#Shadow Box

[witchrealms]

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[goobersplat]

Small Shadow Box Filled with Animal Figures

[ineffablepenguin]

A couple of shadow boxes I made recently! I’ll be dropping these into my BigCartel shop this weekend 💜

[magicalshopping]

♡ Death's-Head Hawkmoth Taxidermy Display ♡

This listing is for Real Death Head Moth Black Skull from Vietnam. We use a real dried dead butterfly to make this handmade shadow box, and we store it carefully to preserve its shape and color in their original state.

[ichigoli]

Mistborn Shadow Box Complete!

For a prototype, I like the outcome. Very little I feel the need to change for the next ones.

Some difficulty getting the paper layers flat. Resin has a weird density so it's hard to gage what will sink or float and the paper was struggling to decide where it wanted to go.

I'm really glad I stuck with keeping every piece framed and cut to size, otherwise the elements would have almost certainly shifted places while the resin cured.

How it started

How it's going.

A lot of thoughts on this one. Mica powder misbehaving... mists a touch too aggressive muddling the background shapes... hard to keep track of that silhouette between the Mist and the backflip... but man I love how the Allomancy lines pop!

But back-lit...

That's what I'm talkin' about!

Even a gentler light behind it looks incredible

Shame it undercuts the bright blue lines. I'll have to puzzle that one out.

Now I just have to figure out how to display it. Do I put an LED strip around the sides and try to spread the layers a tad more? Do I add some diffuser material between it and a single LED behind it? Or just make a windowsill stand. Puzzling.

Anyway, I want to make one for Yumi and Painter using EL wire for the Hion lines but I need ideas... y'all got any?

[tsvioletrex]

My TS Eras Tour Shadow Box

So worth it, highly recommend making one 🫶🫶

Its a great way to keep the memories without the clutter

@taylorswift @taylornation

[rkherman]

Arboretum shadow box

[strawberrycaterpillars]

Hidden in the Sand, a shadow puppet animation!

[gordiicore]

me at 3 am:

[necromatador]

My first little curio shelf is fully dried (paint & glue) and it's come out super cute! It's got a cute little black walnut shell, some Tiger's Eye in a little bottle, and a hanging ring of skeleton keys. The background is actually an old postcard!

[3dprintcess]

I made a shadowbox of the art by @rainywindmil commissioned for my fic/play, Midsummer Night's Task! (Posted about here.)

[webdiggerxxx]

꧁★꧂

[passumstars]

"A bride for me before a bride for you."

[rottingrobin]

Shadow Box project for a class! ^^

[belvira]

Latest shadowbox featuring 90s nightcrawler

[ichigoli]

Yumi and The Nightmare Painter Shadowbox Master Post 1:

The Yoki-Hijo

I am head over heels for making these Cosmere Shadow Boxes. I would love to find a better mold than the 4" coasters but for now they are so pretty! I don't even know what I'll do with them but for now I'm happy the exist.

To begin, I once again sketched out a design trying to focus on strong silhouettes, and cut out each layer on a different piece of card stock. I decided to go with warm colors to push the heat of Yumi's environment and give some good contrast to the Painter Box coming soon.

Learning from the Mistborn Shadow Box, I was worried about such delicate shapes floating in the resin and messing with the depth. So I tried something that worked out ok with a fabric backing I did for a commission for a friend. I painted the paper cut outs with resin and let them cure on a silicone mat to hopefully give them some more rigidity and less buoyancy in the resin.

I wanted to lean in to the "traditional" vibe that Yumi's side of the story has, so I included real natural elements as part of the resin inclusions.

Real pressed flowers and gravel give the work a more grounded (sorry) element which will contrast nicely with what I have planned for Painter. I also decided to have some fun with it and "stacked" some rocks up the sides. The flowers floating in the sky are such an iconic part of her world that I had to include them.

I didn't take pictures of the individual layers going in this time around because, thanks to the resin painted over each piece, the long curing time between each layer became unnecessary so the process was a lot faster this time around (yay, we're learning!) But you can see the added flowers and some of the gems acting as stand ins for the Hijo floating around the stacks. I know they aren't "book accurate" but I wanted just the tiniest bits of Cyan and Magenta in Yumi's piece. (Keep an eye out for their parallels in Painter's piece)

I'm really fond of the way the resin soaks into the light card stock like water. It creates a very specific kind of translucency that lends itself to the "atmospheric fade" that creates a light illusion of distance and depth.

A quick check through the bottom to preview how it all looks before we add the resin on to the final backing paper layer...

The pale lemon yellow paper pics up a lot of depth from the resin soaking in. I also swirled in the littlest bit of gold luster-dust and a drip of orange ink to the corners for a little depth of color before putting the paper down and more resin over top.

And the final reveal:

A little flat with the simple background, but that's expected. The contrast is exactly what I was hoping for. I mixed a little bit of the glow powder seen beneath the Shadow Box there to help boost the reflectivity of light which can be seen bleeding up around her knees a little bit which I hope helps evoke that heat her land is known for.

When backlit, the rein soaked into the card stock gives the whole scene an almost dreamy quality as the stone stacks fade but Yumi remains stark and crisply focused.

A few close ups of details and how lovely the layering looks peeking through the open spaces.

<3

No preview of Painter yet, I am still trying to puzzle out a good silhouette for him that will show what he's actually doing when he's hunched over a canvas without being able to use internal contours... but I can share that I bought some EL wire and hope to line his piece with real hion lines!... once I figure out how to make the wire Cyan and Magenta along the places I want it to go.

Once Painter is done, I don't plan to stop. Maybe Warbreaker next... or Stormlight, though I have other plans for that behemoth.

Real talk: Anyone who wants to float an idea, I wanna hear it. These are too fun to stop. (I could maybe even be talked into parting with one if the situation arises)