Encaustic, flowers and resin, new pendants. Work of the day 6-5-2020
For a while I've been playing with the thought of filling my encaustic pendants with resin. Air comes too often under the glasses (to my liking), especially when I use flowers in my pendants. But the casting resin I tried to date did not cooperate, I got air bubbles, crooked pendants or deflated keychains.
Still, I thought it should be possible, and I went back to work. This time with other casting resin, and with a gas burner, and the latter I found quite scary. I wrote a fantasy story once in which I set fire to my house... inspired by my fear. But I have a craft sheet that is fire and oven-resistant, so I decided to try it. Some time ago I had robbed my parents' garden of some flowers, which were now dry and so I could use.
First the pendants made, without a glass to cut around that is not easy yet... then the resin made and pour but, burner over it, and there went the air bubbles!
The resin also became a lot more fluid, so that's a little getting used to, I still have to practice with the amount of resin, so that the pendants do not overflow.
With one pendant I managed to set fire to the flower under the resin, it became a charming look-through hole, but all in all I am actually quite proud of my first cast pendants with encaustic art in it!
Xx
Sherry