Skellie in a Coffin

 

I picked up some plastic skellies and skulls.  I decided he needed a coffin.  So I made one out of cardboard.

I gave it a coat of black powertex and played around with some fabrics and resin pieces.

Then I decided I wanted to mount it on something and use a technique shown to us by Finn aka Anna, in one of her live shows.

After a coat of black powertex I dry brushed in white.

Then to see how he fitted in the box with the fabric in.

Once I was happy with everything I mounted the coffin on the background piece.

And a view from the bottom to the top.

And from the other side.

Close up of some of the embellishments.

And some more from the other side.

And a close up of the legs and feet.

And then a close up of the bottom right.

And finally a close up of the skull and skellie.

This is for sale in my online shop.

Geisha Figure #2

All set up to make another geisha, this time I used cotton fabric.

I decided to add a tube to the bottom to pad it out a bit.

Covered the cotton fabric in transparent powertex and formed it on the figure how I wanted it.

Then left her overnight to dry and this what she looked like this morning.

So today I gave her a face and some hair.

And the view from the back.

And a close up of the face.  I did contemplate adding some arms but she looked better without them.

I really like how she came out and how vibrant the red has stayed.

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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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Up-cycled Angels

 

Apart from the head, these are totally up-cycled.  Piece of wood from the old gate, tubes from catering rolls of tinfoil, used tin foil, old wire coat hanger for the wings, old dishcloth, old t-shirt and scarf.

Covered the body with off cuts of an old t-shirt and painted the wings, all in bronze powertex.

Next I draped off cut of fabrics, lace and old scarves over each of the figures just to see how they would lay.

I then covered all the pieces in powertex and arranged them on the figures.

Coloured with silver and blue pigments.

And the back.

And on this one I just used the silver.

And again from the back.  

I just need to get a couple of pieces of slate now to mount them on.

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On the Road - Combi Camper Challenge

 

So over on the Powertex Australia Creative Hub FB page Ashley has started a challenge called 'On the Road - Combi Camper' and the idea is that we create a camper van to virtually travel around different points of Australia and create other challenge pieces when we get there. You can get a kit, but I wanted to challenge myself and see if I could make something like.  I used cardboard, bubble wrap and masking tape to get the basic shape.

I gave it all a coat of black powertex and once dried I used easy structure paste through a stencil on the roof.

I mixed up a batch of stoneart clay and made some flowers and a word.

I decorated the front with wooden pieces so they would stand out.

And then one side, wheels are done in cardboard.

And then more or less the same thing on the other side.  I wasn't precious about getting them exact, just similar will do for me.

I added more stencilling with the easy structure and then dry brushed everything in white pigment.

Next I got more or less everything out to get some colour on there.

As you can see, I went for bright bold colours.

And on the front I used quite a few chipboard offcuts and blended the colours in.

I'd decorated a few other bits and bobs I found in my stash.

Made sort of a spare wheel to put on the back panel and some lights and bumper.

I made a surfboard for the roof, let's face it, you can't have a camper van without a surfie now can you.

And this is what I ended up with.

And from the other side.

And this is the back.  I added some fibres to the ring and you will see why shortly.

That's because I've added a compartment inside and needed something to be able to pull it out easily.

And this is the front.

View from the top with the surfie.

A few close ups.

A bit of stamping.

Stone Art flowers on the roof.

And on the wheels.

And finally I made some tags including some postcards and a couple of tickets in case we need to get in anywhere.

This is my first tag.  As we are virtually travelling around Australia, my thinking is that when we make a stop I'm going to date a tag, write the place name and then after a bit or research, write a bit about it on the tag, or send a postcard and fill in a ticket.

Let the adventure begin xxx

If you want to join in, go to the FB page for Powertex Australia Creative Hub and join the group.