I haven’t shared any work in awhile so thought I would share my Time for Tea Exchange. Please feel free to share yours here if you participated in this exchange.
I really loved this exchange. Not because I am a big tea drinker (because I am allergic to both coffee and tea.
But I wanted to try something different and I probably wouldn’t ever do it without the exchange as an excuse! I steeped a box of decaf tea in a big kettle. Then dried out the tea bags. I snipped the staple at the top and emptied out the tea (which I put out in the garden to help the soil). Once emptied I smoothed out each tea bag (which was now a long rectangle).
After a little trial, I discovered I had to spray a bit of hairspray on the tea bag to size it. Once I did that, it accepted the walnut ink quite well and also the watercolor. Once complete, I folded it back into a tea bag and stapled on my own tag.
The tags were cut from scrap pieces of my watercolor practice. I then decided to use brush and watercolor to do the quote. I am quite rusty but had a lot of fun working with the brush again.