At the start of May I started a silly project. For decades I have owned this black teapot. It is entirely unnecessary in my life because I don’t drink tea, or coffee for that matter. Tony doesn’t use it either, although he does drink copious amounts of tea. So why do I still own this teapot?
It has gone through several moves in Denmark, my move to England, and a second move in England. I think it is partly because I just think the teapot is pretty. But undoubtedly also because of nostalgia…
Anyway, my silly project was to make a daily drawing of the teapot for a month, at which point I figured that I would be ready to let go of the teapot.
Yeah, not so fast. If anything, I feel even more attached to this teapot. At this point I have been drawing it most days for almost two months. Not ready yo let go of it. Yet? And not done drawing it either.
I have drawn it from all angels, standing upright. But also lying in its side and upside down.
So now the plan is to draw the teapot for a hundred days. But maybe keeping going to 365 days. And i probably won’t be able to let it go by then either…
One thing I want to try soon is making an appliqué machine stitched textile version of the teapot. Perhaps I will make more than one and then turn those into a textile book.
It is interesting to look at the same thing, and then drawing it, many times. Some times I decided to do a more realistic drawing of the teapot, with proper shadows and highlights. But most times I make drawings like the ones in this post. The teapot becomes an excuse to play with colours and techniques and different media. The end result doesn’t really matter so much.
Something I have noticed is that I prefer the spreads where I have drawn the teapot multiple times, like in the photo above. They become a set of wonky drawings that go together. The overall effect of lines and colours become the focus, rather than the individual drawings. I really like that.
