Bottle Painting & some mandala drawing

Hi !!!

Hope all you guys are doing good and enjoying family time !!!!

Sharing with you bottle painting and mandala drawing with you...

This is hand painted bottle using 000 no brush and acrylic colours

These are few of my mandala drawings on A5 size watercolour paper

Do drop in with your comments / suggestions 

Until next time stay home and stay safe and stay creative...:))

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

My Embroidery Work...

Hello !!!

I always refrain myself from doing needlework project simply because I find it very tedious & time consuming. Even though I did some embroidery work as a souvenir for my friends living abroad, but it is not my favourite subject. This year I have decided to brush up my embroidery skills & have started with this small cover.

My embroidery stash is quite limited so I am trying to manage with whatever colours I have :))

You can see I have used various shades of brown, my leaves are multicoloured green, blue, olive green...... You can see as I am going further the size of my flowers are becoming smaller (meaning I am getting impatient:-)) But I am persistent & hopefully would be able to complete this ..

Also made this wall hanging for my son's school project from waste CDs. 

I covered the CD with jute thread & painted it yellow as it is their class theme. After that I attached mirrors in the centre & stones in the corner and finally finished it by attaching off white satin ribbon.

Do let me know how these look ????

Till next time have a creative week :))

Moushumi

Short lived creativity :((

Hello !!!!

When I started to write this blog post I was very excited as after days of hard work I had finished my bottle painting. 

This is the first time I had tried bottle painting... thanks to Shashwatee Raut's (http://whencreativejuicesflow.blogspot.in/) DIY tutorial on the same. In case you are looking for innovative ideas on recycling & reuse then her blog is an ideal place to visit.:)

I chose phad painting (traditional painting of Rajasthan) to decorate my bottle and this is how it came out...

It just needed a coat of varnish and was ready to become  a part of my home decor..... but oooooooh my student's mother who had come to pick her daughter broke my bottle. It happened so fast....... in a fraction of second my bottle was lying scattered on the floor......:((( & now this is how it looks.

I am feeling so so very disappointing ........ Has anyone experienced this kind of incidence ????? Do share it .... will help me feel a bit better :)

I have nothing else to share,  only this pencil shading work which I did last week. Even though I have already shared it in Instagram, but I wanted to share it with my readers.

Do let me know how it looks......

Durga puja is just round the corner & I am planning to paint Maa in monochrome using madhubani art form.  My crochet runner is also lying untouched. Lots of things are going in my mind.... hopefully would be able to finish them all.....

Till next time take care and have a nice day !!!!

Moushumi

Paper-mache creativity

Hi !!!!

Hope all of you are enjoying your weekend:))

In may last blog post I told you about my paper mache project.

And this is what I have created. I have used egg trays to make paper mache clay and have made these coasters. My first lot didn't come out so well, but my second attempt was successful. I have painted madhubani motifs on it and have used acrylics colours .

In case you want to try this out you can follow this well described DIY HERE. :-) 

What do you think ?????????

I am still working on my crochet shawl and this is how far I have reached......... Hopefully I would be able to complete it soon.... until of course I get distracted with some other project in between  :-))

Do drop in with your comment :)

Till next time keep smiling and have a creative week.......:)

Bottle makeover

Hi !!!!


A big thanks to all my readers for your lovely comments on my last post:).

At last......  my bottle makeover is complete

This is how I innovated the bottle.

I don't know if it is quite visible to you, but on the front I have also added a branch with few flowers on it ( i can't seem to do without them:-)) Once the colours gets dried, I need to put a coat of clear varnish on it.

Next time I want to try bottle painting..... If any body has tried it earlier do let me know how it works..... 


In my sketchbook I did flowers with coloured pencil shading

Do drop in with your comments on the above:)

See you next time with another crafty project.. 

Till then take care and keep smiling :)