Portfolio - Resin Art

Have you ever tried to make a mold of whipped cream? I did! ...Well, sort of. 

I piped lightweight spackling compound into the whipped cream shape I wanted. It took several days to dry, but once it did I was able to cast a mold of it in silicone. 

From there I just coated the inside of the mold with UV resin, and then painted the finished piece in delicious colors.

A customer asked me marble some colored resin onto an enameled steel bowl she had so she could use it as a bird bath. I hadn't worked on anything that big with resin before, and it had the added challenges of needing to be UV protected.

I definitely made a mess of my studio with this one, but I got there in the end. The customer and I absolutely love how it turned out.

My friend loves Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. He asked me if I could alter this green gumball shift knob to look like the little green alien on the cover of the book.

I used a rotary tool to carve out the mouth and some PolyGel Acrylic (a very thick UV resin for manicures) to sculpt the details. I used acrylic paint for the details and sealed it with regular UV resin.

Mom accidentlaly put a big ugly scratch in the faceplate of her quilting machine and asked if I could do something to make it look nice. 

I marbled some matching colors in epoxy resin, used the Cricut to cut the numbers and letters from vinyl, then sealed it with a final layer of epoxy. 

Jiggles is a scaled miniature of a Gelatinous Cube, filled with vegetable oil, a chopped-up hand painted skeleton, and some random detritus.

I made a silicone mold and used that to cast the resin body in tinted, sparkly resin. 

I finished them off with some mismatched googly eyes and a heart-shaped charm on a keyring that says "FREE HUGZ."

I made this set of kitty earrings and necklace for my mom. I filled gold-toned kitty-shaped bezels with milky-colored UV resin and added some dried flowers between the layers.