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.

#rusteffects #powertex #upcyclingchallenge

Up-cycled Tags

 

Our hoover gave up the ghost at the weekend so Martin went to Currys for another one.  I cut the packaging up and kept the three pieces above.

Coated them in black powertex.

Next I mixed some powertex sand into some soft gel medium and spread it onto the tags.

Once dry, I painted over them with powertex and then used metallic waxes to colour the edges and bring out the texture.

I cut up some squares from an old scarf.

Took them out in the garden and sprayed them with bisters.

Next I cut some squares from this ice-cream box.

I machine sewed the pieces of scarf to the cardboard for stability.

I powertexed some resin pieces.

Steampunk balloon tag.

Gothic style tag.

Skull and wings tag.

Tags created from up-cycled materials for the challenge.

#rusteffects #powertex #upcyclingchallenge

Monster Eye Key Chains

 

I cast some monster eyes from resin and a fab set of moulds.

Then I painted them.

I glazed the eyes, added a screw hook and attached a keychain.

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.

Cross Skulls

I used quite a lot of resin shapes to create this piece.

Exactly the same process, stencilled and then pieces stuck down with gel medium and painted with black gesso.

Coloured with a coppery, fiery, orangey / red pallet.

And in the greenery.

Gears and a Rear

 

Martin cut an A3 board into 3 for me and this is how I used the first one.

Placed everything down and once dry, painted with black gesso.

I decided to use a colour pallet of green and gold.

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.