. I love how you simply outlined the areas where the tea bag plopped down. :)
ReplyDeleteAwesome tea journey you made. Love the flowerish theme you gave it and the teabag roses are awesome. I don't know pozer but looks great so I look that one up and try it myself. Makes a great filler.... Thanx for sharing
ReplyDeleteLove this entire Tile. Beautiful patterns. Very creative approach to creating your stain pattern. The boarder pattern is perfection. The uniformity of each element is astounding.
ReplyDeleteWow. Beautiful tile :)
ReplyDeleteGreat tile! And I loved reading about the process.
ReplyDeleteWonderful tile! You tied all the tea stains together beautifully into a small English garden!
ReplyDeleteI enjoyed reading your journey to this finished tile. All those different ways to use a tea bag. Who'd have thought? I love the completed piece.
ReplyDeletebeautiful way to incorporate your stain and a lovely final picture. I'm going to try some of your methods, as I am having tremendous problems. Thanks.
ReplyDeleteLovely... JUST LOVELY... very creative in all ways.. Love, Light and Peace..Bonnie
ReplyDeleteThis zendala is so very beautiful, what tea can do .....
ReplyDeleteA wonderful tile! Lovely idea your stain and a wonderful result in the end! I like it a lot!
ReplyDeleteTwo pieces of art for the price of one - first, your artwork, and second, the way you tell its story. I very much enjoyed my visit here. Thank you.
ReplyDeleteThat thud was my jaw hitting my desk - sigh!
ReplyDeleteThat thud was my jaw hitting my desk!
ReplyDeleteImaginative way to incorporate your beverage stains. Like the organic theme you created.
ReplyDeleteThis is great! I love the different shapes from the tea and you incorporated them nicely into your artwork. All very nice.
ReplyDeleteGorgeous!!! Love how it turned out!
ReplyDeleteWhat a clever and interesting abstract pattern and I was fascinated to read how you made it.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful. So clean and expressive. The matching between the stains and drawing - simply perfect. Beautiful art work
ReplyDeleteWell I'll be ****! Zingers! Your narration is always a joy and I saw islands and roses too..great minds eh? :D xx
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