How Do I Paint My Plates?

For me painting is always a miracle and surprise! I never know what I will get in the end :)

The process of painting always starts from inspiration - this is the base of all my works! Inspiration helps me to create beautiful and harmonious patterns and to choose combination of colors.
When the inspiration comes, I begin to draw the sketch for the future plate.

When the sketch is finished, I think about the colors: which colors are the best for this design? I love unusual combinations, i.e. green + pink + light blue.

Now all preparations are done and I can begin to paint! To make the process of painting easier, first of all I draw the ornament on the plate with a pencil and then with paints.

When the painting is finished and dried, I cover the plate with acrylic varnish. 
The final step is to set a hanger on the opposite side of the plate and to sign new work! Voila! The plate is ready to ship!

Currently I am working on new plates for my LekaArt Etsy shop. Welcome!

Have a great great!
Elena

August, Poppies and Joy!

How is your summer? It's already August and we have less than 30 days to enjoy the last summer month!
We made 2 lovely jewelry boxes with trendy poppy motif!

Decoupaged jewelry box 17.4" x 17.4"

Jewelry box with poppies 12.4" x 12.4"

Both jewelry boxes are in our LekaArt Etsy shop in special section.

Enjoy your summer!

Viktoria and Elena

For Homes and Families

Since I've moved to a new appartment this spring I understood how I love cosiness. Unfortunately our repair works are still in progress, so I can only deam about all that lovely little things that make our homes beautiful and warm.

For those who love cosiness and comfort like I do:

Shabby chic wooden word LOVE

Wooden word Love is painted with acrylic paints covered with acrylic varnish. Technique of painting: shabby chic. The word will look stylish in every interior. You may also use it in wedding decor.
The word in 1'' (2.5 cm) thick and remains standing.

And soon in our LekaArt Etsy shop:

Shabby chic wooden sign HOME

Love your family, smile and be happy!

Elena

Sunday News!

Oh how we love ethnic decor! It's very simple and deep at the same time, rich and minimalist and full of inspiration! We got plenty ideas from ancient drawings and art. And today we are showing you our new hand painted wall plate!

DO YOU LIKE IT?

Ethnic decorative plate

The painting is made by hand

Author: Elena Malgin

Diameter: 26 cm

Amazing and absolutely unique thing for home decor!

Great gift to any occassion!

You may ask any question about this plate here on in our LekaArt Etsy shop

Best wishes,

Viktoria and Elena

Rosh Hashanah Gifts! Only one week left!

Hi all!
This is our 3rd post about Jewish New Year (Rosh Hashanah)! The holidays are coming! Only 1 week left! Last chanse to buy the best gifts for your family and friends!

We are located in Petah-Tikva (Israel). If you live here, you may pick up any item you like in Tel Aviv, Ramat Hasharon, Petah-Tikva, Hadera or Raananah (upon request). Without paying for delivery! :)

Soooo, today we are going to show you 4 more beautiful and exclusive jewish souvenirs!

- Exclusive hand painted mezuzah case with pomegranates! Technique of painting: Point-to-point

Hand painted mezuzah case

- Shabby chic wooden mezuzah case with metallic "shin"

Shabby chic jewish mezuzah case

- Handmade ceramic Stars od David (Magen David). We have 2 in stock. The nice cord is included!

Hanging ornaments Stars of David

- Hand carved ceramic hamsa! It's very bright and unusual! Pure handmade ;) The cord is icluded

Ceramic wall hamsa hand

All these Jewish souvenirs can be found in our LekaArt Etsy shop!

We wish you merry and cheerful holidays! Have fun and relax!

See you soon!
Viktoria and Elena

Gifts for Jewish New Year! Rosh Hashanah is coming! Part II

Hi all! How is your preparation to Rosh Hashanah going? :) As for us - we uploaded more new unique handmade jewish gifts in our LekaArt Etsy shop! 

We have already shown you some of our hamsas and today we would like to show you more!

- Charming ceramic hamsa "Ahava". In the center of this hamsa we wrote אהבה (Ahava) that means "Love" in Hebrew language. Perfect gift symbolizing love, prosperity and harmony!

Ceramic hamsa hand AHAVA

- Ceramic hand painted hamsa "Mazal". The word Mazal (מזל in Hebrew language) in the center of the hamsa means Luck. Really great gift for people you love!

Hanging ceramic hamsa MAZAL

- Handmade ceramic hamsa hand amulet! It's made of white clay with love and care, painted with engobes, burnt in kiln, glazed and burnt again. It's not large and will look great as home blessing amulet!

Ceramic hamsa hand amulet for home

- And unique wooden hamsa painted in point-to-point technique! You won't find anything like this!

Wall hamsa hand. Point-to-point painting

Enough for today! Next time we'll show you 1 more hamsa, 2 mezuzot and one more Jewish souvenir!

Have an amazing week!

Viktoria and Elena

Jewish New Year! Have You Already Chosen a Gift?

This year Jewish New Year - Rosh Hashanah - will be celebrated from evening 24th till 26th of September. If you sill don't have any idea of gifts to your family and friends look at this exclusive handmade jewish souvenires!

Today we are going to talk about HAMSAS

The Hamsa is an ancient Middle Eastern and North Afrikan palm-shaped amulet. It's used as a sign of protection in many societies throughout history.
'Hamsa' means 'five' in Arabic symbolizing charity, faith, prayer, pilgrimage and fasting. In some religions it is also a protective sign. Since the Hamsa is considered a gift of love it makes the perfect gift.

We have some beautifully made and painted with love hamsas in our LekaArt Etsy shop

- Wooden hamsa hand "אושר" (this means "happiness" in Hebrew)

Hand painted Hamsa hand from LekaArt

 - Pomegranates ceramic hamsa hand - prosperity amulet for your home!

Ceramic hamsa with pomegranates

- Beautiful jewish hamsa hand with word 'ח that means LIFE

Wooden hanging hamsa for Rosh Hashanah

- White and gold wall hamsa painted by hand!

Hand painted wall hamsa

- And one more hamsa made with love and care!

Wooden painted hamsa for wall decor

Now you see how beautiful and different handmade hamsas can be!

We hope you enjoyed as it was just the first part of our story!

See you soon and have a perfect weekend!

Viktoria and Elena

NEWS! Bright jewelry box and stylish wooden letter!

Hi all!
Today we would like to show you our new items for home decor!
The first one is a tiny jewelry box "Pearl"! It's very cute and not large, so you may put your wedding rings in it!
Size: height - 2 '' (5 cm), length - 3.2 '' (8 cm), width - 3.2 '' (8 cm)
Inner dimentions: height (without cover) - 1.2 '' (3 cm), length - 2.6 '' (6.5 cm), width - 2.6 '' (6.5 cm)
This jewelry box is made of wood and waspainted with acrylic paints.

For more details and pics, please, click on the photo above :)

The second items is a wooden letter Aleph that we also painted with acrylic paints and covered with acrylic varnish. It's the first letter of Hebrew alphabet.

Its sizes: height - 5.2" (13 cm), width - ~4.8" (~12 cm)

 The photo is also clickable!

For more nice handmade items for your home, please, visit our LekaArt Etsy shop!

Have an awesome day!

Viktoria and Elena

NEW! Wooden plates!

Hi all! How are you? We hope that excellent!
Today we would like to show you our new branch of hand painted items for home decor. We already have ceramic plates in our Etsy shop and we decided to paint some wooden ones!
So now we have 2 wooden plates painted by hand. The 1st one has 30 cm in diameter and is blue and violet, the 2nd one has 20 cm and is brown and golden.

Hand painted wooden plate "Sea Pearl"

Hand painted wooden plate "Chocolate Blossom"

We hope you liked our new wall plates!

Have an awesome day!

Viktoria and Elena

Person of the Week: Viktoria (UltroViolet shop with decoupaged jewelry boxes)

This Sunday is the day of jewelry boxes! Girls love to wear rings, bracelets, earring and necklaces and need nice boxes to store them. So if you are looking for a gift for your friend, mother, sister, aunt or just want to find an eclusive and high-quality jewelry box we advise you to visit UltroViolet Etsy shop.

We asked the owner of this shop to tell us about herself and her creative work.

"Hi all! I'm Viktoria and I'm the owner of UltroViolet shop on Etsy. I'm 36 and I'm a happy mother of 2 kids (16 and 4 years old). I live in Germany and it's my 2nd emigration (I've been living in Israel for 10 years before my family moved). New country, baby birth, and maternity leave encouraged me to start searching for my life-work. I tried myself in various types of handmade works and finally chose decoupage and painting.

I'm always in search of new ideas and materials. It takes a lot of time! But I really love this non-stop work as I meet interesting and creative people from other countries. I enjoy the communication as I enjoy trying smth new. My relatives, friends and even my children help me to develop my shop and this is so great!"

We chose 3 beautiful jewelry boxes to show you

Exclusive wooden jewelry box

Unique tee box

Unusual jewelry box for needles and pins

You will also find key boxes, door plates, hamsas and even ostrich eggs in the shop!

Enjoy!

And see you next time!

Viktoria and Elena

News! Peacock detected!

Good day, dear guests and followers! It's Elena!

I love to paint plates and other nice things for home decor. But when I have "special" mood I draw animals on pastel paper :) Well, the ordinary drawing would be a bit boring, so I decided to tone paper with coffee! It looks rather unusual , like an old manuscript.

Today I'll show you 2 of my drawings:

Ink drawing "Peacock"

Ink drawing "Owl"

 We have more drawings in our LekaArt shop and soon we'll show you some brand new ones!

Smile and have a great day!

Viktoria and Elena