{"id":466,"date":"2018-05-24T18:01:44","date_gmt":"2018-05-24T22:01:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.elizabethtaylorstudio.com\/?p=466"},"modified":"2018-05-24T18:01:44","modified_gmt":"2018-05-24T22:01:44","slug":"recreating-a-sea-urchin-in-resin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.elizabethtaylorstudio.com\/?p=466","title":{"rendered":"Recreating a Sea Urchin in Resin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I love all things ocean and beachy and that includes sea urchins. I love to incorporate those images in my designs, but natural items like sea urchins, sea shells, and starfish are fragile and do not often hold up well in jewelry designs. Having been introduced to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iceresin.com\/\">Ice Resin<\/a> and molding putty by <a href=\"http:\/\/jencushman.com\/category\/teaching\/\">Jen Cushman<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.susanlenartkazmer.com\/\">Susan Lenart Kazmer<\/a>, I found an ideal way to bring my favorite beachy things into my designs, while making them durable. <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-467\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.elizabethtaylorstudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/urchin4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"781\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.elizabethtaylorstudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/urchin4.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/blog.elizabethtaylorstudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/urchin4-300x234.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><br \/>\nI began with a nice sea urchin found in a bag of shells at a local thrift store. Using the putty, I formed it around the shell and let it set up. Removing the urchin from the molding putty is tricky, and I did have to put a few slits along the top. After the mold cured completely, I cast an urchin using Ice Resin tinted with some off-white acrylic paint.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-468\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.elizabethtaylorstudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/urchin5.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"665\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.elizabethtaylorstudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/urchin5.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/blog.elizabethtaylorstudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/urchin5-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><br \/>\nThe resin urchin was then colored with paints and gilders paste. I added a Swarovski crystal in the center and mounted the urchin in a bronze colored bezel.\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-469\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.elizabethtaylorstudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/urchin10.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"947\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.elizabethtaylorstudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/urchin10.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/blog.elizabethtaylorstudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/urchin10-300x284.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><br \/>\nI&#8217;ve taken several metal working classes at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.beadandbuttonshow.com\/\">Bead &amp; Button Show<\/a> from SLK and last year was one on making components with texture and patina. I combined these components with my sea urchin bezel, crystal beads, wire work, chain, and silk ribbon. The result was a striking yet fun necklace that I love to wear.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-471\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.elizabethtaylorstudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/urchin7.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"526\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.elizabethtaylorstudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/urchin7.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/blog.elizabethtaylorstudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/urchin7-300x247.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><br \/>\nWe used a special tool to corrugate the metal and metal alphabet stamps\u00a0 &#8211; &#8220;SUN&#8221; is on this second component.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-470\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.elizabethtaylorstudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/urchin6.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"779\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.elizabethtaylorstudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/urchin6.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/blog.elizabethtaylorstudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/urchin6-300x234.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><br \/>\nMore corrugated metal (layered) and &#8220;SEA&#8221;. The eyelets were another technique she taught.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-472\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.elizabethtaylorstudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/urchin8.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"986\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.elizabethtaylorstudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/urchin8.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/blog.elizabethtaylorstudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/urchin8-195x300.jpg 195w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><br \/>\nThe pieces that hang from the bezel have my birthdate on them. I&#8217;m a July baby. Maybe that&#8217;s why I love beachy things.\u00a0 I&#8217;m excited to be going back to Milwaukee to take another class with Susan in a few weeks.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-441\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.elizabethtaylorstudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/signature.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"429\" height=\"136\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.elizabethtaylorstudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/signature.png 429w, https:\/\/blog.elizabethtaylorstudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/signature-300x95.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 429px) 100vw, 429px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love all things ocean and beachy and that includes sea urchins. I love to incorporate those images in my designs, but natural items like sea urchins, sea shells, and starfish are fragile and do not often hold up well &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.elizabethtaylorstudio.com\/?p=466\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.elizabethtaylorstudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.elizabethtaylorstudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.elizabethtaylorstudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.elizabethtaylorstudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.elizabethtaylorstudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=466"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.elizabethtaylorstudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":474,"href":"https:\/\/blog.elizabethtaylorstudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466\/revisions\/474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.elizabethtaylorstudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.elizabethtaylorstudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.elizabethtaylorstudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}