Decorated Lamps
My Daughter gave me some lovely bowls from Cyprus and later let me know that a local store had a huge selection of similarly decorated ceramic vases. I immediately went out and ended up buying three of them because I could not decide on just one. I had three very basic beige based lamps and one day with nothing to do I looked at them and thought I should try to paint one of them to look like the purchased bowls and vases.
The lamp on the right is the first one I completed and since I loved how it turned out I ended up doing the other two using different colors. The lamps were originally shiny glass so I first primed them so that the paint would adhere. After the primer dried I measured and marked off the areas with pencil lines and later painted the different colored stripes.
After painting on the colored stripes I had to use my noggin and figure out what I could do to make the white decorating details in 3 d texture. I have lots of crafting supplies here and decided to try using fabric paint and voila it worked like a charm. I first marked out the designs with pencil then added the details using the fabric paint right from the bottle.
It was a tedious process but put me in a real zen state and allowed me to chill out of the covid19 anxiety we are all feeling. I made different loopy lines and added many thousands of dots basically just what ever came to mind.
Once I finished adding all the details with the fabric paint I let the lamp sit for two days to ensure it was all dried completely. After that I brushed on a clear varnish so the whole thing would look like ceramic.
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Suggested materials:
- Primer, "Plaid" acrylic craft paint, "Scribbles" 3D fabric paint (my stash - but any craft store)
- Acrylic gloss varnish (my stash - but any craft store)
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Melinda Johnson on Mar 25, 2020
Those are beautiful. Can't wait to make them.
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