I Experimented with Epoxy, Clay & Acrylic

[@BMSculptures]

Which sculpture / idea do you like best!?

[@Hawxxy]

The rhino.

[@riccardoducci5918]

The Polar bear, I really like the look of it

[@corndrunk]

I like the concept of the two heads. Maybe pouring the coloured side first then painting a neutral or mirror colour on the flat and then pouring the clear?

[@CL-kn1rq]

All of them. I don't tolerate hole punching and swearing from anyone. I respect people who treat others with respect, thank you for that.

[@marshalltucker9690]

the slices is neat

[@thenodiggardener]

I liked all of them, but I'd love the see a bigger paler version of the polar bear with the ice shards. I think that would look very cool.

[@BMSculptures]

I will have to try it!

[@mimurad99]

@@BMSculptures👏🏼🤲🏼❤️❤️

[@puhpaul]

Yes, the polar bear was definitely my favourite. A paler blue would look great. I think a clear bear with pale blue and grey shards could be interesting too.

[@Brandon-butterb1]

“this was my first attempt of using clay” shows a picture of a hummingbird sculpture that is absolutely stunning

[@spitandcoffee]

ikr!? i’ve been using clay for years and i’m nowhere near that level of skill!

[@Heartwing37]

I really hate people that are automatically awesome at things 😏😐

[@anonony9081]

Makes sense considering he has a ton of experience in harder mediums. This is like easy mode for him

[@anonony9081]

@@Heartwing37 Automatically? Have you not seen the rest of his channel? This guy is one of the best sculptors out there, of course he's going to be good in clay immediately. It still took him years to get where he is now

[@pavloszimbrakos4410]

@@spitandcoffeeI tried to make an elephant but it was so big my teacher had me start hollowing it and was taking so long and the clay was starting to dry and crack that he gave me an A+ but threw it out that was in high school but still 😞

[@halfbubbleout]

My favorite was the failed casting you shared with your kiddo. It teaches a great lesson on how to handle failures.

[@BMSculptures]

Glad you liked the zombie alien!

[@joshfinkelstein3276]

I would make a giraffe with the ‘glass shard’ concept, and have the shards be its spot pattern.

[@SystemofEleven]

I agree, that sounds amazing!

[@diamondperidot]

I like this idea

[@pailchair]

This idea is so good. You could have the shards be a dark brown or something (maybe a normal brown) and have the other resin yellow

[@erinnb56]

Yes, this is a great idea!

[@pavloszimbrakos4410]

Nah make it out of wood and epoxy

[@syrus1430]

They all look awesome! Some artists will use plastic wrap on their clay sculptures so that they are only indenting the clay instead of cutting through it. It helps to round over the edges of the lines and minimizes the crumblies that you get when you scrape directly on the clay

[@paperheron2828]

The use of the plastic wrap slightly smooths out the markings created, resulting in the finished texture not having that harsh edge where the clay slightly peels up because of the tool. Very useful for creating subtle and delicate detailing.

[@gaiadev467]

Very often resin has a yellow tint to it, to even it out and make it even more clear people usually put some purple in it, since these colors cancel each other out. That could be why you got a greenish brown

[@BMSculptures]

ohhh that makes sense. Thanks!

[@BEdmonson85]

@@BMSculptures The reason you got brown is because the two dyes you used weren't really "blue"; they were some mixture of pigments to make up the blue color that the manufacturer was aiming for. when you mixed them, you got brown. I'd recommend doing a small batch test next time, just to be safe.

[@garetkonigsfeld2]

The father daughter sculpture. Is my favorite. And will be special for you guys for many, many years to come. Thanks for sharing.

[@debsmith2269]

My favourite is the polar bear, and I think the reverse colours of blue chips in clear epoxy would be really effective.

[@BMSculptures]

I really want to try that.

[@phizc]

​@@BMSculpturesyou could break the off-cuts of this one into chips and use it in the next one. Clear in blue in clear. Could look cool, and you get to save on epoxy. Same with the epoxy that leaked.

[@bernoventer2821]

As a frequent scuba diver, I would LOVE to see a sculpted nudibranch. They're a type of sea slug and have absolutely stunning colors and patterns, I think an epoxy version of that would look amazing!

[@BMSculptures]

Great suggestion!

[@johnnyb8629]

oh excellent idea!! love nudibranchs, oh oh here is one Id love to see done with the ice technique from polar bear experiment, that blue dragon nudibranchs, the deadly poisonous one. Blue glaucus

[@user-xu3ud4fl2e]

So the reason you got brown, this is from my experience with paint rather than ink. You only get the colour you expect to get when mixing single pigment paints. EG - mixing single pigment red with a single pigment yellow will give you the orange you expect. But most paint companies mix different pigments to get "unique" colours. So your two blue colours probably contain mixes of different pigments, and the mixture of all the pigments in both make brown.

[@BMSculptures]

This makes complete sense and sounds like it is what happened here. Thanks!

[@Tuamotu]

Totally agree. I was thinking the blue (added to the green already mixed) probably had some red in it. When the three primary colours are mixed, you’ll end up with brown.

[@BEdmonson85]

Yep, just saw your post, I explained it above as well... not as well as you did tho =P I believe this is for sure what happened.

[@ThailandTerry]

Yes that was my assumption also. If you mix a warm blue and a cool Blue you can get a muddy colour.

[@Doyle69]

Came to say this, most blue alcohol inks especially purple contain different mix of pigments to one and other, and combining them can cause complete opposite to what you are going for, god damn you science

[@donaldmatthies6026]

Blake, First you had father/daughter time which she will remember forever, great job! The ideas and concept of your experiments is a learning curve. You had ideas and you executed them. Now you can learn and make adjustments as needed. The rhino slices would be a great idea with walnut. Never stop learning and experimenting. Thank you for taking time to film, edit and post this video.

[@giteausuperstar]

Wow, I’ve seen dozens of your videos over the years but didn’t know about the pro baseball background. That is a cool transition into being an artist - awesome 😎

[@BMSculptures]

I like that. I always wanted to become an artist for the art- not because the baseball beginnings.

[@albanthomas6646]

I came to this account randomly after finding it on my fyp like a few years back. Genuinely no other account on this app has someone so knowledgeable and wise. The way you talked about your baseball career and how cared about what you do yet are still super calm about mistakes really teaches younger people like me to become genuinely better people. Thank you for sharing your passion and wisdom.

[@rvt_art_]

on the color mixing for the ice look. many paints and inks are multi pigmented to create the exact color that the brand wants in a cheaper way. but unlike mixing single pigment colors that do exactly what you want, those multi pigment colors will go towards a brown when you mix different once together. just like how you get brown when you're mixing all the colors together? also, putting plastic on clay to scrape in details gives a cleaner look that doesn't leave behind small clay pieces on the side from where it was pushed towards?

[@BMSculptures]

I think you nailed it. That makes complete sense. Thank you!

[@MARKBaid]

You have a subscriber for life. I loved the way you embraced the time with your daughter and your story of how anger and losing your temper is not productive. It is so nice to see. Your art is amazing also Ha In a world were you can be anything be Kind! Mark

[@BMSculptures]

Thank you so much Mark. Much appreciated!

[@cathleencrawley4610]

My favorite was the mirror sliced rhino. My father’s favorite animal was the rhino. Now that he’s gone, I can’t see a rhino without thinking of him. Love Love this one. But truthfully , they all were awesome. Love your work. Looking forward to the next one!

[@BMSculptures]

Thank you very much and I am glad the Rhino is special to you and your family. Hoping I can do another big carving of one in the future!

[@StormBurnX]

A little pro tip for the split sculptures with a flat, symmetrical split: if you make the seam between the two halves white (layer of paint, vinyl, resin pigment, whatever floats your boat) the 'clear' side will pop WAY more as a clear, standalone half. If you make the seam black, and REALLY push the gloss on that clear half, it will look stunning with even a slight light around, under, or behind it. Either way, putting a solid white or black barrier between the two halves will make the clear half look 'correct'; whether you like the dark contrast from a black barrier or the almost self-illuminating look of a white barrier, that's all up to artist's choice and intent! I'd definitely recommend testing this method out. (I once tested it by pouring a small creature in clear, then cut it down the middle with a band saw, painted one flat face white and the other black, then re-joined them with some ca glue and honestly that look was more wild than I was expecting!)

[@BMSculptures]

that is a fantastic idea. I think this will need to be experimented with in the future. Thanks!

[@StormBurnX]

@@BMSculptures I may or may not have accidentally discovered that technique when I dropped a clear sculpture and it cracked in half almost along the middle. My attempt to glue it back together left a white layer between the two halves. Crazy how the wildest accidents can lead to cool discoveries :)

[@tracybowling1156]

Hi Blake! I really enjoyed this video! I love experiments! I like the slicing idea too. Anything to save time. Maybe you could make small blanks of the different ice colors for future reference. A lot of people also make reference pieces of resin with all the inks and colorants so they know what colors they have and what the colors look like with different amounts of drops or scoops of color. You could mix colors too, so that you know what you have. I loved your daughters Halloween decor the best. Yall spending time is so cool! I love squirrels because I raised one. So if I had a choice of what to carve. Of course it would be a squirrel!

[@BMSculptures]

Hey Tracy! I think making small blanks would be a good idea. Glad you liked the zombie alien, this and after my skulls from a couple videos ago- we are about to have a eventful halloween haha. Squirrel would be tough with the fluffiness on the tail!

[@ruthlopez8650]

0:10 Looking like Heisenberg after he's cooked the Meth. 💙

[@lechatbotte.]

The one blue had a green hue to it. This is such a cool idea

[@BMSculptures]

yeah I agree! Next time I will test beforehand

[@maryhairy1]

All the sculptures are so different in application. All fantastic! My fav is the rhino!

[@adiamondrose5080]

These sculptures are super cool! When you were talking about using different coloured epoxy shards, the first thing that jumped to mind was using it to carve actual dual-coloured animals. Like black shards in clear/white resin to carve a zebra, or black and yellow for a huge wasp or bee

[@BMSculptures]

agree! that would be awesome.

[@joannabaparileszczynska]

Don’t know if someone already said this (to many comments) , but using the plastic to create lines gives them a softer, rounder look. Side not, the background noise/music around 15 minutes in is irritating to my ears, I’m autistic and sensitive to certain sounds. No criticism of you but just wanted to let you know. I enjoy your videos and enjoy listening to your narration

[@batmansgrandma3378]

You’ve made half alien half Handsome Jack. And have to say all your experiments appeared to be a success.

[@BMSculptures]

haha thanks!

[@craigmoore7521]

I think they all turned out amazing. Thanks for sharing your work and your life. I look forward to seeing more!!!

[@LycielleHerself]

It was very fun to see you experimenting! Thank you so much for sharing!

[@BMSculptures]

Thanks for watching!

[@DrVenture45]

Great video! Being a parent myself...that moment with your daughter was the best. I was considering trying sculpting with clay myself. My youngest daughter is one talented artist and multi-medium wizard which is probably why I'm inspired to try it, but something about recreating textures of various skins and cloth in clay fascinates me.

[@simcoe75]

Great sculptures as always. The polar bear was my favourite,and I agree that maybe darker shards in clear resin would look great too. Maybe snowflake shaped white shards in a darker resin could be interesting? The rhino was great too. It would be great to see you do a green sea turtle in wood and resin. Maybe swimming through kelp?

[@BMSculptures]

that could be really cool. Thanks!

[@maplelump]

The rhino is so cool!! I would love to see if you can apply it to the life-size sculptures like you want, or if it's impossible. The scientist in me is excited about your experiment journey!

[@lagggoat7170]

3:48 chemical reaction, gotta be. Something in one of the dyes attacked the molecules that make the colour and changed it to a different molecule, in turn changing the colour. Pigments often have many ring structures (which have many electrons another reactive molecule might react with and that reaction changes the molecules shape and makes it catch light differently).

[@lagggoat7170]

I assume the dyes are formulated to avoid processes like this, but if the two dyes are from different companies/series or even of different age obviously that balancing doesnt apply because the producer wouldnt be able to predict that those different dyes would be mixed some day

[@chrissiebeneck3294]

Great stuff Blake! I dig your thought process, thinking/imagining, creativity

[@armind5510]

Just a thought....maybe, putting the epoxy-sheet into the freezer before trying to shatter it, might help........

[@BMSculptures]

I think this is a fantastic idea!

[@wadehendryx7378]

I've been a subscriber for probably about 5 months. I've gone back and looked at a lot of the other projects. All I can say is WOW !! I think doing the blue ice cubes with a clear would look pretty cool. But who am I to say. What you do is simply amazing. Love how you share with and involve your children. Again, WOW!! Thank you. Hope you and yours are doing well. Take care. 😊 By the way. You have a beautiful family.

[@tada8092]

Experimenting is almost as much fun as working a project and gives an extra kick to the creative process. Thanks for sharing the results. I like them all, but the favorite is the Zomlien creature and the designs by your clearly talented daughter. 😊

[@BMSculptures]

haha I like the name to... Zomlien

[@jennastephens1224]

I'm an environmental scientist, and your polar bear sculputure really speaks to me on a deep metaphorical level. A plastic polar bear embedded with plastic water and plastic crumbling ice shows our human damage to its native enviroment; melting ice everywhere due to the petroleum industry, and real polar bears being clogged with petrochemical plastic as a result of being at the top of the food chain: plankton eating fish eat plastic, then get eaten by bigger fish and seals, and then getting eaten by polar bears, whose bodies cannot get rid of the plastic they consume. I don't know if that was your intended message, but I love it all the same

[@maddieadams75]

Omg they are all so wonderful. I’m a sculptor of clay. I’ve never tried wood, as you know, clay is very forgiving, too much, not enough easy fixes. On the acrylic mirror pieces, there is a “reflective” mirror chrome paint pens that have an amazing finishes. Mixing colors try using little 2 Oz cups to see colors you want first instead of adding a darker color of the same color you are using, try a minuscule, a really small drop of Black to darken a blue or green or red. You can add more black if need less is more.For the color of green to turn brown the blue you added had to of red in it. Red and green make brown. You never know what pigments manufacturers combine to achieve certain colors. My favorite is the cracked ice effect. Sorry so wordy ..❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@BMSculptures]

Very good to know thank you! that makes sense and thanks for the tips!

[@jacooosthuizen3593]

i believe what the plastic does is it doesnt cause excess cut out of clay "microtiny balls" Makes it more smooth.

[@BMSculptures]

Now that makes sense!

[@jacooosthuizen3593]

@@BMSculptures dig your videos mate! Much love from sunny South Africa - Cape Town 😃

[@kathybrandt6060]

First, I’d like to say that hummingbird was absolutely gorgeous. I can’t wait for the video to see what it took to make. I really like the idea with the polar bear. I have no idea what you could do to make it better. Good luck with it.

[@angelaricks5379]

The blue "ice bear" is my favorite. 🎉

[@MsMuppet1985]

Love the bear the best. Maybe you could try the fractured technique using the colours of the northern lights !

[@BadHairdayKimmie]

The human/alien head sculpting is impressive! BRAVO!! Now do that with the broken shards idea.

[@BMSculptures]

haha I like that.

[@BaronessJames]

I love all of them. I am a big fan of your wood sculptures but I love watching you learn new things and the process you go through. It helps me appreciate my own process and not expect myself to be able to do perfect things from the first time. Keep being real.

[@BMSculptures]

Appreciate that!

[@smc8144]

Hey Blake. I taught advanced art for 29 years and used the layering technique with crescent art board to have the students make sculptures of cars that they would sand down into their design and then do the same for the wheels and then drill holes for axles, attach the wheels have them paint the cars and then race in a “derby car” style downhill race in a tournament. Lots of fun.

[@rachkershaw9707]

This was a fantastic video Blake! You're a very talented versatile artist, the ease in which you sculpted the clay was amazing 👏 my favourite was the sliced rhino, the possibilities are endless with that style, i do hope you repeat this using various wood species, i think that would have a lot of potential! Keep up the wonderful work!

[@workinprogress5431]

It may have been mentioned early on in the video, but as a FYI to anyone experimenting, I learned the hard way attempting to get a similar "ice chunk" look by embedding a clear epoxy form inside a larger epoxy colored form does NOT work the same as embedding plexiglass or other materials seen here. I wanted a floating skull inside a large crystal that would appear as the ice chunks in the vid, but since epoxy inside epoxy has the same refractive index the clear skull simply disappears. There may be tweaks to help it along or ways to use that property to one's advantage, but for the ice chunk specifically look be aware. Epoxy ain't cheap! Also, this was my first introduction to the channel. Great stuff! 👍✔️🔔

[@finlotek]

There is a product that I believe is called "mirror effect" or something close. It's basically a spray paint that can be painted on the backside of glass to create a mirror and it works pretty well. I think on your split sculpture if you put a barrier coat between the two halves so that you could block the reflection it could help. Possibly with the mirror effect although I'm not very familiar with epoxy molds and if a barrier coat would affect the adherence but since you you were asking for ideas thats what came to mind when i saw how it turned out. Cool stuff you are doing, I like how you just roll with ideas and experiments and how you show the pitfalls and mistakes. A lot of people would just scrap the idea and it would never make it out for anyone to see And creating art is full of pitfalls and mistakes. Very encouraging.

[@aynDRAWS]

I think a clear epoxy sculpture with shattered rainbow pieces would be gorgeous

[@sherryleggett1612]

I liked the clay sculpture with both sides of the head together. I would like to see it cast in bronze. It is amazing to me that it is only your second time using clay. You are a natural.

[@FORKRUPPS]

all of these are great, I liked how the alien man book holder came out the best. I think one of the most interesting animals is an anteater, it'd be lovely to see you carve an anteater! also, the idea of putting flowers in clear/lightly colored epoxy and incorporating that into a wooden sculpture would look beautiful.

[@theodoreyoung7946]

I liked them all. You should try using more white with the blue for the bear, and maybe some white underneath to resemble snowy ground. I wish I had a place to play !! You are lucky!!!

[@douglasadrian138]

I so appreciate your hunger to always improve, to learn, to be a student of your craft. The sculpting part is quite interesting. I'm sure you've heard of Jim McKenzie...if not, you will not be disappointed.

[@GodFamilyCountryOfficial]

Freezing the pieces works GREAT. Some this before.

[@JS-wc4xs]

The rhino, the polar bear, and the book ends are my favorite. That concept with the polar bear would b an awesome experiment wi5h different colors. It'd b something to really experiment with in many different combinations. I'd start with small scale tests to see what would look good together, but that's me. A clear with gold pieces would look really nice. Also the slices with purpleheart and yellowheart alternating would b really cool too.

[@deekrimmel7522]

First, Respect! HUGE life/career change. I just discovered you and haven't had a chance to watch any of your other vids, but I'm looking forward to it. I have worked with resin/epoxy for years, long before it became the "in" thing to use. I think the ice effect you are looking for would be best accomplished with LIGHTLY blue tinted resin pieces in a clear, very, very lightly frosted (maybe a mild glittery white pigment dust or a light iridescent.) I've followed a couple on here for years that I think you might find interesting in how he applies unusual ideas and concepts to create incredible pieces. Not everything he does is my cup of tea, but that's the beauty of art. The channel is positive couple. Again, kudos and I'm looking forward to more!!

[@markmajka1877]

I love the sculpture of the hummingbird. ❤❤

[@angiebetts8900]

I like the bear best. Applying the technique of the rhino to larger pieces sounds game-changing! Glad you found it.

[@Dragonboy903]

You should do one of the sculptures made of slices using the fracture epoxy in epoxy. I feel like it would be interesting to see.

[@JustinEdwards316]

What a guy! Love the thought on baseball players. Well said man!

[@BMSculptures]

Thanks brotha!

[@papa_kernels4816]

My school mascot was a polar bear and always got a soft spot for them. Looks so cool with the shards. Maybe have the base the bear sits on be a brighter blue almost white, while the bear is more the darker blue you were looking for. Beautiful work as always!

[@davidbuffington9644]

All the sculptures are awesome. Great philosophy about life and mistakes. The polar bear, I really liked the pale bottom. I thought it looked like a neat base to have the rest of the sculpture upon. The human/alien looked rad! I could see many possibilities. You have done a lot of progress for only working with clay once before. The rhino is very cool with the mirrored acrylic. For the insides of the legs, if they do not overlap at the edges of the outer pieces you may be able to invert your cut and have a reflected portion exposed on the inside of the leg. Experiments are great for progressing, as you have shown. Thanks for all the wonderful art!

[@kennethmacleod111]

The combinations are endless, using sliced , fractured epoxy shards, wood etc like you said, polar bear would have been amazing with dark blue shards, with light tint outer layer. I think you are one fine artist!

[@immagical7036]

4:52 I’m a digital artist and faces are my strong suit, I’m *really* good at faces and always have been. As such, it never occurred to me that not many artists would find faces to be easy Also, I adore how you used that failed mold as a bonding experience with your daughter, I know she would have been so thrilled

[@roxiecavanaugh7578]

I was going to say I loved the polar bear, and I do, but at the end of the video, when you talk about all the different materials you could do the rhino in I decided that was my second favorite. My first, number one favorite is the zombie/alien because that was a project with your daughter. I love seeing children getting involved with their parents' art. Little minds are a wonderful thing to watch grow and evolve.

[@BMSculptures]

Thank you! So glad you liked that... Probably my fav part as well!

[@jaysontwombly8261]

All pretty interesting, but I think the polar-bear spoke to me the most. Love the “ice” concept and maybe with a less pigmented color, the “ice” would show up better? I also liked it before you carved off the clear bottom part. I liked how that blended up to the blue. Anyway, just my very very humble thoughts! Love watching your work. Thanks.

[@Tmrfe0962]

Thank you. Your insight and creativity is wonderful to witness. I can only imagine the time it takes to record this added to the time it takes to create these, it’s much appreciated. My favorite is the bear. Thanks again

[@BMSculptures]

Glad you like it and I appreciate you watching and supporting my channel!

[@mrsawiggins]

I liked all of them. And I can definitely see the possibilities of all three techniques.

[@Ofthe7thSon]

Wow Blake, you hit this outta the park ⚾️…… Loved all the sculptures you created this video, as always.

[@PewPewVida]

Half face 3D picture frame with lights would be dope, like adding 3D trees, mountains around would be super dope.

[@Mizusjawline]

Ayo, love how you are always experimenting and pushing yourself to learn new things! It makes watching this channel a joy because you can never predict what will happen in the next video! Personally I liked the mirror rino best because I'm a big fan of that technique 👀

[@chrissarabi3794]

Might be one of my favorite videos you’ve made. Really cool to see the experimenting and process

[@BMSculptures]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@garetkonigsfeld2]

Maybe when you make the silacon mold, you could insert some nylon plastic or wood. Then, you could use screws for clamps. Love you work. Thanks for taking us along 👍.

[@skpstone1]

For the polar bear perhaps don’t pressure pot away all the bubbles - ice has bubbles… then you could do bubbly clear resin chunks in bubble free clear resin. Like fridge ice in water. Great channel too. I love your dedication, artistry and patience.

[@Zincchromeshema]

It's a tie between the human/alien and the rhino but the polar bear is really a cool concept too. I love the adventurousness of these experiments!

[@dianestainer7843]

WOW I think each piece is as good as the next. Your daughter did a brilliant job of the zombie/alien takes after her dad, I love been surprised what you come up with so I look forward to each video xxx

[@C-unknown]

I like how these small experiments can be developed into these large immaculate pieces, opening many doors for your work.

[@rosellabill]

Young Man. You are a gifted artist. TY for your Blue Jays story. I remember the jersy on some of your videos and thought you played. Never googled you and I thank you for the stories you tell us. Great Malien you made.

[@plantsforlife1120]

Very interesting experiments!! Thank you for sharing your work!!!!!!!

[@raifarajallah]

You got to be kidding me ! Just moved to Oakville Ontario and fell in love with the Blue Jays ! Very happy to know that you are an ex-player ! All the best in this beautiful chapter of yours 🎉

[@Lutzboater]

They are all intriguing but the sliced Rhino is the one I like the most. The fun you had with your daughter on the man/alien piece was fun to watch.

[@BMSculptures]

Glad you liked it! We both had some fun painting that one!

[@ctneely9592]

I like the polar bear the best. I love the idea of shards in the acrylic sculpture.

[@donnamealy4877]

My logo is an indigo bear, so of course, the bear is my fav. I think the blue ice with clear “water” would read better. I am so glad you stuck books in the head. When you cut them apart I was screaming “make bookends!” 😂. Good work, Blake. I can’t wait to see how you expand these ideas. 💕

[@Palvader]

Great update! The Bear was by far my favorite and I would love to see the inverted version of that as well.

[@nondanelson9553]

Love the book ends! Your daughter painting your oops was super for both of you.❤

[@BMSculptures]

I think so too!

[@samuelsmall8449]

Thank you for sharing your experiments with us. I especially liked the grey human/alien head. It turned out really cool.

[@xkr2]

Great pieces. Loved the rhino and the polar bear. A less darker shade that for the bear that reveals more of the internal pattern would look awesome. Will be interesting to see a mix of epoxy n different wood for the sliced one. The alien looks cool too. Would personally prefer a non transparent side to prevent the green reflection. Most often it will be seen at an angle that’s not exactly straight so would just look all green at the moment.

[@CFGossettAbbasHealingArts]

The alien/human head could be used as bookends. Love the idea of repurposing the oops with the first head mold. I think it was a great Daddy/Daughter moment. Love the ice bear sculpture too,

[@bgpappy30]

I love all of these projects!!! I always look forward to seeing more of your work on here. Please carve a lion with his mouth wide open. I enjoy seeing your beautiful art. Thank you for sharing!!! One Love!!!

[@BMSculptures]

I would love to do a lion... It's on my bucket list

[@travisvandermeulen6667]

I think the polar bear is my favorite, I’d love to see the colors reversed. I love how you combine wood and epoxy, you are extremely talented. The rhinoceros is a wonderful sculpture idea. Also, using wood would be phenomenal.

[@cassie1594]

It's amazing to see the growth in what you can do! Love all the work.

[@BMSculptures]

Thanks for sticking around!

[@brycognito]

Blake, here's a QuikTip: Next time you need to shatter something, try using some cheap contact paper or vinyl transfer tape (if you or someone you know makes cut vinyl signs). Apply the paper over your item, either on one or both sides, then smash away!! This will keep a lot of your material from flying away!

[@HomerJade]

Blake my god! Those experiments were so educational, that’s what I love about watching your videos. Personally I loved the human/ alien sculpture and I was gonna suggest bookends for the plastic one but you beat me to it. The whole idea of using the slicing method to help you use the time better was genius!!

[@BMSculptures]

haha beat you to the book ends! Glad you liked it!

[@angeleewiles380]

Love the polar bear. Think doing a light sea green/blue shards in clear, or white shards in clear epoxy would look awesome. Great work on all of them!

[@JennsTurn]

The polar bear is my favorite! I would love to see what it would look like with your original idea of a transparent blue epoxy over the clear shards. Jake Thompson really does have great tips about working with silicone molds and epoxy! Glad it got worked out. The mirror rhino is very cool and I like your idea about painting it to match. What kind of glue did you use? I have ended up having to use 3M sticker sheets, because the glue was slowly eating through the mirror backing. Having sticker sheet exposed around the edges of the layers won’t be good though, so I’m interested to know if you have noticed any issues with the glue.. Great informational video Blake!

[@ChiefsFan62]

I think reversing the colors in the ice polar bear would look great. I really like the layered rhino. I can see where there would be a lot of options to use that process.

[@karendale7297]

Awesome! Your work is amazing & I love how you challenge yourself.

[@jessy-jeankafka4504]

I really loved this type of video! I love seeing your process with experimentation! The pieces look great as well!

[@floraggio]

Your calmness when seeing you made a mistake is soothing! Good on you, really! I wish I was more like that.

[@BMSculptures]

haha i work on it.

[@pinkerbot]

Your personality really comes through the screen, and i really enjoy not only your work but also your calm demeanor. I loved all the sculptures, but found that the technique for the polar bear worked exceptionally well 😄 I wonder, if you froze the sheet, would it shatter more easily? You should study some color theory! If something turns brown, it has all primary colors in the mix. So if one blue was slightly purple (+red), and the other was slightly green (+yellow), you get the muddy brown. If you want to mix your own colors, it is best to use pigments that are as pure red, blue and yellow as possible - plus white and black - as a starting point.

[@BMSculptures]

A couple others have mentioned freezing the epoxy and I think this is a fantastic idea! Glad you liked it!