Dreamcatcher on The Darkside

Designed by – Patricia Williams

The brief for this article was to recreate a piece by one of the other DT members. I pondered long about this looking at previous blogs. Then I was inspired by Shell North, she did a rather beautiful dream catcher. Me being me of course it was not going to be light and elegant as Shell’s oh no, we are taking a walk on the dark side.

Dark dream catcher by Patricia Williams

I started by collecting all the materials and items I would need to work on my project.

• Black Powertex Universal Medium
• Easy Structure
• Sand and Balls
• Silver Colourtrix

From my stash:

• Mdf dream Catcher
• A plaster skull
• Feathers
• Skull beads & Roses

How to create my dark dream catcher

I coated it all with black Powertex first and fixed the skull to the dream catcher. I sliced it in half and using Easy Structure texture paste, fixed the skull back together. Fixing it either side of the centre hole of the dreamcatcher, makes it look as if it’s pushing through. Definitely looking spooky at this stage.

Using paper decoration, I had soaked in Powertex I arranged it around the skull and pushed the skull beads in. I liked the look of this.

I added a few foam roses I had around the large centre skull and tucked some black feathers in behind. Sprinkle some sand and balls to add extra texture, we can never have to much texture can we?

I left it to dry overnight before getting onto the dry brushing. A wonderful stage where you see all of that yummy texture coming to life. I used silver Colourtrix keeping it simple, that’s the beauty of this stage you can add as much or as little colour you wish, its all personal taste.

The final touch was to add black ribbon to hang on the hearts and my remaining skull beads.

Dark dream catcher by Patricia Williams

I hope you have enjoyed reading my blog and are inspired. Create a unique dreamcatcher of your own, it could be light and delicate like Shell North’s, on the dark side or anywhere in between. I usually work on the dark side but I do also splash the colour at times.

You can see more of my work at Alex Henry Mixed Media Artist on FB or see my roses project on the magazine. Don’t forget to post your makes on The Powertex Studio. Till the next time xx