We aren’t talking about real larimar, a beautiful stone found only in the Dominican Republic. We’re talking about the popular epoxy resin art technique that replicates larimar! My friend Lianne came up with an easy formula for how much of your resin to tint white, and I test it using a frog mold.
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Hi, my friend Lianne came up with a formula for larimar. Let’s test it. We aren’t talking about real larimar, a beautiful stone that you can only find in the Dominican Republic. We’re talking about an epoxy resin technique that replicates larimar. Lianne’s channel is linked in the description of this video.
Be sure to check her out. She does all sorts of awesome projects. Let’s test her formula with this frog mold. This frog holds 130 ml of resin. We take 130 and divide it by 2.8.
And that number is how much of the resin we want to tint white. Everything else we can use for our color or colors. Before I do the larramar pour, I want to give the frog some eyes. I buy these eyes off Amazon and secure them into the mold with UV resin. You just place one drop of UV resin into the little eye socket, position the eye, and cure it with a UV lamp.
I like to draw the slit onto the back of the eye with a pen before I glue them in. This helps me keep them oriented correctly. There are other ways to do this, but this is the method that I prefer. I used the flashlight that comes with the UV resin to tack the eyes in place before giving it a full cure in my UV lamp. Now that we’ve placed the eyes, we can pour our mold.
I’ve mixed up 130 ml of resin. We’re going to separate about 46 g of it and tint that white. I’m using Ocean White by Let’s Resin. This is quite strong, so I use about three drops for this 46 g. You need your white to be slightly translucent.
Since I’m doing two colors, I split the remaining resin in half. You need your colors to be relatively strong but still translucent. In this case, I use Forget Me Not resin pigment, Clover resin pigment, and one drop of an alcohol ink called Prussian blue. I sped this part up because it seems like it takes me forever to get the color right. And in the end, I love the way this turned out, but I wish I’d gone just a little bit bolder with the colors.
I stuck with traditional larimar colors for this frog, but you can use whatever colors you want. I’m checking and double-checking that I don’t have any unmixed color, but I’m ready to pour. For larimar, you do what’s called a puddle pour. First, all of the white and then each of your colors. I sped this section of the video way up.
All I’m doing is pouring the second color, but I’m patiently waiting for it to flow into all of her little fingers and toes. Wow, how fun. All right, let’s time lapse. I tap the frog’s chin to remove any bubbles that might hide there. Burn surface bubbles off with my lighter and clean up my space.
See you on the demold. This is my larimar frog that I made with Lianne’s formula and it looks great. It It really looked like it did exactly what it was supposed to. So, I am really excited. I haven’t done a frog for a minute and I love larimar and Lianne is wonderful.
Uh, ready? Oo. Oh, it looks great. How cute. Oh, that turned out great.
What do you think? I think it’s perfect. I love how there’s this little darker bit there. It’s just really does look like larimar this one. Wow.
I’m impressed. I think your formula is awesome, Lianne. Way cool. I love it. Thank you.
See you soon.
