Friday 24 March 2017

The big blue teapot

This is my big blue teapot. It really is quite a big pot, and I haven't used in about 15 years. I bought it when I spent a year studying in Stockholm. Me and my friends used to spend a lot of evenings together, and whenever we met up in my room, I used this pot to make tea for us. So it has huge sentimental value, and that's why I've been hanging on to it. For 15 years. But I never use it, and I've been doing a lot of clearing out in my home, and I've decided that it's time to let it go. But before it goes to the second hand shop, I'm drawing and painting it with different mediums, so I'll still always have it with me, in my sketchbooks. The first one was done in oils. I intended to work some more on it once this first layer was dry, but now I think I'll leave it like this, as a sketch.


For the second one I used coloured pencils, in my Hahnemühle D&S sketchbook that I just finished. It has great paper for dry medium, and I enjoyed working in it, trying out different mediums. But I have to admit I did miss being able to use watercolours.


I started a new sketchbook this week. I'm back to a Seawhite one, the same that I used before the Hahnemühle. The paper takes watercolour well enough to serve as an alround sketchbook, but what I really like about it is, that it quite thin. It only has about 45 pages, which makes it about half as thick as the Stillman and Birns, and about a quarter of the Hahnemühle. With all the notebooks, journals, sketchbooks, books and various pencases I've been carrying around lately, my rucksack has become ridiculously heavy, and as consquence, my shoulder has been aching like mad again. So this thinner, lighter sketchbook comes in very handy.



And after all this blue, here's a bit more colour. I found this Stillman & Birn Beta sketchbook, that I started in 2014, but only filled four double pages. It's about time to finish it. I just grabbed the first pen that was lying on my desk, a lovely fountain pen filled with brown ink, which I thought was Noodler's Brown, a water resistant ink. As it turned out, it wasn't, but instead a water soluble ink, which created a bit of a mess. Or an interested effect, if you choose to look at it in a more positive way. The radishes were delicious anyway.


15 comments:

  1. Love your blue teapot in all versions. Happy PPF, hugs, Valerie

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  2. well I just love what happened with the radishes. In fact, it makes me want to try that. Now I have to go buy a soluble brown pen, lol. All you fault that I need to go shop in an art store. I'm blaming you. ;o)
    Your blue tea pot is especially beautiful, I think I'm gonna have to paint my own big tea pot. It's new gamboge yellow and we bought it last year because of the beautiful bright yellow color of it. I can't believe I've waited until now to paint it. Thanks for the inspiration and I really do LOVE your teapots. You should do a study in blue teapots for your wall in all different mediums, oil, watercolor, blue pencil crayon, pencil, ink too. I think it'd look fabulous and it would hold such great memories every time you saw it. Happy PPF!

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  3. super art projects! I like how you're preserving the memories of the blue teapot. And the radishes are wonderful! Happy PPF!

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  4. Stunning art with memories attached...lovely, too~
    Happy PPF!!!

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  5. You'd never know there was anything accidental about the radishes!
    What a great idea to do a series of paintings and drawings of your blue teapot before it leaves you. Maybe someone else will feel as sentimental about that teapot in another 15 years and have stories to tell. :)

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  6. Beautiful art this week. I really love the oil painting. Well done indeed.

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  7. You can't beat a nice pot of tea any day of the week. Love your journal sketches and the finished painting! Happy PFF

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  8. Fabulous paintings...may I suggest to print out the story of the teapot and tape it, or modge podge it to the back of the oil painting so it never gets lost!! Love this post and the sentiment behind it!! Bye bye teapot!

    Hugs Giggles

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  9. Your teapot versions are all so wonderfully painted. I'm sorry to hear about all that heavyweight that needs to be carried around these days... and in young children as well.
    I love how your radishes turned out - so good, and so inviting! Well done :D)

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  10. I enjoyed seeing your different teapot versions. You are incredibly talented. Wow! I just found your blog and look forward to exploring it and seeing more of your art.

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  11. I would keep the teapot and use it as a vase for flowers! I think it would look really quirky! And you have painted it beautifully too :0)

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