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2025 New Art Ideas

A new year brings new opportunities but only if one pushes oneself to higher heights. I’m taking advantage of having a studio space to build some innovative ideas that are just asking to be born. Picture if you will, an Eastern Red Cedar card table with green transparent resin surrounding the circles of its growth. Woodworking has always appealed to me but the bigger tools come with a bigger expense. With careful planning and construction, I’ve found that I can build this outstanding fold-able card table. Here are some of my raw materials:

Irregular boards for live edge top of card table and regular cut legs to be attached with hinges.
Irregular boards for live edge top of card table and regular cut legs to be attached with hinges.
Eastern Red Cedar "cookie" slice 1 inch thick for center of card table.
Eastern Red Cedar “cookie” slice 1 inch thick for center of card table.
45 year old Eastern Red Cedar slice for middle of green resin top of card table.
45 year old Eastern Red Cedar slice for middle of green resin top of card table.

Tessellation in Resin

Another idea you should see completed soon is my hot air balloon tessellation. A tessellation is the contents of a 60° 60° 60° triangle mirrored to its respective sides. I have designed a hot air balloon motif from bent brass rods. The spaces between will be filled with colored transparent resin, much like a stained glass window. This piece measures 23″ x 23″ and it will be illuminated for hanging on a wall with four aluminum stand-offs.

Tesselation drawing of hot air balloon motif on back of resin tray (for pouring different colors of resin inside balloon areas).

Copper and Brass Metal Work

I’ve also been doing a lot of work with metal. My first experience was the brass spiral staircase inside the lighthouse. Then I used copper tubes as frames around resin tiles. My latest work is just a fun copper dandelion plant with a puff ball.

Close-up view of copper window panes holding blue wave tiles. The tiles are 4" resin squares and the copper pipe is 1/2" diameter soldered together and shined.
Close-up view of copper window panes holding blue wave tiles. The tiles are 4″ resin squares and the copper pipe is 1/2″ diameter soldered together and shined.
Window panes and snowflake molds laying on a home-made light table. The backlit illumination shows the potential of these window panes to screen the outside but transfer the light inside.
Window panes and snowflake molds laying on a home-made light table. The backlit illumination shows the potential of these window panes to screen the outside but transfer the light inside.
view from the base of a resin lighthouse looking up toward the blue green LED light inside the lens room, a black and white painted widow's walk surrounds the light, a spiral staircase ascends to the light through the middle of the blue resin walls in the shape of a hexagon and which sit on a blue resin base containing rocks at the ocean level
view from the base of a resin lighthouse looking up toward the blue green LED light inside the lens room, a black and white painted widow’s walk surrounds the light, a spiral staircase ascends to the light through the middle of the blue resin walls in the shape of a hexagon and which sit on a blue resin base containing rocks at the ocean level
Copper dandelion standing on a hardwood pedestal. Twisted leaves sprout from a copper stem and copper nails look like dandelion seeds on a puff ball.
Copper dandelion standing on a hardwood pedestal. Twisted leaves sprout from a copper stem and copper nails look like dandelion seeds on a puff ball.
Copper dandelion standing on a hardwood pedestal. Twisted leaves sprout from a copper stem and copper nails look like dandelion seeds on a puff ball.
Copper dandelion standing on a hardwood pedestal. Twisted leaves sprout from a copper stem and copper nails look like dandelion seeds on a puff ball.
Copper dandelion standing on a hardwood pedestal. Twisted leaves sprout from a copper stem and copper nails look like dandelion seeds on a puff ball.
Copper dandelion standing on a hardwood pedestal. Twisted leaves sprout from a copper stem and copper nails look like dandelion seeds on a puff ball.

Built to Order, Commissions

If you have an idea in your mind just waiting to be built then please call me. I love transforming ideas into reality. Here’s a photo of a commission piece that I made for a customer (who gave me a 5-star rating for the project).

Watch encased in clear resin and set on a metal plate inscribed as a gift.
Watch encased in clear resin and set on a metal plate inscribed as a gift.

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Watercolor Wildflowers is studio artist business by appt. I am a retired civil engineer surveyor - I make landscape watercolor paintings, geometric resin paintings, and other graphic arts related services. I am currently building resin art works using a unique process that I invented. My resin slab designs are geometric themes and color compositions. Art works are transparent, colorful and lit with LED by AC or DC power. Installation is included with purchase. My resin art is unlike any other and will look incredible in your home or business. My paintings are planned, well constructed, and beautiful. Hang them on your wall or in front of a window. I've built LED backlighting which shines brightly through the colorful resin. Commissions

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