So, I’ve done some painting of ceramics of late.? Most recently, I’ve been working on Halloween themed items.? I did this very cool stack of skulls and I gotta say I’m so proud of how it came out I’m gonna tell y’all what I did (as well as post some pictures of em).? This was my first attempt at antiquing and I love the effect that it had.
First I painted the whole thing cornsilk yellow (skulls, leaves, everything).? Then I painted the leaves and vines avocado green.? Once that dried I dry brushed rain forest green onto the leaves and some parts of the vines.? Because I wanted to be cute, I gave 2 skulls gold teeth with metallic gold and 1 a black brown tooth.? After all that had plenty of time to dry, I used an antiquing paint (I don’t remember the exact wording of what kind of paint it was… it’s oil based though) — walnut brown.? Brush on, rub off.? The skulls were actually brown when I rubbed off the antiquing stuff, but later I took a slightly damp rag and rubbed it to the color I wanted.? I’m so very happy with how this piece came out.? On Halloween he’ll be outside (in view, but well away from trick or treaters ability to knock over) and lit from inside.? Shall be eerie and creepy and all kinds of groovy.
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I put several of the photos of roses that I took this summer on items at cafepress.com if anyone’s interested. The photos in this post are among the ones I used.? They’re on notecards, greeting cards (blank inside) a journal… it’s a shame they don’t have an address book.? I think most of these pictures would be very pretty on an address book.? So if you’re interested, check them out: 
