The occasion was one of my favorites: we met at Aleli's house for sketching and a fabulous tea party. She made lovely tea sandwiches, with the crusts trimmed and everything. We had flower tea, wine, all sorts of treats, and then she said we could take home the cup that we sketched.
While sipping, munching and listening to
half a dozen conversations, I had been languishing with my pen,
sketching the cover of a book about tea by Mary Engelbreit (of "Life is Just a Chair of Bowlies" fame).
I dropped THAT project like a hot scone when I realized I didn't even
have a sketch of my favorite teacup! I quickly got enough of a sketch
done to qualify for the prize of taking my cup home. Whew! But I barely
had any color on sketches of anything else except for the sandwiches and
three grapes.
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| I finally finished the color on this one today! |
So that's where the "tea-dious" bit comes
in. Mary E., I love your work and respect your talent, but all those
tiny details, dits, dots, cups, flowers and bees everywhere! That cover
for your book about tea must have taken ages! It certainly did for me!
And I fudged a bit.....no need to worry about copyright infringement
here!
PS Sorry I missed today, sketchers. As you see, I was with you in spirit!
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