SALE! Start your year with EBSQ for just $6.50/month! Click here for details.

Put the Lime in the Mint Tea

by Shelly Bedsaul

Still Life Art Gallery

Search the EBSQ Online Art Gallery:

Gallery:
Find Art:

Thumbs

< Page < Item

1...
22,
23,
24,
25,
26,
27,
28
...93

Page >Item >

Art: Put the Lime in the Mint Tea by Artist Shelly Bedsaul

While working on the this, the tune "Put the Lime in the Coconut" kept running through my head. Fit my mood after finally seeing sunshine again and knowing this long winter was done. Time for ice tea and gobs of spring green. My technique, though time consuming, is simple. I start with a preliminary sketch in graphite. When my design is satisfactory, I ink the sketch, using a black, 05, pigma micron pen. I use Prismacolor pencils. Each area is a layering of about 5 different colors, going from dark to light, until the paper is totally burnished. Once the coloring is complete, I re-ink to make the line work a true black. It is then sprayed with workable fixatif to seal, protect and prevent wax bloom. Below are details of special challenges. Mint leaves and lime suspended in tea. Vintage linens. Sliced limes and wood grains.