RE: Ten Days of Reflection: Challenge Day 4. Roses in Ice. Original photography. Nature's Beauty.
Working on a post now: Compiling images of the frozen flowers I've already shared at Steemit. They have become totally lost amongst all the resteemed articles so I'd like to bring them all together, before I share new ones. 😊
Similar but different again. I'd much prefer to work with ice and photograph the pieces than work with resin these days. Although having said that, after all these years of searching, I've finally seen that water soluble non-toxic resins are actually available.
I did a lot of experimenting with different resins when I made the sculpture I mentioned. Most of the jewelry, paperweights and orgonite you see are made with polyester resins which are highly toxic. They're alright as soon as they harden. The artist is the one exposed to the toxic fumes. Not nice I can tell you and it didn't take long before I knew I couldn't use them. I did find an alternative at the time that was less toxic, although the crystal clear effects were deminished. Fortunately for my purposes, it was still fine.
I looked at Jessica's site and really liked her work. Following her on IG now. Thanks so much for letting me know about her work Gillian. I hope if she continues to work with resin she'll be able to work with non-toxic materials.
It may be sometime before I share the journey I went on in the making of my sculpture. So I'll share this image of it now with you.
4 triangular shaped pillars: 2 meters in height: Spaced to represent 11:11. Transparent so that the pillars became unified with the surrounding environment with the front surfaces made with orgonite: metal filings, copper spirals, crystals, shells, stones, leaf gold, all set in resin.
Wow. That sculpture is sooooooo beautiful. You'd get on like a house on fire with Jessica. I'm sure of it!
Did you actually take the pieces down to the beach?!!!
Water soluable non-toxic resins sound fun!
As far as I know Jessica only did the one, huge, resin piece and continues to paint.
She is a wonderful person and I used to love going to her open houses and chatting with her. Nowadays she is not available in the same way, as she has high paying customers to entertain!
Pictures of her art don't do it justice. To be honest I'm not very knowledgeable or even that interested in art. I just like what I like. But her paintings have been known to bring a tear to my eye when seen in the flesh!
We went to a gallery opening of hers in London once. Just to have the experience. 😊 One of the other artists who was being exhibited was Damian Hirst, his butterfly series.
They didn't do much for me but, strangely, having just checked them out online they look better on the screen than they did in real life!