just like that...: April 2012

There was once a mould of clay waiting to be moulded by the potter in the far away land of Indonesia. The potter thought and thought and thought that what was it that he wanted to shape this lump of clay in. Just then his eyes went to his pig in the pen oinking away to glory and he had reached a decision.

He painstakingly moulded his lump of clay into a pig and baked it and coloured it. The piggy looked pretty with a light pink round chubby body and cute little ears, a little tail, and a very piggy snout. He then wondered why not make it into a piggy bank and so he did. He created a tiny slit on the top where kids could slip in coins and a round opening under the belly covered by a knob from where coins could be taken out. He was so happy with the idea that he could not wait to put his piggy up for sale in his shop.

And so, the day arrived when the piggy proudly sat in the shop counter smiling at the people who looked at him and admired him and then my mom stopped upon him, looked at him, remembered me and picked him up:-) He was mine!!!!

It was a long long way back in the cargo and the travel, then till he was delivered to me, he was a little dusty. For me, he was a dream come true. I had always dreamt of having a piggy bank of my own and I am sure everyone in my family remembers the endless painful family trips we have had together looking for a piggy bank for me in every mall and every shop. Even plastic looked pretty to me but the piggy banks just weren’t there.

The piggy has stayed loyal to me ever since and it has been nearing 5 years now. So, one fine day I decided to paint my piggy up. The colours used were water based poster colours and simple paint brushes from camlin you get in every stationary shop. The palette was also simple white plastic. The whole process took me less than 2 hrs. Lemme take you through with the steps I followed.

I started with just mixing the colours red with lots of white till I got the cute pink I was looking for. I painted piggy completely pink and then the process of painting his snout, eyes, feet and the tail happened. I am sorry i don’t have the pics of all this, I was so excited to paint him and all, it completely slipped my mind. I have included the profile pics of piggy before and after being varnished. There are pics of me with the piggy also. I maintain that I am not the piggy but he is. The similarity is appreciable though. So here goes, view and go awwww, and ooooo chooo cute!!!. Oh! Oh! And I painted him a new tail too, a nice curly one too

NEWLY PAINTED AND PRETTY PINK, I WAS MORE EXCITED THAN HIM:-)

HEYYYY!!! HOW YOU DOIN?

THE NEWLY PAINTED CURLY TAIL!

DOESN'T PIGGY LOOK ADORABLE?

And so, after he was all nice and pretty and new, I varnished him and he looked really nice. Now, he sits all shiny and smiley, looking as glamorous and charismatic as he could.

So, there is one pic me varnishing him and then bonding and then of course, the profile pics again.

The varnish used was simple Asian paints varnish and a synthetic brush, a narrow one ay hardware shop person would have.