Alien world captured in resin and made into LED light 

I liked the music, it fit the theme completely but I like both the voice and the text formats. This one was beautiful with the music and text and flowed wonderfully with the resin :)

Really liked it Barnes. I liked the previous format too mind you 🤷‍♂️.

Thank you so much 😀

I do sometimes question my life choices! 🤣 Glad you liked the piece.

Wow, thank you!

Thank you! Cheers!

Thank you very much!

Thank you very much, I'm really glad you liked my work!

Thank you very much!

Thank you so much!

Thank you Sydney!

If you use Epoxy resin I can understand your concern, but for polyester resin bubbles aren't really much of an issue. Don't get me wrong though.....it has it's other challenges! Thank you very much for watching.

Thank you so much! I was really pleased with this one.

Thank you so much!! I too was very pleased with how the final piece turned out, the light base really showed it off well. My designs all come from an initial idea that will pop into my head, and then I develop it so that it will work as a final piece (composition etc). The main hurdle is figuring out HOW I'm going to make it! So glad you're enjoying the channel.

Thank you very much! As long as you seal the mould by pouring resin down the edges the foil method works really well.

Hi, glad you liked it! So for the thin layers I use a high proportion of hardener (catalyst) and these harden in 30-60mins. For the thicker pours I use relatively less hardener and these can take 10-24 hours to harden. However polyester resin will continue to harden for up to 7 or more days until it is as hard as glass. I tend to leave 24 hours between every pour (even small thin layers), so one piece may take 2 weeks to complete. I'm normally making about three pieces at the same time.

@@barnabyhowesculpture Thank you so much for your reply. Polyester resin in much different to epoxy, if I added more hardener to epoxy it would fail. If I had a good large space with a lot of fresh air I would be sorely tempted to try it. It seems polyester resin is a lot more versatile than epoxy... one day :) You must have constant ideas in your mind to have two or three projects on the go at once. Isn't a creative mind such a blessing :)

Hi Kelly, really glad you liked the video! And pleased to hear you're giving the sphere coating technique a try. In answer to your question if I understand it correctly, once you've poured resin into the mould and swilled it around to fully coat it, you then pour out the excess. I would leave it upside over a cup or something for about 1-2 minutes max to let any further excess resin drip out. Then pour in whatever you're using to coat the sphere (tiny balls) in your instance (pour in more than you think you'll need). I then cover the opening with aluminium foil which I hold down with a thumb or the palm of my hand depending on how large the opening in the mould is and shake. Then pour out any excess unstuck balls and leave it to harden over night, then fill the sphere with clear resin the next day and that should be it. I would assume you'd then want to cast that in a larger, probably square mould. I never got these things to work perfectly the first time, so just give it another go if you hit any problems, and avoid what you got wrong before. Anyway I hope that helps a little, and good luck with it!

@@barnabyhowesculpture that’s fabulous help, thank you so much! I’m demoulding today as yesterday was spent photographing items! I’m so excited to see if it worked. I will keep trying until I succeed, that’s for sure. So good to see such a helpful resin artist and new you tube demos. There’s some great people out there, but innovators like yourself are moving the art forward.

@@barnabyhowesculpture hi again! Thanks so much for the help. I am pleased to report that the attempt worked pretty well. Yes improvements can be made, but altogether I was pretty pleased with it! Looking forward to your next upload!