Well, they ain't perfect. Little too big, wire cut kinda funky in a couple places, getting some weird "grease" look on the resin (dunno what THAT'S about, but need to find out what's causing it). BUT, all in all, think they came out pretty good for some of my first experiements. Let me know what you think.

outstanding! I see nothing wrong with either piece. 

Wow! Wow! Wow!

Beautiful, Andy, esp. the rose. I can't imagine how you do this. What do you use for color? How do you keep the different colors between the lines? Isn't it really difficult?

I don't want to spill the beans too much on Eugena's technique. I spent $10 for the tutorial, and lemme tell you, probably the best $10 I have ever spent. Far and away one of the best tutorials out there. Very detailed instructions, and pictures of each step. It couldn't have been clearer than if it had been a video. Highly recommend the tutorial to anyone.

That being said, it's really not that hard. Probably the hardest part is working with the wire, and getting it to form the right contours. The rose was one of my first attempts, and if you look at it closely, you can see that I have cuts in some odd places, places where I would have had better luck if I'd bent the wire right. I was working from a fairly complex drawing, and I kept confusing my lines. The butterfly was fun to do (although I took apart my first attempt and redid it). I went with a thinner wire, so was able to get things to contour a lot easier. I have a bunch of designs I want to try. Gotta get the time and ambition to do them, though! LOL

these are wonderful! what do you mean by greasy resin?  

If you look at the close-ups of the pieces, on the left side of both there's this weird surface thing going on. Looks almost like a grease or oil slick on water. I don't know if it's a mess of trapped air bubbles or what, but it's nothing I can clean off. It might be some oils from my fingers that mixed with the resin, or maybe just the way the resin was mixed. I just don't know. It's weird that it's on the same side of both pieces, though. I'm not overly worried about it, though. It's still all very new, so I just need to improve on what I've done already,a nd see where I can make corrections.

 Oh, and here's another couple pieces, just photographed them.

I see some foggy looking areas which is what I guess you are talking about. the rest of your resin looks perfectly clear, so I doubt it's an isolated patch of air bubbles. did you shoot that section with a heat gun for sure? it looks almost like mica powder. oil from your fingers when you handled the wire sounds wrong but maybe it is. are you using UV resin by any chance? that reacts badly with many chemicals. are you using a brush to put the resin on the black part? is it a new brush? is the foggy part underneath or on the surface? if the resin was not mixed properly this is not the problem you'd get, so I'm sure it's not that. how long were they cured for? were they in a warm humid-free environment?

I think those pieces are fab. Wish my faux cloisonne pieces looked that good!

I didn't use a heatgun, as was worried might blow the resin right off the edge. I breathed some hot air on the surface and I did see SOME bubbles rise to the surface and pop. Most likely not mica, (or finger oils from the wire) because the mica and wire is sealed with Triple Thick before adding the resin. No brush for the resin; that's being poured on, and I use a slightly bent piece of wire to move the resin to the edges. The fogginess seems to be right on the surface, and there's almost a slight textures to it, though it's very fine. Warm environment, for sure. Humid-free... that's a bit tougher to control. It's been hot and humid the last few days, but windows have been closed and we have cenral air. I will add that I did notice a slight film when I put the resin on, so I am pretty sure it's not from the curing process. These pieces had the resin applied early Sunday morning, and I only moved them today. Both of the hearts were done at the same time, and there was no fogginess on those at all. So am betting that there was either something on the larger pieces from handling them prior to adding the resin, OR there was somethign on the wire I used. Like I said, it's just a matter of perfecting the technique. I'll get it!!!

sounds unusual. my best guess would be air bubbles, but it really does not sound like that. definitely email Eugenia.  

Andy please post these in SUYW....they are stunning!  I know Eugena will be very impressed.  I too have her tute but   my pieces were quite simple compared to these beauties...wonderful  work.

Yes post in SUYW - they are very good.

Since the oil slick is consistent I wonder if it might be something from the resin container that's slightly contaminating it?