more concrete pots

[Joe Dupre']

These are the latest pots I've made. I was kinda tired of looking at the same old drab, grey raw concrete so I jazzed them up some. Both are loosely based on sort of standard rectangular and oval pots I had on hand.

I think I figured my "niche". I make the pots rustic enough so that people are not expecting perfection. With rustic design, you can get away with "flaws". If you try to go for perfection, flaws stand out and tend to look tacky and amatuerish.

I figure they're not bad for 50 cents of concrete and maybe 10 cents of paint each.

 

[moke]

Nice!!! Not bad at all, you’ve almost got me motivated to make some more con-pots myself.

 

[Joe Dupre']

Moke, the hardest part is shlepping a 94 lb. bag of portland cement around!

 

[BonjourBonsai]

They look great! What kind of paint did you use?

 

[Joe Dupre']

They look great! What kind of paint did you use?

Thanks. I use the 50 cent bottles of acrylic paint from Walmart. They come in every imaginable color.

 

[Beanwagon]

Awesome work. I just made one of these today after watching a few youtube videos. I saw we have some sort of bonsainut concrete pot contest?

 

[NaoTK]

At the Pacific Bonsai Museum there is a little display of concrete bonsai pots made in the Japanese internment camps

 

[Joe Dupre']

Cool! Where there's a will, there's a way.