 Today we are going to make an ocean painting. I'm Gwen from Art Resin here and today I have artist Rebecca Brionzo with me. Rebecca creates the most beautiful ocean abstract landscapes and Rebecca what are you going to be showing us today? Today we are going to make little micro versions of this large piece behind us and I have a canvas that is reminiscent of a port hole in a boat and then I have this square canvas for you. It's a bit raised on the sides, it might be a bit challenging but as far as I know you are up for the challenge. I am, I can't wait to learn from you. Great. So we have all our materials laid out here, do you want to walk us through them? Yes, so here I have the wooden canvases and we have primed them out with gesso and we've done about three coats at this point just so we get the grains out of the perspective. You don't want to see the wood grains and you just want like a nice clean backdrop so that the resin pigment can really pick up and stand out. Perfect. Now can you use acrylic paint if you don't have gesso? Yeah, absolutely you can. You can also use white house paint, wall paint as long as it's matte as long as it covers up your grains. Okay, awesome. And then we are using wooden panels here but if you didn't have a wood panel can you use a stretch canvas or a canvas board? You can use a canvas, I would say up to this size maximum I believe this is a 12 by 12. Yes. And I personally, mostly all my canvases are wood even if it's small. Okay. I like it's backbone and it's strength to marry with art resin. Yeah, the weight of art resin. Yeah, absolutely right. So we have our art resin already measured and mixed so it's a one-to-one ratio so equal amounts of resin and hardener by volume and we mixed it up and we poured it into separate cups, one for each color, right? Yeah, exactly. And then we have our pigment. We've already mixed out our sand color and we've mixed out our white for the waves and as well we have under here a little surprise. This is our little feet that we're using to hold up my canvas because I enjoy paintings when the art is ruled over the sides and everyone has their own preference. Some people like a complete solid color on this side like white or black but I just love seeing the water kind of flow over to the sides and then drip and as well we have our trusty blow torch and I did want to note we are using clear plastic cups and the reason for the clear is because we want to see the richness of our colors it's really important to see what we're working with and then what we're going to be pouring. We have toothpicks to get the impossibles out. We all know what that means, we're working with resin and we have our level to make sure that our canvases are nice and level because as much as we want the ocean to flow we don't want it to flow right off the canvas. Great. And as well we have a blow dryer and what the blow dryer will do is just basically take our beautiful white pigment and it will break it out and make it look like a wave and it will add some magical seafoam and some crashing effects so really looking forward to this. I am too. And last but not least our work surface is covered with vinyl just to catch any of those drips right and then once they cure the next day you can just peel them right off. Yeah. And you can reuse the drips into other art pieces it's just really up to your creativity. The possibilities are endless. Amazing. Well let's get started. Okay. So we're going to move these out of our way so we can focus on the water. So you can use several different colorants to tint your resin. We're using resin tint today which is Art Resin's tint but no matter which colorant we use it's important to remember not to add more than 6% total volume of resin and hardener. Yeah. Because if you add more than your resin will cure. Yeah exactly and you'll see a lot more imperfections. So less is more. I would like to try to see what this will look like. So I'll start this one and it's going to be the lighter version of that. Yeah absolutely. You started with about 4. Yeah. I'm just going to add more drops to the resin just to get that real deep rich color. And that's a really good point to Rebecca that you brought up. It's always best to start with less because you can add more if you need it. If you put too much in you can't take it away right? Exactly. Do you think I need more blue for this lighter? Actually that looks really pretty. I might keep it, I'll have you keep it there for the moment. Okay. I'm just trying to make mine really dark and rich because also I don't like seeing too much of the white. So a good way to test out the color too if you're working with these cups is just to nudge a little bit up the side of the cup and then you can really see the true color right? Yeah. Because when it's in volume in the cup sometimes it looks darker than it really is. Yeah exactly. Alright so all our colors are mixed and ready to go. So what's first? Okay so we are collaborating on both pieces. I'm going to start over here and just make a little sand base. On yours we're going to do a nice arch similar to the piece behind us. Cool. And then we're going to then go with a deep turquoise, light turquoise and we're going to end it off with the white which will then turn into the wave with a break and some beautiful seafoam. That sounds fantastic. Yeah so let's start with the sand. Alright. So I'm going to start pouring the sand out. Since we're filming the resin thickened up a bit which is great. So right now we just have a bit of a thicker pour happening right here. I'm basically spreading it around with a knife just to help even it out and Joanne I'll pass it over to you so you can do just like a nice little corner edge. Okay this is a little bit thicker because we've been filming but it's still workable. Yeah we're still going to work with this. It's easy to manipulate that's for sure. Oh yeah it's great. You might have noticed that this piece is taped off and the reason being because it does have that lip I've taped it off just to help protect it the edges from getting resin on it. Okay now we're going to move on to the deep turquoise which is a really nice consistency right now. I'm just going to start pouring the dark part you always want to see the darker part at the top just visually if you look at any type of photography or even when you're flying over the ocean yourself you can always see the different colors that work throughout and again I like mine to pour over the side so even though it looks a bit messy on camera it will look great in the finished product. So I'm pouring some darker turquoise over the lighter turquoise just because I wanted to give this more depth the good thing is is we're working in sunlight so I can see all of the colors in the moment and you can always add to it which is great and Joanne I'm going to have to pass you over this turquoise so you can start working on your side. Basically with the water I'm going to have you stay on this circular type of a pour so you're going to fill out the edge maybe take it just about a quarter of the way and just keep it on this nice curve because you want to keep the same storyline. And the good thing about the knives is that they're very strong and sturdy and they can spread out the work quite well once you've poured. Oh this color is so pretty. Alright so I'm going to add a bit of white to the turquoise that you mixed down. I just want it to be a richer color and just a bit lighter. So I'm just going to mix this up and start pouring. I always keep the knife close to me just because I like to be able to spread it in different areas. I space out the resin as well even though resin is really magical it self levels at the end of the day so I don't have much concern. I just didn't need to make sure that I leave enough for you. So I'm just going to start spreading this around and then you can just kind of copy what I'm doing but also find your own techniques. So this is step two. So you're not leaving any negative space you're covering up all the white. There is a negative space that I keep right here closer to where I want the wave to break. I leave a tiny bit of negative space just because I don't want the bleeds of the pigments to marry too too much so I like to keep a little bit of white space but eventually we'll cover that up with white. You just don't want it to get muddy, right? Yeah, exactly. Then I'm going to move back to the darker turquoise which is up here and I just want to add a bit more of a story with the lines and so this on top of the lighter turquoise just really makes it pop it makes the water look a lot more realistic they start bleeding out into each other which is just the magic of the ocean much like resin you know the water is very fluid and all moves together including the colors so in here I've got some drops but you can easily just mix all of this It really gives you that feeling of motion 100% What a difference, it's amazing. Yeah and this is about it. Very good. Okay so Joanne why don't you take your lighter turquoise and start pouring just make sure of the sands that you don't interfere with this over here So you just kind of want to keep that clean line over top but you don't want any of that to drop into the sand Gotcha, okay Here we go Great job Looks beautiful And I can bring this Bring a lot of that over actually Just bring it all down Sorry you only have so much control with this type of technique And so even when clients ask for a custom piece I can never replicate that's how one of a kind these pieces are Right And that's how special they are you know You kind of have to surrender right to it Yeah you do Gravity and Exactly So right now the way the art is looking it's just kind of starting to go upwards where we want it to be a bit more shaped like this We want it to go on that angle similar to the sand that kind of rounded So you can start to manipulate out the resin onto this angle and so with the finished product you'll see it flows all into the same motion And we've got this nice white space which we can also just tidy up a little bit We want it really close to the sand but we also want to bring the white in some problem So really close but not touching Yeah I mean a lot of artists touch and that's you know we're all individual we all have our process but I just like because it's white I want a bit of I want to benefit from that white as well and so if I put it over the sand or over the blue you'll see it become like a lighter blue or a lighter sand color so and you can keep manipulating it in that avenue and then if you feel inspired you can add those little little tiny strips of the darker turquoise If I don't like these big blobs are they going to sort themselves out or can I like manipulate them? You can actually even if you'd like a toothpick so because this is such a small scale version you can toothpick that so yeah exactly so if you don't like the blobs they will go away if you blow dry them as well but if you want to manipulate them on your own and you can toothpick all the way through your piece cool okay I like that okay so we are 90% done and the 10% is where the magic happens and so we've got this crispy white mix and we're going to pour it down on the shoreline as if the wave was crashing and then we're going to add it anywhere else we see fit throughout the ocean amazing so we're going to lightly drop a thin coat of this white throughout the sand and the water where they combine and I do a little bit of movement in the white just again to give it that wave effect okay so I'm happy with the white and now I'm going to have you mirror what I just did but on a bit of a different angle and again staying within your flow so here you go thank you I'm a little bit nervous so you're going to go a bit thinner okay all the way through perfect these colors are so great yeah and then you're going to go right to the edges okay and you can also move it around with a knife so you don't have to be so glued to the white does it matter I got some in the sand that's okay we can clean that up so we're just going to use the sand to sand colored knife to just quickly clean that up there we go perfect and then I can do a really long one you as you wish so as you can see this tape came in really handy right because I already just splattered my splattered my white is that good it's great is that enough where do you think we'll go it's up to you you can go for one more a little tiny one on the edge there great alright so now we're going to get the blow dryer and let's make these waves crash alright alright so I'm going to start on a low level just to see how much motion we get okay from the wave doing a lot of great movement oh Rebecca that's amazing okay so let's move on to the next wave I'm using a low setting and now I'm going to take it up a notch you just move it up and down and however you feel thick as you can see it's really bleeding out into the blue and so a lot of the time the white can get lost so that's why I mix the white and let it sit for longer because the thicker I can get it the more it sticks around and it doesn't have too much movement because again it's the ocean I want to see seafoam I want to see a wave break and if you make it too thin it will just disappear into the water and not even exist it will just make like a light blue effect so you really want that break to happen throughout and this is just super magical look at all the cool cells and the light you're getting it's beautiful so I'm really happy with the results there's a little bit more manipulation we can do but I'd like to pass you over the blow dryer alright excited your first step is to aim the blow dryer where you want to start so usually you want to start in this middle ground between the ocean and the sand so you want to stay really close to the white and then you want to turn it on low because you always want to have complete control over where this wave is going to go as much control as possible the white is nice and thick so it shouldn't bleed out too far but you just want to get an idea of where you're going to break it and then it's up to you I completely trust you that's your first mistake I want to pull back a bit okay and then just keep going over the rest of it and again it's up to you how far you want the wave to break out I see if you want it to be super long back towards the sand you can so it's a real science trying to figure out this wave break and again you know you have to understand that it's art so it's never going to be perfect so if I want to break up this big blob of white push more what do you think push more blue on it so I would push blue okay so back so you aim it here and bring it back a bit and bring it back a bit but you have to be pretty fast with it as well you don't want to hold too much time on it okay is that good enough yeah that's up to you I mean I kind of like that break to be honest because it's realistic of foam pushing up on the sand yeah I like that too I want more so good enough yeah good job yeah it's really mysterious I like it it's good controlling and because mine is in a panel because this is in a panel I'm only going to keep it on low right yeah it's such a small piece yeah and you're fixed you're very fixed into your space where I'm allowed to move and drip over yeah so if I want to break up this big blob here turn it up higher and then completely control it like bring it yeah exactly there you go okay last one I really actually like what happened here yeah you just have to give it time to like develop the sea foam aka cells it's so pretty I like it okay next you're an awesome student thank you my first time that one kind of has a mind of its own it does maybe we can fix that okay okay so I'm just going to come in and what I'm going to do is just pull some back pull some in this is a tricky this is a very tricky one so go low and just kind of stay far back okay because this is such a little tiny temperamental corner so you don't actually want to do too much here the way you were with the other areas yeah it's a science okay so a small tip to make the wave a bit bigger and exaggerate it a bit more is to go in with a toothpick and just lift out the white throughout the sea foam and the art is slowly curing so it's a good time to start working and breaking out the wave a bit more and when we say curing in the art world it means that it's starting to dry for all of you beginners just want to fix a couple more things here it looks beautiful I think it's a pièce de résistance it's finished yeah it does look really good yeah great job beautiful too thank you so much I'm really happy with the outcome so now we're just going to move on with torching out the little bubbles even though it being water I'm okay with the little bubbles but you know it's good to get them out and that will be it making her look beautiful it looks amazing but it's okay if there's bubbles in ocean water true just a quick light pass great job great job yep alright that's good so last step is to cover it yeah exactly so I've got a couple covers under here et voila so this is the final step and we will see the big unveil tomorrow perfect can't wait alright we're back it's been 24 hours our pieces are dry and ready to reveal now Rebecca I may or may not have peaked at my piece this morning oh that's cheeky I wasn't actually cheating cause I had to remove the tape from my piece but I can't wait to show you guys because they are beautiful now before we do the I'd love to hear a little bit more about what Inspire do to start painting ocean art and like a little bit about your journey yeah sure so I went to Brazil on a trip with marine biologists in Sao Paulo along the coast and we did some field work over two days and during the field work we were pulling all these different pieces of garbage out of the ocean and on the shoreline and we were researching them and taking photos and weighing them and in our log we captured that some of the garbage was from China and Poland and all over the world so it was quite devastating and since I'm a visual storyteller and an artist I thought I'd tell my story through that and also I mean in Toronto we have the same bad behavior on our beach side so I'll see microplastics there so again I'm just trying to educate people about better behavior and treating our nature with respect and so that was where the inspiration came from amazing I love that and you know your passion and your love and your respect and your passion and your passion and your passion and your passion and your passion and your passion and your passion and your passion and your passion and your passion and your passion and your passion and your 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Thank you. You nailed the colors. It's perfect. I wanted to make sure that was simple enough and it just makes people feel really good. It's very therapeutic. It's great. Rebecca, thank you so much for coming on to show us how to make your beautiful artwork. We'd love to have you back sometime. Great. Thank you. I'd love to show you more. Great. If you enjoyed this video, we have lots more on our YouTube page, everything from featured artist profiles to lots of how-to and project videos showing you how to get started with Art Resin. So don't forget to hit subscribe to see more.