Time For Tea

by Lois Bryan

Title

Time For Tea

Artist

Lois Bryan

Medium

Digital Art - Digital Art / Photography Based Digital Hand-painting

Description

Most happy to announce that "Time For Tea" tied for first place in the 6/13/2023 contest "Fancy Cup And Saucer" held by the Wisconsin Flowers and Scenery group. Many thanks to contest administrator, Randy Rosenberger, and to everyone who voted for my image. Congratulations to the other contest winners!!

One of the things that makes holidays and family gatherings special to a lot of us is tradition. At least in my family, we like to go to the same family member's house for a particular holiday and we like to see the same yummy things on the menu. Even down to the same china and silverware on the table, we do love our traditions. Tradition brings back thoughts of childhood, of happy times, good memories of those who have gone on, and can be very comforting.

Recently my husband and I did the "downsizing" thing which we knew would throw our family's customary ways of doing things into a loop. How would the rest of the family react at the holidays? How would my husband and I ourselves feel about it when it came time to sit down to that big family meal in a totally different place?

Sometimes it's the little things that bring all the pieces together. The cup and saucer pictured here originally belonged to my father's sister, my Aunt Alice. She used these dishes every Thanksgiving during my childhood. Though I'm pretty sure the set isn't wildly valuable as a collector's item, it's very special to me. At about the same time I inherited the set, I also inherited the hosting of the big Thanksgiving family dinner. The dishes have never seen the inside of a dishwasher, so you can probably imagine the back-spasms I sometimes experience while hand washing these babies after the meal. But the extra work is worth it to me ... for tradition's sake.

And for the record, even though we were in a new place this past Thanksgiving ... I think all of us being together and keeping some traditions going made the holiday just as memorable.

This image was hand-painted, digitally, in Corel Painter using one of my own original photos (not from stock or public domain) as a starting point.

This image was not created using Artificial Intelligence / Ai.

Fine art purchases of this image as well as products will not include a watermark, and if I may make a recommendation ... this image will look its very best on the fine art paper choice of "picture rag."

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February 5th, 2016

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