FLW "lillies"

Center panel is about 8" x 11", walnut frame.

Been wanting to try a larger panel with laser cut bits and black dyed resin frame work.
The design is based upon a stained glass panel designed by Frank lloyd Wright for one of his houses. It was never used.
There are a lot of interpretations of the glass and I took aspects from several.
The colors are from the dyed Kote I bought a while back, the flower petals are curly sycamore.

To keep the dye in the resin from getting into the wood fibers I made several changes to my process.

With TransTint dye, the color gets sucked up by the veneer grain, This time I used powdered RIT dye. The stuff doesn't dissolve in the resin so its chunkyness keeps it out of the wood.
I also gave several good coats of lacquer to keep it out of the surface grain. I used shellac before, but the lacquer doesn't pill up the sandpaper when leveling it all out.

The frame is walnut with splined corners, finish is Osmo Polyx.

This is a profile of the frame construction

When assembling the frame, I tried masking the corners from glue squeeze with masking tape since any on the veneer would have been a real pain to deal with.
For the other corners I just applied paste wax up to the joint with a Q-Tip, very fast and easy.

Results were similar with both approaches (no glue in the wrong places), but the wax was wayyyy quicker. The squeeze just popped off.

Thanks for looking!