Playing with resin and texture and glazing

I have had a lot of fun with these pieces which are mixed media with resin. Unfortunately none of the photos quite do it justice and I have found again that with resin, it is very hard to get a decent photo to show the effect. I will try again once the resin is fully set to see if I can get a final photo.

Here is a little bit of the detail. Basically I have textured all these canvases and then did layers and layers of glazing (also hasn't come out clear in the photo) with some interference gold gel mixed through the glazes too. I have used both acrylics and acrylic inks. I then broke up gold leaf and rubbed that in and did the first layering of resin. After that was dry I sprinkled more gold leaf on top and have done another layer so you can see the gold suspended in the resin when you see it in real life.

It was fun to use resin again and have a break from oil painting and get some texture in as well. I used a variety of modelling pastes and other textures for the big one and the small ones have had tissue paper and other textured paper as the basis. I have textured up a couple more canvases so I will keep on playing with this.

This is an abstracted seascape. I wanted to try and reduce reduce reduce and get down to the colours and the feel when the sky and sea are so reflected in each other that it is an expanse of turquoise. The gold represents the preciousness of our oceans and the living beings within which are currently at risk with human behaviour the way it is.

I am also really keen to explore thin layers of resin with things embedded in different layers so I am going to think a bit about how I can achieve that and how it would work.

All in all it was so much fun to break out the acrylics again and take advantage of the quick drying. Especially with this heat at the moment, I just sat the canvases outside between glazes and they dried incredibly quickly. It has been a while since I have done anything with resin and texture and I think it is a good break from the more detailed work I do in oils and is quite refreshing.