Artist makes small oil paintings on...tea bags

Ruby Silvious, an artist originally from the Philippines, makes real small canvases on...tea bags. Her project started in January 2015 with 363 Days of Tea, a kind of calendar where she daily imprinted her impressions on empty tea bags, making them become small canvases with collages and miniatures.

His small paintings are greatly inspired by his travels around the world and have been featured in numerous publications in famous magazines, such as The Guardian, Der Spiegel, and CNN Travel. She currently lives and works in New York and is known worldwide (her works are in public and private collections) for this particular choice of hers to transform tea bags into small artistic masterpieces painted in oil.

Her subjects are very varied: from portraits to flowers and fish, from landscapes to Japanese symbols, from glimpses of villages in France and Spain to everyday objects.

In 2019 he created a series dedicated to visitors in front of works of art from the Renaissance to contemporary art(Vincent van Gogh, Frida Kahlo, Joan Miró, Roy Lichtenstein, Georges Seurat, Matisse, Andy Warhol and many others).

Recently he has also created kimonos using tea bags individually painted and then joined together. One example has as many as eight hundred.

Pictured is one of the works in the Museum Goers series (2019) depicting A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of Grande-Jatte by Georges Seurat.

Artist makes small oil paintings on...tea bags

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