Layering resin fun

The posts will probably slow down now. I'm back at school. This is a good thing. I've been in front of kids for the first time in awhile today, and it was good. They're remarkable creatures, children. Everyday I am amazed at their perceptiveness and good humour. Some are little monsters (and some not even that small :) but the vast majority of children are pretty amazing. It's funny, the 80s gave us the stereotype of the wild eyed teenager, rebelling on the edge of destruction. People think I stand in front of classrooms with a whip and a chair getting emotionally and physically brutalised every day. It's really quite far from the truth.

Anyway, back to me. And that's reeeeaaallly important. All you childcare workers, teachers, mums and dads will know of the seductiveness of throwing yourself and your own needs under a bus for kids. They seem like such a wise investment of your time and energy. They're still beginning, still fresh and new-ish and if you invest too much of your energy into them, well at least you've helped give them a leg up in life.

So when I drag myself away from the radiant smiling little wonders, I still potter on my verandah making resin jewellery. I have run out of my hideously expensive silicone, so all my plasticene models are hidden in a cupboard at the moment, waiting for more to come. Instead, I need to play at different ways to cast the same moulds I have, to keep things fresh.

R.Sobral is like a god to me. I love his and Jackie Brazil's collections of multicoloured layered resin jewellery. I posted a pic of my first stab at trying this technique and people ooohed and ahhed over my excellent bracelet (it wasn't mine, it was Sobral's! Something I thought I had made clear!) And if anyone wants to buy me one of these for the thousands it's no doubt worth, go right ahead! But I have been tinkering with the basic premise of the layering of colours in moulds and come up with this!

Bow down before it's majesty, most beautiful of all rings! Okay, not really, but it's pretty special for me. I keep making this stuff I really like and not wanting to part with it! I'll need to wear a different ring on each finger every day of the week at this rate! This ring was made with layers of every colour in the rainbow slowly added over time

This one is a sea urchin ring that I reshaped with the Drememl. It can be a little spiky (though not really, which is suprising) wearing sea urchin rings, so this is a nice solution, also revealing the stripes of colour.

This bangle is for sale on my Etsy. The same batch of blue hued resin

So how do you do it? I personally now let every layer dry! I don't want another burny bubbly event. I make up a batch of one colour and then pour in multiple moulds, each a little yellow, green, blue etc, letting each set and cool between layers. once you've filled the mould, pull out and voila! Finished stripey resin jewellery. The thing I like a lot is the complete uncontrollable nature of it. You never know where the colour will go

All Darwin residents, looks like there's a possibility of me running a resin jewellery class in the second semester for adults, so keep an ear out if you're interested.

Also going to try out the Nightcliff Markets as a place to hawk, so I'll catch you in a couple of weeks if you're in town!