To create a color closer to the iceberg/snowflake/cold, I added more white color essence to the resin.
I started thinking about how to enhance the three-dimensionality of the whole piece and started searching the internet for items that resemble ice cubes or snowflakes.
So then I bought fake ice cubes made of acrylic and rubber ice crumbs online.
Simulated snow-making powder was also purchased online.
I mixed these materials with resin and gave them the shape of cool icebergs and ice slag.
It has been proven that the fusion of snow powder and resin does not produce as good an ice as the combination of wool felt and resin - the wool felt "ice" has a more integral feel.
The two types of ice cubes also have their own effects - the acrylic ice cubes are more transparent; the rubber ice cubes are closer to the shape of broken ice.
Then I also tried to create some ice layers with the folds of the tinfoil, but it was obvious that it didn't work.
Then I tried again with the clouds in the sky.
I made a base with white soft clay and let this part be presented as a cloud in the work. I then glued the cotton to the clay, trying to make the cotton into a cloud.
In the first picture, I covered the cotton with resin, but the presentation was closer to the combination of wool felt and resin, so I left the cotton bare again on the outside of the resin, but the overall effect did not achieve the effect of clouds that I wanted. So I need to make other attempts.
I purchased additional pearlescent powder online to create the starry sky effect.
Indeed, the pearlescent powder looks very shiny, but I found some problems in the process of making - the pearlescent powder will settle down, that is to say, when I sprinkle the pearlescent powder on the surface, finally when the resin is formed, the shiny effect will appear on the bottom of the resin, not on the surface. So I had to reject this idea.
Then I purchased phosphor, the powder that can glow in the dark, but after I mixed it with resin, I found that it did not glow, so I gave up on that option as well.
Finally I put a dark color (dark purple) color essence at the bottom of the mold, and then made stripes with lavender and white color essence.
I think the effect of this one is more successful than the other two.
Continuing experimentation...
Really loved your thorough blog entry this week- documenting stages of research into how the wonders of nature can be translated into resin and plastic~ no easy task! The exponents seem to most visually successful when the additional materials added in, are completely obscured/or at least mysterious. That is what I liked most about the felt in resin-it was a mystery what it was. The last two photos/experiments show real potential as well.