A crafting attempt...

I had a grand idea for a set of bare wooden nesting dolls. I'm out of painting practice, so I wanted them to be simple. After some brainstorming...espresso! A set of nesting dolls illustrating the ingredients of ever more complicated coffee drinks. With a coffee bean in the very tiniest doll.



some sketches



I painted them all first. But writing on them turned out to be messier than I'd hoped :(

The pen kept catching on the slightly sticky texture of the paint. Wah! If I try this again someday, I think I'll use some kind of applique letters or something. Writing was rather difficult.







Oh well! Back to the drawing board!