Hello everyone! This is my first post on steemit. I'm going to be posting my art and crafts.
My name is Chrysa and I am from Cyprus. I'm an artist and I like to work with clay and create sculptures, home decorations, tourist souvenirs and wedding favors.
I work with my husband in a small workshop in our town, which is also our shop. All the pictures I will post here are our own creations. We work mainly by hand. In some occasions if a customer needs many copies, we create a mold for the basic shape and from there on we continue the refining and coloring by hand.
We work with different kinds of clay which we bake in the oven. We experiment with different baking temperatures and techniques. We also work with enamel and gold leaf to add style and texture.
These pictures are some examples of our work. The following is a book molded by hand. I write the letters with a tool similar to a toothpick. I usually like to write poetry from poets of my country or quotes about life. My customers can request their own favorite quotes or book excerpts.
I often prepare wedding and christening favors. In my county we have a tradition for people who get married or christen their children to give a small gift to their guests as a thank you for attending. It often has a theme.
Apart from small crafts and gifts, we also create bigger sculptures. The following nude was handmade by my husband.
Thank you for checking out my work. Unfortunately, this kind of work in my country is underpaid. I hope that steemit community will help me support it and maybe grow it into something bigger.
If you like this artwork, please follow me at @colourandclay.
A very warm welcome to Steemit or like I prefer to call it "the greatest social media out there" 😊 (Okay maybe Steemit is more suitable 😂) I hope you enjoy your time here and get to know all the great people out of this awesome community. It's ways better than facebook or twitter if you ask me and I'm just here for a few days so far 😊
Stop by at my blog as well if you like 😉
Thank you so much for your nice words! I will stop by your blog for sure! :)
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Welcome to Steem @colourandclay I have sent you a tip
Thank you!
Welcome to Steemit! I hope you like it here as much as I do. I'm always learning from others, so feel free to connect with me @lulita 😀
Hello lulita! Thank you. I will visit your blog too!
Welcome! I'm new here too and I like your art. So unique. I follow you!
Thank you and welcome too!
nice artwork colourandclay welcome to the community, follow me @jzeek and i will do the same in return thanks.
Thank you. I will follow you.
Our community is better because you're in it. You should be thanked more often. So thank you for posting!!! Looking forward to more great content!!!
Thank you, you are so nice!
Welcome abroad! This is a great community. Your creativity and work will be appreciated by the community. Keep posting on regular basis. Accolades will come on your way. Way to go, mates
I have sent you a small tip. Enjoy.
Looking forward seeing your next post.
Thanks for your kind words!
Welcome to this fabulous community! I post about cryptos, economy, silver,etc. Please checkout my posts to see if they interest you and my policy is if you follow me I will follow you. Welcome again and Steem on!
Thank you and I will check your posts!
Welcome to Steemit. There are a lot of artists here. Looking forward to your art works. May you find success at Stemmit. Hope you find this post useful
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Thanks. I hope to meet new artists and see their work as well!
You are welcome. Interaction with other artists will make presence felt in this community. Do check out my profile. I write poetry and share artwork done by my autistic son.
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Thank you
Thank you!
Welcome to Steemit. Excellent work Chrysa
Thank you kyriacos!
Welcome to steemit. Your work is great! Keep posting more :)
Thank you. :)
Welcome to the community, Chrysa! Great work! Follow me at https://steemit.com/@bitgeek
Thank you bitgeek!
Welcome to steemit. You are welcome to look at my post
Thank you, I will look!
@colourandclay
You are welcome to this great family where all for one and one for all reighns supreme.
Chrysa how is beautiful Cyprus? We need a lot of pictures from you as Cyprus has great sites...your clay art is awesome and you can convert the images into good revenues if you add good narratives...before you do...my advice is try and build good contacts and be active on other peoples posts through good comments...also steem chat can help you interact and build followers who shall help you grow. I can and will be glad to be one of them. Welcome from @kenhudoy
Oh, thank you so much for your great advice! I will try to do that.
welcome as always
I really like the body one, definitely a follow.
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