Altered Bottle using Natural Products

I was gifted another couple of gin bottles.

Painted them with black powertex.

Put on a coat of metallic green paint, then a coat of PVA glue, then a coat of black powertex and used the heat gun to make cracks to reveal the green underneath.

I used some natural bits and pieces that I found whilst foraging.

I stuck them onto the bottle with heavy body gel as I didn't want to ruin the background.

Then as I wanted them to go hard and be sealed, I carefully painted them all in a layer of black powertex and left them overnight to dry.

I was very kindly gifted some terragreen powertex pigment and I just love it so I had to use it on this arrangement.  I then added some gold over the top as well.

And a close up of the front.

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Another Altered Disaronno Bottle

 

Another empty Disaronno bottle courtesy of my neighbours recycle bin!

I gave the bottle a coat of black powertex and then laid some resin mould casts until I liked the layout.

The painted everything with a coat of black powertex and used it as a glue too.

And I decided to use lots of different coloured metallic acrylics to paint the elements.

Then I decided to put some stones in the eye sockets.  I can't decide if I want anything on the bottle top yet.

I decided I did.

View from the sides and top.

And finally a view from the top.

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Geisha Figure

 

I started off with a wooden meat hammer, a toilet roll tube and some masking tape.

Next I attached one of the Geisha Powertex heads onto the end of the handle.

I coated a piece of t-shirt fabric in white powertex and draped it over the structure.

Next I coated a piece of green silk in transparent powertex.  It didn't quite turn out how I expected, but it was still salvageable. Once dry I added the lighter green around the middle and neck.  I also wanted bigger hair so I made some stoneart clay and added some beads on cocktails sticks.

Then I painted the hair with black powertex and I also gave her a face.

And this is how she looks from the back.

And a bit of a close up of the front.

And a closer close up of the face and hair.

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Dinky Altered Chutney Jar

 

Martin's been eating up the chutney that we got for Christmas!!  The square jars are so cute and dinky.

I coated the jar with black powertex and then added some sandballs for texture.

I added some resin embellishments to each side.

I dry brushed with gold on the jar and then silver on the embellishments.

And the other two sides of the jar.

#rusteffects #powertex #upcyclingchallenge

Altered Steampunk Brandy Bottle

It started with an empty Bardinet VSOP French Brandy bottle.

I painted the bottle with black powertex and then a covering of Pebeo Dyna paint.

I then put on a coat of PVA glue, covered in a layer of black powertex and heated until cracks stated to appear.  I tied string around the steampunk plate embellishment as I wanted it to dry in that position on the bottle.

Once dry I added the other embellishments.

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Steampunk Dragonfly Altered Bottle

 

Lovely shaped empty gin bottle.

Firstly I gave the bottle a coat of black powertex and once dry a coat of Pebeo Dyna paint.

I made some resin casts from the moulds and I tied the steampunk plate onto the bottle to get it to hold in the position I wanted it be.

I did this one different as I painted all the pieces first and then used the powertex to glue them on.

And finally I added a few sparkly sprinkles for a bit of bling.

#rusteffects #powertex #upcyclingchallenge

Steampunk Style Polystyrene Torso

 

I picked up this fab little torso / mannequin for a bargain price of £5.

I covered it in a layer of black powertex.

And covered the back too.

I cut up pieces of leather and stuck them on. Once dry I added gems to the corners of each piece to look like studs.

I added eyelets to two long pieces of leather on each side and used some leather lace to criss cross them over.

Then I coated all the leather in a layer of black powertex and left it to dry.

I used resin to make the cogs and painted them in black powertex.

Next I added a chunky zip.

Then I decided to fill the front in with leather.

 

And around the zip on the back with more pieces of leather.

Next I started placing steampunk elements on the back.

I glued them on with black powertex and then gave everything a coat.

I made some more steampunk pieces from moulds.  I used stoneart clay on some and the dragonfly is from resin, but I took it out of the mould before it had completely cured so that I could shape it to fit the mannequin.

Then I added more to the front and attached the belt.

I painted them in black powertex.

I put a series of cogs on the arm holes.

I decided to add wings to the back.

And finally I gave everything another coat of black powertex.

Next I used various different metallic pigments and varnishes to colour the pieces. The reason the gold looks a bit hap-hazard is because the different leathers have different textures.

Close up of the front, the dragonfly is silver so it really stands out, but there is no sun today, so it's not a great photo.

And from the back, coloured all the pieces inside the zips with the same colour.

View from the side.

And then the other side.

And off-set to the right.

And finally to the left.

#powertex #upcyclingchallenge #rusteffects