"Tea Anyone?" Final book illustrations

This is my final book inside illustrations complete! I am really happy with how the pages have laid out and the mixture of reportage and narrative illustration. 

(centre page with 3 way folding tea cup stack on left)

With thanks to all those who responded to my Tea Appreciation Society post especially Jo Maynard and Misty Hunter, Biddy's Tearooms Norwich and the fantastic Norwich Castle Museum teapot collection.

Tea obsessed

I'm trying to think of how I can represent the obsession and passion people have for tea, and from some of my email responses and interviews I have comments of people collecting teapots and drinking huge amounts of tea. These illustrations are in response to the text beneath them. I like the idea of having the teacup stack as a fold out page in my book. 

"I particularly love creepy owl teapots"

"I can drink up to 20 cups a day!"

Tea infusion

These are my illustrations in response to the infusion photographs I previously posted. I wanted to play around with how to represent the tea infusing in the water using ink and watercolour. I am happy with the shapes and different strengths of colour, these could potentially be finals for one of my book pages.

The process of tea

For my project on tea I wanted to find a way of representing the ritual of making tea and the difference in how people make their cuppa in my illustrations. Therefore I decided to photograph the process of infusing a cup of tea to look at the different colours and shapes that would appear and I think I can get some good illustrations from these photographs.

Photographs produced by Ashleigh Berryman

http://www.ashleighberryman.co.uk/

Tea cozies

In response to my Tea Appreciation Society post, Misty Hunter sent me photographs of the rude and funny tea cozies she makes at her home in America for her friends and family. I wanted to recreate the unique, homemade quality of her cozies so I used hand stitching on top of my drawings.

"It's Tea Time Bitches"

"This is Some Fancy Shit"

The ritual of tea

These are some initial drawings in response to people's emails to my post on The Tea Appreciation Society. I'm trying to play around with layering and composition. These drawings are created using watercolour, ink and pencil crayon.