Barn Door : Rusty nails

Well, this is the fourth of a series based on the derelict barn doors - and my second piece for the Voyage group - suffice to say I have explored the barn doors enough I think!  I wanted to replicate the bleached and swollen planks of wood in the door as well as the rusting nails that held the door together. I used the same bondaweb technique to create the remains of the flaking paint around the bare wood and used  Manutex thickened dye to colour the bleached areas of wood. For the rusting nails I used an iron filings based paint with a patina activator to create the crusty effect of the rust ( from the craft store) - I knew that the current technique of stuffing fabric with rusting objects in the ground for a few months would not work for this! Quilting to follow the grain lines finished the piece.

Some details of the piece