Tea cups. Gouache and India Ink on my new Hot Press Illustration Board which I love. Amazing what you can find when you walk down the wrong aisle at the art store.

I love the look of the little tea bag paper hanging out of the cup but in real life I fill up my french press with loose tea [yerba mate, green tea, moroccan mint tea] which I carry around like a security blanket.

I also love coffee shops that have an eclectic collection of mix and match china teacups.

Today’s painting  came from a really good impromptu trip to our favorite sushi restaurant.

I love everything about the layout and design of a sushi experience and that they have a bottomless cup of green tea.

Japanese factoid [as told by my Japanese teacher in college...] The tea cups don’t have handles so you can feel if the cup is too hot. If it’s too hot to handle, it’s too hot to drink.

It’s a shame I lost all of my Japanese. I took one year of it and then moved to France. All I remember, appropriately enough is “Sushi o tabimashoo!” [Let's go eat sushi!]

Thoroughly disgusted with the idea of McDonald’s in the Louvre, I came up with this little sketch. I realize it’s an obvious solution but I can’t help but chuckle about the idea of a ‘Drive Thru’ museum. Last time I went to the Louvre it took me eight hours to get through it and I still didn’t see everything. [Click to Enlarge]

I said in twitter that March came in like a lion and went out like a Yeti. 

Well, here he is. 

Yeti. Because it's still too cold out. ©2009 Maria Scrivan

All my twittering has me tweeting.

He’s crabby and he crawled onto my note pad the other day. I’m not sure what he’s crabby about but I kind of feel the same way.