This was created by using masking fluid to write the words onto the paper and then painting the tea over the top of it so that the words will stay white when the masking fluid is rubbed off. I love this stuff.

I laid the tea over these several times to get the best contrast possible. I also like the way you can see the edges of the layers of tea on top of the others in dark edges and darker colours.

I'm not sure if I wanna go with 'Tea Time' or 'Time for Tea' so there's a mixture of both in this post. Of course, it could all still change.


Tried with a couple of other words too.



I dripped tea over this one and let it dry over night to make a nice dark colour with gradients for where the tea sat the longest as the paper bowed underneath it.

Tried drawing the clock face in using masking fluid but I don't think I put enough tea on top of this one as the contrast between tea and paper isn't really high enough.

For this one I just let the teabag sit on the paper for about ten minutes and then let the paper dry over night.

I painted over this using brown paint. I'm not sure why I tried this because it looks nothing like tea at all. In fact, it's a horrible colour compared to the nice gold-y colour of tea.

Too faint, too large text.

I like the range of colours in this one and how the words are quite small against the stain. It looks much more subtle and works for me.

Too faint.

Should have been Title Case and not just lower case.

Moving on from the previous post to play around with the circles left when you put your mug down on a piece of paper. I love the colour that the tea leaves behind on the paper, it's far more interesting than the plain white of the paper behind it. Or 'off-white' as this paper seems to be.

I like off-white as a colour.

I tried making the hands of the clock with the long edge of a large flat paint brush and with a small brush to make a smoother line I prefer the rougher edge of the larger brush thus far. Needs more work though.

-HJ x

Playing around with making tea stains in the studio as a substrait to work on instead of white paper. I've made some pretty interesting patterns, I quite like the circles and they could pander to my 'tea time' concept by forming the clock face. Time to make some more.

I don't even like tea.

-HJ