Resin Workshop: Botanical Resin Pendants and Bookmarks

In this workshop, you will learn various resin art techniques by experimenting with multiple combinations of materials, such as pressed flowers/plants, inks, beads, and collages with resin.

You will be provided with different shapes of pendants and bookmark moulds to make your own handmade botanical resin pieces.

Note: Resin needs 24 hours to be cured. You may schedule a time with us to pick up your pendants and bookmarks from our front door.

What you will learn in this workshop:

1. Using resin moulds to cast pressed flowers/plants and combining them with other materials such as glitter, beads, and paper.

2. Creating crystal-shaped resin pieces using alcohol inks.

3. Different ways of dipping the pressed leaves and flower petals in resin to make organic shape pieces (freehand pouring).

4. Learning about various resins, moulds, and flower drying methods.

Materials and supplies that will be provided for participants to use during the workshop:

Resin

Mixing containers

Toothpicks

Silicon molds

Ink

Glitter powder/beads

Dried flowers/plants

Cleaning supplies

About the instructor:

Elmira Sarreshtedari is an artist, instructor, and art researcher based in Canada. She holds an MFA from the University of Calgary. Currently, she is pursuing Art Education as a PhD candidate at UBC. Elmira works with different materials and mediums, such as drawing, painting, installation art, sound, and video performance to create her art.

What to wear:

Please consider wearing comfortable clothes.

Public Transport and Parking

Train- Marine Drive Station

Bus - Served by the numbers 10, 100, 17

Parking - Off-street parking close by

Please note that the workshop fee is non-refundable unless fewer than two people register. Looking forward to seeing you! :)

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