Decorated Glass Skull

 

I picked up a glass skull from, I think, HobbyCraft, but it was a while ago.

I came across it whilst I was looking for something else.

I gave it a coat of glass paint and then black gesso.

I then painted one half in purple and the other half in blue.

The purple side.

The blue side.

The cork comes out and the skull can be filled if required.

And finally this is the back.

Up-cycled Pen / Paintbrush Pots

Mine is the decaf one!

Added some masking tape to help the fabric stick.

Covered it in T-shirt fabric making as many ruffles as I could.

Then I added some resin and clay pieces.

Same for this one except I used flowers, butterflies, toadstools and leaves.

Made sure everything was totally covered in powertex and left to dry.

Coloured this one up with interference paints, treasure gold and alchemy waxes.

Added some paint brushes for the effect.

And for this one I used black paint with silver and silver treasure gold for the resin / clay pieces.

And I added pens to this pot, again just for the effect.

#rusteffects #powertex #upcyclingchallenge

Skull Candle Display

Stencilled modelling paste onto an 8" circle of mdf.

Made some skull casts from my homemade mould.

A friend sent me three huge church pillar candles.

Using the smallest candle as a centre piece, I created this using the skulls and various cogs and gears.

Each of the skulls has a different design.

And a view from the above of the different sides.

Love the gothic look of this one brought out by the purples.

Having looked at the photos I decided that the candle needed something else, so I added the silver coloured strip around the top.

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.

Powertex Hardware Skull

 

Prepping the skull with hardware.

Martin made me the base, I painted it in black gesso and covered the spiders web placemat in black powertex and stuck it to the base.

Next I painted the whole of the skull in black powertex and let it dry.

Then once totally dry, I coloured it in interference violet, green, gold, blue, indigo and turquoise. 

Unfortunately it's really hard to get a good photo of the colours. 

This is it with the tealight lit.

And from the side.

Texture Atcs

I threw everything at these atcs, modelling paste, white crackle paste, white crackle paint, tar gel and corrugated cardboard to create a background of texture.

Once everything was dry I used Dazzling metallic paints for the base layer, second layer was several colours of metallic lustres until I liked what I had. Lastly I added a touch of black carbon media paint.

Painted a wooden cog, added a prestud and a metal charm

Close up of the texture, using the carbon black to hi-light

Wooden ruler painted silver, metal embellishments and a mini bulb added

Again, carbon black added to hi-light the textures

All products are from the DecoArt range