Teapots 10, 11, & 12

My little cha book is filling up.

Teapot no. 10 (210)

Watercolor and sumi brush pen in my handmade cha book.

Teapot no. 11 (211)

Paper cut outs glued into my handmade cha book.

Teapot no. 10 (210)

Green fountain pen ink (that looks aqua on the pink paper) and watercolored yellow spots.

Teapot 12 & 11 together

teapot nos. 8 & 9

Teapot no. 9 (209)
Sumi brush pen and watercolor in my handmade cha book.


Teapot no. 8 (208)
Fountain pen & colored pencil drawn inside my handmade cha book.


8 & 9 together in my handmade cha book.

View my newly started 100 Teapots Set 3.

post-it note art (including teapots 72-81)

Post-it note art (teapots 63-71)

teapot no. 61 & no. 62

You can see my growing second set of 100 teapots here.

teapot no. 40 x 3

Tonight I drew teapot no. 40 with my sumi Kaimei pen on a piece of brown paper bag and colored it in with Crayola crayons. The Japanese writing at the top of the page says nihon no kyuusu 日本の急須 which means "Japanese teapot". I modeled my teapot drawing after my friend ya ma's Japanese teapot photo. I like that particularly Japanese style of pot with the outstretched handle.

After scanning in the original teapot drawing, I noticed a crinkly line I didn't like (in the top drawing). I wanted to redo the scan to get rid of the crinkle, so I pressed down on the drawing with my hands as it scanned and got the middle version! That was a surprise. I hadn't expected to see my hands coming through the brown bag paper. The third version (bottom) is the result of pushing the magic "invert" button in my HP Photo Gallery software. Here are the first 39 teapots of my second set of 100 teapots.

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