Day 7

Watercolor teacup challenge - image 1 - student project Japanese cats on my teapot and cup.

Watercolor teacup challenge - image 2 - student project My last day of the teacup challenge and I chose a teapot and cup from my cupboard. The teapot of course was a challenge but the little cats on the lid and hanging onto the teacup were a fun addition!

Day 6

Watercolor teacup challenge - image 3 - student project This cup and saucer was hiding in the depths of my cupboard. I ended up using watercolor pencils for the red flowers.

Day 5

Watercolor teacup challenge - image 5 - student project

I pulled out an interesting cup to hold in your hand but maybe not so interesting to paint. The black was difficult to paint and though I tried to use masking fluid, I couldn't rub the masking off so I had to paint over it...

Watercolor teacup challenge - image 6 - student project

This is a tall teacup, good for iced tea, not only because it is deep but because it has a tinkling ball of some sort in the hollow ceramic base. When drinking the tea the sound is very refreshing!

Day 4

My beautiful Japanese tea ceremony cup for matcha tea makes a lovely addition to the Teacup Challenge!

Watercolor teacup challenge - image 7 - student project

I had some problems getting the green and red deep enough but the gold paint surely set the whole thing off!

Watercolor teacup challenge - image 8 - student project

Day 3

Watercolor teacup challenge - image 9 - student project Not a teacup but a coffee cup!

Watercolor teacup challenge - image 10 - student project

I had a very nice blue spotted cup much like Barbara's though it did have a handle. I ran into some problems of delineating the cup handle from the background in my bullet journal and I added some ochre color to the background there. Cheating?

Day 2

Watercolor teacup challenge - image 11 - student project

And here is my second tea cup. (I'm not sure how to add onto my project link here but I'm editing my first post...) Again, I had trouble with getting the dark orange color and especially the white spotches. I didn't have a grease pencil so I used a white crayon and added water color pencil circles but it wasn't too successful...

Watercolor teacup challenge - image 12 - student project My tea cup was holding some pot pourri (and actually I think this is supposed to be used as a rice bowl.

Day 1

My first tea cup! I used my own (is that okay?) and I found one in my cupboard that looked somewhat like Barbara's. I did a trial run in my bullet journal (that doesn't have water color paper) on the left and then did a repeat for "real" on the right. Watercolor teacup challenge - image 13 - student project The character says "spring".

Watercolor teacup challenge - image 14 - student project I didn't have an earthy color which stumped me a bit... I'll have to figure out how to mix the colors I have.

Tanya Watanabe

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