Stone Art Workshop with Allison

Today, me, Chris, Emma, Lesley and Lin all went over to Nottingham to take a Powertex class with Allison. This is her showing us some of the things you can do with the Stone Art product.

Lesley and Emma listening intently. Hmmm...... can I do this?

And Chris and Lin on the other side of the table.

And Allison telling us how she created this piece.

This is a close up of the above piece, fab isn't it.

Then I stopped her in her tracks as she was explaining about the plaster figures, I needed a team photo!

We then set to and created our shapes. I had a circle, so had to cut the middle out, which made snow!!

Allison then showed us how to use the Stone Art product.

And then explaining what she's doing and how the get the stone effect.

Me getting a close up of what is going on!

Then she showed us the different effects that the different colours created.

Then before we knew it, it was lunch time. We were all eating and Lesley was just adding a few more touches.

Then we did a bit more and it soon became afternoon tea break and cake time.

It's Lin, Emma and Chris's birthdays all within a week of each other at the end of January, so we had birthday cake and candles. 

Then back to it, Lesley and Emma titivating Lesley's fabric.

Ooooh look, it's now snowing on Emma too - hehehehe!!

This is Emma's WIP, she came to a bit of a standstill as she was waiting for her budda to set.

This one is Lin's WIP, she chose a circle too.

This one is Chris's WIP. Chris hadn't seen these products before, but absolutely loved it.

This is Allison's test piece, she showed us loads of techniques and was very happy to share her knowledge.

This is Lesley's WIP, she put some stencilling on hers too.

And finally, this one is mine.

And this is us more or less finishing up. We didn't half make a mess, so out came the hoover!! I hope we are allowed back at a later date as we had such a wonderful day and Allison is absolutely lovely. I did pre-warn her what we were like before we booked!!

We had a group photo before we all left for home.

And this is my finished piece.

A close up of the lace with the bister and coloured pigments.

Should you wish to take a class with her, and I highly recommend that you do, you can contact her at

 www.allisonturnerdesigns.co.uk

Powertex Notebooks

Way back in November I covered these notebooks on my very first home play with Powertex to take today for a little pressie for the girls on today's Powertex workshop.

I used the ivory powertex on all of them, together with cotton fibres, fabrics, lace, scrim, hessian, mulberry bark, clay faces, shapes, paper flowers, string, dishcloths, and other bits and bobs.

This is the back of one of the notebooks.

 And the back of another of the books. 

This is the back of one of the books which has had clay pieces adhered to it and has been lightly dry brushed with DecoArt dazzling metallics.

These are the fronts of all six of the books, each with a light dry brushing of DecoArt dazzling metallics.

Close up of the purple and blue book.

And the front of the ruby red and pink book.

This is one of the finished books. It's been dry brushed with a mix of white and black pearl to make a silvery grey.

And this is the finished cogs book, it is also dry brushed with the black and white mix as I initially made too much - lol.

And another of the finished notebooks, this one has the dragonfly on the back which is why the front is a bit sparse.

I hope they like them, and I hope we all learn something new today as we are playing with Powertex and Stone Art, so I will be back later with a run down of the workshop.

Mail Art Swap

Chris has set up a mail art swap over on mini marvels FB group. Mine are 3" x 4" and have been made on the envelope punch board from gelli prints using various Decoart multi surface satin paints.

I used two Teesha Moore stamps, the only two I own and some printed faces to decorate the fronts and backs of each envie. They just need a stamp and address label and they are ready to go.

Powertex Plaques

A while ago I made these plaques as I was using up some powertex, but I lent my gold paints to a friend, so I came to a standstill, but earlier this week I met up with her and she gave me them back, so I was able to paint the clay faces. 

And this is the other one. I added various colours of treasure gold to the fabric and clay faces.

First go at a Fairy

So I had a play with some wire to try and create the shape of the frame I wanted to use for my fairy. For the head and nose I used a couple of polystyrene balls.

Next I bent the wires into a sitting position and used the roll of masking tape as a temporary seat. I built up the body with tin foil and masking tape and put masking tape on the arms and legs.

Next I wrapped the whole frame with t-shirt material which had been dipped in a mix of ivory and black Powertex as I wanted a grey colour, once dry, I gave her a basic skirt.

I added more black to the powertex mixture in the hope of darkening it, then dipped in the pieces of lace for her skirt, waist band and front panel. I then added the head and the hair. Now this was possibly a mistake.

Next I attempted to add the fairy wings, which again had been structured with wire.

And after spending an evening in the airing cupboard, this is what she now looks like.

And this is a view from the side. It's dark outside so this is taken with the light on.

I coloured the wings with patina and teal dazzling metallics.

Painted the hair with titan buff, the legs, arms and halo with silver media paint.

I painted the lace pieces with amethyst and purple pearl dazzling metallics.

I have sat her on a piece of polystyrene which I am going to turn into a piece of stone using the stone art powertex product, once I've taken the class!!

Unfortunately, even though it is dry, it's very cloudy, and I don't think we're going to see the sun so I'll not get outside to take some decent photos today.

***Edited***

The sun popped out for all of 5 minutes, so I took full advantage!