How to draw a vase with snakes and circles + basket ball

Vase of snakes and rings (with basket ball)

Choosing the vase

The first thing you must do is to search for a plain-coloured vase. In this case, it was a vase that was standing on the stair landing of a very old house in Noya (La Coruña) that belonged to a grandmother with a lot of grandchildren. 

Painting the rings and snakes

Then you buy a tin of cheap synthetic enamel in a Chinese shop. Do not stir. You can use the top layers of paint. If you paint on a green vase with red paint you will obtain a bright vase with a blend of green and red. Once it has dried, stir the contents of the tin thoroughly with a stick and paint some rings again on the main body of the vase. This time it is going to have a perfect red color. Then decorate the lower ring with a thick curved line, using well-mixed blue paint. Draw some thin red lines  across the curve and finally draw the snake’s eyes and a forked tongue with two strokes. 

Adding the basketball digitally

Draw the other motifs as shown in the image. Finally take a photo and place a ball above the vase’s mouth using the Smooth Draw and Adobe Image Ready editing programs. You can see the result in the picture above.

Another view of the vase of snakes

For another design inspired by an old household object, see Donuts of Jose Romaní’s old crockery.

For another playful digital montage involving basketball, see Three-armed man.