Orange County’s Artistic Epoxy
Some people call us about a floor. The ones who land on this page usually call about a picture, whether that is a pane of color set into the middle of a room or a veined resin panel meant to hang on a wall. Eagle painted murals for years before he poured resin, and he still starts every one of these jobs with a drawing.
Murals First, Resin Later
Eagle’s first medium was paint on walls. He worked murals, including projects outside the country, and that is where he learned contrast painting: setting a dark beside a light so each one reads stronger than it would alone. When he moved into epoxy he kept the training and changed the surface.
Resin behaves nothing like wall paint. It flows, it levels itself, and it holds pigment in suspension while it is still wet. A mural painter used to fixing a line tomorrow has to make every decision inside one working window, which is why the planning on an art piece matters so much more than it does on a plain floor.
Orange County is a design-conscious market, and we hear that on the first call. People here tend to arrive with the room already finished around the floor, the cabinets chosen and the lighting hung. Our job is to make a poured surface that belongs with all of that and still carries an idea of its own.
If you simply want a beautiful floor with movement in it, our metallic epoxy floors in Orange County cover that well. This page is for the times you want something drawn.
A Picture Set Into the Floor
An inlay is a design that lives inside the field of a floor instead of covering all of it. The photograph below shows the shape well: a black metallic field with an orange swirl moving through it, and a window pane design in blue and orange poured right into the middle of a large open room.
Building one comes down to a series of decisions about edges. Eagle decides where the inlay starts, how hard its border should be, and whether the surrounding field runs into it or stops cleanly at the line. A hard edge reads like a framed picture. A soft edge looks like the design grew out of the floor on its own. Both are legitimate, and they make very different rooms.
Logos and brand marks work the same way for a storefront, a salon or a lobby. A business can put its mark right where customers walk in and have it sealed under the same topcoat as the rest of the floor, with no decal to peel up at the corners.
Scale catches people out more than anything else. A design that looks right on a sketch pad can disappear in a big room, so we mark the outline on the slab at full size and walk it with you before anything gets mixed.
Resin Art You Can Pick Up
Plenty of what Eagle pours never touches a slab. Resin works just as well on a tabletop or a panel you hang, and the habits that make a good floor make a good piece of furniture.
The black panel below carries branching red and orange veins across its surface and sits on a stand over plastic sheeting. A panel like that can hang as wall art or become the top of a console. Beside it sits a pair of cornhole boards poured in green and gold swirls, about as far from a garage floor as our work gets, and good proof that the medium does not care what the object is.
Small pieces are also the easiest way to try us out. If you are deciding whether a full art floor suits an Irvine living room or a Laguna Beach entry, a resin piece in the same palette lets you live with the colors first and decide on the floor later.
From Sketch to Sample to Pour
Every art piece runs through the same four stages. You are involved in more of them than most people expect, and the drawing is settled long before the resin comes out.
Talk and Draw
We start with the room, the colors you already own, and what you want people to notice first. Eagle sketches while you talk, so you leave the first meeting with something on paper.
Sample the Colors
Pigments get poured onto sample boards and brought back into your space. Color relationships shift under your own lighting, and this is where we find out how.
Prepare the Surface
Diamond, the Prep Queen, grinds and repairs the concrete so the art has something solid to grip. Pieces poured on a panel get the same care on a smaller blank.
Pour, With You If You Like
Eagle lays down the design. Some clients take the applicator for a section of it under his direction, and that part of the floor stays theirs.
Keeping the Art Under a Clear Coat
Once the design is down, it needs a wear layer between it and everyone who walks across it. That clear protective coat is what keeps a floor mural from scuffing into a blur. On a tabletop, it is the part that takes the glasses and the plates.
Orange County’s climate is easy on resin in most ways. Mild winters and warm, dry summers give us a steady working temperature for the pour. The sun is the part to plan for. Inferior coatings fade and chalk under that much Southern California light, so ours carry UV stabilizers, and Eagle thinks about which part of a design will sit in the brightest patch of the room.
Art is one of several things we put down across the county. Floors that need grip around water belong with anti-slip coatings in Orange County, and a garage that has to be back in use quickly is a job for polyaspartic coatings. Slabs outside the house get their own exterior system on the driveway and patio page.
The sitewide overview of this work lives on our artistic epoxy and resin art page, finished pieces are collected in the project gallery, and everything we offer locally starts from the Orange County service area page.
What People Ask Eagle First
Can you put our logo into the floor?
Do I need a finished idea before I call?
Can I really help with the pour?
Do you make resin pieces besides floors?
What happens if I don’t like the samples?
Will an art floor hold up to normal traffic?
Commissions Across the County
We take art commissions throughout Orange County, whether the room is in Fullerton, Anaheim or Irvine, or out in one of the coastal cities like Huntington Beach, Newport Beach and Laguna Beach. The first visit is about the space and the light it gets, so bring us into the actual room. Call (561) 572-8400 or describe the project through our contact page and we will find a time to come see it.
Bring the Idea, However Rough
A color you keep coming back to, a logo file, a scribble on the back of an envelope, or just the room itself. Any of those is enough for Eagle to start drawing.