Andy Skinner: Altered Steampunk Clock

Hi Everyone! I must be the crazy lady with all the huge altered projects. I was at the discount store and saw this awesome clock, bought it, and tore it all apart, added a number of Andy Skinner Industrial Elements, and altered the daylights out of it.

For photo purposes I took the glass out. But this is what the clock somewhat looked like after I tore it all apart.

I took the back panel off and the outer ring.

Using a thick piece of cardboard, I traced the outer circle and cut into smaller pieces.

I distressed the edges of each piece and then glued it all together.

After I added a layer of gesso, I painted with layer after layer of DecoArt Fluid Acrylicsfor just the right grunge look.

After I got the background really how I like it. I decided to wrap all the numbers on the clock with metal tape. Using a thick crackle glaze to get the aged look, I used a bit of a dirty wash to highlight the cracks on the numbers.

I thought the centre of the clock could use something so I added an additional clock face from the Compendium kit in the centre. Altering the Industrial Elements I added more gears, and bolt heads.

I used the texture sand paste to add more details to all of the pieces and with fine attention to details. I fit extra gears in here and there.

After all was said and done, the inner rim was a little tight and needed some trimming but it all came together great. I put in a battery and perfect, the clock actually worked, It still would have been a great project even if the clock didn't work, but I am so glad it did.