Up-cycled Skeleton Plaque

This is the front of a kitchen drawer that was being thrown out.

Painted it with black gesso then used grunge paste through a couple of stencils.

Once dried, I painted over it in black gesso.

I made a mould from a skeleton that I was given by a friend. Then I cast it in fast cast resin.

Got a few more bits and bobs out and started to build a composition.

Dry brushed the background with silver to bring out the texture from the stencils.

I used various purples and blues to paint the background pieces.

Close up of the top of the composition.

The skeleton clothing is coloured with pewter treasure gold and the bones of the skelly are coloured with old white matte wax by Finn.

I painted the cross gold as I wanted it to stand out.

Another close up of the various elements.

And finally, the finished piece.

I usually paint all the different embellishments / elements before I stick them down, but this time I glued them down, painted everything black and then added colour.

Spooky T-Light Holder

 

Another item picked up at the car boot. The top of a t-light holder, bottom was missing. I dry brushed it with black powertex.

I made some mummy moulds and painted them with black powertex.

I then decided I needed more mini cogs, bones and skulls.

I found a piece of MDF in the shape of a cog. I painted it with black powertex and made a bit of an arrangement using mini embellishments.

I couldn't decide if I wanted to put something inside and glue it down.  I inserted a few different pieces but you just couldn't see properly what it was meant to be.

I also couldn't decide if I wanted to glue the top down or leave it free.  I decided to leave it free and glued down the mini embellishments in front of it.

I glued some of the mini embellishments onto the frame of the holder.

I used silver treasure gold and brushed iron alchemy wax on them.

This is the top taken off the bottom and you can see that the mummies look like they are stranded in the air!!

And this is how the bottom set of embellishments stack up.

And here are the two pieces separated but in the same photo.

All put back together again with the mummy feet matching up with the cogs.

This is the view from the back.

I lifted the top off the base and added a battery candle. The flame flickers, so it was quite a nice effect.

Then I switched it for a multi-coloured battery t-light.

This is the reason why I didn't want to glue the top piece down.  It looks fabulous with the light coming through.

Egyptian Influence

I decided to use a piece of corrugated cardboard as my substrate. I got some rather interesting packing recently and wanted to incorporate it too.

I placed some of my recent clay pieces made from Artyco moulds, where I thought I wanted them.

Next I chose the fabulous new heiroglyphics stencil from Artzone designed by Debs Wainwright. 

I cleared the corrugated to create the background using white modelling paste and the fabulous Heiroglyphics stencil. I decided to go all over rather than just where I thought I might need to put it.

Once dry I placed all the other pieces back on and covereded everything in black powertex.

As you can see, everything was covered really well.

Once completely dry, I dry brushed the whole piece with gold pigment to bring out the details.

Close up of the dry brushing. You can really see the details from the stencil.