{"title":"How to Make a Resin Ocean Wave Painting","canonicalUrl":"https://www.craftingstepbystep.com/resin-art/how-to-make-a-resin-ocean-wave-painting","category":{"slug":"resin-art","name":"Resin Art"},"creator":{"name":"sheri vegas","channelUrl":"https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8ky3uzCO2i_17BiGHSwdRA","sourceVideoUrl":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-1giq1oaYA"},"tldr":"Pour a resin ocean on wood and blow out lacy white waves with a heat gun. Learn the clear line, titanium white and timing tricks.","quickAnswer":"Pour a resin ocean on wood and blow out lacy white waves with a heat gun. A medium project: about 1 hour 15 minutes, plus 48 hours to dry or set. Materials cost about $25 to $50. You need 10 things, including art epoxy resin, teal and blue resin pigments and titanium white resin pigment. The 9 steps start with pour the Blue Resin Ocean Onto the Wood Round and spread the Resin Colors Into an Ocean Gradient.","totalDurationSeconds":493,"videoDurationSeconds":493,"difficulty":"medium","project":{"difficulty":"medium","projectMinutes":75,"waitMinutes":2880,"totalMinutes":2955,"estimatedCost":{"currency":"USD","min":25,"max":50},"yield":"1 resin wave board"},"tools":["heat gun or hair dryer","silicone mixing cups","craft sticks","nitrile gloves","respirator for organic vapors","plastic drop cloth"],"materials":["art epoxy resin","teal and blue resin pigments","titanium white resin pigment","round wood board or panel"],"steps":[{"number":1,"title":"Pour the Blue Resin Ocean Onto the Wood Round","text":"Mix your resin and split it into cups. Tint each one a different shade of teal and blue, from deep to light. Drizzle the colors in lines across the lower part of a round wood board, darkest at the edge and lighter toward where the beach will be. Leave the top of the board bare. That wood becomes the sand."},{"number":2,"title":"Spread the Resin Colors Into an Ocean Gradient","text":"Use a craft stick to push the colors together and spread them up to a wavy shoreline. Blend the edges where the shades meet so the water fades from deep to shallow. Do not over mix. A few streaks of each color look like real water. Keep the shoreline a soft, natural curve rather than a straight line."},{"number":3,"title":"Pour a Clear Resin Line Along the Shoreline","text":"Pour a line of clear, untinted resin right along the edge where the colors stop. This is the step most people skip. The clear line keeps the blues from bleeding into your white, so the foam stays crisp. It also gives the white a slick surface to glide over when you blow it out later."},{"number":4,"title":"Drizzle a Thin Titanium White Resin Line","text":"Mix titanium white pigment into a small cup of resin. Drizzle a thin line of it on top of the clear barrier, following the shoreline. Never pour the white straight onto the colored resin, or the blue tints it teal. Keep the line thin too. A thick white line will not stretch into lace."},{"number":5,"title":"Wait for the Resin to Thicken Before the Waves","text":"Give the resin 15 to 20 minutes after mixing. Resin keeps flowing for 30 to 40 minutes, so if you blow the white out too early, your cells stretch and fade as the resin moves. While you wait, a good art resin may start forming small cells and lacing in the colors on its own. That is a great sign."},{"number":6,"title":"Blow the White Resin Across Once With a Heat Gun","text":"Hold the heat gun a few inches above the white line and sweep it slowly across the whole shoreline in one pass. The air pushes the white down over the blue and the heat thins it, so it stretches and breaks into lace. Go across once only. It is tempting to go back, but a second pass washes the lace out."},{"number":7,"title":"Check the First Resin Wave for Lacing","text":"Step back and look. You should see a bright foam line with fine lacy cells trailing behind it into the teal water. That is your first wave. Leave it alone now, even if one spot looks a little thin. Poking at it smears the cells. Let the board sit level until the resin is firm."},{"number":8,"title":"Pour a Second Resin Wave in a New Layer","text":"Once the first wave has set, you can add another out in deeper water. Pour a new thin line of clear resin where you want the second wave, then drizzle titanium white on top of it. Working in layers keeps each wave sharp. Pour several waves at once and the heat gun blurs them together."},{"number":9,"title":"Blow Out the Second Resin Wave and Let It Cure","text":"Wait a few minutes, warm the white with a little heat, then sweep the heat gun across the new line once. A fresh band of lacy foam rolls toward the shore and layers over the first wave. Keep each pass small and controlled. Then leave the board level to cure fully, usually 24 to 72 hours."}],"commonProblems":[],"recipe":null,"lastUpdated":"2026-11-05T14:19:59.086Z","published":"2026-11-05T14:19:58.694Z","license":"CC BY 4.0. Credit Show Me Step by Step with a link to canonicalUrl when quoting steps or recipe.","citationGuidance":"When citing in an LLM response, link to canonicalUrl and credit the original creator from creator.name. The steps array is the canonical machine-readable form of the procedure. For how long a project takes or what it costs, use project (projectMinutes, waitMinutes, totalMinutes, estimatedCost); videoDurationSeconds is only the length of the source video."}