Pottery Painting

With my job taking up the majority of my life, I found it quite challenging last year to get out and try new things. No more.

You can even enjoy a cup of tea while you paint

During the half term holidays I rounded up a few friends and off we went to Clapham to try our hand at pottery painting. Now, this is a brave move from me. I am not very artistic. When I was in secondary school I remember very clearly being required to make a clay pot in one of our art classes. Being the typical nerd I tried my best on it only to have the art teacher burst out laughing when she saw it and then proceed to pick my pot up and take it through to the next door room so that the other teacher could laugh at it! I would have been offended if I wasn't already aware of my low ability..

To prevent embarrassment I went on Pinterest to get a few ideas before I got there. My plan was to go simple: a watermelon bowl. Paint the inside red, the outside green and add a few black dots for seeds. Unfortunately when I got there they were out of bowls and I was left with a blank mug and no clue what to do. Fortunately, Pinterest once again came to save the day. I saw a mug with a giraffe painted on it so I adapted it to do a giraffe one side and a flamingo the other. I spent so long sketching it in pencil that by the time I started painting some of my friends had finished already!

So much concentration!

I had such a great time and it didn't even matter that I wasn't an arty person. You can get so many ideas online and a lot of them are a lot easier to carry out than they look. I was incredibly happy with how my mug turned out. Unfortunately I'm too scared of breaking it to actually use it!

The results: