 As per use, the pups haven't done anything playing to get today at all, ever, at all, until right now. For some reason, I'm not showing that word live yet. It says waiting. Well, they'll be here. So, ATD time, ATD time. How's your Wednesday going? Ours is going pretty swell. I'm working in cramped quarters because I do too many things at one time. It's okay. Let me know if you guys can hear Jeff because I have the mic and he doesn't have the mic. Y'all are welcome for the serenade, the serenadra. So, here's what's happening. I watched Ronda's live feed last night and it was pretty fun. There were foils involved. If you guys don't watch RK3's lives and you are into faux finishes, countertops, et cetera, then I don't know what you're doing. But I was watching and I was like, I want to do a river with some foils. Can you guys hear that? That like sound, that means your adhesive is tacky enough. So what I'm using tonight is the APS foil adhesive. I have a link down in the description, I hope. If not, let me know. It really, you're spilling. It really helps the channel. When you guys use our links and it just helps us all the way around. So, yeah, the foil that I have is from APS and the adhesive that I'm using is from APS, Artistic Painting Studio. And so I really like this abalone shell looking one. I'm not sure which side is which. So we're going to have to do a little roadside. Yep. And so what I'm going to do is I've gone ahead and done the, I need all of these things. That's why it's still here. I've gone ahead and just a cradle board that's not cradled is just solid and I just dusted it white in some areas. And that's so that my foils look brighter because if you look at this foil, it is very translucent. You can see all the way through it. So I don't want to lose some of the awesome look by it being just on a brown background. So I just dusted some white spray paint mat over it. And can you see the sheen of the adhesive that I brushed on there? It's very rough brush. I just did it with a foam brush. You can use whatever brush, blow your boat. Just be advised that whatever kind of brush you use is going to leave a different kind of texture and that texture will kind of be present. My little fingerprints left a little mark. So I'm trying to cover that up. Whatever texture you sweep on is going to show. So just be advised about that. Right. So let us I just thought about this. I haven't like really made my way through the whole scheme of it in my head. I just decided I wanted to do it. And then so now I'm doing it. I didn't think my way through this is all I'm saying it's common for me though. So I'm trying to cut a kind of a ziggy tag into my foil. Also, I've forgotten what side is sticky. Okay. And that is so I don't end up with some weird funky edge, even though it wouldn't matter if it was because I'm going to make it into a river table that just has this design on it. I should have going to. Okay, so I'm going to crinkle this. And that is going to give me a textured design when you crinkle your oils. It makes it easier to hide seams when you do this and to hide any kind of folds that end up in your piece. I prefer. I would consider it a pro tip. So I'm going to put that there. And what I'm trying to do is essentially just have something down for the clear resin that I'm going to put on here. I'm going to put some clear so that you can kind of see the river of foil that we're putting down. And I'm using a rough bristle brush. I thought I could do this with like a brayer and it would work turns out I was very wrong. And you need a brush like this to make your foil stick properly. And I'm kind of just dabbing out these edges. And hopes that it won't leave a hard line. Like I said, I decided to do this four minutes ago. Ready for the reveal. I want to see how it kind of didn't do anything here. That's because I didn't brush any of my adhesive there. So it's just not going to stick in that area. So I didn't want a solid area. I just want parts of it. I'm just adding a little bit more to other sticky areas. Well, I thought I was, but apparently I was doing that on the wrong side. I hate it when that happens. As you can see, I'm kind of just like brushing it and I'm letting it kind of just have that sweeping look. I'm sorry, I'm not reading the chat right now. Okay. Oh, she did? Probably a text. You can see on here, like there's some areas that are like in the brown part that has the foil. And in my opinion, it doesn't look as long, but you know, my opinion isn't everything. And if that is a look that you guys like, then roll on with it, people. I have a lot of areas that just, that would make just a fun peacock. Can you even, will you turn the light on that? I don't think you can see how awesome this stuff looks. It looks kind of dead pan on camera. That's kind of what I'm going with because the everything I'm going to put around it is going to be purple. So I have my main like area of design. And I just want other little peekaboo areas that could just pop through. I put this roughed it up in a lot of the areas. I didn't do full coverage. I just want to have something there in case that's where the design takes us. Since I didn't put the, see how I just was I in camera when I did that, that swirl look. So it's kind of in a rounder design. Just keep that in mind when you're applying this stuff, how you apply it matters. But this is just a loose interpretation of what I have in my head. So it doesn't matter to me because I think resin is going to resin no matter what I do. And I like the random look. I had another foil out that I was going to try to use, but I don't know if I'm going to. But I'll get y'all's opinion in a moment. And I have tested this to see if I have not. I've tested it to see if this adhesive messes with the resin. And it does not. It doesn't make it fish eye or anything like that. So if you have an area that doesn't end up getting covered. It's fine. Ideally you wouldn't be able to feel any tack once you have your foil down. So if you feel some, then maybe want to wait just a little bit and then add, like put the foil back down. Well, I'm just doing this little area up here. And then I'm done with this part. Jeff was nice enough to do an honor thing. Jeff was nice enough to go ahead and prep my resin for me while I was doing that. Just so you know, this is what our base looks like right now. I know it's crazy. It's crazy right now, but you just give me a minute. Okay. Sometimes you just never know. Do I want to add any of this one? Or do you think it's going to be too loud? I'm trying to find a spot on the edge. I need to show you what it looks like. Yeah. It's very much bolder. Well, it's not see-through at all. But I need a little something else in a couple areas. So let's do maybe this one. It's a little bit dotty because I'm out of the one I just had. No. I'm just trying to give some depth. I'm just trying to give a little bit of depth. And it's not going to stick everywhere because I already have it mostly covered with the other foil. Apparently canvas is mad at me for not paying attention. What is the problem? Oh, well done. This is already going to be awesome. I don't need all that jazz. Okay. So my sweet, sweet husband has gone ahead and mostly mixed up my this. Mostly. Yeah, I can still see swirls of resin in here. It's not mixed. Okay. I believe you. Interesting. Have you ever done resin floors with alcohol ink? Be careful using alcohol ink with a resin because it's not light fast slash color fast. It's going to fade. If you drop alcohol ink into your resin. If you're putting it under the resin, it could still dilute over time. So just watch out for that. But I've done alcohol ink countertops. I haven't done an alcohol ink floor. So I'm going to be using a Micah tonight. I know I know I don't ever use Micah's. But today. You got time. So I'm going to do a white. A Milky Way. Purple. And a gold. Possibly a spearman. You guys let me know if you're digging the spearman idea. Okay. So we're going to do a couple of whites. Maybe not. I'm going to do, should I do mostly purple or mostly white? What they say. Hmm. What your purple says. That doesn't make. A liquor sense. All right. So I know for sure. This is from color passion. It is very much like 007. It's just a little bit of a deeper gold. It's not as. I don't even know the word electric vivid, not sure, but one of those. And for my powders, I always overload them. A lot of people say it's wasteful. It is completely up to you how much pigment you use. But if you don't put enough, it could dilute. It's just a little bit of a wasteful. And kind of fade out. So I really overload mine. To make them more, I guess, thick. I don't know. In my head, they, the powders just stick to themselves better when there is a lot of power. But I don't know. If that's an actual science or an E science, but that's the science. And it's beautiful color. So I'm using deep purple. This one's a Micah. I also carry it in a paste. And it is a beautifully rich. Remember that royal purple we scary by artists do. That's a really nice purple. It's got that cherry red shimmer to it. Queens favorite purple. Right. That is a great way to mention it. The Queens favorite purple. So did you say if I should make it mostly purple or mostly pink, I would say pink. What do you guys think? Purple and some whites. Oh, she had issues with fish eyes. That's not good. I need some pink. We'll see. There's, there's not really any pink in the. Something. The foil that we put down. You know what I didn't do that. I always recommend people do and they work with a powder is to make it into a slurry before you mix it into your makeup. I failed, but that does. It just kind of pre melts your. It doesn't melt your Micahs, but it decreases the odds of you getting those like chunks. Micah that don't quite. Break down into your. Reson I say break down. I'm using it as a loose term. Hey, will you tell me if I'm in camera. I just need the stuff. I don't need it clean. Okay, so I'm going to make just a little bit of experiment. Yes. In case. Oh, yummy. It's this color. Yeah, it's like, it's like breakfast at Tiffany's, but a lighter shade and then with like a pearl. In my head, it's going to go well, but I don't want to like cartoon up my vision, which I tend to do. It's just the ever so slidiest, slight bit of it. The thing I like about pastes that they mixed into resin so easily. You can get all these colors that I'm using at artists. Com. So nice. Okay. Boop, boop. Did we say if we should do mostly purples? Hey, Angie. Angela, which pigment were you looking for? White with purple experiment. Oh, that's, I like that pretty. It's up to bubblegum pink. Yeah. That would look good too. Okay. So I know for sure I'm going to mix in some, I'm out of my big stir sticks. We're going to use some Milky Way or shooting star. It goes by two names, but it is still a one beautiful color. It looks chunky, but it's not that bad. And I'm not going to use a lot, but there we go with a lot. And it melts in super easily. I didn't want to do a lot because I just wanted a little bit of sparkle. I didn't want it to be like a hazy or cloudy color, which it looks like it may be. So I may have to cut it with a little bit more resin. Yeah. That's okay. Not a problem. I'm going to use a rainbow of glitter. I get real close into the camera. When it's like fuzzy doubt. Okay. Oh yeah. It's raining here too. Mostly purples. Okay. We're going to do mostly purples. What are you talking about? It's been raining here. 66 degrees today. Okay. Mostly purples. Of course. Yeah. Yeah. I asked and the people have spoken. And then I'm just, I'm just going to do the white just in this thing thing. And for the white, I am using a base cell white from color passion. I didn't let this resin rest at all, but should we get cells? This is the reason. I got to go into the stir stick. We're down to do a floor. Okay. I'm going to start with just a translucent white. Okay. Christy, you did make a live. I'm down to come do a floor with you guys. Thank you. Bowie. That's enough. You're just missed son. Kaleen, Texas. That's not far from here at all. Okay. So just to recap, we have just resin experiment. It is a pearlescent shimmery powdery. Breakfast at Tiffany's. But okay. Breakfast at Tiffany's, but. I thought. Was experiment. This is. Like. They look good. Or like on camera. This is way better. This is the Milky Way or shooting star from resin arts. Again, you can get all these brands in one convenient place. That is my website. Artists will get that. And this is deep purple by just resin. This is the powder version, but we do carry the paste version. You got two of those. This is color passion rich gold. Nope. Oh, gold. Sorry. It is a floating gold. When you hit it with heat, a lot of the particles come up to the surface. Pretty cool. Which I'll show you. And then this is the color. Passion based cell whites. So what I'm going to start with is. What I should have started with is making sure this table is level. I am almost 100% sure it is not. But whatever. Hey. I think it looks cool. Like maybe it. I wish it just read better on camera. It just looks like. Dirt. Um. So what I'm going to start with is putting the translucent Milky Way in the areas that I want. To make sure that this foil shows through. And so wherever you want to river of this look. I would recommend putting your clear there. And that's just going to kind of. Protect it from. Other resin getting to that area. Now I used way too much Milky Way. So it's kind of hiding some of that. So I'm going to. I'm going to. I'm going to kind of relief it a little bit. Take some of it up. And if you put it. Like the clear or the Milky Way in an area. And then you're like. I wish I'd actually covered that area up. You can still do that. You can just add. Resin over that bit that has an opaque color to it. And then. It's an easy fix. Now in my head. Originally I was just going to do river. Of color. That was the foil. I was just going to make it a little bit darker. And I was just going to make it a little bit darker with it. No one's surprised. Okay. And so now I'm going to make it an art piece instead of. Like a faux finish, I think. But I want to do heavy. Purple that kind of frames. The foil in a bit. For me, I always try to do thick. Areas of color, thick bands. Of color. And then I'm going to go ahead with my work. I feel like the thinner the bands of color, the busier it is. And I like. More of a simple, elegant. Look with my pieces. So. It's not looking like much right now, but just. Give me a minute. Promise you. That. It's going to. Maybe be something awesome. I can't guarantee it. The other thing I'm going to do. I'm going to just make it a little bit darker. And I'm going to go ahead and make it a little bit darker. Because you know what, resin is going to resin. Look how opaque this purple is. You don't even see any of the brown of the board through. That area. If tutor was here, he'd be like, Hey. You know what you should do. The Italian drip. And I think he does that because, you know, I'm not good at the Italian drip. Almost looks like a funky planet. Or. A different kind of zebra stripe. I'm using stone coat art coat and I should have a link down in the description box for you guys to get 15% off with my code. This resin you can work. We worked it up to three hours before but generally you can get a good two hours out of it for sure. Now what do I think I want to do? It's going to be awesome. I just have to figure out what's happening. I don't know what you're doing. I am making an art piece using resin and foils and it's going to be amazing. Sometimes it just takes a couple seconds for it to realize how amazing it can be. That's hip hop. So I think I'm going to add the white maybe on the inside of the purple in some areas. I'm not sure if I'm digging it but we're going to figure it out together. I'm pretty sure I'm going to end up doing a swipe to like ombre this in a little bit because that's usually my MO. So I don't want to add a lot of this gold because it will take over. It will float. It will get into everything. Just know that it's going to. So I'm going to actually just put very thin little accent lines so that when I swipe through it you're going to see little parts of the gold but it's not going to be wild because it will get wild. This is all just prep work for what I'm ultimately trying to do. Thank you Shannon. Okay. So I don't want to do a lot of this aqua, right? Is that what we said? I don't know what this is. I'm going to get my white papers and then we're going to see if I made a mess or if I made magic. Color passion what? What's up Kim? How are you? Sorry I haven't responded to your text yet. Things have been viled here. Okay. I'm going to hit with just a little bit of heat. I don't want to do too much heat because I don't want to liquefy my resin and have it just go where it wants to on it to roughly stay where I put it. So I'm just at this moment just making sure it's fluid. Okay. Okay. Okay. All right. Here we go. What's up Jerry? Okay. So I'm just going to kind of blend things together using a swiping paper. If you've never seen me do a swipe, I lay my paper down horizontally and I only let about a pinky's width of pigment come in contact with my paper so that it doesn't just scrape everything off. Do not go in vertical like this. You're just going to scrape everything. Additionally, if you move too fast, you are going to create skips and then you're going to message me and wonder what happened. Making sure I give some movement and I wanted to come over into my river of, I guess, abalone so that it starts to peek a boo through a little bit. When Jeff used to do resin with me, he had a, if all else fails, super tilt motto. And I think mine is pretty much if all else fails, do a swipe. I think everybody has things that consistently work for them that they're, that's their go-to. What's y'all's go-to? I just want a little bit of the purple. Just ghosted over. I'm giving it some scallops, some movement with my swipes. If I design, I don't have to do that. That's just what I like to do. I'm going to let that paper sit there for a little too long and it kind of took my resin up. So I've got to fill that in. 54 people and 14 thumbs. We can do better than that, right? We can do better than that. Yeah, this could be a tabletop, tabletop. Tabletop in the house. Words are hard, okay? It's also important to make sure you don't have any bare spots that don't have resin because that's going to interrupt the flow of your swipes. That, what do you call it, not taking over as much as I thought it would. The gold? I think it's like. All right, so I'm going to swipe through the top of this now. Wherever you lay your swiping paper is going to be what color is on the top of your swipe. And you don't even have to have multiple colors to do a swipe. Like I'm putting it all in the purple right here. A little blending technique, too. Definitely is super good blending technique. It looks organic. I'm making sure I have my swiping paper and a bunch of the colors. A bunch of them. There are only a few. I don't like covering up so much of that purple. I think I kind of like it a little bit more broken. It'll move, like it'll move. Find yourself a Jeff. You have to kind of in my, okay. So my approach to resin is put resin down roughly in the design ish that you're kind of going for. And then just see what the resin is doing. And then resin is going to resin. So if you work with what it wants to do anyways, then I think you'll end up with a more successful piece. That's just my opinion. Who am I? It's the craziest thing. We've been in crazy situations with resin. Resin crazy things. Like doing resin on a rooftop in July and Austin. That was crazy. After I get all this wiped in, I'm going to add more stark lines with the, like the gold, I think. So I don't know what the craziest thing we've resined is. Because you really can't do too much with resin. Because it. I mean, resin has limitations. Yeah. With some heat and see where we're at. This, I'm just trying to pop some bubbles. See what all floaters I have. I have any hairs I need to pull. I know it's kind of gross. No light on it. I'm not going to tilt just yet. I think I want to add some hard lines. What do you guys think about that idea? Not thick lines. Just like accent veins. That's so let's do. I'm going to do a hard line on this one. So the way I pull a good, strong vein is I'll. Get a whole bunch of resin on my stir stick. Just get a good old scoop of it. And then I have that drizzle coming off of. The sir stick. So I'm going to scoop up a good drizzle. And wait for it to get have a good flow start off the piece. Don't hesitate. Go all the way down. If you hesitate, you're going to get that. Is that a little Debbie. That little. Yep. So ready? I'm going to go for it. I didn't, but yes, keep it low. The lower the straighter it'll be. Yeah. When you're higher up, it's more likely to swirl. Very true. I'm just going along. Paralleling. The designs that I already have in there. More aqua. I was thinking that. More aqua. How do you keep it from blob, blobbing doing that? So by blobbing. Okay. I will demo the, um, what it looks like when you pull a vein the wrong way at the end of this video. I'll just do a whole demo on, um, what it looks like if you hesitate and little bald spots. We got them. Got them. Okay. Okay. What should we put the aqua? So a little, oopsie, oopsie. Yeah. A little boop boop boops. Okay. I want some more aqua here, but I don't want to go all the way. So I just wait for it to start to drip. And then pull it up right before it's going to do that. Okay. So the faster you move, theoretically the thinner your line will be. And if you want a line that's in the middle of some place, but you can't let it blob off one side. Damn it. It's fine because you just take a little bit of swiping paper, take the corner of it. You could. And just trail it. Yes. I still feel like it needs something. It needs something. I mean, I still like how it looks, but a couple of hairs in here. I don't know where this stick went. I just dropped a cup of resin and it landed. Bottom down. So if that's not a good omen for 2024, I don't know what it is. Need to always have swipe paper. I always have swipe paper somewhere near me. So if you want to tilt while using this method with the peekaboo. You can, it's just going to give your flow a better, more even look. You just have to pay attention to how far you're tilting, because you have to tilt it back to that area. Essentially, this resin is rolling over the clear that we put down first. And so it's not going to stick there. You can see like it's going over that little spot. And then if you need an area to move faster, because everything's getting to where it needs to be sooner, sit that area with a little bit more heat. What you're doing is thinning out that part specifically. So it's going to move faster than the other areas. I like the way it looks when it has this. I like what it looks like when there's that, that shift, that definite shadow, because one color goes over the other. If I was working on a longer piece, I would have done the river that I had in my brain. But since it's round, why not? Yeah, I'm super into the peekaboo too. What's up, Tabitha? How are you? Oh my God, what I thought it was, but it's mostly dried mud. I'll get it. Just give me a second. Yeah, so I'll get it. Let's worry about it after the light, okay? You guys, I just dropped an entire thing of mud onto the floor. Near the dust-free zone, because I'm talented. I like it. I like the slight peekabooness to it. I like that it looks a little bit planetary. Mud, yes. So my amazing husband got me a ceramic pottery wheel for throwing, because it's something I super love to do. And I can't just put mud. Yeah, it's very messy, and I can't just put mud into our pipes. This building is 100 years old, 200 years old, 1000 years old. And so I have a couple of, I have a little bit of resin left. I'm going to do a couple posters. It's super messy, and I can't put the mud down the drain. So I have to just dry it out and then I can throw it away. That way it doesn't mess with any of the pipes. Actually, let's just do a set of moshes. So I have to dry it out before I can throw it away so that takes a lot longer in the winter colder, drier months like we are in right now in Texas. So yeah, we all throw in ceramics in our apartment. Not ideal, but it's cars I'm dealt, and I love ceramics, so I'm going to deal with it. So what I'm going to do is a smush. If you guys have never seen a smush happen, this is how it starts. Usually I have just a whole bunch of overflow resin on the surface of my piece. I mean, surface of my, this, what is this, table? But I don't in this case. So I'm just adding it all down, and then I'm going to take a coaster. This is one of our MDF coasters. It's not one of the clear ones. I'm using all opaque colors, so it's not really a point in doing the clear. I'm just going to smush that in and see what we end up with. It's almost like Christmas every time. Don't mind that. I wish I could kind of control the look. You know what I mean? Typically you should save some of your colors or when it gets, starts to get muddy, you can just put an accent color just back over the top of it. I'm just going to make sure it comes out of all the directions. I need to make sure it comes out everywhere, so it has full coverage. So I don't have to go back in and like, we're super love that experiment color. I needed more gold for sure. I didn't let it smush all the way. So what you can do is tap it in and then tilt it. Tap it in or leave it or you can re-smush it. Typically I just tap in whatever is missing and then tilt it around a little bit so that the design, the flow works. This is the Stone Coat Countertop Art Coat. Let's see if we can get more of the gold to show up. We'll also scrape to get colors in. Kind of twist it as I was pulling it up. So it has a little bit of that design. Evelyn, I don't know if you heard, but you said happy new year. I don't know because you don't have a microphone, so I don't know. I want to do one that's just on purpose. So I accidentally got some of the purple, deep purple into my white here. And I think it's going to end up looking slightly marbly because it's just got that little faint hint of the purple, which looks apparently black when it's on a white background. It's going to kind of work in a little bit more of the purple. I know it looks sloppy and I know it looks messy, but this is how to get a very rustic, natural looking marble background, in my opinion. And who am I, honestly? But if you just put a little bit of a color and then tilt it around, if you're able to tilt, that's the best way to get something marbly looking without breaking your brain. I'm trying to tilt so that it doesn't have just that open void in the center. You can also just tap it away. Voila, marble. But I think I want to do a vein of the aqua and the gold. Just very simple swipe. But I'm trying to be careful with this because I don't want to swipe too much of the background because you'll be able to see, but we can always tilt it. That's not hugely detrimental. I'm just trying to soften it. Okay. And then drag some lines out. I don't ever want to have a vein or anything like that running through the center of my piece. So I always offset it. I like that. What do you guys think? It's just almost just died a little bit. Okay. So I have one coast left. Let's put the rest of our aqua down. I say aqua, it's spearmint. It's very spearminty. And then the rest of our essentially marbled white. There are some people that have forward thought enough to put colors in a specific area to create a specific design. Once you pull your coaster up, I don't have that. So this is what I do. It works, works for me. Love a swirl. So easy, so nice. And then I sell these bad boys for $5 a piece. And that's just with leftover resin. I think it's important to utilize as much of everything as you can. And if you're using some of our patented stir sticks, just take an alcohol rag and wipe them off after you use them. And they're good to go to do your next piece without being wasteful. Those popsicle sticks are not much more than one use, in my opinion, for what I've used them. No shade on popsicle sticks at all. I just like to save money. And a little bit of the environment since we're working with resin. At least we can do it, right? Right. We can cut coaster shapes. I have someone asking for dragonflies. There is a minimum order quantity. Just shoot me a message through the website. And I will let you guys know if it's a shape that we can cut. So I'm going to show you guys the pieces from today in case you missed them. Here's the coasters. The aqua color is spearmint from just resin. The purple color is deep purple from just resin. The white is color passion. They sell white. The gold is color passion, old gold. And then the sparkle is the Milky Way or shooting star from resin art. And the foil is, I think, abalone, some form of abalone from APS. And I also use the APS adhesive. And I also use the stone coat art coat epoxy for the long beautiful working time to do this piece. I have a code down in the description box for stone coat countertops, epoxy, as well as everything else. The pigments came from artists till death. And it makes me want ice cream. What kind of ice cream is that? Like a Praline's in cream. Anyways, I hope you guys have had an awesome, awesome day. I hope you learned something. We're entertained or inspired in some way. I got to take these pups out and clean up my mud mess. So I didn't even see if you guys had any more questions. If I missed any, shoot me a message at my website, artisttilldeath.com. Shoot me an e-mail. We tried to do at least 24 for a custom order. That's cool with you guys. Because we have to create the design. But shoot me a message on our website. And we will see you guys tomorrow. Until then, be kind to one another. Because you never know what someone's going through. So you don't have to. And I hope to see you guys at our next live at 6pm every day except for Tuesdays. It's at 2pm during the week. See you guys tomorrow. Bye.