Posts Tagged ‘painting projects’
A birdhouse or a nest box, as we all know, is an artificial house for birds to nest in. Many times they are built from wood. Other times they are made from various other materials. However, we are fully aware that these birdhouses are not just a place for birds. We use them to decorate and accentuate our walls, yards, gardens, and other parts of our homes. What great painting project it is to paint our own birdhouse.
So - if you want a great accent to your garden or other area, might I suggest a birdhouse? There are unfinished ones available at a very reasonable prices. They come in an assortment of styles and sizes and can be finished rather quickly and inexpensively.
So if you are a crafter who is interested in painting, make your next project a birdhouse.
In trying to suggest a variety of painting projects, I’ve looked around my own home to see what surfaces I have painted on in the past. I ran across some small terra cotta (clay) figures that I once painted. These little guys were and are very inexpensive to purchase, and no special talent is needed to paint them. Just follow the shape of the details, such as the face and hands, the hat, the coat, the shoes, the hair, and all the other little incidentals.
You can paint these little characters with just your basic colors: blue, red, green, yellow, while, beige. In fact, you actually can start with the three primary colors (red, yellow, and blue) plus white and mix them together for any color you want.
Do you remember all the stores who carried unpainted plaster figurines and wall plaques a few years back? These were great painting projects. There was such an extensive variety of statuary in sizes from very small to very large. I loved to paint these items. In fact, I loved making them.
Weird as it may sound, I loved pouring plaster and making all these things. Maybe it was the fact that I could take a bag of plaster and in rather short time turn it into something beautiful. The tough part was handling the heavy molds.
At one time my husband and I had thousands of molds and made statuary for retail businesses. It seems as if those stores rarely exist any more, at least in our area. Yet you can still find an occasional piece, and most craft stores carry small unpainted plaster items to paint. It’s really quite fun.
At times I’ve found unpainted plaster items at a yard sale or thrift store. Keep your eyes open if you visit these places.
Bisque Figures Painted With Acrylic Paints
It is probably very seldom that it happens, but on a rare occasion we could find ourselves running out of painting projects, or maybe just looking for something new to paint. Perhaps we’re burned out on what we’ve been doing and need to find a new focus or project.
Do you like to have a lot of knick knacks sitting around? Do you find yourself at garage sales and flea markets buying all sorts of cute little things to sit around in your home? I have very little self-control when it comes to this. I love cute, decorative, and pretty things around my home.
What is even more fun is painting your own. Do you know that you can go to your local ceramic shop and buy all sorts of bisque figures? These have already been fired, and all you have to do is take them home and paint them with your acrylic paints. The great part is that you do not need to own a kiln or pay for these pieces to be fired. Just paint them as you normally would if you were painting a plaster piece.