Haunted House

The light wasn't very good when I took this photo, so hope you can see it clearly enough.   Another of my Halloween Kits - I apologise that I can't remember the name, but there are no labels on the bags, all I can say is that I bought them from Hochanda.

The house is made so that a battery tealight will sit in between the front and the back, so I painted the insides of the two parts of the house with Pebeo Dyna fluorescent orange.   It does look effective with the tealight in it (although this photo is just taken with the flash on the camera. )  

As with the tombstone I used mainly Pebeo paints for this kit.  (Mmainly because I was up the garden in my Den, and all my Pebeo paints were up there and to hand; and as it was so lovely in the sunshine I was too lazy to walk back down to the house for any others!)

I have used the marbline spray again on the house, didn't quite go where I wanted it - but it looks quite effective in real life.  

I still need to work out exactly where the ghost is going to sit and glue him down properly, and I think the bat needs some "eyes".   I will try and take another photo in daylight and add it here.  I do find taking a photo is quite good as you can then see what need improving.

As promised another photo: 

Back to Halloween

Well the last couple of posts have been "pretty" - so today I am back to ghouls and ghosties, with this littles mdf project.   It was part of a collection of kits I bought, which included this tombstone, and a haunted house and lots of accessories.  It also came with the faux moss.

The main tombstone was sprayed with granite spray and then painted in various shades of grey.  It was then sprayed with silver marbling spray.  oh Wow, am in love with this effect.   

I then painted the various embellishments ( I do want to do a bit more to the pumpkin, he is not shaded enough to my liking at the moment, so a bit of work with some paint or distress inks is required methinks.  I shall also add either some jewels or Nuvo drops to the eyes of the cat, ghost and pumpkin.  I am also thinking I need some red paint of Nuvo drops, dripping down form the RIP. !!!!!! I think I might also put some phosphorescent gel on the white paint.   (Well if I am going to scare the local kids .... I might as well make a good job of it!)

At least my bad closework eyesight paid of when I wrote the Happy Halloween - I purposely did it shaky writing - lol!

Hanging Wooden Plank Decoration

Background prep showing marbling spray

I have had this wooden plank decoration hanging around for a few weeks now - It had been built and gessoed but what did I want to do with it?

The original idea was to do some folk art on it. Yesterday was the day I made a decision.  I painted it with Antique White Crystal Glitter Chalk Furniture Paint to which I added some Green Luscious Powder.   I then got out my cans of marbling spray and crackle sprays.  The white crackle spray didn't seem to show up that well ( need to practise again)- but the silver marbling was fantastic.  I will be using that again.

Today I decided to try out a stencil on it.    Initially the idea was to use texture paste and then paint over it - erm - well I got it wrong and the jar I picked up turned out to be clear!  duh!   Undaunted I tried again, carefully repositioning the stencil, and carefully stencilling this time, rather than using a palette knife, with Imagination Crafts Shabby Chic relief paste in Ashy Rose, Sage and Linen colours.

This was relatively successful - I did miss a couple of bits, but touched those up with a paintbrush.  I then went around the edge of the panks with the same relief paste in the rose colour with a sponge.

I took another picture this evening indoors as the piece was sitting on the dining table and the sun was highlighting the relief paste, and showing the dimension better.

Showing the dimension of the relieff paste.
(and more realistic colours)