Marine Diorama - Pascale B

Hello Sweeties,

Today I'm up on Dusty Attic blog with a new marine diorama. 

I primed the Porthole with black gesso. I primed the two parts of the porthole with black gesso. I added a piece of acrylic between the two pieces of the porthole. Next, I painted it with Silver Spoon acrylic paint. Next, I used the Rust Effect pastes set to alter the porthole.

I built a box that I covered with white crackle paste. When dry, I colored it with Prussian Blue liquid acrylic paints.

I added a piece of polystyrene at the bottom covered with 3D Gloss gel. While the gel was still wet, I added some sand to mimic the sea bed.

I primed all the chipboards with white gesso and the resin elements with clear gesso. I used liquid acrylic paints to color them and waxes to highlight the details. I covered The Cogs and the Pipe with Rust Effect paste. Next, I added some Brushed Iron wax. I cut the Pipes into pieces which I glued on the side of the box. 

I used a wooden skewer to create an axis between the biggest gear which was glued on the bottom and different sizes of gears. I added the other gears at the front bottom. 

I painted the sea elements with different colors of liquid acrylic paints. I painted the Angler fish with ochre paint, then with diluted silver paint. I glued a piece of toothpick behind all the chipboards to 

I added a few LEDs around the box and I made sure some of the LEDs reach the Industrial Globes I have glued to the ceiling.

Dusty Attic products:

Angler Fish Small DA3357	Jumbo Cogs#2 DA2501	Mini Cogs #2 DA1932	Industrial Globes #3 DA2184
Pipe Small DA0985	Ocean Elements #5 DA2771	Ocean Elements #7 DA2773	Coral Mixed DA1919
Ocean elements #1 DA2767	Seaweed #4 DA1916	Seaweed #3 DA1912	Seaweed #1 DA1910
Porthole 11" DA2578

Other products:

• Moulds - Prima (Large Gears, Mecha Moth);
• Art Alchemy Metallic Paint - Finnabair Prima (Silver Spoon);
• Art Alchemy Liquid Acrylic - Finnabair Prima (Burnt Sienna, Umber, Ochre, Tiger Orange, Carmin);
• Art Alchemy Waxes - Finnabair Prima (Brushed Iron);
• Art Extravagance - Finnabair Prima (White Crackle Paste, Rust Effect Paste);
• Art Basics - Finnabair Prima (Heavy gesso: Black, White, 3D Matte gel, Soft Gloss Gel).

From the Sea - Amanda Herring

Hello There

It is my turn to share an arty creation  for Dusty Attic

 and my second for this month.

I love shadow boxes projects and gave this one a vintage steampunk ocean theme Using the Marine Mechanical Chippy! 

I have used a wooden painting panel to collage on, but instead of working on the flat front surface I have turned it around and I have used the back,

 this gave me a nice sized shadow box and the wooden panel is nice and firm to work on unlike a stretched canvas.

To start, I have covered the base with Stamperia scrapbooking paper cutting strips to cover all sides 

of the frame as well as the base, I have used Mixed media glue to stick everything down and also applied two coats of the glue on top to seal the surface before adding crackle medium and colour.

Once dry I have added Clear crackle paste with a palette knife and left it overnight to dry naturally and then coloured using Vintage Antiquing paste also from Stamperia  as this really helped to age the colours in the paper background  as well as emphasise the crackle finish.

I have used acrylic paints on the mechanical fish chipboard pieces and the leaf branch. In used various different brands of paints including Sennelier, Dina Wakley and Paper Artsy. 

I used PVA glue to glue the fish and coral to the panel, building under the fish up with chippy scraps so that they are nice and stable.

I have added leafing flakes to the fish and Leafy frond  and Glossy accent to the eyes to finish off.

Supplies Used:

DA3365 Marine Mechanical Fish Large 

DA3356 Marine Mechanical Angler Fish Large 

DA058 Leafy Stem

DA1907 Coral #2

Stamperia Clear Crackle paste 

Stamperia Mechanical Seaworld Paper 

Stamperia Mix Media Glue

Stamperia Antiquing Paste 

Zig 2Way Glue 

Leafing Flake 

Acrylic Paint:

Sennelier Turquoise #341 and Raw Umber #205

Dina Wakley Syrup, Sedona, Ocean , Cheddar

Paper Artsy Baltic Blue ,  Squid Ink

Thanks for stopping by to see my latest project 

Until Next time 

Mandy x

A to Z Marine bookends - Kerstin Filou

 

Welcome creative friends!

New awesome marine mechanicals chipboards from Dusty Attic inspired me to create two bookends in Steampunk style. 

I was especially impressed by the 3D effects. 

You can paint the individual layers in different colours, but also emboss them, as I successfully tried here.

I combined faux rust effects with metallic and acrylic paints.

The grunge look is always an adventure and always invites you to try it out, love that!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

How I began

 

 

1. lowest part was embossed with an Embossing Folder from Sizzix,

painted with Dark Patina Metallic Paint (DecoArt),

added stains with diluted Quinacridone Gold

2. middle part was primed with black gesso,

highlighted with silver wax

 

3.  top part primed with a little bit Texture paste and then painted 

with Quinacridone Gold (DecoArt)

for a greatfaux rust effect

 

 

Marine Mechanicals – Fish medium

 

 

 now you only need to glue the three parts on top of each other

 to create a great 3d effect

 

 

Marine Mechanicals – Angler Fish small 

 

 

some details

 

sweet angler fish really needed to be lit up 😀

 

 used Dusty Attic chipboards

 

Marine Mechanicals – Fish medium

Marine Mechanicals – Angler Fish small 

Seaweed #3

 

 

Book ends in Altered Art have become a real eye-catcher and have already been admired a lot, one of my favourite projects this year. 

 

I hope you find inspiration!

Thanks for stopping by...until next time!