Orchids and more Orchids!

One of my clients contacted me to see if I could create a single green orchid to put on a place card for a 16th birthday party. So I created green cymbidium orchid with hints of pale light green in the center petals and with a pink color highlighting the edges. The throat has pink dots on sides’ scallops and lines on the middle scallop. She really liked so she ordered 6 more.  

 Another order I enjoyed creating was a cake topper a lady requested for a wedding. The cake topper flower arrangement consists of 2 white orchids with a magenta throat (with hints of pale light green).

This is the cake topper arrangement with white Stephanotis flowers painted with hints of yellow in the middle. My best wishes to the newlyweds!

Something special for Mom!

Mother’s day is around the corner and if you are still looking for personalized gifts for mom, you still have time. With Cold Porcelain Art flowers you will find plenty of great flowers from which to choose from.

Here are some of my best sellers:

 

Show your appreciation with a unique gift that shows her how much you love her! 

My Latest Works!

These are my newest creations with one of my favorite flower: roses!

I was recently asked to make this centerpiece using this exquisite nacre vase. Looking at the beautiful colors of the nacre I decided to create white roses with a soft pink touch. It was a challenging creation because of the vase shape.

Also, this past month I created these roses centerpieces. In both of them, the flower arrangement is placed on a wood base, giving a touch of nature to my flowers.

And my spring inspiration creation is this cute daisies arrangement placed inside of an acrylic display box.

The centerpieces and the daisies are already on my Etsy Shop. Take a Look!

What is Cold Porcelain?

At every show people stop to admire my cold porcelain flowers and ask me: “Are these real?” It is not after touching them that they realize that they are not! My answer: my passion is to achieve realism with cold porcelain.

But what is cold porcelain?

Called Cold Porcelain mainly because the compounds don’t require being heated or baked like traditional porcelain as it air-dries. Its characteristics provide a smooth and extremely malleable texture that can be sculpted into any shape you can imagine and then air-dried; allowing artists to design and replicate nature with amazing lifelike detail.

Other great advantages of Cold Porcelain are that it is very durable, light-weight, and it can be colored, texturized and easily combined with many kinds of materials, therefore achieving realistic and beautiful details with smooth finishes like no other clay.

Cold Porcelain enables fine art that with the right care can last a lifetime.

What does cold porcelain mean to me?

My passion! It all started several years ago in Bolivia, where I am from and where for the past few decades this art has evolved into precise methods that taught me from how to prepare my own Cold Porcelain clay to mastering many different techniques of working with it.

I fell in love with Cold Porcelain and the art of replicating flowers at my first training class, since then I have not stopped creating lifelike floral arrangements and learning new techniques that take full advantage of the versatility that Cold Porcelain clay allows.

It is through this art of modeling and uniqueness of Cold Porcelain that I can fully express my passion and admiration for nature.

Thanks Des Moines!

Shows, shows, and more shows!! The last week of September I attended the Largest Arts and Crafts Show in Des Moines. It was three amazing days where thousands of art lovers gathered at the Fairgrounds to admire and shop from more than 300 hundred exhibitors.

It was my first time attending this event and I truly enjoyed exhibiting my art creations. This experience gave me the opportunity to meet amazing artists as well as meeting and interacting with great people interested in learning more about Cold Porcelain Art and the different techniques that I use in my creations.

Here are some pictures:

 

In a couple of weeks I will be finishing an order of wedding favors that are both cute and very unique! Stay tuned for the pictures and yes... more shows!