Twin Grapes

How They Turned Out

Here are the results of yesterday's experiments. I love how the picture turned out, the bead bird (from a bought mould), the hands, the poppy seed head and the poodle. The rings need more work!

The question is, what to do with them?

Pretty Things

I have been making little glittery resin birds-using a silicone mould. Yesterday I made a ring out of one of them by pushing a ring mount into the back when the resin was tacky. I really like it.

There have been such interesting cloud formations over the last few days. This one looks like a fishbone.

This pretty window was next door to one of our home visit homes today. The home visits are going well, though my voice is starting to go with the constant talking!

Resin Experiments

This is my first resin experiment-I learned not to pick it up after only a couple of days, as, although it seems set, it is easy to make a big thumb print in the middle of it! I also learned that mica flakes disperse into a kind of shimmery layer at the bottom-an effect I like.
I read in my resin instructions that silicone moulds are good as they don't need to be coated. I do want to make things other than just boxes so I have given it a try. I used cupcake moulds-wrinkly ones(a charity shop purchase intended for school but not taken there) and non-wrinkly ones. The resin comes out so easily.
The seventies here I come! Do you remember all those resin paperweight type things with dried flowers and seashells in? Resin must have been a bit of a craze then. I never liked them but maybe I was wrong! These flowers are not dried-they are picked straight off of the primula in yesterday's post. In my head I imagined the fresh flower, perfectly preserved in all its beauty. As this is as much science as it is art this was only one theory. I wondered if the flowers would somehow rot or be damaged in some way. What actually happened was this-they are preserved perfectly in shape and detail, but bleached to a creamy yellow. The bleaching happened really quickly. Then I remembered that the catalyst for the resin is peroxide-aah-ding-lightbulb!

Small crinkly cake mould and china.

A bead and a piece of wire and-hey presto-a pendant I will never wear!

This is a book with a circle cut out of the cover and lots of layers of paper, china arranged in it, and then filled with resin. I was going to keep the other pages but as it was such a thick book I have taken them out and will have a go at making my own sketch book to put in it. I used tinfoil to make a barrier between the resin and the rest of the pages and then glued many more pages to the back of this where the resin had leaked.
The next thing I am going to try is glitter birds-I have two small bird moulds from Hong Kong-I don't know if they sent me two by mistake or I ordered two by mistake-they have the added bonus of being sent in two separate string tie envelopes-I love those! I am going to add glitter to the resin. When these are dry I am going to encase them in more resin in a box. I think!
Googled resin art-found one I like so far-Brooks Salzwedel