The Moss & Lantern Guide to Translucent Resin Color

Meticulously crafted from high-clarity, UV-stable resin, preserving natural elements and miniature woodland detail.

Story of the piece:

PDF guide · Instant download · Lifetime updates included · Printable recipe card

Your green ink turned blue in the cup. The color that was perfect in a test pour drifted teal in the production mold. The piece that glowed at demold went cloudy by the weekend. None of these are mixing mistakes — they're physics, and every one of them is predictable once you know the three forces working on your color after it leaves the cup.

This guide is the working method behind every colorway in the Moss & Lantern gallery, built from our documented studio testing — the failures included.

Inside:

• The four colorant families — transparent dyes, translucent pigments, opaque pigments, micas — and what each actually does to light in a deep casting
• Why green alcohol inks turn blue in thick pours (and which greens survive)
• Exotherm burnout: why your color changes with pour size, and how to calibrate for it
• The swatch ladder and dilution ladder methods for hunting a hue in one session instead of five
• Undertone work: the difference between gemstone and candy — emerald, rose quartz, smoky darks
• The four gates a recipe must pass before it's locked, and the printable recipe card that holds it
• Colorway family design: value spacing, near-clear anchors, hardware pairing by color temperature
• An 11-problem troubleshooting table, from teal drift to windowsill fade

Written for epoxy resin artists working in spheres, orbs, vessels, and any casting where light passes through the piece. Brand-agnostic — the method calibrates to your resin and your colorants.

The guide grows with our testing. Buy once; every future edition is delivered to you automatically.

Delivered as a PDF download link at checkout. For personal use.

Care: Keep out of direct sunlight and clean gently with a soft cloth.