The first of my designs with butterfly wings-- well, in this case, Sunset Moth wings-- are live in the shop. I'd been experimenting with wings since about January on methods to seal the wings properly for resin applications. Mod Podge turned brilliant blue morpho wings velvety green. Diamond Glaze rendered them mottled brown. Direct resin application stole away all color. But after seeing Jen Cushman's designs with wings in her new book Explore, Create, Resinate, I knew it could be done SOMEHOW, and so I redoubled my efforts. With success!
And, as luck would have it, I had the good fortune to bump into Jane Wynn of Wynn Studio at our local metal shop, and she related to me the sealing method she'd devised for sealing wings in her book, Alterered Curiosities. I will definitely have to experiment with that, as well!
In any case, a new update of 50 items is live in the shop-- wings, wirework, resin, the works!
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PS, if you just can't get enough of wings this spring, be sure to check out Dark Side of the Sun, my TeamBPAL team leader's shop. Mel's 'Metamorphosis' series is lovely!
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