Water Marble Clay Pots

In this episode of diy boot camp mike and allegra try water marbling for the first time and attempt to make marbleized clay pots.

Water marble clay pots.

First add 3 parts white paint with 1 part water into a paint safe bowl that s large enough to fit your terra cotta pot. Make sure you get all of the exterior covered. How do you think they ll d. My two terracotta marbleized pots only cost around 12 because i had some of the spray paint colors already on hand.

Third spray the next color into the first color. As it submerges it picks up the marbleized nail polish. Next randomly add in the gold or whatever color you re using paints on top of the white paint. Start off by making sure that your terracotta pots are clean.

Don t want to paint on top of dirty pots. Getting your large plastic tub or container fill it. With white spray paint give your pot a nice clean coat of paint. One of our more amazing success stories over the past few years has been the dark marbled clay that we call basalt.

Materials needed disposable bowl filled with lukewarm water toothpick clear acrylic spray paint disposable gloves. Blended from the same german raw clays as our flagship red clay flower pots it offers a significant elegance upgrade from basic red clay for only a slight increase in price. A flower pot nail polish disposable container that will fit your pot toothpicks gloves paper towels nail polish remover acetone lukewarm room temperature water. Keep spraying different colors until the surface of the water is mostly covered with paint.

Spray paint water. Do this in no particular pattern. Hold the clay pot by its rim and dip it at one end of the water bath. Acrylic paint white at least 2 accent colors disposable bin spare jars or containers to mix paint water paint brush pot terra cotta or clay plastic drop cloth varnish or clear spray paint.

How to create these diy faux marble pots with bonus diy marbled mug at the end cost of creating diy marbled flower pots. Flower pots 3 colors of spray paint and white paint shallow tub gloves and a stick or two.