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Letter “A” - Make this a study of blue
with a very dark blue and black dress, pale blue
headdress, and a white neck handkerchief.
Accent the bowl with pale sepia on a pale
yellow brown ground.
Letter “B” - Paint the baby’s gown white
and the woman dress a yellow brown. Cover the
chair with brown and outline the window with
blood red while showing a light blue sky.
Suggest panes of glass by adding thin black
lines.
Letter “C” - Color the baby's gown pale
green and the nurse’s dress light violet with a
deep purple and apple green yoke. |
Hand-painting
china was an easy and fashionable craft during the Victorian
era. A popular project was decorating children’s dishes and
drinking mugs with nursery rhyme characters or the alphabet.
A nineteenth century magazine, The Art Amateur, A
Monthly Journal Devoted to Art in the Household, once
provided delightful alphabet illustrations for decorating
children’s drinking mugs. The publication also suggested
drawing these whimsical patterns on tiles as a charming
mantel decoration for the nursery fireplace.
