Sunday 22 November 2015

That Craft Place - MDF Door Hanger (The Walking Dead inspired)

Good morning!  It is time for a new challenge over at the
That Craft Place challenge blog

This fortnight the theme is

MIXED MEDIA ANYTHING GOES

I would like to share with you a door hanger inspired by season 1 of my favourite TV show The Walking Dead (more about the thought process for this piece further down!).
 

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I used the following materials:
   
THAT CRAFT PLACE MDF / GREYBOARD
MDF Door Hanger
Greyboard brick wall
Greyboard Cog
Greyboard Padlock
Greyboard Hinge
MDF Label

MEDIUMS USED
Gesso (black & white)
DecoArt Fluid Acrylics (Paynes Grey & Quinacridone Gold)
DecoArt Crafters Acrylic (Black & Navy)
Pinflair Buff-It (Slate)
DecoArt Ultra-Matte Varnish
Archival Ink (Jet Black)
Distress Ink (Pumice Stone, Peeled Paint & Gathered Twigs)
DecoArt Dazzling Metallics (Silver)

OTHER PRODUCTS USED
Air Dry Clay
Plain cardstock
Patterned paper
Small piece of Greyboard offcut

All products above available from That Craft Place.

ANYTHING ELSE
Posca Paint Marker (White)
Derwent Academy Colour Pencil (Black)
Jump ring jewellery findings
Tissue paper
Cheap coarse glitter (any color!)
Tim Holtz Graph stamp
    
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Summary Process:

Tissue paper glued to the MDF Door hanger, leaving wrinkles for texture.

MDF and greyboard items prepped with black Gesso.

MDF DOOR HANGER

Colour and overall "rust" effect applied using an adaptation of the DecoArt rust technique by Andy Skinner:
 
 
Raised areas highlighted with Pinflair Buff-It in Slate.
   
Stamped with black paint using Tim Holtz Graph stamp.

2 coats of DecoArt Ultra-Matte Varnish applied to the hanger.

Rubbed black Archival Ink over edges and some raised areas.
 
GREYBOARD BRICK WALL

Painted with a light coat of white Gesso.

Mixed lots of coarse glitter in with more white Gesso before applying with a stippling motion. (The glitter colour is unimportant as it is added for texture only and the colour will be painted over.  You could also add coarse sand or use a ready made coarse medium of some sort!).

Painted with a genepaper
but not too thick coat of DecoArt Media Fluid Acrylics in Quinacridone Gold.

Inked the edges and raised bumps randomly with Archival Ink in Jet Black.
      
"DON'T OPEN DEAD INSIDE" DOORS

Door panels cut from cardstock and strained with Distress Ink using the Tim Holtz "Wrinkle free distress technique".

Metal kickplates are cardstock painted with Paynes Grey fluid Acrylic Paint and white Gesso.

Door handles cut by hand from cardstock and painted with Dazzling Metallics in Silver.

All the parts were distressed with Archival Ink in Jet Black before assembling together!

The wooden blank through the door handles is a piece of Greyboard coloured and aged with Gathered Twigs Distress Ink.

OTHER EMBELLISHMENTS
  
Zombie hand made from air dry clay and painted with self mixed grey acrylic paint. I added a little "blood" to the fingers (DecoArt Media Fluid Acrylics in Quinacridone Gold). 

Cog and padlock painted with black Gesso, dry brushed with white Gesso, then over painted with the Quinacridone Gold paint.

Cafeteria label and hinge painted with DecoArt Crafters Acrylic in Navy, then distressed lightly with Jet Black Archival Ink.
   
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Here are some more photos:





 
   
     
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LINKS YOU NEED - THAT CRAFT PLACE
   
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For those wondering, this piece is inspired by the Cafeteria door at the hospital where the shows protagonist, Rick Grimes, awakes from a coma, finding himself in the midst of a zombie apocalypse (The Walking Dead, Season 1, Episode 1).

You can see the doors in question about 3 minutes 30 seconds into this video...

 
Thank you as always for popping by, I hope you enjoyed looking at this creation as well as reading the thought process behind it.

Myself and the other That Craft Place DT very much look forward to seeing your creations!
     
xxSAMxx
   
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Sunday 15 November 2015

Whatever it is, we all carry it.

After how many Art Journal pages inspired by one TV show does one qualify as thoroughly obsessed?

Well this is The Walking Dead journal page number 3!.. Plus I've done a canvas and am currently working on another Walking Dead themed project at the moment!


This journal page uses a quote from the show's main protagonist, Rick Grimes, as seen in season 2 episode 13 "Beside the Dying Fire".

In this episode, Rick reveals to members of the group that all humans carry the "disease" that makes you turn into a Walker (zombie!). This means that no matter how you die, everyone turns, a huge revelation for the group and for the story as a whole!

This inspired me to make use of this journal spread which included a pocket where two pages had been stitched together.  I used the main spread to show the fully alive pretty human girl, then the zombie version of her in slid inside the pocket!
 
So now, whilst I sit here impatiently waiting to find out whether my beloved Glenn survived the fall of the dumpster into the herd of Walkers, let's go through what I used in the creation of this page!
      
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I used the following materials:

MEDIUMS
White Gesso
Black Gesso
Gelatos
Derwent Academy Watercolour Pencils
Molotow Paint Marker (black)
Archival Ink (Jet Black)
DecoArt Crafters Acrylic (black)

STAMPS

Tim Holtz "graph" (from the Graph & Croc set)
Leaf stamps - magazine freebies!
Dovecraft mini alphabet stamps

Most products above available from That Craft Place.
    
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Here are some more photos

 
 
 
    
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LINKS YOU NEED - THAT CRAFT PLACE
   
Website
Facebook Shop
Facebook Natter & Chatter Group

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Thank you as always for popping by, I hope you enjoyed looking at this creation as well as reading the thought process behind it.

Before I go, here is the canvas that I created, replicating THIS art journal page...
 

     
xxSAMxx
   
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Tuesday 10 November 2015

Memories of childhood reading

Who else has wonderful childhood memories of losing themselves in favourite books?

For me, alongside Roald Dahl, the Enid Blyton books, Nancy Drew and Duncton Wood, a firm favourite book series of mine was The Animals of Farthing Wood.
 
I adored the intertwined stories of Fox, Vixen and their cubs (after which I named one of my very first Guinea pigs as a child!) who, along with Badger and the rest of their gang faced countless struggles and a surprising amount of death for a children's novel!

I must reread the series for I suspect there were many many morals and life lessons hidden between the lines of those pages.
   

Anyway as you can see, my journal page was heavily inspired by the books. I spent several hours over a few days taking my time doodling and painting away at this page and love how it turned out.
  
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I used the following materials:
  
White Gesso
Acrylic Paint
Watercolor Pencils
    
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Here are some more photos




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Thank you as always for popping by, I hope you enjoyed looking at this creation as well as reading the thought process behind it.
  
xxSAMxx
   
Please can I enter this project into the following challenge(s):
   

Sunday 1 November 2015

Fight The Dead...

Another art journal page from me today, and yes it is another The Walking Dead themed one!
 
   
I drew it all by hand, including the hand! Great fun and very "me" right now!
 
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I used the following materials:
    
White Gesso
Derwent Academy Watercolour Pencils
DecoArt Fluid Acrylics (Paynes Grey)
Cheap Acrylic Paint (Viridian)
Archival Ink (Jet Black)
Grid stamp by Tim Holtz
Mini Alphabet stamps by Dovecraft
   
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Here are some more photos

I used a baby wipe to apply the Paynes Grey and Viridian paint for the background



My original pencil drawing

My original coloured version, created with Watercolour Pencils. I scanned the coloured version into my laptop and printed a copy off to use on this journal page (I used this journal page as a test run with a view to creating a canvas with the original).

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Thank you as always for popping by, I hope you enjoyed looking at this creation as well as reading the thought process behind it.
xxSAMxx
   
Please can I enter this project into the following challenge(s):