Helix Nebula
This is wood and resin art at it’s finest. The handcrafted beauty is perfect for both home and office wall decor.
Working from a Hubble telescope photo, Helix Nebula is the first and (so far) only art I've made in this manner. The base is a 7" wide x 5-1/2" tall x 3/8" thick piece of wood that I painted with black Testors model paint for a super slick, black background. Then I built a plexiglass box around the base. Then I poured a 1/8" deep layer of resin and sprinkled a tiny amount of red pigment powder in the center, waited a day for that layer to cure and repeated this process twice more with the red powder, then four more times with blue pigment powder. After the last color layer cured, I broke the art free from its plexi-prison and poured a final resin flood coat on the surface. This all resulted in a very vivid 3D effect. I let this one go way too cheap!
This is wood and resin art at it’s finest. The handcrafted beauty is perfect for both home and office wall decor.
Working from a Hubble telescope photo, Helix Nebula is the first and (so far) only art I've made in this manner. The base is a 7" wide x 5-1/2" tall x 3/8" thick piece of wood that I painted with black Testors model paint for a super slick, black background. Then I built a plexiglass box around the base. Then I poured a 1/8" deep layer of resin and sprinkled a tiny amount of red pigment powder in the center, waited a day for that layer to cure and repeated this process twice more with the red powder, then four more times with blue pigment powder. After the last color layer cured, I broke the art free from its plexi-prison and poured a final resin flood coat on the surface. This all resulted in a very vivid 3D effect. I let this one go way too cheap!
This is wood and resin art at it’s finest. The handcrafted beauty is perfect for both home and office wall decor.
Working from a Hubble telescope photo, Helix Nebula is the first and (so far) only art I've made in this manner. The base is a 7" wide x 5-1/2" tall x 3/8" thick piece of wood that I painted with black Testors model paint for a super slick, black background. Then I built a plexiglass box around the base. Then I poured a 1/8" deep layer of resin and sprinkled a tiny amount of red pigment powder in the center, waited a day for that layer to cure and repeated this process twice more with the red powder, then four more times with blue pigment powder. After the last color layer cured, I broke the art free from its plexi-prison and poured a final resin flood coat on the surface. This all resulted in a very vivid 3D effect. I let this one go way too cheap!