Folk Art Jug/Pitcher

Photo taken in the sun

I fell in love with this "jug" in Wilkos the other week    It just spoke to me and said "buy me".  I just knew it would look great with some painted decoration on it.

As you know if you follow me, I like the "paint fusion" style of folk art;  but I really wanted to get to grips with proper barge painting.  I purchased a little book explaining how to do it this week, so there was no excuse - in at the deep end so to speak.  Today was the day!

I didn't do a practise piece, having already known how to do the basic brush strokes - it was the roses I needed to learn and master.

same jug - photo taken in the shade.
(Hopefully showing detail more clearly)

I am really pleased with how it turned out for a first attempt.  It is quite a different technique to the paint fusion I normally do, albeit the brush strokes are basically the same.  Hopefully with practise I will get better.  However a friend really liked it and I have promised that if she buys a jug I will paint it for her!

PS:  I was really supposed to be finishing off painting an MDF barge that I built for myself.   (more of that anon  -  when I have got around to finishing it!)

Introducing Fudwick and T Winkle

Yes those really are their names!

I didn't chose the names - that was what they were called - obviously the names allocated to the models when they were first poured.  (I believe that these are normally available for painting in a pottery shop and would then be fired).

Had great fun painting these little gnomes.  They were painted with the DecoArt Americana paints that came with the kits I bought, including the seasonal sparkle paints.  As they weren't to be fired I varnish then with an acrylic varnish suitable for outdoors.

I wanted to steer away from the usual blue and red hatted gnomes.

Fudwick

T Winkle

Cute aren't they.  I have some toadstools to paint too, but not sure whether to paint them or do an acrylic pour on them - decisions, decisions!   In the meantime I must get on with making more Christmas cards (which is why I have been AWOL from the blog for a while!)