Tea Leaves
Why Tea Leaves? Stay tuned! But first, here’s a warm and colorful welcome. If you’re new, know that this is a place where I share colorful paintings and adventures each week.
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OK! Here’s this week’s painting in progress. It’s painted in oils on Arches 12″x16″ paper.
Tea Leaves Meaning
Why name this work “Tea Leaves?” ‘Cuz that’s what I see: lots o’ leaves and that nifty tea mug. Regular readers may recognize the mug (made by yours truly when I was a potter) as it was in this painting a week or so ago. I love that color combination of warm, toasty brown with a deep, blue-ish green!
“They say” tea leaves help tell a person’s fortune. Given the current (mayhem) world in which we live, I think I”ll skip forecasting the future.
How are you
Are the tea leaves telling you anything new? Here’s hoping you’re aok? I would love it if you shared your thoughts, colorful ideas or even summer musings in the comments below.
4 Comments
Beth Dyer Clary
May 15, 2025This makes me smile – the art and the words! I love the combo of colors too.
I’m thinking a lot about forests and am trying to remember if you’ve painted a grove of trees, a copse of trees any cluster of them? I look out my west-facing window at the forest fragment and think it would be so challenging to capture all the shades of green and different shapes of leaves and tree trunks. Because of your great sensitivity to color, I wonder if you might some time paint trees or remind me of a painting you’ve done of trees.
We call the spring opening of tree leaves around us the “dropping of the great green curtain” It is not fully unfurled yet but very close. (Those Black Walnuts are the last to open their leaves around here.) When we go outside we feel a comfort and privacy provided by the “great gree curtain” which we’ve come to love!
Julie Holmes
May 15, 2025Hiya Beth!
Yes I love painting trees when the weather permits. Ha! Here’s one I particularly enjoyed painting about a year and a half ago. It’s called Beyond Ideas.
I have never heard the expression “dropping of the great green curtain.” Those words describe the experience of moving from spring and whispy pink blooms from Red Buds to the … well… dropping of the great green curtain! Here in NC we have been surrounded by the beautiful curtain for about two weeks. It’s delightful.
TY for looking, reading and writing here! xoxo
Kathy Michaud
May 15, 2025Hi Julie,
Is there anything more comforting than a cup of tea- especially in a handmade special mug?
It’s almost as if the busyness of the background gets left behind in the warmth of the brown and blue mug. Nice painting!
Julie Holmes
May 15, 2025Hi Kathy,
Isn’t afternoon tea in a handmade mug just the best? Ahhhh! I’m glad you enjoyed this week’s painting enough to share your wonderful thoughts! Thank youuuu xoxo