Pictures Of Me To Hang On Your Treeacrylic resin
A few years ago I decided to add a little something to the Christmas gifts for my aunts, uncles, and g
rand parents.
I had a friend who worked in the plastics studio at OCAD who was able to help me out with the project I had in mind. The first thing i needed to do was test the pen and paper drawings reaction to the acrylic resin. I made the sketch to the left and carefully placed it within the dyed blue resin at the bottom of the margarine container type mixing dish. I then walked away, going off to do whatever it was I did at the time. The next day I returned to the plastics lab to see what had happened. Not only did the disk come out un-cracked but the paper turned slightly transparent. This meant that I no longer had to worry about copying the drawings backwards to make the image in the disks visible from both sides.
The next step was to draw the "pictures of me" portion of the gifts. I made 12 because of the 12 Days of Christmas meaning that the aunts and uncles would have to share. This also helped with math. Half of those were wearing the "cartoon Trevor" fedora while the others wore festive Santa hats. I also drew the faces in three other categories; looking left, looking right, and looking forward.
After the drawings were complete and carefully dissected from my sketchbook, I set out to make the resin disks. I dyed them blue, green, and what I thought was red but turned out to be orange. I placed the drawings into the resin disks then placed them on the drying rack. At some point they shifted around making it so none of the drawings were centered, but that's not much of a problem. Once they were dry I had to buff out flecks or bumps and round off the edges.
Now all I had to do was drill a hole on the top to thread some ribbon through to allow for my family to hang the disks on their tree the following Christmas... I never did notice if any were actually hung.
A few years ago I decided to add a little something to the Christmas gifts for my aunts, uncles, and g
rand parents.I had a friend who worked in the plastics studio at OCAD who was able to help me out with the project I had in mind. The first thing i needed to do was test the pen and paper drawings reaction to the acrylic resin. I made the sketch to the left and carefully placed it within the dyed blue resin at the bottom of the margarine container type mixing dish. I then walked away, going off to do whatever it was I did at the time. The next day I returned to the plastics lab to see what had happened. Not only did the disk come out un-cracked but the paper turned slightly transparent. This meant that I no longer had to worry about copying the drawings backwards to make the image in the disks visible from both sides.
The next step was to draw the "pictures of me" portion of the gifts. I made 12 because of the 12 Days of Christmas meaning that the aunts and uncles would have to share. This also helped with math. Half of those were wearing the "cartoon Trevor" fedora while the others wore festive Santa hats. I also drew the faces in three other categories; looking left, looking right, and looking forward.
After the drawings were complete and carefully dissected from my sketchbook, I set out to make the resin disks. I dyed them blue, green, and what I thought was red but turned out to be orange. I placed the drawings into the resin disks then placed them on the drying rack. At some point they shifted around making it so none of the drawings were centered, but that's not much of a problem. Once they were dry I had to buff out flecks or bumps and round off the edges.
Now all I had to do was drill a hole on the top to thread some ribbon through to allow for my family to hang the disks on their tree the following Christmas... I never did notice if any were actually hung.
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