Finnabair On-line Workshop

 

As I didn't have any appropriate tissue papers, I made my own in prep for the class.

Saturday afternoon, all set up and ready to go.

And here we are, live with Anna.

I've just added crackle paste to the edges here.

And moving on to the next step. Keeping up with Anna.

Once everything was dry it was the building up of the elements.

Once I was happy I stuck everything down and then that's where I stopped for the evening as I wanted to wait until it was all properly dry.  So this morning I gave everything a coat of white gesso.

Then I painted both pieces using shades of blue, grey and black, trying to add shadows, but I never have been any good at that!

Once the paint was dry I moved onto the waxes.

And lastly, added a bit of bling.

Close up of the front cover.

And close up of the back cover.

Really good on-line class, well paced and easy to keep up.

Green man Plaque - Autumn

 

I've wanted to make a greenman plaque for ages.  I missed out on a workshop a while ago and then the next one was on a week day, so I couldn't go again.  Anyway, then I remembered that a friend at the time, had bought me a powertex green man plaster piece for my birthday, so I went and dug it out.  I also went to another friends house last Saturday to pick up some bits and bobs she'd saved for me, including some jewellery and dried fir cone bottoms.  From all of this stash I came up with the above arrangement.

I then laid it all out and gave it a coat of bronze powertex and allowed it to dry.

Then I had a wander down to the post office and came across a tree which was shedding its acorns and caps, so I picked a few up on the way back and added them to my piece.

Then once everything was completely dry I got the pigments out and started to colour everything up.  

Apparently there are four seasons to the green man set and this one is my version of autumn.  I'm really pleased with how it turned out.