Fabric Bowl Re-Do

I made a couple of fabric coiled bowls last year using some rather ugly fabric. The bowls looked better than the fabric by itself, but they were still ugly. So I decided to paint the bowls and give them a new life. After painting I added some touches of metallic paint to highlight them a bit. The paint made them much stiffer feeling too, since I used acrylic paint. The colorful bowl, I painted over using a turquoise fabric paint, so that the fabrics showed through, but gave the bowl a more blended together look. That bowl retained it's softer feel using the fabric paint.

Painted blue with metallic paint highlights. The acrylic paint stiffened the bowl.

This bowl has a different shape than the first bowl, but I painted it the same way.

Here is the original bowl I made in the ugly fabric.

This is the other original bowl I made in the ugly fabric. I like them better painted.

I used a turquoise fabric paint on this bowl and it retained the fabric feel to the bowl. I like how using this paint blended the colors together to give it more continuity.

Here is the original fabric bowl in the scrappy fabrics. I think painting this bowl turquoise helped to bring the colors together better.

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