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Old March 5, 2018   #12
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Originally Posted by Ann123 View Post
Maybe it will get more beautiful when the paint peels of, like a more abstract work.
But I don't want paint in my garden. I prefer neutral colors in a garden. We will drill a hole and attach a little stick.
Maybe we'll paint one or two for indoors but the others will be birdhouses hung in a tree.
Thanks for your advice :-)
I always use craft acrylics when I paint my gourds. But my husband grew Bottle Gourds many years ago, before he knew to scrape the dried gourds. He painted and decoupaged the gourds. And the artwork did peel, it is still pretty, and we still have those gourds.
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A few years ago, I bought a gourd seed mix from The Sand Hill Preservation Center, and some of the seeds where Chinese Bottles, when I scraped the dried gourds, the mold that grew on the skin made some beautiful mottled patterns on the gourds. They were mostly visible on the damp gourds. However, a clear protective coating would bring out that fantastic pattern.
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I hope you don't think I am being nosy, but have to crafted gourds before?
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