art thread?

[moonlyte]

Hi folks. I've just bought a box of coloured pencils, and will be working on my first drawing soon. I'll post the completed work here. Would love people to post their art here for us to see. Doesn't matter what type of art - drawing, painting, photos/photo manipulation, cake decorating, quilting, poetry, origami, whatever. Let's have some fun and show our creativity. 🙂

http://i538.photobucket.com/albums/ff349/pluckaduck2/Image0062small_zps2c36aa27.jpg

[moonlyte]

Thanks katy, Pepe. 🙂

[j*oono]

I think it's really good too but I like it unpainted.  

[katydidthat]

I have photos, I hope.  

First, my hanging pots project.  

How they looked in the beginning ... 

In case you can't see (I don't have a very good camera), it's 6 small pots connected by red cord with black beads.

Here's a close up of one of the pots:

I thought they looked ugly, so I wanted to paint them ... it took me nearly a year to get around to it.

[*pepe]

what a nifty way to display them.

looks great.

[katydidthat]

Here they are after painting ....

And here they are after re-stringing on black leather cord with no beads:

[katydidthat]

And, here they are hanging up in the "womb room".  

I need to turn them around to show the tops, but my son is still in bed and I'm not tall enough to do it myself.  

[*pepe]

they look good painted, but i like natural look.

[katydidthat]

Thanks, Pepe.  

They were painted before ... kinda blue and orange, but the paint was peeling off them ... and they've been like that for so long that I wanted something very different ... and I like BRIGHT colours ... as you can tell 🙂 🙂 🙂 

[*pepe]

they are nice shaped little pots.

where did you find them?

[katydidthat]

I got them from a closing down restaurant ... I bought two sets and I thought I would start with the set that had one with a chip in it.  

I sanded them down, and painted them.  Some were rougher than others ... like the yellow one ... then I painted the outside and then used a different colour for the top.  Even the red looking one ... it's orange and red, but it doesn't show up well.  

So, now I have another set to paint, but haven't decided how yet ... maybe just silver and gold.