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Painted this simple clay pot using ceramic colors of red and yellow. Added a simple black design on the top yellow paint to give a simple look. Have a look at this art, do it yourself at home. Best to bring out the creativity in you using vibrant colors of red an yellow. Black suits best for any outlining or a design.

Well, to begin with, I am always fascinated with pottery, lots of pots in different shapes and sizes. Moreover, I like the tiny pottery they make nowadays, it amazes me. I love to collect these round earthen pots, also called as matkas in Hindi. These pots are small in size and sold with a frozen Indian dessert 'kulfi' therefore they are called matka kulfi. I had a collection of these tiny glitter bits. These glitters are used for birthday and wedding parties. They are filled into the party poppers or sometimes into balloons. And so by popping the poppers or bursting the balloons, comes a glittery shower. Children love collecting these bits during these above occasions mentioned. I applied some craft glue to the entire earthen pot on the outside. And then I rolled the pot across the glitter bits which I placed on the newspaper. I made sure that most of the glitters were stuck to the pot. Yet, some empty spaces did remain , of which I did a touch up later. I have deco...

In this art, I have used a small mud pot already having a design of a tree and a boat. Please note just in case you have no design, you can make any design of your own. All you need here is any old or unused foundations from your makeup set and any colored nail polish which is old or unused. Do keep a cloth ready when you are working. We first use our fingers and spread the foundation on the entire pot, so that this forms a nice shiny background. The foundation sometimes appears to be a bit sticky or wet. We need to dry the pot for around three days in the sun or just keep it to dry without the sun also, this may take another two days or so. Once the foundation has dried, we are ready to use the nail polish on the pot. We now go ahead and paint the outline using nail polish. We can also paint the inner content of the tree. Allow the pot to dry for a day or so. And now you are ready to go. Do try this out. You can always use any old nail polish or makeup accesso...