Water Marble Clay Pots

With white spray paint give your pot a nice clean coat of paint.

Water marble clay pots.

Here is how the project turned out. One of our more amazing success stories over the past few years has been the dark marbled clay that we call basalt. 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. Hold the clay pot by its rim and dip it at one end of the water bath.

A flower pot nail polish disposable container that will fit your pot toothpicks gloves paper towels nail polish remover acetone lukewarm room temperature water. Getting your large plastic tub or container fill it. In this episode of diy boot camp mike and allegra try water marbling for the first time and attempt to make marbleized clay pots. Keep spraying different colors until the surface of the water is mostly covered with paint.

Flower pots 3 colors of spray paint and white paint shallow tub gloves and a stick or two. Start off by making sure that your terracotta pots are clean. How to create these diy faux marble pots with bonus diy marbled mug at the end cost of creating diy marbled flower pots. Don t want to paint on top of dirty pots.

Do this in no particular pattern. Spray paint water. My two terracotta marbleized pots only cost around 12 because i had some of the spray paint colors already on hand. Second fill shallow plastic tub halfway with water then spray your first color in water.

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. Carefully rotate the pot in the water still holding it by its rim so it picks up color on all sides. 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. 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. Make sure you get all of the exterior covered.