Page 4 - Classimax Magazine - Issue #10

Exciting Clay
Pot Crafts
You can easily decorate clay pots
available in your home so that they
really look attractive when noticed and
involves your artistic skills too.
If you have an artistic mind and you
love you make something decorative halfway points and then draw a light
and attractive for your home then
clay pots are definitely a great idea
to work with.
You can make different items or can
also so some painting on the clay pot
in such a way that it will make the
plant look better. It may also happen
that you not even notice the plant just the pot at this point. You will have 8
because the pot is so attractive.
To make a painted clay pot you need
to have 4” clay pot, opaque apple
green acrylic paint, opaque blue
lagoon acrylic paint, opaque yellow
acrylic paint, semi opaque pumpkin
acrylic paint, semi opaque white
acrylic paint, fine point permanent
black marker.
Steps to make a painted
clay pot:
1. First using a small ruler and pencil,
you should measure the height of the
clay pot starting just below the rim.
Then mark off the halfway point
between the top and the bottom of
the clay pot. Altogether you should
measure and mark off the halfway
point at four opposite places on the
pot.
2. Now holding the plastic measuring
tape up to the clay pot, connect the
pencil line between all the halfway
point marks around the pot.
3. Line up the ruler with each of the
halfway points around the pot one
at a time and draw a light pencil
line from the top of the plant pot
just below the rim to the bottom of
squares drawn on the pot.
4. Then you have to decide on the
color scheme or arrangement of the
colors into squares you have drawn
on the pot. In one set of squares you
can fill any combination of two colors as you did earlier. Again let the paint
and in the other one also you can fill
other set of colors.
5. Squeeze a small amount of the
pumpkin acrylic paint on the paper
plate and gather a small amount
of paint on the straight edge of the
brush and paint along the straight
lines of one of the squares with a
generous coat paint on the paper
plate. Outline and fill in one of the
square completely with a generous
layer of paint. Now paint the square
diagonally across from it pumpkin
using the same method as you did
for the first one and let the paint dry.
Rinse out and shape the brush again.
6. When this paint is drying, you can
turn the pot around to other set of
4 squares. Squeeze a small amount
of yellow acrylic paint on the paper
plate. Outline and fill in one of the
squares with a generous coat of
the yellow paint. Paint the square
diagonally across from it yellow suing
the same method as you have did for
the first one and then let the paint
dry.
7. When the paint on this side is
drying, turn the pot around to the
first set of 4 squares. Squeeze a small
amount of apple green acrylic paint
and paint the square diagonally across
from it green using the same method
dry and you can rinse out and shape
the brush again.
8. Again while this paint is drying
turn the pot around to the second
set of 4 squares and squeeze a small
amount of blue lagoon acrylic paint
on the paper plate. Next outline
and fill in one of the squares with
a generous coat of blue paint. Paint
the square diagonally using the same
method and let the paint dry.
9. When the paint is drying for the
last squares you have painted, it is
time to paint the edge of the pot
white. Squeeze a small amount of
white acrylic paint onto the paper
plate and paint the edges.