After completing my acrylic dot painting 'Under A Violet Moon', it was time to give it a resin treatment. The painting was done on a wooden cradled panel with a 1/8" lip around the edge, perfect for containing the resin to the top surface.

First step was to gather all the necessary tools. (The cat you see was eventually banished from the room, along with his two brothers. The last thing I needed was more cat hair in my studio during this operation).

The first step was measuring out the resin and hardener in equal portions, and then stirring for 3 minutes. 

Next step was to carefully pour the resin on to my painting and move it around with a plastic scraper. You have about 40 minutes to work with the resin once it's mixed. Notice that I have my painting sitting in a plastic box. This probably was not a great idea, I'll explain why in the next step.

Okay, this is the part about why I shouldn't have had my painting in the plastic box yet. The Artist's Torch. The torch is used to remove any bubbles that have formed during the process of stirring the resin and hardener together. You move the torch back and forth across the painting like you're ironing, holding it a few inches above. Because my painting was so close to the edges of the plastic box, this made it really difficult to torch; I was worried about melting the box! Luckily I didn't have any issues and I was still able to torch away all the bubbles, but next time I'll make sure to pour and torch with the painting outside of the plastic box.

The next step was to check for and remove any little hairs that weren't burned away by the torch. Then I placed the lid on the plastic box and stored it safely on a shelf to cure for 24 hours.

And 24 hours later, the final result is absolutely gorgeous!

'Under A Violet Moon', Acrylic/Resin on 12" x 12" cradled wooden panel. 

I am very grateful to Rebecca Zak at Art Resin (https://www.artresin.com)  for inviting me to do something creative with Art Resin and share it here on my website. I look forward to doing more projects with the incredibly generous supply of Art Resin that I received from Rebecca. Stay tuned...