This warmer Spring weather we are experiencing has encouraged me to think about summer holidays, dipping toes into the sea, making sand sculptures and foraging the beach for seashells and pretty stones.
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| A collection of seashells |
Showing posts with label Seashell paperweight. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Seashell paperweight. Show all posts
Resin seaside art – Seashells and beachcombing items encased in resin
With lockdown lifting and things hopefully getting back to normal, may of us are looking forward to getting away this summer, I know I am! Living in the heart of the Midlands, you could not get much further from the seaside, and I so long to dip my feet into the sea!
So, to get us all in the holiday mood, I thought I would share some of the resin art I have previously made using seashells and other items discovered from beachcombing.
The first item is a resin paperweight encapsulating shells and pieces of coral sent to me by a customer, following her holiday. The resin enhances the colour of the shells beautifully!
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| Seashell and coral paperweight |
This is a similar resin paperweight I made containing a single seashell.
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| Seashell resin paperweight |
These pendants are one of the first things I encased within resin over 10 years ago. The left pendant contains tiny seashells; and the right pendant contains both seashells and sand.
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| Seashell and sand pendants |
This is a square resin paperweight containing a Seahorse that was sent to me by a customer.
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| Seahorse paperweight |
And another square paperweight made from seashells and personalised with the holiday destination and date.
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| Personalised seashell paperweight |
And finally, this is a picture I made from pieces of sea glass that I collected from a Jersey beach. This mosaic style picture is meant to resemble one of the beaches that we visited in Jersey.
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| Sea glass picture of a Jersey beach |
I hope you have enjoyed viewing my resin seaside art and whatever you decide to do this Summer, I hope that you have a wonderful time.
Seashell and coral paperweight
As promised in my last blog post I said I would show off another paperweight that I made last week, well here it is. This was a custom order for a paperweight and the customer sent me a selection of seashells and coral to encase within the resin paperweight.
This paperweight was a lot trickier to complete than it looks, mainly due to the possibility of having trapped air within the shells and coral escaping out into the resin as it cures. I had to pre-coat each shell and the piece of coral with layers of resin before encasing them within the paperweight. The other possible problem I had to contend with was the irregular shapes of the shells and preventing trapped bubbles underneath them as they are embedded. Thankfully the paperweight was perfect, it takes about a week to make the paperweight during which time I cannot see what is happening underneath, so the moment when it popped out of the mould was quite exciting!
These sea shells hold an important sentimental significance to the customer and what better way to present them as a gift. Many of us take a few shells home with us when we go away on holiday and if anybody else is like me, they just end up put away into a box. Having a paperweight is a lovely way to display the shells and a reminder of a happy holiday!
Mick
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| Seashell and coral paperweight |
This paperweight was a lot trickier to complete than it looks, mainly due to the possibility of having trapped air within the shells and coral escaping out into the resin as it cures. I had to pre-coat each shell and the piece of coral with layers of resin before encasing them within the paperweight. The other possible problem I had to contend with was the irregular shapes of the shells and preventing trapped bubbles underneath them as they are embedded. Thankfully the paperweight was perfect, it takes about a week to make the paperweight during which time I cannot see what is happening underneath, so the moment when it popped out of the mould was quite exciting!
These sea shells hold an important sentimental significance to the customer and what better way to present them as a gift. Many of us take a few shells home with us when we go away on holiday and if anybody else is like me, they just end up put away into a box. Having a paperweight is a lovely way to display the shells and a reminder of a happy holiday!
Mick
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