Moustache Cup, Sketch 034

Posted on March 4, 2015 by treshabarger

Last year I came across the Moustache Cup Collection at the Bell County Museum. I was quite taken with the exhibit. Tea time was a serious business!

Our electricity went out this morning for just over an hour. I sketched this cup while sitting near the dining room window, which usually has a ton of natural light. This morning, however, there is heavy fog and visibility is limited to about 100 yards. This is how the cup looked to me in the fog light.

How it looked, in the fog light

I managed to find two moustache cups at an antique store, although I don’t think mine are really antique. It seems they were popular from about 1860 to 1930.

Moustache Cup

The mustache protector part of the tea cup

From a bygone era

Sketch 034: Moustache Cup

Playing Card with a Tether, Sketch 033

Posted on March 3, 2015 by treshabarger

What were they thinking?

Playing Card with a Tether, 1470-1480, South Netherlandish

Sketch 033: Playing Card with a Tether (from a set of fifty-two playing cards), Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Cloisters Collection, 1983

New and Improved!

Posted on March 3, 2015 by treshabarger

Just when I thought it was safe to use my color wheel, my instructor passed by and noticed the same thing I had noticed: the red-to-orange sections looked too much alike. Back to the color mixing palette. In the end, my instructor sat down and in a few minutes corrected the reds and oranges. So now I have a color wheel I can use as a reference. (Even a couple of the greens received a touch-up.)