Teabag art

Apparently, there are many different ways to keep a diary and this unique artist from New York, Ruby Silvious, has discovered an amazing one. While some of us tend to throw away used tea bags after finishing our tea, Silvious reuses them... as canvases for her miniature paintings.

Oh what fun I have had the past couple of days! I should be doing some housekeeping, but I haven't.....perhaps on Monday. My supply of car...

I drink hot tea and I like lots of different flavors. I buy different brands, like Stash, Steep, or Twinings. All three brands have tea bags that are the same size, no staples, and have similar texture. Since I drink so much tea, it always pains me to throw out the used tea bags (I think “Oh no, th

Ruby Silvious, creator of beautiful teabag art, currently lives in the Hudson Valley, NY.

2018 Topic 15: Artist Trading Coins Alison has long been using tea bags in her art in numerous ways. Here is another fantastic example! And the colour combination is stunning! Who knew! ~ Leandra Hi everyone, it's Alison/Craftytrog with you today, and I'd like to share with you some Artist Trading Coins I made with my favourite round teabags. I've been making art with these round Tetley teabags for some time now, and they are almost the perfect 'coin' size. I love using collage materials to…

Making art using tea bags is kind of like going on an art mini-vacation. You have your regular work, but you stop to take a break and make art on a tea bag. It’s quick and you feel like you’ve been a way for a while. I like to use a tea bag for an art-making mini-vacation because: Tea bags are s

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My teabag art for today - Abstract Flowers. This was an unused teabag primed with clear gesso and painted with watercolor and gouache.

Art, it is all in the eye of the beholder so I’m told. And this form of art is definitely something you either appreciate or don’t. I find the use of a material that we would normally d…