“Toast and Tea” Teapot Wall Art

I recently made a trip to San Marcos, Texas to visit my dear friend Tracy Henry, poet and author of She Is Stranger Than Fiction and Geek Girl Gourmet. The two of us are hardly ever in the same 100-mile radius so we put together gift packages for each other’s birthdays and holidays. This wouldn’t have fit into most boxes I had anyway, so I waited until close to the trip to put it together.

One of Tracy’s characters, Tam Lenox, is a fan of tea (as are the both of us), so when I found this at Michael’s, I thought of her immediately.

Teapot wood cut
Craft Smart acrylic paint – yellow
Craft Smart acrylic paint – black
Folk Art acrylic paint – metallic champagne
Folk Art acrylic paint – warm white
Royal Court decoupage sealer/adhesive
Aleene’s spray matte finish sealer
1/4″ craft brush
3/4″ craft brush

For the base coat, I decided to go with a mix of warm white and metallic champagne, so it would give the colors a used later a warm feel but wouldn’t draw attention away from them. I chose yellow and black for the main colors because of the trickster imagery in Zohra Greenhalgh’s Contrarywise and Trickster’s Touch, two books we both love.

“Bread and water can so easily be toast and tea” is a quote I’d heard before and is pretty appropriate to both of our lives and situations as creative artists, so I elected to paint that on the teapot (and to put my cursive script skills to good use).

Once the paint was dry, I sprayed it down with the matte finish.

Tracy seemed pleased with her present. What do you think?

~ by blackmoodcraft on May 11, 2012.