Author: JohnM

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 in Omaha area 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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Stunning Brass and Resin Tessellation Art Piece

vertical view of hot air balloon resin art painting in bright colors of red, yellow, purple,and blue

This hot air balloon design is a tessellation or reflection of the contents of an equilateral triangle to adjacent triangles in three directions. Brass rods are bent into the segment shapes and laid on a hard resin layer. Then a 1/16″ clear resin layer is poured to seal between the rods. Small amounts of colored resin are poured carefully in the spaces. When the resin colors have cured a 3/16″ clear layer is poured just covering the brass rods. The finished slab is 0.5″ thick.

This unique brass and resin art piece is ready for a new home. It can be installed with LED backlights on a wall in your home or office. With lighting $250. With brass frame $400.

Transparent resin painting of hot air balloons in a tessellation design.
Transparent resin painting of hot air balloons in a tessellation design.
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Metal and Resin Art for Home Decor

interior photo of art studio at 5069 Leavenworth St.

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.
resin filled card table top - red cedar slice in the middle of four boards surrounded by green resin and live edge cedar planks
resin filled card table under construction – red cedar cookie in the middle surrounded by green resin and live edge cedar planks

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.

colorful resin slab of hot air balloons tessellation resting on wooden window sill with sun shining through the transparent resin

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.

13" x 13" brass tube frame around nine 4" x 4" transparent aqua resin tiles.
Just waiting to be set in your window as an attractive sun catcher, this tiled piece of eye candy will brighten your day and your home.
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.
lighthouse sculpture in a hexagon shape with hexagon base embedded with quartz rocks.
Looking upward at my first sellable lighthouse sculpture. This piece took a lot of planning and trials and fitting and trying again. It is a unique model of a lighthouse set with a firm rock foundation. The walls are resin and they are joined with resin. The lantern room is a diamond textured cylinder which refracts the light.
brass skeleton of resin art painting drawn in pencil in the shape of a hexagon filled with diamonds, hexagons, triangles and a six sided star
brass skeleton of planned resin art painting in the shape of a hexagon

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).

8" x 2" x 2" clear solid cast of resin with watch inside. The watch shows the time that couple met.
$25 per hour plus materials. Commissions Example. Watch encased in clear resin and set on a metal plate inscribed as a gift. This idea came from a customer and I was able to build it to specifications and to the satisfaction of the customer. 5 star rating on Google Reviews.
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Discover Unique Resin Art at Omaha’s Newest Studio

"Bioluminescence", 23" x 28" x 0.5" transparent resin painting Night beach scene of bioluminescent surf with mountains and dark horizon
interior view of art studio with several resin art pieces on a table and in the window.

Life can be a surprise in the worst and the in the best ways. I never dreamed of having a studio but this happened and it has defined me. My boss at Blick Art Materials needed someone to take over rent space. That was another best surprise. The studio is character-rich and only six blocks from my house. I was concerned about the expenses. However, my wife was pleased to have a place for me to work on resin. It was better than using the picnic table or the garage. This studio is ideal! The outside is charming and the windows beckon people from Leavenworth Street to stop and come inside. I have been here for a year now. I’ve made many resin artworks to test my ideas. These works show my abilities. I’ve taken a couple commissions. I hope to have more. I want to sell resin art that I build and keep this going in my retirement.

Open House Saturday, November 30th, 2024. This is my grand opening! If you are here in Omaha or nearby, please stop in to say hello. We can talk about art and share ideas. There are so many reasons to make art. My reason is simple decoration. I would like to hear what inspires you. I do follow my interests which are oceans, mountains, geometry, windows, and anything transparent and colorful.

"Window Pane", blue tiles of water inside a 9 cell grid of shined copper pipe cut to fit.
half inch copper pipe used as frame around nine clear wavy transparent resin tiles
transparent yellow resin bowl sculpture on black background
Twelve point star cut from multicolored resin slab and overlayed with gold to form background. This is hanging in my studio at 5069 Leavenworth St, Omaha.
A red circular electric candle has glass mosaic tiles inside the hollow circle with yellow resin. An LED puck light is embedded into the base.
clear resin snowfake with six arms lying on a rusty red tablecloth
lighted glass cylinder with flowers cast in clear resin.
3" blue and white cube in resin with an LED puck light underneath.
lens or lantern room of miniature lighthouse. The black and white box is the "widows walk" in a hexagon shape like the walls.
Wildflowers cast in clear resin walls of model lighthouse. An LED light illuminates the inside of the transparent lighthouse.
Looking down at top of cone shaped roof of lighthouse. These are individual black or white slivers of resin assembled into a circle.
the crest of a green wave cast in resin with light shining through transparent watery looking sculpture