Really Easy Porcelaine Painting

 It is so easy to transform cheap, plain, household items into cute, hand-decorated ones with Pebeo Porcelaine 150 paints and markers.

I used Salt n Pepper shakers and a hand-soap dispenser both found for under $5.

For the Salt n Pepper shakers design, simply start with circles as below, drawn on with Black Pebeo Porcelain Marker.

Use Scarlet Red Porcelaine Marker to draw in the petals.

Use Peridot Green Marker to connect the flowers and make a "S" and "P".

For the soap dispenser, remove the lid and place the container in a disposable plastic bowl.

Pour Pebeo Porcelaine 150 paints in Ming Blue and Turquoise straight from the tubs and let drip...

Give it a good few hours or more to dry, then use the Peacock Blue marker to draw some swirls onto your drips.

Then use Lapis Blue Marker to do some dots on around your swirls.

DONE!

Paint Pretty, Purple, Pebeo Ponies

"Purple Ponies" Wind-cheater

You can create gorgeous hand-painted designs for your kids with Pebeo Setacolor fabric paints and markers like this cute "Purple Ponies" Wind-cheater. I've included a PDF of the design for you to down-load and colour.

Here's what I used for this project (You can really use whatever Pebeo Setacolour and Setaskrib you desire):

• Basic plain colour wind-cheater (washed without fabric softeners and ironed)
• Heat n Bond Ultrahold  double-sided adhesive webbing (above) or other similar product
• A piece of plain, thin, white poly-cotton fabric (I actually used the back of an old pillow slip) make sure your fabric is washed (without fabric softeners) and ironed before starting.
• Pencil for tracing
• Pebeo Setacolor Opaque colours, I used Light Green, White, Bengal Pink, Garnet Red, Parma Violet, Butter Cup, Cornflower
• Pebeo Setaskrib Markers, I used all the colours from the fluro set (Pink, Yellow, Green, Purple, Blue, orange) and Blue, Green, Yellow, Blue and Black from the basics set
• Small round brushes, and one flat angled brush about 1cm wide
• Pretty Ponies design download
• Printer (to print the design)
• Iron to fix the paint when finished

My Pretty Ponies design was inspired by some artwork I did quite a while ago.

My inspiration

I have included it so you can have another reference for colours and shading, but really use your imagination and have fun. 

To begin the project download the design and print it up. Place your white poly-cotton fabric over the top of the print. The fabric should be thin enough to see the design right through and you can trace it with a pencil.

Design traced onto fabric

Once you have the design traced onto the fabric, go over the outlines with the markers. Don't worry about the colours being exact, use as close as you have, the Opaque paints will cover the lines.

Now have fun painting! You can mix the paints together to get a variety of colours and for shading. Mix them on your pallet or blend together on the fabric whilst they are still wet. 

You can use both paints and the markers to colour...

Use a small round brush for finer details and your flat brush for bigger areas...

Here I decided to add a butterfly. You can see where I practiced drawing it on the outside of the design, then I just drew it in with a pencil. 

I then went over the butterfly with white Setacolour paint. This help the butterfly "pop" out from the page when I colour it. The Sun was done using the Setaskrib Fluro Markers. Look how beautifully the blend.

Here is my finished design...

Now it time to use you iron to set the fabric paint. As per instructions on the packaging, you will need to iron for about 5 minutes.  Then take your Heat n Bond (or other double-sided webbing)  and follow the instructions to adhere your design to your wind-cheater.

Ta Da! It's done!

Porcelaine 150 Paint on Mugs.....

Hello all!

I have a quick share today showing a couple of mugs, I personalised and gave away as a little gift for my In-laws recently. It made a nice inexpensive gift which I filled with fruit and nuts in the end, and they were well received!

I started with some very simple mugs. and I used the black fine .7 point Porcelaine 150 Pen.

There are many Art Stores around that sell these Pens and Paints, and Spotlight carry them also. 

 They work like a regular paint marker, in that you have to prime the tip before drawing.  This is easy to do by depressing the felt tip nib to get the paint to come out and flow freely.  I usually just do this on a piece of scrap plastic transparency or the like.  You might have to do this each time you use it if your projects are spaced out a little and the nib dries out.  But priming it should work each time while the pen still has paint in it.

For these mugs I did nothing special other than my regular hand writing and a quote that I knew they would appreciate.

and the other one....

The way these pens work for glassware/porcelain that is to be washed, is that it is painted on and left to dry as per the instructions on the pack, and then you bake it in a low oven (Porcelaine 150 is baked at 150 degrees as the name suggests)  It is then dishwasher safe when washed on Economy (lower heat) in your dishwasher.  (If you are worried though I would just hand wash!)

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Guest Designer Anita Bownds 'Watercolour Cards'

Hi everyone,

Anita with you again today!

 I am sharing a card I made using watercolour paints. 

Super simple and easy to draw your own image and paint it.

I started by die cutting some watercolour paper.

I sketched out some flowers with a pencil. 

I mixed Carmine and Prussian Blue to get this dark pink for the flowers in the middle,
and the for little blue flowers- Ultramarine and Black.

Using the size 3 brush I painted the flowers in the middle first.

Then the little blue flowers.

Then using permanent green I painted the flower stems and outlined leaves by

adding a little more water to the green to lighten the shade.

Now back to the flowers in the middle using brush 5/0

Add a little more texture in the middle of the flowers 

Then using more of the permanent green I coloured the leaves.

Then back to the middle to add the middle of the flowers with black using brush 5/0. 

Next adding texture to the leaves with permanent green and brush 5/0.

And then outlining the flowers in the middle with more pink.

Then your done!

products used

75112097 Akademie®Aquarell Compact Metal Set 12

9999815  200 Watercolour Pad, 15 sheets, A4

9170  Synthetic-Golden Taklon Set 5 - Round - 3

No. 9141 Synthetic-Golden Taklon Set of 7 brushes - 5/0

Canson^® Colorline^® white 300gsm

Pebeo Glass and Porcelain Painting

I must tell you.  I have never painted glassware or porcelain before, and I really didn't think it would work for me,  But I tried it, and now my brain is flooding with ideas! :-)

Pebeo Glass Paints come in the form of little tubs of paint, or paint pens, in a few different nib sizes to vary the detail in your work.  They are fun!

Both types- Vitrea (for glass) and Porcelaine (for porcelain) are drawn/painted on.  Left for 24 hours to dry and then put in the oven at either 150/160 degrees (depending on which one you are using)  You can use either on either surface too.  Porcelaine can go on glassware and vise versa.

I decided I would paint a Salad Bowl for my Mum as a Gift.  It turned out quite nice, and will be great on the table for years to come as it turned out!

It started out a plain old pasta/salad bowl for about $20 from Big W.  Not much of an exciting gift!

I scribbled on some flower shapes, getting the feel for the pen, which is much like a gold or silver paint pen, the types you have to depress to get the ink flowing.  I just kept a piece of scrap plastic (a piece of transparency would work too) next to me, which I used to keep the pen primed with paint.

It doesn't look too great yet, but adding the outline really brings it to life.

I added a couple of colours to the rose and the flowers just to add dimension.  A little red and magenta and some orange and yellow.  I also used two colours of green for the same effects. 

I left this layer to air dry, before adding the outlines.

You can add the extra colours to the image wet or dry.  When adding it dry, the new wet paint can tend to 'rewet' the dry, if its manipilated too much,  so you can still blend where you want to.

You can see some blending in the centre of the red flower below.

When that layer is dry I got out the fine Black pen and outlined the image.  It looks much better now!

its not perfect, I did it quite quickly to prevent it looking too precise.  I wanted to keep it loose.

I added little tiny red berries to some of the fronds, and random green dots as fillers around the flowers and other leaves.

Just a note as well..........

This took quite a long time, as the bowl is really large.  and I needed a break between painting sessions.  The lovely part about this paint, is if you make a mistake at this stage, or don't like what you have done, you can wipe it off if its still wet, and can just wash it with a sponge and light scourer if its dry and can start fresh.  That is not great for needing a break between sessions though, as it can damage really easily. if its knocked or not handled carefully.  I decided to protect what I had done by baking it on mid project.  I followed the directions to bake it and then let it sit until I was ready to continue!  Then it is completely safe!

The directions say the product is dishwasher safe.... but after reading about some failures I did notice that it also says on the website to only wash on 'economy' which wont be quite so hot.  My advise to my mum after all this hard work will be to warm wash by hand, just so it has a long life!!!

Here is a sample drawing sheets with some easy breakdowns for how to do this your self.  Its really quite simple!!!

Download it HERE

Thanks for stopping in today.  Hope you will give this a try.  People love handmade gifts and you can turn something plain into something treasured with glass paints!

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