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April 2025 Customer Newsletter – Nightlights

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Oregon wild Iris painted in watercolor of purple and yellow. This logo has three main petals and six minor petals in the center.

Watercolor Wildflowers Resin Artist

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I have been developing the best way to create these Planetary Night Lights. Practice and fine tuning. The nightlights were good, just not as refined as I’d like. It’s worth noting that working with resin is a messy process. It’s so messy that resin work can only be done in a studio with rough floors, tools, and plenty of supplies.

Here’s the deal: Some friends, acquaintances, and a few others have received two emails from me. If you want to unsubscribe, please look for the Unsubscribe button at the bottom of this email. If you’d like to subscribe officially (and enter the drawing), then please visit my website https://watercolorwildflowers.com and scroll down to the subscribe form at the bottom of any page. At the end of every month, I will pick someone who signed up that month using the form to win a free Planetary Night Light. March’s winner is Mimi True of Alley Poyner Macchietto Architecture.

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Why Art?

Your home is a canvas for your individuality, and it should showcase your unique style and personality. With Watercolor Wildflowers home essentials and decor, you can craft a living space that truly feels like your own. From handmade card tables to curious decorative accents, I can offer some art pieces to transform your house into a space you love. Illuminated wall hangings, window sun catchers, lighthouse lamps are some you may like.

Artist builder sitting at folding rustic card table for size reference in living room setting.
Artist builder sitting at folding rustic card table for size reference in living room setting.

hot air balloon resin painting stood up on table to see transparent quality

What is a Tessellation?

Mirrored Equilateral Triangles

If you start with a “grid” of 60° triangles and mirror the contents to the adjacent 60° triangle and repeat that to the edge of your paper, then you have just made a tessellation.

Epoxy Resin and Brass Rods

Crafted from resilient thick epoxy, this 3/8″ thick slab is an example of my work. This is the first time I have used brass rods to separate the puddles of color. Previously I have used clear silicone caulk to blend in rather than outline the colors. This looks like stained glass but it is more durable. I’m working on a similar piece but with copper tubing which is a little easier to bend and doesn’t weigh as much as brass.

Hot Air Baloons

I like the design but the craft could use some improvement which I’m taking care in the current piece. It will be copper with white and gold baloons surrounded by a brass frame.

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Transparent Resin Lighthouse Lamp

My personal favorite is this transparent resin lighthouse with spriral staircase. This is my original design and creation from plans and testing and molding and pouring and cutting and welding.

The roof is 18 little triangles made from black and then white epoxy resin. Its actually a trick to get a cone shape. I thought it would peak easily but it wanted to flatten out.

The spiral stairs are made from brass welded with a soldering iron. Its more of an artistic staircase than a functional climbing spiral into the lantern room.

A blue-green LED bulb shines bright from behind patterned resin cylinder sitting centered in the widow’s walk. Aptly named for the women who paced, hoping not to lose their sailor husbands at sea.

The widows walk is painted like a map legend for best visibility. With some ingenuity a sailor could guess the ships direction and distance from the lighthouse.

The base is a heavy hexagon shaped ring that holds the electrical connections and power the invisible cord through the brass tube in the center of the spiral staircase. The tube pops through the floor in the lantern room holding the LED bulb.

a resin lighthouse with a blue green LED light inside the lens room, a black and white painted widow's walk surrounds the bright light, and 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

brick building with window and door and resin art hanging. This is the entrance to my studio in Omaha at 5069 Leavenworth Street
brick building with window and door and resin art hanging. This is the entrance to my studio in Omaha at 5069 Leavenworth Street.

I’m a resin art studio in Omaha on Leavenworth Street and 50th Ave. I’m living my retirement dream of building art. I love trying new things so supplies are funded by my part-time job at CNC Surveying just a block from my studio. Please drop by, I’m only 5 minutes away, home or work.

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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
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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.