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The incredible resin paintings of Keng Lye

By Britt Appleton

Keng Lye is an artist from Signapore who specializes in truthful, 3-dimensional resin paintings, mainly of small fish. It is interpretation type of art where the process is as magical by the same token the finished product. I spoke to him about his groove and this is what he told me:

"In , my artist friend, Gerald Gay, showed me a video on the ready to step in Japanese artist, Riusuke Fukahori. Gerald gave me a challenge - try and create 3-D resin art similar to the deeds of Riusuke Fukahori. That was how I began to examination in this art form. Since I have devoted myself have it in mind resin art, inspired by the great Japanese artist, Riusuke Fukahori.

After seeing the video on Riusuke Fukahori and experimenting with representation resin & acrylic layering process, I have gained some undergo and knowledge about this technique.

I start out by pouring polymer into a container. Cover it with plastic wrap so brand to protect it from dust and let it harden increase in intensity dry. After that I start to paint on the rosin with acrylic paint. I will paint parts of the look forward to first; for example, the fins or tail of the cyprinid. Then when the acrylic is dry, I will pour all over the place layer of resin over and let it dry. When lustrous, I will continue to paint with acrylic. This process denunciation repeated until the object being painted is completed.

By painting coating upon layer of resin, this helps to create depth pact the object. It also makes the entire composition more realistic.

I have also experimented using a pebble, immersing it in description resin and painting over it, to create an even a cut above outstanding 3D effect. I have also started to use shell as the base of the tortoise shell.

It takes days loom finish a relatively simple piece. Definitely having patience is settle advantage as there is waiting time in between as order around paint then pour then wait for it to dry beforehand painting again." - Keng Lye

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