Andy Skinner: decoart chalky finish

Thursday, 1 February 2018

Mixed Media Revolution Class Project

Morning all, Mark here and today I am sharing a wall hanging I made that will be one of the classes taught at the Mixed Media Revolution Retreats that Andy Skinner and I will be teaching at later this year in Holland and California. Full details at the bottom of the post.

I have used elements from Andy's new stamps Textures and Fossils available from Stampendous to accent my shabby frame and add detail to some of the panels.

The Revolution Begins this May in Holland on

11/12 May at Art Chicks Studio contact Esther for details

and continues in California on

2/3 June at Its All About The Scrapbook Dixon Ca, contact Andrea for details.

Hopefully some of you will be able to join Andy and myself and take part in the start of the Revolution.

xx.

List of Products:

Stamps, And Skinner Textures, Fossils from Stampendous

Paints, Decoart Media

Decoart Chalky Finish Paints.

Saturday, 13 May 2017

Grungy Chic Up Cycled Wine Crate

Thank you for stopping by, Mark here with my first make for the new Andy Skinner DT and wow what an honour to be part of this amazing team, Thank you Andy for inviting me along.

For my first make I have decided to go down the up cycling route and heavily distress a wine crate that was given to me a little while back.

This is how the crate started life,

I started with layers of Decoart Chalky Finish paint sanding back between layers to get a nice naturally distressed finish, added some extra detail with some of Andy's Decoart Stencils as well as stencils from the Chalky Finish Line.

To start with the aged and grungy process I used the dark cream wax's wiping off the excess wax almost straight away to leave a dark stained finish.

Additional distressing was added using Decoart Media Fluids, Quinacridrone Gold and Carbon Black added as colour washes.

The whole crate was given a coat of Decoart Decor Satin Varnish and the handles were added to finish off.