Santa of the Dead

I covered a skull with a mix of powertex and different sizes of sandballs.  I added a couple of flowers in the eyes, but they have kind of got lost, so did the mouth, so I was playing around with some hardware in the shape of nuts, bolts and screws.

Once I was happy with the mouth/teeth, I then started playing around with pieces for the nose and eyes.

Added a gem to each eye socket and some red roses.

I then added hand charms and some chain. 

Due to all of the nuts and bolts at the front, I needed to add some 'weight' to the back so it would stand up on the wooden spool.

View from the left.

View from the front.

I actually love how he turned out. He is for sale in my on-line shop.

Skull Lantern

  

I picked up this small lantern at the car boot. It was red so I painted it with black powertex.

Thanks to Tracey Fox, I made these mini candles.

I filled the inside with 3 of the mini candles, 3 mini pumpkins, 3 small bones and a mini bottle with beads.

I added various metal pieces to the top and front edge.

I put the skull in as the centre piece.

One of the sides where I added webbed fabric to the window and two small bats to the top.

And the other side, where I added a large bat to the top and more webbing.

This will be going up for sale in my new website - https://aviarto.com/workshop/sam-b

Paint Pots & Cats

 

Finished a couple of coffee tins which I've changed into paint / pen pots.

And the other sides.

Added the resin and metal pieces.

I used bronze powertex.

Made a couple of cats using bottles and polystyrene ball.

I coloured them with gold and silver powertex pigments and the varnish, added some metallic buttons and made them each a pair of specs.

10 Green Bottles!!

 

This is the empty glass bottle I used.

I covered it in kitchen roll with transparent powertex, for no other reason than that is what I had out on the table. I also added some string for added texture.

Then I decided to paint it green.

I dry brushed with gold to bring the textures out.

I added some metal embellishments.

I added a dragonfly but I wasn't happy with the colour of the embellishments as instead of standing out, they blended in.

So to make it brighter, I painted gold on the metal pieces and metallic purple on the dragonfly wings.

Close up of the embellishments.

And close up of the gold on the bottle.

#powertex #rusteffects #upcyclingchallenge

Decorated Shloer Red Grape Bottle

I forgot to take a photo of the empty bottle again!

I did this the same way I did the vodka bottle, to get the cracks except I used silver instead of gold this time.

Then I decorated the front and coloured it with metallics.

Heart, Skull, Cogs

 

From the selection of resin moulds I made previously.

I picked out the ones I wanted and laid them out until I liked what I saw.

I stuck them all down using black powertex.

Then I coloured them with the waxes.

Queen of Steam and Cogs Plaque

 

I made lots of pieces using the moulds and resin.

I painted a substrate and tried to get it to look like it was patina'd.  Then arranged some of the pieces onto it.

I had to do this one slightly different as I didn't want to add any more colour to the background, so I painted the individual elements with black gesso and then using the waxes, I coloured them.

And here is my finished piece which I am really pleased with.

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.