Pots, Plants and Design
Decorating Techniques and Plants for Clay Pots
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The Lovely Fluttery Butterflies
The butterflies are so pretty and come in so many colors. They are like flowers in the sky. When painting this design experiment with your favorite colors! Harmonize it with the pot’s base colors.
Prepare the pattern for your butterfly. Try drawing it using the triangles to guide the wing shape and the rectangle to guide the body shape, as shown in Illustration 7.
Butterflies vary in their wing shapes and some have tails on their lower wings. But, perhaps you are like my older son, the school teacher. I prepared a lesson plan for him of simple drawing techniques, using circles, squares, triangles and rectangles. Even with these guides he tells me that he cannot draw the shape of an egg! Though I know with a little effort using the guides and with practice he could and, in fact, he would progress quickly to drawing other shapes.
Even so, if you are more confident using a pattern, apply the steps described previously to do so. The fun will be found in the colorful finished butterfly.
Choose the color you want to paint your butterfly. I chose blue for the illustration. Many butterflies have black trim around the edges of their wings. Others have a wonderful variety of spots on their wings. Some have large spots in the middle of their primary wings on either side. This natural camouflage not only deceives their enemies, but its pattern is both dramatic and decorative!
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About the Book
This book provides easy to follow instructions in order to create decorative pots along with horticulture instructions to add a plant or plants. It reaches to encourage individuality in creativity by providing technique, artistic knowledge and inspiration. The project provides an opportunity and encourages interaction with friends and neighbors.
“Pots, Plants and Design” describes a wholesome activity for practically all ages. It is a GREAT project for students in all grades and a therapeutic exercise or fun economical project that will enhance ones surroundings or provide a nice gift to give to a friend or neighbor resulting with smiles and warm feelings.
This book is designed for a novice to accomplish an admirable arts and crafts project and enables her/him to advance beyond novice status. It continues further to provide instructions to fill the nicely decorated pot or pots with a plant or plants by means of plant type, propagation and the act of potting it.
The outcome is one or several decorative and useful objects of value. The reader and doer will gain in talent, horticulture and culture with the added upbeat feeling of triumph and hopefully even stronger friendships and neighborly interaction.
Make many of these easy designed planted pots to sell. It's a great economical and fun project to suppliment your income.
About the Author
With this book “Pots, Plants and Design” Bonnie G. Smith shares with others the delight in the accomplishment of creativity.
She became severely disabled with rheumatoid arthritis and at that time her husband decided to leave and find greener pastures. With her disability she was no longer able to work in her garden, go for long nature walks or ride her horses, so leaving behind the homestead and horses, with her youngest son, she relocated to a warmer climate in
Needing to keep busy and useful and in spite of her physical limitations she turned to her long time desire to draw and paint, where in, she enrolled in the in home
This author graduated in 1997 with a BA in Psychology, a minor in Cultural Anthropology and in Art Studio. After graduation she began creating works of art in her own studio. She has received grants from The Cultural Council of Richland and