Timeworn ...A Midsummer Night's Dream

This is my interpretation of the scene in the woods when Titania, the Queen of the Fairies, falls in love with Bottom, after Puck had sprinkled magical flower juice onto her eyes whilst she was sleeping. Puck had mockingly transformed Bottom into an ass. Titania then passes a ludicrous interlude doting on Bottom.

A rusty Timeworn piece.

Naughty Puck.

The light I have used is from a new range of goodies produced by Tim Holtz.

Dry brushed flowers.

Aged copper patina frog.

A rusty spider.

Steampunk aged brass crown.

 The hidden battery for the lantern that lights the scene.

On this side of the project incorporates the bottle with the flower potion and a very time worn woodland scene.

A rusty bird.

Peeled paint and dry brushed pillars.

A skeleton using the painted ivory technique. 

A burnt oxidised  copper rose.

Steampunk aged brass butterfly.

Aged copper patina bottle.

A selection of techniques, one showing rust runs done with pastels.

Another battery powered candle lights this scene.

A lot of photos!

The on-line workshop was amazing, I have placed a link to Andy's class in my sidebar.

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Timeworn final piece preparation

Over the past few weeks I have been taking part in and online class with Andy Skinner. The class is a techniques based class and for my final piece I have been out to my craft shed and selected from the treasure that I have stored there. Some of it I have had quite a while!
My final piece is loosely based on William Shakespeare's 'A Midsummer Nights Dream.' This play was my first encounter with William Shakespeare and it is still one of my favourites. I saw it first at Stratford Upon Avon when I was 12 years old, which was a long time ago! It was one of the best school trips I ever went on, it was quite a journey up to Stratford form Devon but well worth the travel time.

I chose one of the containers that was saved from last Christmas and knew exactly what I wanted to do with it.

Along with some of the toys I had rescued out of the charity bag from my grand daughter! I just hope Abbie doesn't see the decapitations that I performed in the name of art.

I also made a mould for the face of Puck and another mould for the letters I used for the title. I made several Pucks as I was not exactly sure what I was going to do with them.

Lots of preparation of the pieces then took place ready to receive their final layers of paint.

I even got to play with fire.

The inside of the container was painted and prepared with plenty of texture sand to give it the look I was after.

I will put up a post of completed piece, it will be rather photo heavy but there is a lot to look at!
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August Tag

Here is my tag for August using some of the techniques that Tim used on his blog this month.

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Journal your Art CJ

This is my final page for the Circle Journal I have been doing over the past 9 months on UK Scrappers.

It is Juliwan's page and her theme was 'Love.' I have used two of my favourite Stampotique stamps and different paint techniques to produce the page. The writing is a quote by William Shakespeare and reads "Love looks not with the eyes but with the mind."

I am now looking forward to my circle journal returning home to me.

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Journal your Art CJ

Luckily I had done this Journal Your Art CJ entry before the Olympics started! Today was posting day so I am popping the page on my blog.

This page has been done for Lynne (UKS MrsMcF). Lynne asked us to do a self portrait in any way we wanted to, therefore, I have used a Suzi Blu & Unity stamp, the quote around the image captures me but maybe the body and face is stretching the truth a bit! LOL

I sketched a background masking off a border to act as a frame on the page.

I then used my Pitt pen to draw in the lines and Inktense blocks to colour the background.

The stamped image was coloured using water colour paints and gel pens.

I used leaf metal flakes around the frame and on the tiny heart in the left hand corner of the stamped image. Once I had placed the image in the centre of the page I wrote a little about myself in some of the blank areas.

I then carefully removed the masking tape and drew around the inner edge of the frame with a Pitt pen.

This is the penultimate page for this CJ, I hope Lynne likes it.

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July Tag

Here is my Tag for July using the techniques that Tim used on his blog this month.Tim's theme was 4th July but I thought with the Olympics happening in London this month 2012 was more appropriate for me.

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June Tag

Here is my Tag for May using the techniques that Tim used on his blog this month.

The photo I have used and coloured is one of Colin (my other half ) when he was a little cutie.

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