Making Resin Pendants & Bookmarks

Workshop Description

In this workshop, you will learn various resin art techniques through 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 molds in order to make your own handmade botanical resin pieces. The resin pieces need 24 hours to get dry. You may schedule a time with us for picking up your pendants and bookmarks from our front door. What you will learn in this workshop: 1. Using resin molds to cast pressed flowers/plants and combining them with other materials such as glitter, beads, and paper. 2. Creating crystal-shape resin pieces using alcohol inks. 3. Different ways of dipping the pressed leaves and flower petals in resin to make organic shape pieces. 4. Learn about various resins, molds, and ways of drying flowers. Materials and supplies that will be provided for participants to use during the workshop: Resin Mixing containers Toothpicks Gloves Silicon molds Ink Glitter powder/beads Dried flowers/plants Cleaning supplies About the instructor: Elmira Sarreshtedari is an Iranian 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 student 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: Closest Sky Train - Marine Drive 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! :)

Contact Details

• 8930 Oak Street, Vancouver, BC, Canada

  presentartsvancouver@gmail.com