OK, you cannot imitate perfectly even your own work

 Hello, reader!

So, there's this problem. But what you can do is try :) and, through repetition, master your skill. I know I will keep coming back to some of my creative solutions. The "dripping effect" on glass is what I've found to be fun to do and people seem to like it.

I began experimenting with different materials to create this effect years ago. Here are some of my oldest works with the dripping effect.

And here are a few of the newer works.

Finally, that last blue bottle I wrote about in my previous post now has gotten its pair.

These final two are available on Etsy. you can take a look here and here.

Are you obsessed with some theme or technique that you keep coming back to?

Until next time...

Can you imitate perfectly your own work?

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Can you or should you create the same thing twice? While finding your style and then "rehearsing" it till it's perfected is great, repeating your own handmade creation is, first off, tricky technically, but it also gets in the way of the original's... originality, the opportunity to call it "unique and one of a kind"

(I know, there is art that exploits or somehow incorporates the idea of mass production, copying, citations, etc. However, this post is not about that.)

So, remember how there is this altered bottle I wrote about some time ago? From time to time, people ask if it's available for sale. I have never actually offered it for sale because it is very dear to me. But, I decided to make a similar one and have that one for sale. 

I definitely would not know how to repeat another work, even my own. I can only try to imitate it, which is what I did here. I deliberately switched the colours a little bit, the bottle itself is different, and then I chose to put two smaller butterflies instead of one and a brass chain instead of the burlap rope. 

The old one is very close to my heart but the new one rocks, excuse my bias :)

It is 23 tall in total, 13 cm wide, and the bottle is pretty thin it reminds me of a flask. 

The item is available on Etsy. 

 

Until next time...

Nostalgia - Teddy bear with a parachute

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The funny thing about nostalgia is that one is able to feel it in connection to times they were never part of. At least that's how it is with me. I'd see a really old photo, an old toy, or whatever artifact from way before I was born, and it will instantly evoke nostalgic feelings in me. 

So, I create to set such feelings in motion, because they are innocent and really nice. 

Patina and muddy colours, patches, worn-out materials... it's all beautiful.

The newest hanging ornament is in the style of old toys. It is a teddy bear with a parachute, 11 cm in height plus 8 cm hanging string. How do you like it? Let me know.

    

 The ornament is available on Etsy.

Until next time...

THE bottle and other bottles

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While I do have more figurines to show you, maybe we should take a break from them and I could say a thing or two about another interest of mine - and that is decoupage on glass, in fact, any kind of altering and upcycling glass bottles and jars. 

From what I've noticed, few of my decoupage friends like to create with bottles. I've heard some of them saying they don't like to work on rounded surfaces, others have specialised in decoupage on boxes, while some of them simply find inspiration elsewhere. 

I, however, love working with glass! I like to believe that I have succeeded in finding my style and even making a few bottles that I see re-pinned quite a lot on Pinterest. 

There is one particular bottle that people seem to love and the stats say this photo of the work is clicked on A LOT:

This bottle is one of the examples where I've used the dripping effect which kinda became my style :) I'll let this one be a teaser and show you more bottles with the same effect in some future post. This time, I want to show a few more works of mine that had other inspirations and techniques.

These two have flowers on them:

and this one is, similarly, inspired by the nature in general:

How do you like them? Let me know.

Until next time...

   

I see flying foxes!

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I have never made a fox figurine so far. So, this Flying Fox was quite a challenge. The posture is something I - I mean, this fox :) - should work on. Nevertheless, I am very pleased with the result! 

The ornament is available on Etsy.

Until next time...

Hedgehog the Traveler

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As promised in the previous post, here is another hedgehog hanging ornament. This one is also tiny, but with the suitcases it is around 11 cm high (without the hanging string).

It is made of clay and paper mache, painted with acrylics, and sealed with water-based varnish. 

We are in the second year of the pandemic and I am sure everyone is eager to go on a trip. With the hope of a more relaxed summer and some vacation at the seaside, I will be making more travel-inspired ornaments. 

Until next time...   

Hedgehog the Reader

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Another hanging ornament from my workshop is this mister here. He's a tiny hedgehog that likes to read. 

[All photos in this post are taken by me and items shown in them are my property. Feel free to share the photos to support my work, but please do not crop them so to cut off the Meetze logo.]

I have heard that hedgehogs are an endangered species, so I felt like doing something, however small it may be, to raise awareness and honour these creatures' cuteness. 

The figurine is only 7 cm tall (without the hanging string). It is made of clay and paper mache, painted with acrylics, and sealed with water-based varnish. It is very lightweight, which makes it perfect for a Christmas tree, but you can keep it as your ordinary, everyday decor, why not :) 

The item is available here!

I am not done with the hedgehog figurines, in fact, I will show another one in the next post, and then I will make more of them :)

Until next time...