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Creative Resin Art Ideas for Stunning Creations

Resin art has gained immense popularity among artists and DIY enthusiasts due to its versatility, durability, and ability to create mesmerizing, glossy finishes. Whether you’re a beginner exploring new creative avenues or an experienced artist looking to try something fresh, there are countless resin art ideas to experiment with. Below are some unique and inspiring resin projects to help you craft stunning pieces.

1. Resin Geode Art

Geode-inspired resin art mimics the natural beauty of geodes and crystals, making it a striking addition to any space. This technique involves layering different shades of resin, adding glitter, crushed glass, or real crystals to create a realistic effect. Using metallic pigments, gold leaf, or textured paint can enhance the geode-like appearance.

Tips for Creating Geode Resin Art:

Use silicone molds or wooden panels as a base.

Experiment with different color gradients for a natural look.

Add texture by incorporating crushed quartz, glass shards, or rhinestones.

2. Resin Ocean Waves

Ocean wave resin art captures the serene beauty of the sea. This technique involves blending shades of blue, white, and turquoise to create a fluid, water-like effect. Heat guns or blow torches can be used to form realistic wave-like patterns.

Steps to Achieve an Ocean Wave Effect:

Start with a wooden or canvas base and apply a base coat of blue shades.

Pour white resin in gentle curves and use a heat gun to spread and create foamy waves.

Layer different shades of blue for depth, and consider adding sand or small seashells for a beachy touch.

3. Resin Jewellery

Handmade resin jewellery is a fantastic way to craft personalized accessories. Whether creating pendants, earrings, or rings, you can embed flowers, glitter, or metallic flakes for unique designs. Using clear or colored resin allows endless customization possibilities.

Jewellery-Making Ideas:

Press dried flowers into resin to create elegant floral designs.

Use holographic or metallic pigments for a stunning shimmer effect.

Add small charms, beads, or initials for a personalized touch.

4. Resin Coasters

Resin coasters are not only functional but also serve as beautiful decor pieces. They can be customized with different pigments, textures, and inclusions such as gold flakes, marble swirls, or even pressed leaves.

How to Make Resin Coasters:

Pour a base layer of clear or pigmented resin into silicone molds.

Add decorative elements like alcohol inks, metallic powder, or natural stones.

Allow proper curing time to ensure a smooth, durable finish.

5. Resin Tabletops and Furniture

Resin can transform ordinary furniture into a breathtaking statement piece. From river tables to abstract resin-coated surfaces, this technique adds depth and creativity to home decor.

Design Ideas for Resin Furniture:

Create a river table by pouring blue-tinted resin between live-edge wood slabs.

Use metallic pigments or glow-in-the-dark resin for a unique aesthetic.

Seal wood furniture with clear resin for a high-gloss, durable finish.

6. Resin Wall Art

Resin wall art allows for endless artistic expression, from fluid abstract designs to intricate layered paintings. Using various pigments, alcohol inks, and textural elements can result in eye-catching masterpieces.

Creating Unique Resin Wall Art:

Experiment with different pouring techniques like the "dirty pour" or "swipe method."

Incorporate gold leaf, mica powder, or neon pigments for a dramatic effect.

Layer multiple resin pours to create depth and dimension.

7. Resin Bookmarks and Keychains

Small resin crafts like bookmarks and keychains make for great gifts or personal accessories. These projects are beginner-friendly and can be customized with pressed flowers, glitter, or even tiny photographs.

Steps for DIY Resin Bookmarks & Keychains:

Pour clear resin into silicone molds of various shapes.

Add decorative elements such as dried flowers, foil flakes, or glow-in-the-dark pigments.

Once cured, attach key rings or tassels for a polished look.

8. Resin Clock Designs

A resin clock serves as both functional decor and an artistic statement. By incorporating marble swirls, ocean designs, or abstract resin art, you can create a timepiece that enhances any interior space.

Tips for Making Resin Clocks:

Use a round or square wooden board as the base.

Incorporate metallic pigments for an elegant finish.

Drill a hole in the center before pouring resin to accommodate clock hands.

9. Resin Flower Preservation

Preserving real flowers in resin is a wonderful way to create long-lasting keepsakes. Whether it's a wedding bouquet, sentimental blooms, or seasonal flowers, encasing them in resin adds beauty and longevity.

How to Preserve Flowers in Resin:

Dry flowers completely before embedding them to prevent moisture damage.

Pour resin in layers to avoid bubbles and achieve a clear finish.

Use dome molds or coaster molds for a stunning floral display.

10. Resin Nameplates and Personalized Gifts

Custom nameplates and personalized resin gifts make for thoughtful and artistic presents. By using molds, letter cutouts, or freehand techniques, you can create bespoke decor pieces.

Creative Ideas for Personalized Resin Items:

Use colorful pigments or glitter for eye-catching nameplates.

Embed small trinkets or meaningful symbols within the resin.

Experiment with glow-in-the-dark pigments for a unique touch.

Final Thoughts

Resin art is an exciting and versatile medium that offers limitless creative possibilities. Whether you prefer abstract designs, nature-inspired elements, or functional art pieces, there’s always something new to explore. With the right tools, patience, and imagination, you can craft mesmerizing resin art that reflects your personal style.

So, gather your supplies and start creating stunning resin masterpieces today!

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ReMark Exhibition Review

I feel a lot of rage about the obvious class divide in art. It is, as a medium, one of the most expensive hobbies to peruse, and most interestingly, is often condemned as ‘not a real career, pick something more stable’ by lower-class parents. They are not wrong, an arts career comes with its risks as well as its rewards (though mostly risks), and it is a struggle to get into. Public transport costs, fuel costs, and the costs of eating and merchandise for a trip to gallery all add up, and not everyone can afford them. Then, of course, there is also the issue of children. The inaccessibility of art fuels most of my rage, which is why when I come across an exhibition placed in a shopping centre, such as Chester’s Grosvenor Shopping Centre, I smile, because people are going to be there anyway.

The ReMark exhibit is an exhibition that centres ‘four acclaimed artists from the north-west’, Terry Duffy, Julie Saul, Julie Mayer, and Anne Byrne. It is good to see an exhibition in the north-west focusing on artists from the north-west instead of proving many fears of art being unstable by utilising the (very talented) artists from the south. It promotes, the north-western children who go and see it, that a career in the arts is possible. It is a refreshing reminder that people can be successful as an artist, and not have to move themselves to London (or one of the many numerous places down south) to be so. It is nice to see that, at a time when, for the past several years, the future of the arts has been hotly debated and funding decreased, the curators are reaching out to people who are artists from the same area as the people traveling to view the exhibit are. It helps foster a sense of community, one that has been severally lacking since the pandemic.

The paintings and pieces of art themselves are displayed in ‘The Large White Cube’, the standard setting for art displays which helps the viewer become disconnected from the outside world, though this falls slightly flat here. The old shopping unit that the exhibit is in does not have any doors, so it is rather difficult for The Large White Cube to take effect, and you are instead left with, on one side, a piece of art, and on the other, a screaming child in Costa. Is this to say that the exhibit as a whole is bad? No, not at all. It can be apricated for its efforts of bringing together a community at a time when such bonds are found lacking, but you are left, when faced with Duffy’s MONUMENTS-Revisted and their almost geode-like appearance, if this is the best the curators can think to do with this space? It would be different if, perhaps, the unit had doors on it, even if they were glass, or there was some kind of music playing to drown out the rest of the noise of the shopping centre.

Though the exhibit is not all paintings on a wall. Rather cleverly, knowing that this exhibit would be taking place in a shopping centre where lots of children would be, they provide the chance to make your own mark. Two massive sheets of canvas hang in the corner along with several buckets of coloured chalk (chunky, so they are easy for children to hold), child-size tables and chairs, and several blank notebooks. This gives the patrons (children or not) a chance to make art by themselves, and it is the most beautiful piece in the exhibit. The pieces of art made by the many footsteps display many languages, drawings, names, references and jokes that are understood only to a few people, as they are then covered by the next round of languages, drawings, names, references and jokes, and they are then covered by the next round, and so on and so forth. Flipping b through the books you will find numerous amounts of drawings of many abilities, and words of a similar nature. Many children who have just learnt to write their names will have scrawled them messily in the books with their favourite coloured chalk, messages of hope and unity, and several very worthy art pieces.

ReMark is open until the 7th of March at Chester Grosvener Shopping Centre.

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not mentally ill enough to be fun for internet users to poke at, too mentally ill to be brushed off as "quirky", but just mentally ill enough to catch myself in yet another unending spiral of shame and agony!

wooooooOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

(dont press read more unless you read those tags. im warning you.)

for the love of GOD please help? stop?

earlier someone asked how they could help i told them to give me space i don't want to explode i feel like i need the opposite of space but also if anyone comes close to me i want to golf them into the sun don't talk to me. don't perceive me please talk to me. don't leave me

i wish i could channel this into something productive (not that i think anyone would want to see that. there's better artists and better art. whats one more little fag on the internet making stories about depression and derealization and autism and burnout. i don't have anything new to add.)

today i went outside and i had trouble staying in my own head

for a while i was a father struggling to keep doing his job because 'reality' around me kept feeling weird and wrong and i remember punching a hole in the wall and i heard birdsong but the birdsong was real and i was back on earth (in my body) and the vignette around my vision was tangible. a fly landed on my arm and it made me yell. i was real suddenly- the veil was gone. i walked around and i looked at some things. i saw a weed growing in the cracks of the asphalt and i saw grass growing through a circle of rocks. at the fairy tree i found a perfectly round rock and wondered what was inside. i was back in the crystal shop- the one across the water- where the ferry took us i remember the perfect little geodes they sold i was back home i remember readying that hammer only to completely fuck up the swing and ended up pulverizing most of it. but i looked and the pieces were right there at the fairy tree. i thought about art and how i would portray things if i and i was that father again and i was struggling to explain i couldn't speak at all really even in the arms of my wife i fought myself and another voice (myself) and i told myself im not real and i told myself why do i feel like im stealing something from someone else and why do i feel like my life is over but it never started and i was in the backyard looking for my cat when the gate slammed. it slammed in the wind. im real again. the sun is still out. the neighbors just came back home- i saw their car pull in. im ashamed to keep wasting time outside, so i walk back in my house

i might have gotten the order of events wrong

does it matter

does writing it down even matter

im giving the void (at first i typed "voice") a recollection of something that doest matter

recorded here for all of time, wasting space on a server, rotting, festering.

who is this for is this for myself?

wouldnt it be easier if i just told the people in my real life what was going on,

no you know what shut the fuck up.

go get a job dumbass.

..yeah i feel like a right waste of space.

"look. walk-ins accepted. you can apply here too when you apply at [x] tomorrow" "tomorrow?" "what else do you have going on in your life?" we walked down the rest of the aisle in silence. i didn't have a reply.

"whats the difference between a psychologist and a psychiatrist?" "one can prescribe you drugs i think" "oh" we drove for 10 minutes in silence. i thought about my next question so carefully. i must have gone through dozens of iterations in that 5 minutes. i was the only one talking. during those 8 minutes i don't remember what the radio played. "which one of those two... tells you about if you have things in your head?" "what do you mean things in your head?" "like-" "like schizophrenia?" "yeah" "a psychiatrist i think. no? a psychologist. i forget" "yeah that's okay you don't know the answer, i probably should have researched myself, its kind of a lot of me to have expected you to have all the answers." "okay"

tomorrow i wake up. i have two options

>disappoint everyone (default option, no action required) >shut up, man up, get out of my room, become presentable, act Normal, interview at two different places, land a job, support the house, be a perfect functioning person

do i have an option

can i at least be a better person than writing a pathetic little vent longer than the colors of the sky. that no one cares about. that i wont care about in. fucking. whenever i can regulate my emotions again

wait will that even happen (someone made me go to type "(never)")

dear god. dear fucking lord. ive only been typing for. not long. it can't have been that long- less than half an hour- rollover just ended- but why the fuck did that person message me 6 times while im on DnD

aaaaaaaaaUGH i WANT TO GO. TO. BED.

WHY DO PEOPLE KEEP TRYING TO TALK TO ME

BUT THEY NEVER WANT TO TALK TO ME

7 messages

why cant we talk about nice things? i have nice things too- when i see them. in that other place. posting back and forth admiring each others stories and characters. i have that too. please. please can you talk to me

but then i swear like clockwork someone reaches out and i think no. not YOU. i want. THEM. (they don't exist) (they are a nebulous construct) what do i want. what do i fucking want. what do i care about? who do i care about?

im sorry. im so sorry. im sorry and i'll promise to respond to you. im sorry i know how it feels to be ignored i don't want to do that to you. im sorry i don't understand these things you send me. i don't understand

earlier tonight i failed once again to follow a simple request

(i keep looking up at those 7 unread messages)

i failed to follow it and i felt so. broken? useless? stupid? worthless? how can you expect someone _like me_ to get a job. to be _functional_

i dont even know if what i want to do is what i want to do anymore

all that time i spent in school. im sorry i wasted your time. im sorry im not going to amount to anything more than that. than this.

"they said they lost you in the system" "lost?? i. i submitted 3 times. under 'jay', under '[dead]', under '[last1]', under '[last1-last2]', i tried. i tried." -- "maybe they just don't want to hire me" "that's not it" "[z] got back to me that one time. do you remember?" "oh only a little-" "they said they're not hiring for night positions. even if on the website, the spot is still open. maybe if i just. replied back again and told them i'd do day anyways" "well, would you rather work at [x], or [y], or [z]?" "[y] i guess... not because i want to work in fast food but the benefits-"

the one blessing of tonight is that at least i haven't been super dysphoric. im too busy trying to claw back into my own body to be worried about whether or not it fits. i just need to be IN one

its been so hard to think of it as anything other than "the body", rather than "me". its. supposed to be "me" i think

whatever that means

my head is swimming again. i need to end this post

7 unread messages

i know i'll hit post, and i'll never see this passage again good riddance. maybe with all the bile ejected now i can actually be

something. i still dont know.