What’s going on here?

Trying new things is always a risk but an essential tool in any creative person’s toolbox. It paves the way for learning, experimenting and looking at ways to develop new ideas and new skills.

So for State of Independence I have created a shape in white and purple pigments, fused them with a casting resin to create the big arch you see and then laid that on to a black polycarbonate sheet and covered everything with resin.

Oh and there is real diamond in it too.

I’m sorry, did you say real diamond?

Yes I did! In fact it is certified diamond dust. It’s not cheap as you can imagine but I have been desperate to see what diamond dust looks like when sprinkled on to resin and left to cure.

And the result? Well, if I’m honest I was expecting more bling but I guess if I wanted that I’d be buying 20 carats of cut diamonds right? Dust is, well, dust at the end of the day. You can see it’s there but it doesn’t have the sparkle and pizzazz you’d expect it to have.

So you can see why experiments are necessary right? In any case though it’s a very pretty thing and it all gets topped off with a delicious background of black and grey metallic pigment that’s been swirled and mixed in to the background layer. And very nice that looks too!

Finishing

This painting is shipped ready to hang. Worldwide shipping is available – costs are calculated at the checkout before you decide to buy. Any problems, drop me a mail.