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Inspired by nature

About four years ago we had the best family vacation ever at Yellowstone National Park. If you have been there, chances are you have seen Morning Glory Pool.

Morning Glory Pool when we visited in 2015.

Yellowstone was amazing to me – I saw so many things that were beautiful and / or that I had just never seen nor imagined! Morning Glory Pool is what was on my mind when I started working on my second lazy susan resin project. I didn’t use any glass in this project; it was just a spur of the moment creation after I decided to embellish two wooden lazy susans we had that have been in storage. This one is 16″ across.

I sealed the wood surface with paint a few days before.
This one is a bit larger, but not as thick as the first lazy susan.
I used painters tape to cover the underside of the rotating foot in case things got messy.

I gathered the colors I wanted to use. I tried to use fewer than on my first lazy susan. I considered adding some alcohol ink, but ended up not using it for this project. I haven’t experimented with that yet.

Powdered pigments used for this project.
You only need a tiny amount of each powdered pigment color.

I mixed the resin and started pouring it in concentric circles from the center of the lazy susan. I tried to use higher contrasting colors between each ring. I forgot to take a photo of this before I started moving the resin with the heat gun, but here it is with the first layer poured and blown with the heat gun.

First layer poured and blown.

From there, it’s just a matter of more pouring, then more moving the resin around with the heat gun – repeating the cycle until I was happy with the look.

Pouring more colors on top of the first layer.
Another layer to move around.

I tried to be a bit neater with this one, and the sharper edges on this lazy susan made it easier to do so. I used a sponge on a stick to put a layer of resin all around the edges of the piece, but also let some of the resin just flow over the edge.

After using the heat gun.
I mixed up some more of the darkest blue to add to the center, plus some additional gold for accent.
After moving with the heat gun and adding a bit more gold.

I used the heat gun to make the textured appearance in the pigments by moving the resin back and forth across itself repeatedly.

Finished for the moment.

After this, I used my gloved fingers to clean up any drips from the underside of the lazy susan. I still had a lot of drips even after doing that on my first one, but I think I had less waste on this project to drip over the edge. Still I will check on it a few more times to see if any appear, as it’s much easier to deal with them before it cures. Now I just wait overnight to see how it turned out.

Closer view of Morning Glory Pool.

What do you think – do you see any resemblance?