Piggy Calavera

This little piggy bank will be auctioned off at the 2011 American Cancer Society Cattle Baron’s Ball in Peachtree City, Georgia. I'm always happy to help out with any fundraising efforts when I can!

Work Work Work!

Our Sunday was full of little projects, from cleaning up the house to school homework. Maz and I spent some time together at the kitchen table working on things that are due this week.

A skeleton. Testing out my puppet-making skills.

Mazzy works on a school project.

Priming another pig. (Remember last year's?)

She's coming along nicely. Of course, I smear some of the paint after taking this picture!

Complete - Pig von P

Pig von P is complete and ready to be shipped off tomorrow morning!







She will be auctioned off at this year's Cattle Barons' Ball, benefitting the American Canver Society, held in Peachtree Citty, Georgia.

Painting a Ceramic Piggy Bank - Day Two

Mixing the acrylic paint with Mod Podge is helping the paint stick permanently to the pig. Thank goodness! Here you can see the blue swallow on its left side. It's holding a pink ribbon that flows around the whole body.


I'm filling in the negative space with random dots and stars, as often seen in old school tattoos. These photos are from Monday and today I plan on fixing black lines and filling in with more dots and stars. I'm looking forward to getting this finished and shipping it off to its fundraising destination!

Painting a Ceramic Piggy Bank - Day One

A few weeks ago I was asked to participate in a fundraiser where artists paint a ceramic pig to be auctioned off. I chose to accept the challenge, and here's my little ceramic piggy.

So I'm to paint the pig, and send it back to the fundraiser organizer. Easy enough, right? Well, I was dumbfounded as to how to paint the pig. Acrylic paints wouldn't adhere to the ceramic glaze. There's special ceramic paint somewhere out there, I'm sure, but that involved at least an hour-long drive to the nearest Hobby Lobby. To be frank, I just didn't have the time, or the extra cash.

I set the pig aside, and let my ideas work themselves out in my brain for a few days. Finally it hit me...sand off the glaze. Durrrrr.


My handy dandy small hand sander did the trick. Now the pig's all sanded and acrylic paint should have a nice surface in which to dry.


Of course, my pig's going to be tattoo-inspired! I have a super neat name for him (or her!) when I'm finished. There are spots that weren't sanded correctly so some of the lines are rubbing off. I think adding Mod Podge to the paint might help out with the adhesion troubles. I'll keep you posted!