Crystalize, Testify!!

Hey ya'll! Today I popped the resin charms out of the mold today. They look pretty neat. Dory placed some of her origami cranes in the resin and I had gears, flowers and a butterfly wing in mine. Unfortunately since the resin had been sitting on a shelf for a few years unused, the resin did not come out crystal clear. There were multiple problems with the resin, including color problems and lots of itty bitty air bubbles. I kind of like the amber/ tea stain coloring, but I would have liked to then have more control over that. I'm definitely going to be mixing up more resin, especially since I found my bouquet from my sister's wedding. My sister got married back in April, and I left the bouquet in the back window of my car. Where it proceeded to dry out and essentially preserve itself. I love it, it was roses and lilies that became a yellow and purple color set. So now that it's dried, I thought about how I'm going to save them from falling apart. Well I'm going to dip and coat them in resin to help preserve them... then I don't really know what I'll do with them. Maybe I'll make some brooches? I don't really know but I'm open to ideas! I've also found some crab parts that i should really look into preserving, as well as two moths and a few insects. I think I might skip out on the insects, it's been done before. I'm always amazed by the things Dory can do with origami. She made those cranes by hand and they're tiny. They're small enough to be earrings. I can't figure out how she manages to fold them. She made these beautiful roses out of origami and the pre-folding process is so incredibly complicated that to me it doesn't seem worth it. But she manages to churn them out in about 10 minutes. Freaking. Amazing.

Oddly enough, a friend of mine posted onto my Facebook a small article for an artist who uses a combination of painting and resin pours to make "3-d paintings." Riusuke Fukahori painstakingly paints goldfish in layers. He paints a layer then adds resin, allows it to dry then paints the next layer. He does this until he has a full fish and the effect is mind blowing. It looks like he has put 3-d model fish into his work, but it's all 2-d. Boggled my mind until i watched the video of his process. I sat there watching, with my jaw hanging on the floor and thought, "This guy is pure genius... I'd never have the patience for this." Definitely check out the video below!

So I leave y'all tonight hopefully with your minds blown wide open to new possibilities.
See Y'all Later!