Showing posts with label resin jewellery. Show all posts
Showing posts with label resin jewellery. Show all posts

Monday, 28 May 2012

Paper Village Resin Jewellery Workshop


Last week I went to a fantastic resin jewellery workshop at Paper Village on North Street (Bristol). Here's a picture of all of us learning from Vicky about different types of resin and what we can do with it. 







We tried out two different types of resin on the course - a really gorgeous clear resin for embedding objects and images, and a glazing resin which we used for glazing paper images. You can see me using a pipette to pick up resin from a jug and place it on card. 

Not surprisingly, the resin part of the workshop took a small amount of time i.e. mixing and pouring. Most of the time was much more focused on what images to use, preparing them to size, arranging them etc. It was really great to see how everyone brought their own ideas to the workshop and used resin in different ways e.g. collage, sweets, buttons, packs of cards etc. 





Vicky was a great tutor, and very patient with us all, especially when I poured the wrong liquids into our jug! Anyway, here are the photos showing the results of the workshop. I'm really pleased with them. I learned loads, and know what to do and what not to do next time!





















Tuesday, 22 May 2012

Resin preparation

resin-preparation by busysquirrelAm getting excited because at last I'm going to give resin jewellery a go. Tomorrow night I'm going to a workshop at Paper Village, so have been making polymer houses ready for sealing into pendants. Hope it goes well.


Friday, 17 February 2012

Diorama ideas

I've got most of the tools to do some resin jewellery but for some unknown reason I've come to a bit of an impasse. I'd love to create some little dioramas of houses and trees, and did some sketches ages ago. I hope I can get round to trying it out some time soon. I've been toying with the idea of buying some trainset figures to set in resin, or alternatively, print images on see-through paper.