Using leftover Paints to create beautiful vases....

Thinking of what to do with all the left over paints in your containers. Then this is what you should do. Try this technique of using your last few drops of paint creatively. This is solely for non-artistic people.

Call this Modern or Contemporary art or an item of dramaticism..................

Things you will need:

• a few flavoured milk bottles (Nandini milk bottles to be precise)
• 1 round paint brush
• Oil enamel paint- Base colour of your choice...(here it would be whichever colour is more in quantity)
• Oil enamel paint- a few droplets of all the leftover paints
• a litre of water
• a waste cloth
• 20 mins of your time.

Method:

1. Clean the bottles and wipe them dry.
2. Apply a base coat (oil enamel) in any colour of your choice.
3. Ensure that you either apply the paint to the bottom half or top half of the bottle for two reasons. One, it looks nice to create a pattern with bottles if you have many. Two, If you paint the whole bottle, you may end up leaving finger prints. If you still want to paint the complete bottle, ensure that you do the top half first and then do the bottom half.
4. Now take a large bowl of water, add a few drops of different colours of paint. Do not worry about being precise...remember, i already mentioned that this needs no skills of art.
5. Use a toothpick to stir the paint in order to create random patterns. To give some punch to this lets call this retro pattern.
6. Without wasting any time, you have to dip the painted portion of the bottle into this water carefully without stirring the water. Slowly immerse the bottle once and take it out. Do not repeat this step.
7. Allow the bottle to dry.

VOILA !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!your vases are ready and it takes only a few minutes..........LITERALLY!!!!

Please write to me if you have any queries before doing this.

Easy Kitchen Artwork.....

As I promised, this is the second post for the day. I recently bought some stickers from a stationery shop (not with any intention...but... just because it looked nice on the shelf). It was a pack of soft stickers which had a 3D look. I then found a canvas board (10"x12") in my shelf. I decided to make use of the canvas and the stickers to create this art piece for my kitchen.

Things you need to do this:

1 canvas board, a few stickers to suit your theme or concept, 1 round brush, 1 black Acrylic paint tube, 1 red acrylic pain tube, 1 white acrylic paint tube, a cup of water and 30 mins of your time.

Sharing some easy garden deco ideas from Tessa Evelegh's book

Hi Readers,
Ya...I know that I have been away from blogging for a while now...and I am very sorry about it. I received mails from so many of my regular visitors requesting updates on my blog. I am extremely sorry about this as I got busy with work. However, as a compensation to my absence, I will publish 2 posts today. Both the posts are some easy and faster DIY ideas. I am sure you will love them as much as I do...

This post features some simple garden decor ideas from the book 50 fabulous ways to decorate your garden by Tessa Evelegh. As I always emphasise, I prefer more of re-invention from old stuff. Considering the Global warming that is happening, I strongly feel that one can do a lot by re-using the old stuff in many creative ways. Some easy to do ideas for your garden are here for you to see....

Mexican Painted Pots
Plants in Containers

Stick broken tiles and create small Mosaic art for your Garden......big or small

I just loved this.....TIN CAN...Plant Nursery...

I hope you all liked this post and I am sure you will try some simple ideas like this from most of your throw away products at home. If you do try...please mail me a picture and I would love to showcase your work here.

(All pictures on this post are from the book 50 fabulous ways to decorate your garden by Tessa Evelegh)

Featured on Colours Dekor by Patricia Torres.....

It is soon going to be a year since I started blogging. What I have experienced here is immense... in terms of learning, knowing people, understanding the cultures of various places etc., I have come across many bloggers who with little recognition consider themselves celebrities. On the other hand, I have also met some people who inspite of all the fame are still humble and have an aura of motivaton around them. Hats off to them. From my list of such people, I would like to introduce Patricia whom we all lovingly call Pat. She is a person filled with honesty, love and humbleness. She has travelled all around the globe and her blogs reflect her experiences. I simply adore her simple, subtle nature. She shares a high level of genuity and this can be seen in her comments. She patiently answers all your queries. She is immensely talented and writes very well. Appreciating her down to earth nature, I request all my readers to visit her blogs http://coloursdekor.blogspot.com/ where she passionately writes about decorating homes and http://amitpatty.blogspot.com/ where she writes about her travels. I am happy and surprised to be featured on her blog. Please visit this link to see my blog featured. Thank you so much Pat.....

Concept Ideas for Bathrooms....

I am currently working on some bathroom designs. I have lined up a few concept ideas here. The client is insisting on colourful, bright and unique bathrooms.

Master Bathroom: Concept Idea:

Romantic, Cosy and based on the complimentary colour scheme of the Purple Iris Flower.

Son's Bathroom: Concept idea:
Retro with Graphical Patterns in mosaic, Cool colour Scheme...mostly in Aqua, yellow and white.

Daughter's Bathroom: Concept Idea:

Achromatic colour scheme with red accents...bright and vibrant...

All comments and suggestions are most welcome....

(picture courtesy for boards: internet)

Decorating bland asbestos panels with some easy artwork......

From the day these asbestos panels were put up on the terrace of my in-laws, my hands were itching to do something on them. To personalise the space, I wanted to decorate them myself and I took 2 days to complete this work and by this I mean that I just completed 1 panel out of the 6 panels. I was very eager to share this with all my readers. As a professional designer and a decorator, I am against the idea of spending a lot just because you want to beautify a space. I believe the real challenge is when you can decorate a given space with the least of expenses. With this whole idea in mind, I discussed with my father-in-law who was more interested than me to work out something for this space. After identifying that he was interested in something traditional and ethnic, I scouted around for some old calendars. To my surprise I found lovely calendars with motifs of Radha & Krishna. I decided to keep this as my theme and worked on a Decoupage technique with Oil medium. Here are a few pictures of the same.

Radha & Krishna sheltering themselves from the rain......

View of the individual panel measuring 61/2' x 41/2'

One finished panel. 5 more to go.

Fortunately, I found a few calendars with Radha & Krishna in different moods. I hope to finish all the panels as soon as possible and showcase them on my blog. Before I forget, I spent only Rs.250 to do this panel. I still have the paints and the rest of the materials left to finish 1 more panel. Eagerly wanting to do the next one....

Hope you enjoyed this post.................have a great day ahead !!!!!!

Knowing an Artist...RUKMINI KARLAPALEM ....by chance

What can excite a blogger more ???? Somebody mailed me to say that she was very happy to see her paintings on my blog (the posts on chitrasante). It came to me as a surprise. It shows how small the world can get. At the same time......gives me a high to even think about that somebody who just happened to scroll through some blogs and when she just happened to see my blog..........she sees her works.........her works of art.......her passion. I am sure if I was in her place...I would have jumped allover with joy. On the other side of the coin....it gives me a sheer sense of pride or a deep thrill to know that it was my blog that is the cause of her happiness. Let me introduce you to Rukmini Karlapalem from Hyderabad. She is an artist who exhibited at Chitrasanthe. I admired her paintings a lot at Chitrasanthe...but unfortunately did not spot her there due to the crowd. She has a very different thought in every piece of her art. Her primary focus includes situations from the normal happenings in day-today lives of common people. Although the pictures depict a lot of emotions and feelings...her style of painting emotes the same in the form of happiness by the use of vibrant bold colours. Some pictures for you to see.

Can you spot the artworks of Rukmini in the posts on Chitra Santhe.......?????