Clay Fridge Magnets

Hi !!

Hope you all are doing well.... 

Today I am going to share with you my clay project... This has been on my mind for quite some time but was not getting to do it..:))

So this time  I tried no cooking cold porcelain clay recipe from youtube... On the surface clay looked okay & soft but when I mixed colours in it the clay started getting dried up quickly... So I made the designs first and then used acrylic colours to colour it...... Next time I think I will go with my old cooking recipe of clay making....This is how it looks

The base is wooden coaster which I have used to make magnets... Hope you will like it...

Till next time stay home and stay safe and be creative :))))


Moushumi

Another clay art :)

Hi !!!

I am back with another clay work of mine..... Bottle Decor.

I have painted the bottle with mauve acrylic colour and have done the 3d work with cold porcelain clay. I just love sunflowers  😊  so have gone with red, orange, pink & yellow sunflowers 😄

Hope you all like my new art work 😊

Moushumi

Glass Mural

Hi !!!

Happy Sunday to you all !!!!

Today I am going to share my glass mural which I completed few days back. 

This is a 2mm glass sized 12" x 12". I have used air dry clay and used acrylic colours  to paint the same. I got the design from Pinterest and have improvised a little bit. Next time I am going to try this on a bigger size :-)

Yesterday was Bhai Dooj and I was missing my brother very much. Its been nearly  two years since he left for his heavenly aboard but the pain doesn't seem to lessen. So to uplift my mood I made this colourful doodle...

I have used acrylic brush pens to colour the same.

That's all I have to share with you..... Thanks for stopping by:)

See you next time with some more crafty projets :-)

Moushumi

Its been quite a while .........

Hi !! :)

Hope you are all having a great weekend. Today is Karvachauth ...... so my best wishes to everyone for the same.:)

It seems ages since I last visited my blog. Actually lot of things were going on in the home front because of which I was not able to continue with my blog writing.

Summer holidays are usually very hectic for me. With kids at home I spend most of my time in the kitchen cooking meals for them. This time I had also done a small workshop on Madhubani painting for my drawing students. Even though only few kids participated but still I enjoyed doing it immensely:) Sharing few pics of the same

I also did a small workshop for Clay Ganesha moulding. Used shilpkar, acrylic colours and mirrors, beads for decoration.

Lastly my madhubani painting of Ganesha 

& my bottle painting

There are few more projects which I would like to share with you....maybe in my next post.

Till then enjoy and have a wonderful week ahead :)

Moushumi

Bottle Art

Hi !!!

Hope all of you had a colourful holi and are now enjoying the long weekend:)

I am back with another bottle makeover. I think I am gradually getting addicted to this art. Transforming old, used bottles  gives me acute satisfaction.

This time I have experimented with lippan work (traditional work of Gujarat). Also known as Mud Mirror Art, it is the traditional mural art of kutch. Villagers living in this area decorate the walls of their mud houses through this art work. This traditional wall art has now become the part of modern home decor.

Here I have used shilpkar for the pattern and mirrors of different shapes and sizes for decoration. Since the traditional lippan kaam is white in colour so I have also kept it white.

Do drop in with your comments on the above....

Till next time take care and have a creative week :)

Pot Makeover (DIY)

Hello friends !!!:)

This is yet another old pot that was lying at my home and I have re-decorated it to give it a  new look.It is almost 7-8 years old  and as you can see it was in a pretty bad shape. I had given a ceramic clay base on this earthen pot to give it a textured, uneven look and had then painted it and glued some mirrors on it. It did look beautiful...... but at that time didn't think of taking any pics of the same. 

 I started with painting the entire pot blue. Since I couldn't do anything about the ceramic base... I had to leave it as it is.

Next, I added flowers and leaves made from shilpkar / m-seal and painted it with acrylic colours..... Lastly,  I gave a wash of clear varnish  and 

This is how it looks now :)  I am happy with the outcome , but what do you think ?? Let me know ......

Would also like to wish everybody a very Happy Independence Day !!!!:) 

Jai Hind !!!!

Return to blogland..

Hi !!!

Its been two months ,but I still can't believe that my brother is no more. He was just 47 yrs. I am in a state of shock. My heart is not able to accept the fact that he is not there anymore. That I wouldn't be able to speak to him anymore. I feel as if I have lost my father for the second time. Because that's what he was for me.

I was very young when I lost my father. At that point of time both my brother & I were studying. But my brother left his college halfway and started working to take care of me & my mother. He supported me to complete my  schooling & higher education. After my mother expired in 2004 he was my emotional anchor. Someone I would look up to when I was in a problem. His untimely demise has saddened me and has broken me emotionally. I know time is a big healer and with gods grace this period will pass.  He was such a kind soul and I hope and pray that may his soul RIP.

Creatively my mind has not been working, but still I have tried to  give this old wine bottle a new look. I have given it a hut look with a door and village belle standing besides the door. All this work has been done with shilpkar (m-seal) and have used acrylic colors to paint it.

From left side

A more closer look

From top

From right side

Please leave your comments / suggestions on the above . I would love to hear from you.

Have a nice day and till next time bye !!!

Photo frame

Hi Friends !!

Today I am going to share with you another photo frame decorated with shilpkar.

Shilpkar / M-seal is very easy to use. You just need to mix the white and the black portion properly and it is ready to use. Mould flower/figures of your choice and place it directly on the surface you want to decorate.

These beautiful bouquet of flowers is inspired from pinterest.

I have used acrylic colors to paint the flowers.

Here is another painting in colored pencil medium which  I have just completed in my drawing class. Thanks to my teacher who puts in lots of effort and time to teach me art.

Do drop in with your comments/feedback on the above. I would love to hear from you.

Till next time have loads of fun.

Bye!!

Summer Workshop

Hi !!!

Last month I took summer workshop on Art & Craft at my friends place.It was an amazing experience. Little bit hectic and tiring but creatively very satisfying.  These are the few pics of some of the work done by my students.

I would also like to share few canvas paintings done by younger son. He is 10 & he made these paintings in the art workshop which he attended nearby in our locality.

Well that's all I have in today's blog post. Please do drop in with your comments.

Take care and have a nice day!!!!

Moushumi

Papermache Painting

Hi !!!!!

I just hope that all my blogger friends and readers have not forgotten me as I have been out of picture for quite some time now.After coming back from the last rites ceremony I got busy with my kids re- admission for the new session. New books, uniforms, bags ............... the list goes on. Then when I finally, thought O.K now I can relax and do net surfing//blogging ,  wow, just then my son informed me that there is a system failure due to some virus and that I cannot use it until it gets repaired fully . 

Very disappointing, but couldn't help it so I took this time off to learn a new art form. Clay work has   always fascinated me, so I decided to learn the art of papermache clay making. This is a very simple cheap form for clay making whereby you recycle old newspapers and create beautiful artifacts.This is the painting that I learnt. This is basically a poster which I got fixed on the board. then I used the paper mache clay to give it a 3-d effect. The white portion that you can see in the pic below is all clay work.

This is how it looks after painting and decoration.

Today, is our 17th Marriage Anniversary, so I decided to to gift it to my husband. He knew I was going for some classes but had no idea that I had planned to gift him this painting, Thankfully he loved it very much and all my hard work for 10-15 days finally paid off.

And look what he gave me on my anniv.............................

a beautiful gold Ganesha pendent. Its very cute and sweet, but you know what this was not on my wish list. For some time now I have been after him to buy me a light weight sewing machine, and I had found my answer in Usha Janome. But then he said no, he will buy me something better than this, a better machine with more options. But finally, till now no machine has arrived so I think this is my final gift. Its not that I don't like the pendant, but its just that machine would have made my day complete fulfilling.

Still I have full faith in him, he will get it for me either today or tomorrow or maybe day after...............

Till then enjoy and have a nice time!!!!!

Thanks for visiting 

Moushumi