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

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

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

Misc. Activities

Hi !!!!

Happy Monday to u all !!!. Its  been more than a month since I last blogged. My broadband has been giving me lot of problems with their erratic connectivity issues. But finally they have been able to sort out the problem & since yesterday its been working fine. 

During this period I tried my hands in dot painting & recycled another bottle . This is how it looks ... Have used 0" & 2" size brush & acrylic paints. 

Have to apply a coat of varnish on the same. Somebody told me that glass surface needs separate kind of varnish but the one I have is for clay work or wooden surface. If anybody knows about glass varnish do let me know & from where I can get it ...??

I have also started to learn macrame. After watching few videos on the same I was able to make this small mobile pouch using simple square knots. 

For this I have used malai dori which I had got from Pradhan Stores long time back . Still need to affix front button.😊   Need to try out few more projects to get acquainted with this art form.

I would also like to share my young student's work. They are in 4th & 5th grade and they have done these beautiful Madhubani paintings. Makes me feel so proud 😊😊

Do share your views on the above. 

Till next time have a creative crafty week. 👍

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

Crochet bag & Bottle Makeover

Hello  !!!

Puja is finally over & I am back to my pending wips.

Completed this crochet sling bag. Easy & very quick to make I got this pattern from youtube. Have made this using purse thread with hook size #5. If you want to make this you can find the DIY HERE.

I also did this 3D bottle makeover with mseal for a very dear friend of mine.

 Have also added these two cute fairies  to give the garden a magical effect.

I hope you all like it. Next lined up in my wip series is painting on my cushion covers.This will be new for me as I haven't tried this before.Hopefully, it will come out ok:).

Have a nice day !!!!:))

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

Bottle Recycle

Hi !!!

Recycling bottles has become one of favourite craft these days. After trying to do the makeover with clay / mseal ....... this time I have used silver coloured 3D outliner to decorate the same.

Hope you like it :)

Enjoy your weekend & till next time have a crafty creative week ahead :-)

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 :)

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 :)