My Booth at Chapel Con 2018! Sharing Artwork and Jewelry

Hello everyone!  This past weekend I set up a booth at Chapel Con to sell some of my artwork and jewelry.  This event is held in my hometown.  It's also the largest event I have ever set up at -- 2 arenas filled (100+ booths) with actors, cosplayers, vendors, artists, vehicles from movies/tv series, and food.  This was the 2nd year for Chapel Con and from what I heard from everyone it was even bigger and better than the first year.  There was a wonderful line up of actors including -- Ryan Hurst (Harold "Opie" Winston on Sons of Anarchy), Sam Jones (Flash Gordon), Kiowa Gordon (Embry Call in the Twilight Saga), Joshua Mikel (Jared on Walking Dead), RJ Mitte ( Walter White Jr in Breaking Bad), Aaron Schwartz (Heavyweights, The Mighty Ducks, Guardians of the Galaxy vol 2), Jayson Warner Smith (Gavin on Walking Dead), and Charles Wright (WWE Hall of Fame).  Another fantastic line up of cosplayers including -- Superkayce, Oh My Sophii! (She bought a piece of my art work!), Knightmage, Sirynrae, Hannah Eva, and Aradia Tombes.  

We started setting up the booth on Thursday and finished up early Saturday morning before the show opened.  The weekend before the event was my family reunion and several family members asked if I would post pictures of my booth, artwork, and jewelry.  These are a few of the pictures and I will be sharing more closeups over the next week or so and including more details about the pieces.  The artwork includes fluid acrylic painting, resin art, alcohol ink/foiling and resin art, alcohol ink and resin art.  I also had a table for my handmade jewelry.

Here is a look at the inside of the booth with artwork.  Just as a reminder you can click on all of the images to enlarge them and be able to see more details.

"80's Rock On"

16 x 20 canvas

This is one of my favorite pieces.  This is a fluid acrylic painting with a top coat of resin.

12 x 24 canvas

This is another fluid acrylic painting.  

This piece has a glazed top coat.

8 x 8 gallery wood panel

Alcohol ink with gold foiling and a top coat of resin.

8 x 8 gallery wood panel

Alcohol ink with gold foiling and a top coat of resin. This piece also includes a resin mermaid and is embellished with crystals, sea glass, shells, confetti, and glitter for lots of texture, shimmer and sparkle.  This is another favorite piece of mine.

These are a couple sets of coasters.  Alcohol inks, resin, and gold gilding flakes were used to create these.  The coasters measure 4 x 4.  They protect the surface of your furniture and look beautiful at the same time.

8 x 8 gallery wood panel

Alcohol ink with gold foiling and a top coat of resin.

This is the Blue Paradise Geode and Resin Canvas with Art Resin that I posted a couple weeks ago.  If you missed the post you can click HERE to see more pictures and find out all of the details.

This is a mermaid jewelry tray.  The tray and mermaid are both metal with a bronze finish and the mermaid has a patina finish.  Crystals, sea glass, shells, confetti, glitter, and sand were added to the resin to create this beautiful piece.

12 x 12 canvas

This is another fluid acrylic painting.  

This piece has a glazed top coat.

This is a screen door that we painted and added decorative legs to for a display piece.  A huge thanks to my oldest son, Dusty for all his help in getting some of my display pieces ready for the show!  All of the pieces shown are fluid acrylic paintings with a glaze top coat.

Sorry, I can't remember what size this canvas is!

This is called a "tree ring" pour.  It's a fluid acrylic paintings with a glaze top coat.

16 x 20 canvas

This is a fluid acrylic paintings with a glaze top coat.  Love the white space in this piece!

This is a picture on the outside of the booth looking in.

"Mermaid in the Sparkling Sea"

16 x 20 canvas

This is a fluid acrylic painting with a couple layers of resin.  The mermaid is a very light weight wood piece I painted black and adhered to the canvas.  Then in the bottom right corner and going up the side I added crystals, sea glass, shells, confetti, and glitter.  There is also glitter sprinkled throughout the piece for added sparkle and shimmer and then a top coat of resin on the entire piece.

Here is a picture of my jewelry display.

One more picture of the jewelry table.

There is a lot of work that goes into preparing for an event like this.  The past few months our house has been taken over by artwork.  Every flat surface was used for drying artwork lol.  A HUGE HUGE thanks and shout out to my husband, Eric and boys, Dusty and Evan for being so supportive of my creative journey throughout the years and especially during the crazy creative chaos of getting ready for a show!!!  If it wasn't for them I wouldn't be able to do what I do.

Like I said I will be sharing more pictures over the next week or so of artwork and jewelry along with more details about the pieces.

These are some of the products used the create the art pieces.

Art Resin

Ice Resin

Jacquard Pinata Alcohol Inks

Ranger Alcohol Inks

Heidi Swapp Foil

Crafter's Companion Foil

DecoArt Acrylic Paints

Liquitex Acrylic Paints

FolkArt Acrylic Paints

Golden Acrylic Paints

Canvases

Gallery Canvases

Gallery Wood Panels

Tonic Studios Pure Sheen Glitter

Tonic Studios Confetti

Crystals, Sea Glass, Pebbles, Rocks, Sand, Shells, Mica Flakes, Gilding Flakes

Thanks so much for stopping by today!  I hope you enjoy the artwork I create and share and it inspires you.  ♥

Much love, hugs, and blessings,

Heidi

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Blue Paradise Geode and Resin Canvas with Art Resin

Hello everyone!  Today. I am coming to you with something a little different.  As many of you know who have been following my blog for some time I love to create jewelry using resin, specifically ICE Resin and I have been doing that for many years now.  A few months back I started exploring different forms of art including abstract resin, acrylic, alcohol ink, and geode art.  I have shown a couple of little sneak peek pictures here on my blog.  I used to do a lot of detailed painting but now due to having fibromyalgia and RA my hand is just not that steady anymore so I'm not able to do the very detailed painting anymore. I missed painting!  But I am so thrilled to have found some new styles of painting and art that I can do and I absolutely LOVE IT!!!  I am having so much fun creating and I wanted to start sharing it with you.  I have made several pieces and canvases are starting to take over every little bit of free space lol.  I am going to be having a booth at Chapel Con which is a local event in July.  I will be having my abstract art and jewelry for sale at this event.  Last week I worked on one of my geode and resin art pieces and I love how it turned out!  So are you ready to see some art?

Here is my Blue Paradise Geode and Resin art piece.  For this piece I started out with a 12" x 16" premium gallery canvas.  The resin I have been using for my abstract art is Art Resin.  It is a wonderful resin to work with.  You can mix all kinds of products in the resin to color/tint it from alcohol inks to paints, and glitter, pigment powders and pastes and it cures crystal clear.  Everyone has their own way of creating art and I know some people like to do all of the layers of the resin for the geode art at one time (or one pour) start to finish.  But for myself I prefer to create the geode in layers.  So some of the pieces I create take a few days to several days to finish depending on how many layers I add.  Having multiple layers creates more depth in the pieces.

Here is a close up of one of the corners on the canvas.  I used a variety of products on this canvas including Art Resin, Pinata Inks, Alcohol Inks, ICE Resin Tints, crushed glass, crushed crystals, colored pebbles, Nuvo glitter, Perfect Pearls, and mica flakes.

Since I have worked with ICE Resin for so many years I feel like I had an advantage when it came to creating abstract art with resin.  I already know a lot of different techniques that can be done with resin and how the resin will react with different products added in.  It's kind of like when I create the jewelry but on a much larger scale.

I love how the center part of this geode turned out!  Plus I can add a light behind this area on the back of the canvas and it makes the geode look like it's glowing.

I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE how the metallic gold is floating on top!!  

The white, blue, aqua, and gold all blend so beautifully in the layers.  If you click on the image to enlarge it you can see bits of sparkle from the bottom layers too.

If you would like to see more pictures of the process and layers of the resin follow me on Instagram and Facebook.  I love using Instagram to share pictures of the process.  It's so quick and easy and then from there I can share it to Facebook too.  My plan is as I share more of my art I will be posting more to Instagram with pictures (and sharing on FB) and then doing a blog post once the pieces are finished.  You can click HERE to follow me on Instagram and click HERE to follow me on Facebook.  

I hope you enjoyed today's project share!  As always, you can click on all of the images to enlarge them and see all of the details.  I will be sharing more of my abstract art pieces soon.  Thanks so much for stopping by today and I hope you have a wonderful and creative day!

Much love, hugs, and blessings,

Heidi