Rust inspired D'Oxides

 I love playing with inks and colours to produce different layers of for distressed backgrounds. As it's Halloween month I thought I would try out rust effects with distress oxides to see what happened. I love the result.

On A4 card. Used scorched timber, walnut stain, vintage photo, hickory smoke D'oxides, splattered and dipped into walnut stain Spritz then mixed left over spritz to vintage photo DO and water and dipped into it. Did another puddle of vintage photo and water and dipped into it some more. Finally spritzed water droplets and dried.

Cut card into 3 pieces.....

.... and got a gorgeous layered dipped, drippy, distressed effect.

I make very few projects for Halloween usually and I've already got my Country View Challenge ones made and scheduled so I think I'll chop these three pieces in half again and aim to create 6 small 10.4 x 9.7 cm panels.

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Andy Skinner new release - Shabby Timeworn Panel

A very timeworn shabby project I've made for Andy Skinner and his new releases today.

Process Steps

1. Take a piece of greyboard and score 3 lines vertically to start it looking like old floorboards. 

      Give it a coat of chestnut to seal it. Dry. Repeat the painting on two panels cut from thinner greyboard to fit horizontally across the main board.

2. Take Lava Paste and a brayer and lightly roll across the panels and heat dry. Then randomly rub a candle over the surface.

3. Paint a coat of ocean breeze, Gently heat and wipe with a dry paper towel to remove a some of the paint.

4. Repeat the process of rubbing the candle wax and paint - this time use a white chalk paint, and rubbing it back as you've dried it. Give a coat of super matt varnish. Leave to dry. This seals the wax coat so you can ad more paint layers.

5. Cut another piece of grey board for your centre piece. Give it two coats of white chalk paint and using rust paint stamp stone wash stamp and dry before giving it a watery wash of ocean breeze.

6. Take the centre piece again sand the edges and dabble quinacridone gold over it, dry and rub  coffee a archival ink pad round the edges.

7. Back to the larger board and panels, bend along the score lines to open them up again, drag a pointy tool down them and repeat the sanding and distressing as in step 6. Also run the archival ink pad over the top of the lava paste texture to highlight it and make this look more like wood panels

Now assemble the project and add some distressed embellishments like Andy's rusty cogs, transfers and adhere a rice paper image to the centre piece.

Products available from Country View Crafts.

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Supplies

Andy Skinner Creative Expressions Artist Pigment Paint - Rust, Quinacridone Gold

Andy Skinner Creative Expressions Matt Chalk Paint - Chestnut, Ocean Breeze

Andy Skinner Creative Expressions Rice Paper - Vintage

Andy Skinner Creative Expressions Stamp - Stone Wash

Andy Skinner Creative Expressions - Super Matt Varnish

Andy Skinner Creative Expressions - Transfers

Miscellaneous - White Chalk Paint, candle, Coffee Archival Ink

Rust Technique - Andy Skinner paints

Been playing with just a few of Andy's paint range to create this rust effect.

1. With a palette knife drag some thin areas of white gesso still leaving some of the greyboard exposed.

2. Stencil using Andy's structure paste. Dry.

3. Rub over grey using dry kitchen roll. Dry.

4. Dabble and spritz with rust, let wash move around on the board. Dry.

5. Repeat #4 with mustard seed and also splatter a little. Dry.

6. Repeat #5 with grey.

7. Paint over a layer of quin gold. Dry

8. Repeat #4 with quin gold and rust mixed.

9. Repeat #4 with rust.

10. Repeat #4 with magenta and mustard seed mixed.

11. Repeat #7.

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Andy Skinner products

Artist Pigment Paints - Grey, Rust, Quinacridone Gold, Primary Magenta

Matt Chalk Paint - Mustard Seed

Structure Paste

Observations Gather Moments - Media Tile

Inspired by Sid Dickens

Another media tile.

Process Steps.

1. Seal the board with tinting bse.

2. Use the black side of some blending foam and add some gesso to a texture stamp, press it hard onto the surface of the tile.

3. Paint some washes of paynes grey, medium grey, transparent red iron oxide (TRIO) and white.

4. Brayer a thin coating of raw umber over the surface until happy with it.

5. Brayer raw umber and TRIO, using only the edge of the brayer, around the edges.

6. Sand the edges and dip in watery raw umber before finger rubbing neat quin gold or TRIO and paynes grey around to match the colours on the front.

7. Use paper covered wire (from floristry departments) and finger paint above colours over it.

8. Take metal word band and alter with paynes grey, TRIO and titan buff.

9. Find a metal insect and also alter like the word band.

10 Assemble adding some transfer/rubon words.

11. Frame it.

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Supplies from DecoArt

White Tinting Base

Media Fluid Acrylics - Paynes Grey, Medium Grey, Transparent Red Iron oxide, Titanium White, Raw Umber, Titan Buff.

Using scraps - Garden Journal

I have boxes of bits; patterned papers, leftover backgrounds, discarded die-cuts, stamped images, snippets - in fact you name it I've probably got it - so whilst we are locked down in this Covid-19 pandemic I am aiming to use up some of those scraps in any of my numerous journals.

Today it's my garden journal with some rusty and shabby bits. Just a simple collage!

A rusty panel, crackled leftover, textured panel and very old leftover rulers with the beautiful TH dragonfly.

The words came from a pouch of collected bits and just fitted into the current climate.

Suddenly it was life changing times, but amongst it all there is hope for a better future.

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Book panel for Andy Skinner

So I decided to do something different this year for my Andy Skinner posts and create a heavyweight panel book so you will see a few more of these coming over the next few months so that I can keep some of my more grungy mixed media work together..

Process steps

Paint the board with phthalo green-blue, prussian blue hue, cerulean blue and titan buff. Heat dry.
Drag slightly watery paynes grey around the edges, spritz with water, let it move about and heat dry. This frames the board.

Apply crackle paste through Andy's fossil stencil and put aside to dry.

Take the telephone dial and roughly scrape over some texture sand paste.
Rustify the frame pieces of greyboard I wanted to follow along with team member Hannah's fabulous Facebook live video which you can find HERE.

I sort of repeated Hannah's process on the telephone dial as well but she talked about mixing it up - so I did.

I took the printed numbers dial from the kit and gave it a coat of dirty matte medium wash to seal it and make it look aged. I stamped the circular board from Andy's Curiosity set of stamps in both coffee and black archival ink and also gave that a coat of dirty matte medium (thats decoart matte medium mixed with a little paynes grey and quin gold - just the tiniest pin prick amounts and a wet brush!).

It was here I started to assemble pieces and play with designs to the point that I really didn't like the room the frame took up, it created a distraction from the beautiful fossil and telephone dial. I knew I would use it some point but just not on this composition. After fiddling with all sorts of bits and pieces I decided I would go for book corners and simply make them look rusty with layers of watery quin gold. I also added some watery washes over the fossil crackle to start the transformation process using cerulean blue and red iron oxide,

 Next I scraped black modeling paste through Andy's Bubbles stencil around the fossil. When that was dry I also added some random patches of texture sand paste. It looks really grungy and not too attractive at the moment. Now the inner critic set in - was this going to work? etc, etc.

Once dry the fun began using all the rusty layering colours of paint with a water spritzer and a heat gun. I used paynes grey, burnt umber, transparent yellow iron oxide and quinacridone gold.

Then time to assemble.

My project is over on Andy's blog today with links to all the supplies.

Have a great weekend, thanks for stopping by and ....

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Supplies

Andy Skinner stencils - Fossil and Bubbles

Andy Skinner stamps - Curiosity

Andy Skinner (Tando) kit - So Call Me Already

DecoArt media fluid acrylics - phthalo green-blue, prussian blue hue, cerulean blue, titan buff, paynes grey, silver metallic, yellow oxide. metallic gold, quinacridone gold, burnt umber, transparent yellow oxide.

DecoArt Media - white crackle paste, sand texture paste, black modeling paste, matte medium

Rusty Faceted Heart

I love combining the shabby neutral look with rusty items and created this card with that in mind. I am also sharing it over on the Country View Crafts project blog today.

To me there's nothing nicer than creams, whites and browns together and to help achieve the look I layered together (from the bottom) card , patterned paper, faux shabby floorboards created with paints and inks and a deckled frame on the top.

The flowers are a mix of the new wildflowers stems with the new funky florals by Tim Holtz. The wildflower in the background was cut from media paper and acrylic watercoloured and distressed whilst the funky florals were cut from a piece of left over cardwhere I had experimented with layering acrylic paints to achieve the shabby look.

The faceted heart was also cut from a left over rust effect piece of card that has been lying in my bits box for ages - this box can be a mine of fabulous inspiration sometimes when an oddment and a die just fit together so perfectly.

The die cuts the multi-faceted shape with score lines which need to be folded and pushed into shape to get the design. You can see the wonderful height and dimension and as a card it is best given to the recipient by hand as it wouldn't survive the post in just an envelope.

I love the way the neutral palette becomes shabby with the textures and the scuffed floorboards, I must make some more pieces to be ready to use for more new creations.

Here you can see the top of the heart and how the rust enhances the contrast in the colour palette.

The same here with the lower part of the heart.

 I'm looking forward to experimenting more with this shape to see how else I can use it perhaps on media boards, canvas boards, small shadowboxes - who knows?

Thanks for stopping by and ......

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