Finn Class - Day 1 - Altered Rusty Clock (AM)

So yesterday we (me, Janet & Jules) travelled up to Haddington nr Edinburgh to spend the weekend with Finn (aka Anna).

We stayed at a lovely pub hotel called The Golf Tavern.

This was my lovely room for the weekend.

After breakfast on Saturday, we made our way over the bridge and headed towards The Mad Scrapper, the craft shop where the workshops were taking place.

Day 1, workshop 1.  Once we had all been introduced we chose our seats and unpacked our craft bags.

We'd been given a clock to play with.  Janet just trying to fathom out how to get the back off!!

Then we made a start on building up the composition for the inside.

This was mine.

Anna with everyone at the front, showing us how to use the heavy body gel properly. Slap it on, and use loads was the outcome - lol.

Table all set up with Prima Finnabair products for us all to play with.

Everyone working on their ideas for the clock.

Bit of a close up of the flower arranging!

Unfortunately we didn't get much time to speak to these two as the sessions were so fast paced.

Some of Anna's artwork from previous visits on the wall at The Mad Scrapper.

Janet heating up her glue gun to stick the paper flowers down.

Louise and Sara doing the same.

And this is what I did to mine.  I forgot to take any more photos because of laughing so much!!!

Group photo of the nearly finished pieces.

We then stopped for lunch and then onto the afternoon session.

Steampunk Clock

 

I picked up this clock from the car boot.

Martin took it apart for me and this is what he salvaged from the inside workings.

So we now just have the shell and the glass face.

I primed the case with black gesso.

Added some stencilling to the front.

I covered the outside casing with steampunk elements, resin and metal.

And the view from the top.

I was playing around with putting some more resin pieces on the front.

Next I was having a play with different sized cogs and gears and how I was going to display them on the inside.

I primed the metal and resin pieces.

Painted the cogs in a gold colour.

A close up of the inside.

The outside painted silver and then silver and a bit of gold wax.

And the other side.

And finally the finished article.

The back is just painted plain black.

Close up of the skull inside.

And another one.

Bottom corner.

Altered Alarm Clock

 

I bought a second hand alarm clock from the car boot for 50p

I took out the inners.

Painted the frame in black powertex.

Made an arrangement for the middle, painted and glued with black powertex.

Added metal and resin embellishments to the outsides.

I wanted it to have a rusty look on the outsides.

And the other side.

And this is what the whole piece looks like with the middle added back to the frame.

Inspired by a video from Finnabair and a rust effects workshop with Ashley Hay aka Powertex Australia.