12 January 2016

Grandma Williamson's girlhood china


The next Everyday Matters drawing challenge on the list is to draw a teapot. Rather than draw my daily use teapot or kettle, I chose to draw Bill's grandmother's toy china. The teapot looks a bit more like a coffee server in shape, but I'm calling it a teapot anyway. These mis-matched bits of hand-painted china rimmed with gold leaf were probably old when Grandma received them to play with as a young girl. She grew up to have only sons, followed by mostly sons in the next generation. Which probably explains why these are in such good shape.

6 comments:

  1. Beautiful sketches, Vicky, and I love the doilies! How fun it must have been for Bill's grandmother to play with such beautiful pieces.

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  2. Gwynn Krempasky14 January, 2016 16:45

    So pretty1 You've captured the delicacy of the china. Also love the doilies. Those seem as if they would be hard to draw!

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  3. Thanks! I used to crochet so the doilies' structure comes easy enough, using a white gel pen. If you look closely, the main areas are slanted mesh (simple cross-lines). Things like this look complicated but are really quite simple.

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