Tea Bag on an Olive Wood Board

Daily Painting Challenge - Day 24

Today I needed something simple to paint because I'm busy with other things over the next few days. Funny how simple is often for the best.

The little swirl in the string on the teabag was purely accidental and I'm so happy that the teabag cooperated and posed so nicely for me.

Now here's a dilemma I've been having with my title ... is it 'Tea Bag' (two words) or 'Teabag' (one word)? Most dictionaries have it as two words, but when you look up Tea Cup, it's always one word 'teacup'. That's the English language for you.
If anybody has an explanation I'd be happy to hear it.



(6 x 6 inches)
15 x 15cm approx
Oil on Gessobord 

Earl Grey

Daily Painting Challenge - Day 23

Same cup as yesterday, different perspective!
This cup is a useful prop for this birds-eye view as it has a little flower painted at the bottom, which helps create an appearance of depth.


(8 x 8 inches)
20 x 20cm approx
Oil on Gessobord   

Tea Bag and a Zazzy Teacup

Daily Painting Challenge - Day 22


One cup of tea leads to another cup of tea.

I wasn't exactly sure about the composition of this cup and with the teabag - and the square format but I painted it anyway.
I played around with the background with my palette knife, picking up on some of the colors in the cup and cloth.
I'm sticking with the square format for this challenge for simplicity sake.

The painting is quite tight in style on this one, but wasn't sure how else to attack that zazzy pattern!

And for those of you who are wondering what zazzy means:

Zazzy
Adjective:

(comparative zazzier, superlative zazziest)
(slang) shiny or flashy


(8 x 8 inches)
20 x 20cm approx
Oil on Gessobord  

Pomegranate and Raspberry Tea

Daily Painting Challenge - Day 21

Yesterday I got into a groove painting the swirly white and blue tablecloth, so I got straight onto another painting with the same cloth.
This is one of my personal favorites.
You can't go wrong with a cup of tea. Definitely firmly back in my comfort zone.

I'm two-thirds of the way through this January challenge!
It's been tough but very rewarding.
There was an update from Strada Easel yesterday that said there were still 500 people participating in the challenge. 

(8 x 8 inches)
20 x 20cm approx
Oil on Gessobord