Spooky House inspired by Finnibair

I came across a youtube video by Finnibair which I really liked, so I thought I'd give it a go with my own variations of course!

I used a Finnibair stencil with texture paste and sand and also some crackle paste in areas.

Once dry, I painted it with black powertex.

Next I pulled out some die cuts, metal pieces and some clay pieces to decorate with.

Next I laid out a bit of a plan.

This is a T!m die of the spooky house which I added crackle paste to.

Painted the spooky house in black powertex and re-arranged the elements.

I used the powertex to 'glue' down the pieces and then covered everything again.

Then I used metallic paints, pigments and interference paints / pigments to colour everything.

And here it is in the sun.

Tags

The backgrounds of all the tags are the pages that went wrong with the gelli-plate image transfers.

I just simply took some elements and created collages with them.

And this last set, the gelli plate pull was really dark!

And here they are all together.

Gelli-plate Image Transfers

 

Using Tracie Fox's gelli plate transfer technique, this was the first print that came out at the third attempt.  I think the first two times I put too much paint on, so there was no definition.

This was the second one and using even less paint it turned out much clearer.

And finally my favourite one. I love the build up from all the other pulls.

The two that went wrong, I have made into backgrounds for tags.

Canvas Heads

Chopped one of the heads in half.

Used powertex, bister and a hairdryer to get these fabulous effects on the canvas.

Canvas covered in white powertex and sprayed with red and black bisters.

Canvas covered in red powertex and sprayed with red bister.

I painted each side of the head.

And once dry, adhered them to the canvas.

Steampunk

Remember the heads I got for a bargain price, well I decided to play with one of them and this is the result.

Steampunk, steampunk, steampunk.

Mohican Duck

Amazing what you can do with a cardboard tube and a couple of polystyrene balls!

And a wooden spoon handle and some stone art clay.

And some masking tape.

And here he is, all finished, a blue duck!!

I used Ashley's clay ripping technique to cover him, I thought they might look like feathers.

I left the front of the belly feather free.

The head was a bit bare, so I added more clay.

I used spray ink to colour him, lots of different shades of purples and blues and a metallic for a bit of sheen.

From another angle.

And his Mohican hairdo from the back.

EYE - Less

Over on the Powertex Australia Friday Live, this week Ashley was playing with 'eyes'.  I couldn't source a mixed media laser print so I used a magazine image instead.

I used t-shirt fabric to get the ruffles and then dry brushed with various greens and golds.  I started off with black powertex. Ashley gave us a great tip about using triangle shaped pieces.

Close up of the bottom half which is more green than gold.

Close up of the top piece which is more gold than green.

And then I was reminded of copyright issues using a magazine image, so now she is eye-less.