When I work with resin there always seems to be some excess left at the finish of the job. What can you do with this left-over resin? I have made it a habit to have empty pill bottles around to put this unused resin in and let it set up. I also have saved drops of resin that have set up on the plastic surface under my piece. When these drops and puddles set they can be pealed off the plastic easily. They are also saved to add in the pill bottles where liquid excess resin is poured. These various color, shape and sized pieces create designs in the resin tubes when filled and hardened.
I cut the tubes into segments 5/8th of an inch thick on my band saw as shown above. This exposes the designs created by the various color and shapes cast in the tube. These slices or orbs as I call them can be used to decorate the surface of art pieces. The piece shown in the photo below, that I created some years ago, is an example of orbs use.
*More detail can be found on my art at my website <www.apatchablue.com>
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