Altered Bottle using Natural Products

I was gifted another couple of gin bottles.

Painted them with black powertex.

Put on a coat of metallic green paint, then a coat of PVA glue, then a coat of black powertex and used the heat gun to make cracks to reveal the green underneath.

I used some natural bits and pieces that I found whilst foraging.

I stuck them onto the bottle with heavy body gel as I didn't want to ruin the background.

Then as I wanted them to go hard and be sealed, I carefully painted them all in a layer of black powertex and left them overnight to dry.

I was very kindly gifted some terragreen powertex pigment and I just love it so I had to use it on this arrangement.  I then added some gold over the top as well.

And a close up of the front.

#rusteffects #powertex #upcyclingchallenge

Festive Stone Art Sculpture

 

Again this started life as a polystyrene circle, then I cut a piece cut out.

I covered the piece in stone art and ivory powertex and then threw everything at it until I was happy with the outcome.

Close up of the stone art texture and the colouring.

I added yellow, brown and blue bister, black powertex and then transparent.

And I incorporated some of the elements left from our gluhwein together with some elements from a previous woods forage which I coated in transparent powertex so I could keep their natural look.