There is a twist to this in the middle of the video – sometimes your mistakes can become your best pieces
This post follows on from my previous post about My Abstract Jewellery (if you have missed that post you can see it here)
I use transparent glass paint to create these ‘wearable art’ designs, that give a wonderful stained glass effect as you can see here in the photo below. When I create Abstract Earrings like these I leave the backs clear for the natural light to shine through the colours.
Why I am adding a White Layer
But here I am making a pendant – still in the abstract style and colours, but because a pendant is going to be worn against skin or clothing, it needs to have a light coloured backing – this is to keep the colours vibrant, if the pendant was worn against dark clothing the pendant colours would look very dull and muddled, so just adding a light and bright colour to the backs of these pendants ensures the colours stay vibrant.
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Now in the video you will see I was happily applying the backing layer when something went wrong, so here not only are you getting a tutorial video of adding a white layer onto the back of a pendant – you are also going to see how to solve a problem that can occur to any one of us, while crafting with UV resin.
Lets watch the video here now
Did you see what happened? there were a couple of holes that I hadn’t noticed and the white pigment and resin just went straight through to the front of the pendant – and of course because I cured with the UV torch quickly it was solid -I could not remove it. I had to look for a way around the situation I did not want to waste the resin, paint and my time by simply binning this pendant, so as it was an abstract piece I decided to quite simply add more white pigment dots to the piece to join the accidental ones – and I am pleased with the result, pendant saved – and another lesson learnt! I will in future check and check again that my pieces do not have any holes in the resin.
Anyway I like to show you when things goes wrong or should I say take an unexpected turn – as I don’t believe there is such a thing as going ‘Wrong’ where art is concerned.
Another thing to note in that video is the amount of white pigment I use it really is a surprising tiny bit – that is all you need to use, remember you can always add more but you cannot take any out. The pigment that I am using here is from Amazon and you can see it here
Sometimes it is also necessary to add a coloured backing to brooches / pins, so as to make the pin invisible from the front of your resin piece, nobody wants to see the fastener at the back showing through your design.
I hope you have found this post helpful, and if so you may like to look through a few of my other posts, I am trying to cover the most common problems that can happen whilst crafting with resin and also air dry clay ( sometimes combining both crafts into one) You can click here to see my other post titles
My Abstract Jewellery – ‘Wearable Art’ is currently available for purchase from my Etsy shop, I am adding new designs frequently of earrings, pendants and also brooches – I will be creating some abstract style keyrings and bag charms too.