Sketches and Paintings

Few years back i have sketched some pictures and was trying my hand at acrylic paintings. Here are some of them i am haring with you all. Let me know how do find them.
 

Elegant Indian Lady

Another sketch

lord Balaji sketch

  

Acrylic painting of lord Buddha 

Ganesha Watercolor painting

abstract painting

still life acrylic painting

warli art

Do let me know your thoughts in the comments section. Thank You.

Tutorial- Decorative Leaf Basket with Cold Porcelain Clay

Hello, i am back with another good looking basket/ decorative vase , but this time its not with newspapers but using Cold Porcelain Clay i made at home. To know how to make the clay at home check out this Link

Materials Required:

• Balloon
• Coconut oil
• Green and Magenta colored clay
• Rolling pin
• Fevicol
• Clear Varnish/ Mod Podge

Procedure:

Step 1:

• Make two balls of cold porcelain clay and color one Magenta and the other Green. You would need a bigger one for green, since most of the basket will be in shades of green. To know how to add color to the homemade clay check out this Tutorial

                   

Colored Clay

Step 2:

• Blow a balloon to the required size.
• Dab some oil to the balloon so that the clay doesn't stick to it.

Step 3:

• Add some white clay to the green clay to make a lighter shade of green.
• Similarly add some more green to the green clay making it a darker green color.
• Roll some clay into leaf shape using a rolling pin and start placing onto the balloon. Make different shades of Green leaves in different sizes and arrange them onto the balloon. 
• Make sure the leaves stick to each other.
• Arrange all the leaves in the shape of a vase.

Step 3:

• Using the Magenta colored clay make some small flowers.
• Stick those flowers using Fevicol/glue to the leaves at equal spaces. It looks something like this in the image below.

   

Arrange the leaves and flowers on the balloon

Step 4:

• Let it dry for a day or two.
• The clay might shrink and some spaces would be visible in between, you can add few more leaves and let them dry for a day.
• Once it it dried completely, pop open the balloon.
• The balloon comes out leaving the vase shape intact.
• Let the interiors dry for another day.

         

Step 5:

• Roll some clay and make a base for the vase. Stick it to the base of the vase using Fevicol/ glue. Let it dry for a day.
• Add a layer of clear acrylic varnish or Mod Podge to seal your work.
• Yuppy !!!   the decorative vase is ready, Show Off!!!

                         

Decorative Vase is ready

So how did you like my decorative clay vase, do let me know your opinion in the comments section below. Thank Your for reading the post, cya again with another creative craft.

My First Cold Porcelain Hand Crafted Flowers

Hello folks, When i made the first batch of Cold Porcelain Clay, i tried my hand at making some roses,lilies and other random flowers.
Do check out How to make cold porcelain at home in this post and
how to add color to the cold porcelain dough here.

In most of the forums i read about the flowers/dolls getting cracks while drying. Thank God my first trial at making the flowers was successful.
I think the most important part is to knead the dough , and roll it in between the fingers before we make anything out of it. All these flowers were crafted without any tools. With practice the roses can be perfected.
In my future posts i will do a tutorial on roses. Since it was a trial i didn't take ani images while making them.

Hand crafted beautiful porcelain roses

Cold Porcelain Roses

Cold Porcelain Flowers before drying

Cold Porcelain beautiful roses

Cold Porcelain random flowers

Cold Porcelain Mini Flowers

Cold Porcelain Flowers

Cold Porcelain Flowers

Whatever you make from this clay, will shrink by 15-20 % when air-dried. So keep this in mind while making flowers or anything. Some of my flowers are so tiny that i can't handle them in my hand. To seal the flowers i coated them with 1:1 of fevicol and water, since i did not have any varnish or mod-podge with me. After the coating dries off the flowers become very hard and durable.

So how did you find my Cold Porcelain Roses/flowers?

Thanks for taking time to go through this post.Will you try to make some at home? Do let me know in the comments section below. Your opinion matters, any suggestions are welcome.