This is my teabag art for today - Cactus painted in Watercolor

This is my teabag art for today.  This is an unused tea bag that has been primed with gesso and then painted exclusively with Shinhan watercolors.  The details were added with a black permanent ink pen.

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 tea bag art for the 15th of May of a Sea Turtle titled "Patience"

This is my tea bag art for the 15th of May of a Sea Turtle titled "Patience".

This one I painted in memory of a wonderful professor and friend to my son.  My son is getting his Master's Degree in Marine Biology and he and his sponsoring Professor went to Costa Rica to study the Sea Turtles as this is the project my son wanted to research and do his dissertation on (and would love to spend his career researching and saving these wonderful creatures).  His professor ended up getting a terrible infection in a cut on his foot while there and died several months later from complications from the infection.  He was only in his 40's and my son was devastated.  This painting is a tribute to this wonderful man.

10 May 2018 Tea Bag Art for the day titled "Small Things"

I'm really having a wonderful time doing the tea bag a day art.  I challenged myself to do a tea bag art everyday this year - even if I don't manage any other artwork for the day.  This used teabag did not get any paint at all, just little bits of painted and stamped muslin, bits of twine, bits of painted canvas and pieces of chipboard.  I then took it to my sewing machine and sewed the leaf pattern down the front.  Hope this inspires you to create!  Thank you for looking!

Cheshire Cat from Alice in Wonderland painted on a Used Tea Bag, Tea Bag Art

I had come across several people that had done artwork on used tea bags.  The most impressive to me is Ruby Silvious.  She does the most beautiful paintings on tea bags.

I have set myself a challenge to do a painting a day on a used tea bag.  This painting was done with gouache and watercolor and then outlined with a black permanent ink pen.  I did some shading with my prisma watercolor pencils and some highlights with my white Posca Pen.

Hope this gives you inspiration!!