This is yet another challenge painting from http://www.dailypaintworks.com/ This one happens to be right up my alley. I have been painting teacups for years. My husband even calls my artwork teacups and fruit. I was thinking back to what made me first want to paint teacups and I think it was back in '97 when I was going to Northern Michigan University and taking blacksmithing classes. My professor named Dale Wedig showed us slides of his work and he had made a sign for a restaurant using different objects for each letter. One of the letters had teacups and saucers stacked on top of each other and probably had a metal rod running through the middle and they formed a letter. He also had a chair with the back of it being made of 2 long drill bits maybe almost 5 or 6 ft high and at the top he had a teacup with steam rising off the top that he had cast out of metal. He is a wonderful artist. A show of his I went to had so many great sculptures but one that stays in my mind is an old metal percolator he turned into a rooster. You can see some of his work online. He still teaches there. Now he is making beautiful fish out of different objects such as metal strainers, spoons, and pie tins. That university has a fabulous design program if you can stand the upper peninsula snow.
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