So having bought some lovely little plant pots from the fantastic Baker Ross website (https://www.bakerross.co.uk/). They then sat in their box for several weeks while I decided what I might like to do with them.
I’m no great artist so while I knew I wanted to ‘play paint’ – I’d no idea of a plan, until inspiration did that thing of hitting me at 3am – and then I got giddy and couldn’t sleep.
I’d also bought some porcelain friendly paint with the pots and decided to turn the pots upright and drip paint from a plastic cup.
Problem 1 – how to have the pots not sat in a pool of paint. Darren had had a 3D printer delivered and the packaging was still sitting around. So I turned the polystyrene part of the packaging into 6 kind of pedestals which would hold the pots away from the base. I’ve included a picture of my shonky set-up (after painting) in the gallery for this post.
Problem 2- I wanted different colours of paint but not for it to mix too much into a sludgy brown. So I used a plastic cup and poured the colours in one after the other and didn’t mix.
I put the pots on top of their pedestals and (green/round ones first). As the pots have a bit of a recess in the bottom, I angled my pouring down the sides, but some pooled in that recess. So the paint then took days and days to dry. For the green pots I decided to add a black rim to the top and did this as a simple dip into black paint. I liked the effect of the drips running both ways.
Then I tried the square pots which are a little bigger and heavier. Set up on their shonky pedestals, I poured blues and purples into my plastic pot and started the process again. Which led to:
Problem 3 – just as I’d made a first pass of paint one of my pots very slowly started collapsing, shonky pedestal fail! Luckily I still had the knife I’d used to cut out my polystyrene creation to hand. When went into the base of the polystyrene blade first to create a prop for the slowly sinking pot. I also said some bad words.
I decided to leave the blue square pots as they were and just tidied up and excess paint at the top, rather than adding a paint rim on this occasion.
I think these have turned out beautifully, there was a lot of paint used but I think it was worth it.
