Artist Road Trip
It's finally arrived!!!! I've been planning my trip to attend Art Unraveled since the beginning of February, and finally on Monday the adventure began!
Amanda & I drove from Las Vegas to Phoenix arriving just in time to attend a short "Make & Take" class, which turned out to be anything but short and absolutely incredible! We learned how to use an amazing new product, a UV Resin. It's a one part resin that cures under UV light. We applied the resin to these images let it sit under the UV light for about 5 minutes and we got these wonderful translucent resin images! They were really cool at that point but I had to add some Bling! So we added more resin to the backs of the images and added glitter!!!! Once I shape up the edges it will be about 1" square, the perfect size for a pendant!
In the second photo there is a piece of paper behind the bottom half & I held the top half in the light to show you the translucency.
My first class was yesterday morning. We started off making resin paper, in the photos below I put a newspaper behind the resin paper to show you how translucent the paper becomes when you add resin to it. On some of the papers I wrote out script others I stamped on, some I added glitter to...again with the glitter! And others I just left plain. These papers can be used for many kinds of art projects.
I have not decided if I am going to turn this into a bracelet or necklace but it's the same concept except I added words to into the different layers of the resin.
The next two photos I took to show you how cool these look when they are not laying on a flat surface, they are translucent. In each photo you can see right through the top piece and see the piece behind it. The heart is only 1.5" from the top to bottom & the round one is about the size of a dime about 3/4" wide. I think these will be really cool as charms!
My class last night was learning how to make stamps & stencils from common objects; she uses everything & anything; the bottoms of flip flops for stamps to empty birth control packets for stencils!!!
That was all exciting & fun but my favorite part was when we learned to carve our own stamps! Both of the stamps in the photo are carved out of cheap rubber erasers. We sketched our image and transferred it to the eraser and used a carving tool to make our own stamps! I thought the eyes were not good enough on the first one and so I tried to fix them & then she turned out bug eyed so I quickly made another one! I am amazed at how easy this is to do!
I have another class tonight and two more on Thursday. Stay tuned I'll be posting more of my creations later in the week!
MWAH!!!
2 comments:
Oh jeepers, I wish I would have went!! Oh how much fun is all that?? I hope you teach me how to make my own stamps when you get home, that is so freaking cool I can't stand it!!!!
Must meet up to see all your creations!!! Hurry home!!!
Looks like you girls are having the time of your life.
How fun the classes look and what a great job you are doing....no surprise there.
Don't you just love Lisa's resin??? I have been using it
since the glass show.
Have a safe trip home, can't wait to see these pieces in person.
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