Cuppa Round Up ....

Day 22 Jehanne @ Jehanne's Doodles

the Cuppa With Friends project I am doing in conjunction with ICAD is coming along

though I must come clean and say this week was a bit tougher

some weeks you just paint like crap and none of it comes easily

so even though the results are still there every single bloody card was a struggle

on one it was the card started to dissolve a bit under the watercolours

which wad the case with the card above... it took two goes to get it sorted

another day it was a super wet and miserable day so it just wouldn't dry and the colours ran

another was just a super busy day so no time, then I was too cold to think 

and on one shocking day I found the the house was devoid of chocolate

Day 23 ... Lisa Wright @ The Write Stuff

So the big question this Sunday morning was how to turn it around

I luckily found a stash of chocolate which I took as a good sign

then got in and cleaned and sorted the studio a bit, well cleared a path to my desk at least

and decided it was time to paint up the card I had been planning for Lisa Wright

I have had this photo of Damon from the Vampire Diaries above my desk

in preparation for Lisa's card as we are both sadly in lust love with Damon

 and we both watch the show and email each other after episoides to discuss his loveliness

totally embarrassing in women of our age, but he is just too sexy pretty to be ignored

so I spent a glorious hour or so painting him up and adding little cut outs of the painting I did of her tea cup... suddenly life is better

I used a lightbox to get all his features in place on some handmade paper 

because drawing people is my absolutre least favourite thing to draw and paint

and if I had had to draw him freehand he may have ended up resembling some weird creature

but after a good old fashioned perve and paint for an hour or so the world is set to rights

Day 21... Leigh @ Bead Original

I enjoyed doing this delicate cup sent in from Leigh

even though it is a touch wonky 

but it was painted without chocolate so I am cutting myself some slack there

and the one below was painted for Ken who I have known for 25 years

which is a bit freaky in itself but as it was his birthday on that day

  and he is a mad bridge guru and so it seemed that I was meant to paint it

Day 20 ... Ken Dawson

The next two were both done when I was short of time and I was super rushed

 but I was pleased with how they turned out and they were both such lovely mugs

that even the awful painting weather didn't annoy me too much

Day 19 Fiona Darling 

Day 18 ... Cynnie from Galerie 46

 The final mug for the week was from Alicia Araya 

and it gave me a few moments as the patterning was quite subtle,

but it was worth the moments of angst as it was just so lovely

Day 17 ... Alicia Araya

So there are the 7 cups and mugs from the week

and below are a few of the pages of the illustrated journal

which I am trying to keep as I am going along

have to say I am getting quite behind but after the injection of chocolate

and a better painting morning I am ready to attack and catch up some more pages ...xx

Links to my last posts ...

Whoopee Cushion Wars ...

Rice Paper Jelly Babies ...