“Koi Fish Resin Painting tutorial # 04”

Good day everyone, would like to share my process for making this lovely fish bowl, its wasy to make although time consuming, but the reward is always great.

Materials needed:

small detail brush
acrylic paints
- orange
- white
- black
- yellow
- green
resin compound (i use envirotex lite)
lighter (torch)
any recylcled bowls
pebbles

Here is my step by step procedure

Step 1:

wash the bowl thoroughly, making sure theres no residue or dust
then add some clean pebbles in the bowl and pour a mixture of your first layer of resin, and allow it to dry overnight or 16 to 24 hrs
using acrylics painting your first layer, just the basic shape of the fish, focus more on making the fins, with streaking lines.
when satisfied with the shape, pour a mixture if resin making sure its evenly distributed in the bowl, then use a torch lighter to get rid of those tiny bubbles

Step 2:

After the resin dries up, paint and make details on the body part, use a dabbing technique for the scales, then also paint the eye
i also added those gree grass and would paint another layer on it, like giving nd impression of vegetation in the water
then add the resin mixture and distribute evenly, then torch the litttle bubbles till clear

Step 3:

once the resin completely dries, paint your last layer, and making more details on the eye and the top fins
add some shimmer to the scales as well, make you paint thin using water so that some of the other layers will show up
then sign it when your satistfied, then pour the last layer of resin and torch the remaining bubbles, allow to dry overnight, then its ready for display or giveaway