Showing posts with label recycle crafts. Show all posts
Showing posts with label recycle crafts. Show all posts

Wednesday, May 24, 2023

Altered, recycled bottle


As we said in the previous post, air dry clay offers inumerous possibilities. In our every day lives, we always have things that there is no need to discard and can be upcycled into decorative or usable items. I have had a glass bottle thoroughly cleaned and labels removed. I decided to alter it using air dry clay. 

It was a project that took me not that much of a time. I wanted to give the impression of rust to the bottle, and I used blue, brown, copper and black acrylic colours. Of course, layers of varnish to seal the colours and the clay.

I used silicon molds, and molds I have created my self, by using household items pressed into clay, then clay dried and was varnished. It is not as easy to remove clay from a clay mold as it is when you use a silicon mold, though it works. And there I had even more options to decorate my bottłe.

I had also dried flowers from my flower garden, and I had created some ribbon flowers, out of spare ribbon and thread attached to dried branches. A really storytelling bottle was the result. Enjoy!

With lots of love,

Tuesday, February 15, 2022

Mixed media box, and mixed media painting. Acrylics, airdryclay, and other art mediums

After having walked and enjoyed nature sceneries and gathered some flowers, around a village, a painted carton box I created, with acrylics and air dry clay, as well as a homade mixture of plaster, glue, and white acrylic color. Along with the carton box, for storing dried flowers and other nature elements I gather when I go for a walk, a mixed media painting I created as well.

It was also a lovely day in the art studio!

Enjoy,

With love,




Mixed media canvas, Bird with ceramic flowers

I wanted to create a palette backround on cardboard, at this art project, and also wanted to find out, how well a canvas surface...