My teabag art for the day - my attempt at seagulls

My teabag art for today.  This was an unused teabag primed with clear gesso and painted with watercolor and gouache.  Details added with fineliner brush.

My teabag art for today.

My teabag art for today.  This was a used teabag primed with clear gesso and painted exclusively with gouache.  Details added with black ink pen

My teabag art for today is a momma Ostrich and her baby.

My teabag art for today.  This was a used teabag primed with clear gesso and painted with gouache.

My teabag art for today is a little boy

My teabag art for today is a little boy.  This was a used teabag primed with clear gesso and painted with watercolor and gouache.  Details added with Prisma Watercolor pencils and black ink pen.

My teabag Abstract art for today

My teabag Abstract art for the day.  This was a used teabag primed with white gesso and painted with gouache.  I used a stencil for the numbers and then added die cut numbers that were also painted with gouache and a piece of black thread wound around each one.  Some shading done with graphite pencil.

My teabag art for today - the colorful Houses/shops in Burano, Italy, the home of italian lacemaking

This is my teabag art for today - the colorful houses/shops in Burano, Italy - the home of Italian Lace making.  We saw a demonstration of the centuries old way they make this lovely lace.  Each lady has a 9 year apprenticeship to become an expert at one particular stitch.  It is then passed to other ladies for them to add their design until the piece is finished.  This was a used teabag primed with clear gesso and painted with watercolor and gouache.  Details added with black permanent ink pen.

My teabag art for today is the Statue of David In Florence, Italy

My teabag art for the day.  David is a masterpiece of Renaissance Sculpture created in marble between 1501 and 1504 by Italian artist Michelangelo.  david is 5.17 metre (17 ft) marble statue of a standing male nude.  The statue represents the Biblical hero David, a favored subject in the art of Florence.

I'll have to say that I didn't realize it was so tall, but the detail is unbelievable right down to the veins, muscle, bone structure and fingernails.  This used teabag was primed with white gesso and painted with gouache.  Details added with black permanent ink pen.

My teabag art for the day is the Ponte Vecchio in Florence Italy

My teabag art for the day:  The Ponte Vecchio is a medieval stone closed-spandrel segmental arch bridge over the Arno River, in Florence, Italy, noted for still having shops built along it, as was once common.  

Boy what shops it has!  There is so much jewelry on display it makes your head spin.  I love this place!  This was painted on a used teabag with a gessoed background and painted with gouache - a black permanent ink pen was used for the details.

My teabag art for today is painted on a used teabag - Paris and the Eiffel tower

I started a new series - these will be either of places we have been or things we have seen in places we have been.

Everyone recognizes this beautiful place even if they have never been there.  This is the Eiffel Tower on the Champ de Mars in Paris, France.  This used teabag was primed lightly in the middle with white gesso and painted with gouache.

My teabag art for today is part of my Africa Series - The springbok

Today's teabag art is of a Springbok - we saw these everywhere in Kruger National Park.  This was a used teabag primed with clear gesso and painted with watercolor and gouache.

My teabag art for today - inspired by a recent trip to Africa - Hippo

I decided to do an African series because of our recent trip to Africa.  This hippo was painted on an unused teabag and primed with clear gesso and painted with gouache and watercolor.  I added details with a black permanent ink pen.

My teabag art for today Using an Art Impressions Stamp

This was a used teabag that I primed with clear gesso and then stamped with ranger black archival ink and the Art Impressions Stamp UMM3176 and then painted with watercolor and gouache.  The text says "The simple things that fill our lives bring the greatest joy"

My teabag art for today - The eyes have it - painted on a used teabag with watercolor and gouache

My teabag art for the day.  This was a used teabag and I wanted the tea stain to show through so I primed it with clear gesso.  It was painted with ShinHan watercolors and gouache and I added lashes with a black permanent ink pen and white gel pen.  I referenced Jane Davenport's Beautiful faces book to try to get the eyes just right.

My teabag art for today - Margarita imitating the Tim Holtz/Stampers Anonymous Cocktail Blueprint series of stamps

LOL, my favorite drink - I have always loved the Tim Holtz/stampers anonymous blueprint stamp series.  I have this Cocktail Blueprint series on my wishlist - but even if I had it it would not fit on a teabag so I decided to try to duplicate it in miniature.

This is a used tea bag but some of the tea does not leave much in the way of marks when it dries - the tag is missing from this one but I believe it was Chamomile tea.

This one is primed with clear gesso and then I used gouache to paint the image - I used a white posca pen and black permanent ink pen for details.

My teabag art for today - Moths painted in gouache on a used teabag

My teabag art for the day on a used teabag.  3 Moths painted in gouache with a light wash of white gesso around them.  Details added with a black permanent ink pen.

My teabag art for today - Female figure following along with Jane Davenport "Fabulous Figures Book"

My teabag art for today - my attempt again at a lady - referring to Jane Davenports Book "Fabulous Figures (notice no hands and no feet, LOL, they always look funky - need lots of practice)  This was painted on a used teabag with a coat of clear gesso and gouache paints.

My Teabag art for today

My teabag art for today.  This was a square teabag and I added gesso lightly to the background.  It was painted with watercolors and gouache and then splatters added to the background.

My teabag art for today: Little Girl at the beach

My teabag art for today.  This was an unused teabag (I'm running out of used tea bags, LOL!  I should have started saving sooner!)

I primed it with gesso and then painted with watercolor and gouache and added some detail with Prisma watercolor pencils.

Today's tea bag art - Poppies

Today's Teabag art - Poppies.  I left the background tea stained but added some torn pieces of tissue paper with text to the bacground with Matte Medium and then painted the poppies with gouache.

Tea bag art for 24 May 2018

My tea bag art for today was inspired by a clothing tag I found in the yard when working in my front garden.  (I'm assuming it was from my Mother-in-law as it wasn't mine.)  I saved it thinking I would use it somehow, sometime and today I kept looking at it and thinking it would go well with a primitive folk art type of cottage so I painted this cottage with a combination of watercolor and gouache and then hung the clothing tag off of a piece of bamboo from an old bamboo placemat that had fallen apart.  I then glued it to the base of the tea bag.