Time for Tea: Blocking

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.