#animals #fish #paint #resin #sculptureĭo stories and artists like this matter to you? Become a Colossal Member today and support independent arts publishing for as little as $5 per month. So to be clear the elements that extrude from the top of the resin are actually physical pieces that have been painted to match the layers of acrylic and resin below.

I think there are still many other techniques to explore. The whole idea here was to give the art work an even more 3D effect therefore you can have a better view from any angle. For the turtle, I used an egg shell for the turtle shell and acrylic paint for the rest of the finishing. After applying acrylic paint straight onto the resin, I incorporated a 3-D element in this instance, it was a small pebble for the ranchu and octopus. This year, I started on the octopus and it was purely an experiment I just wanted to see whether I could push this technique to a higher level. I started my first series in 2012 where all the illustrations were “flat” and depth was created using the layering of resin and acrylic over the different parts of the illustration. Update: I have some additional details from the artist that I’d like to add here, as this post seems to be getting a lot of attention. See much more of this series titled Alive Without Breath over on deviantART. The artist is using a technique very similar to Japanese painter Riusuke Fukahori who was featured on this blog a little over a year ago, though Lye seems to take things a step further by making his paint creations protrude from the surface, adding another level of dimension to a remarkable medium. Lye slowly fills bowls, buckets, and boxes with alternating layers of acrylic paint and resin, creating aquatic animal life that looks so real it could almost pass for a photograph. Singapore-based artist Keng Lye creates near life-like sculptures of animals relying on little but paint, resin and a phenomenal sense of perspective.

3d goldfish painting on resin layers