The Art of Tea Bag Painting
Sharing on Social Media
A course by Ruby Silvious , Graphic Designer and Visual Artist
About the video: Sharing on Social Media
Overview
“In this lesson, I will look into the steps to follow to share your finished painting on social media.”
In this video lesson Ruby Silvious addresses the topic: Sharing on Social Media, which is part of the Domestika online course: The Art of Tea Bag Painting. Explore watercolor and gouache to create miniature paintings using the emptied-out tea bags as a canvas..
Partial transcription of the video
“In the previous lesson, I showed you other uses for teabags and different display options. In this lesson, I am going to show you how to share your work on social media. If you know me by now, you know that I create just about every day. So I do post on social media every day. And how I do that is I pick the piece, I find the right background for it. Usually it's a bunch of pastel papers that I pick from. So depending on the color of the piece, if it's light, then I do like a contrasting background. If it's dark, then I do a white background or pale cream background. And then I pick a part ...”
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Course summary for: The Art of Tea Bag Painting
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Category
Craft, Illustration -
Areas
Fine Arts, Gouache Painting, Painting, Watercolor Painting

Ruby Silvious
A course by Ruby Silvious
Ruby Silvious is a Graphic Designer and Visual Artist based in the United States. She has been making upcycled art since she retired, taking discarded materials to create unique worlds of art. Her claim to fame is her work using tea bags, which went viral on Instagram in 2015. It has since been featured in international publications such as CNN Travel, PBS, The Guardian, Cosmopolitan China, and Vogue Italia. Her work has been exhibited across the world, from the U.S. to Japan to Europe.
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