So, I have finally finished this MDF Desktop Draw Unit (after starting it over 18 months ago!). It features photocopied pages from my beloved The Walking Dead comics. I photocopied them onto a smooth cardstock and decoupaged them onto my project.
NOTE: I could not bear to cut into my original comics. Therefore this piece is for personal use and not for sale
Less than 1 hour until season 7 of The Walking Dead starts here in the UK. I've already watched the first episode but promise no spoilers for the big Negan question!
With that in mind, today I'd like to share a project made forusing various Sheena Douglass and Textures Stamps, both from Crafter's Companion.
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
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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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.
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
Please can I enter this project into the following challenge(s):
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
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):
Good afternoon! I've been busy creating my first page in my new Handmade Art Journal and those as obsessed with THE WALKING DEAD as I am should be familiar with this quote!
#TeamCarol by the way!!
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I used the following materials:
White Gesso
Gelatos
Molotow Paint Markers (Black & White)
Green Sharpie
Pilot V7 Hi-Techpoint Pen (Black)
