Every now and again I get an
inquiry that at first makes me scratch my head as to how to proceed and when I
was first asked to make Its Still Life cups and saucers I did just that. It was
going to be a lot of effort painting smaller versions of my still life designs
on a cup and saucer and to be honest it sounded like a losing proposition in
terms of time and reward. I will say that I was willing to make the pots
because the customer is always right and I thought it would be nice to have the
cups and saucers to accompany the dinnerware that they already had. After
looking at the varying designs and thinking about it for a short time the
obvious finally became obvious, instead of painting still life decoration on
each I would make the cups and saucers look like they do in the actual painted
designs. The illustration is an example of the cup decoration that I decided to
go with, they are literally the three dimensional representation of the
cups/saucer designs that I paint on the pots. It may seem like I took the easy
way out of the laborious process of painting full still life designs but in the
end this novel approach to the cups and saucers go far better with the
dinnerware than I could have ever expected.
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