 How can I get art resin to dry faster? Art resin will dry or cure faster with heat. So you can work in a warmer room or you can try to use heat lamps to encourage the resin to dry or cure faster. However, just be aware to keep that temperature constant for the entire length of the cure process to avoid things like dimpling and that nasty orange peel look that nobody wants in the resin. Also, do not add more hardener to the mix to try to get it to dry faster. That doesn't work. It just throws off the delicate one-to-one balance of the resin and hardener and sets you up for a whole bunch of other problems that you don't want.