 computer just decided to quit on me, but we're back. And yeah, I don't know if you're with me yesterday when I did this version of an ocean, but let me show you what it looked like. It looked like this. And if you were here yesterday, I mentioned that I wasn't all the way excited about how this turned out. I think I want more of these like open clusters, the bigger areas, like these, the splatters, and hey guys, and I'm gonna try to do that on this, a little one and hopefully also the big one. We have enough resin to do both, so we'll see. So let's start by power washing this one. And then we'll breath in that one and see how dry this one is. I hope all of you guys that are in Florida are feeling okay. That storm was bananas, we watched it. Ooh, what did I drop? Bananas, you guys stay safe. Even though the storms may have moved on from where you are, still stay safe. Muscular, I wish I used to have good trunks, but I don't do two days anymore. Without power, then y'all stay safe. So yeah, we're gonna be using Don Power Wash to create this look. I know that some countries don't have Power Wash, but if VAMP was in here, she knows how to make it with a spray bottle. Hopefully she's having a good, doctor's appointment and she can hop in at some point and help out. So I'm going to focus my bigger breaks of Power Wash in these areas because I already have cells for my first layer. I did this ocean wave on live a while back. I can't remember how long ago, but we're gonna add a second layer to it today, hopefully. I'm gonna do this part. We're gonna set it in front of the fan to hopefully dry enough. Now we're gonna do resin on the one we did yesterday. So with the Power Wash, you don't have to spray it. This is apple scent, but I don't think that matters really at all. And I'm gonna be a little bit heavier so that I can get some bigger speckles. So it's not quite so white. It does smell like apples. I think also not waiting so long to spray this, spray paint also helps. Okay, got some coverage. We're using flat white spray paint. Not being like super full coverage as well. So I'm kind of just like light dusting white spray paint, not making it fully opaque. Sweet. All right, I'm gonna take some water over to my trash can, which is right over here. You can see all the spray paint headed towards the window. Make sure you get all the soap to get under resin. How, oh sorry, how fun is that? Yes, yes, yes. It's everything I knew it could be. Super hoping I didn't just drip water in my resin. So I'm gonna pop this up right here in front of my Bowie fan. So you guys can get a little bit more of a look-see. That looks way better than my first one, yeah? It almost looks like an animal print up there. Anyways, crushed it, love it. Now, before my resin sets up on me, hands blowing really well onto it. Cool, cool, cool, cool. Let's start adding resin to this bad boy that we did yesterday. Any alternative for this stuff? I'm looking for an alternative to my knowledge right now. Power wash is the only thing really that will work like this. That's not to say that there isn't an option, an alternative, I just haven't found it myself personally. So you guys know that my super awesome favorite resin is Stone Coat Art Coat. I'm still waiting on a shipment from them and they're not my favorite for doing oceans anyways. I'm gonna be using Marcy's Art Resin. We have some on our website, artisttilldead.com, along with the colors I'm gonna be using today. I don't have power wash on my website but if some of my international people are interested in power wash, maybe I can see about shipping them. Thank you Julie, thanks, I agree, it's super awesome. Swamper, what's up? I hope you're having an awesome day at work. All right, so let's go ahead and let out this resin because having a bunch of resin in a big bucket is not good for your resin. Is this going to make it set off before, before it's time, so it's neat. You guys have a whole bunch of science stuff. Sondra, how are you doing? I'm so happy to see you here. Right, colors, colors. We're gonna be using two of my go-tos with a third of my go-tos. So I'm gonna be using Bondi for my shallow ocean areas and then Blue Lagoon or Caribbean Blue for my deep ocean areas. And these are tints by Color of Session. I know they're not pretty right now, but I travel with them always and I'll have any reds over here, but that's fine, that's fine. So when I travel to do art, I take these colors and they just get super trashed along the way. So the tints are transparent. They are buildable in color, but they'll never go opaque. So this beautiful translucent blue, if I were to add more color to it, we'll just make it a deeper shade, but we'll always be translucent, transparent. Same goes with the Blue Lagoon and the other tints from Color of Session. So if you like putting like alcoholics and resin, which I don't advise because they will eventually fade. If you like that look, just use some tints in Color of Session. You don't have to get them from me, but you're welcome to. Your colors will stay vibrant. I'm gonna put a little bit of Apolloni Shell from Resinart in here. Not a lot because this will turn your color opaque. Just snap to give it a little bit of sparkle. You're in the middle of the crazy move, Sandra. It sounds exciting though. Just a little bit of sparkle. Trying Christmas ornaments with gum arabic, not going well, thankfully, I'm using cheap plastic now. Little bit, bit. There's our heart. Cheap plastic ones for practice. I have to watch the video again. So a big thing about that is make sure you get as much of your polycrylic or whatever clear binding medium it is that you're using. Make sure you get it as much of it drained out as possible. And that will help your gum arabic and micas to stick to the walls of your ornament. Because if you don't get enough of it out, it'll kind of slump. Let's do that in my slumpa. So glad you guys are here today. Thank you so much for tuning in, especially those of you dealing with super crazy weather and no power and everything because of hurricane. All right, so I'm using titanium white from Just Resin. Super opaque white, love it, love it. Can't say enough good things about it. And I have a couple left in stock actually. So for my second wave, I always come back about an inch or an inch and a half. And I don't follow the same wave pattern as the first one. So I wouldn't come directly behind this one all the way because that's not natural. So I'm gonna essentially come opposite. I'm gonna come down this way. On this part, I'm gonna come out and down for sure. Yeah, drain it as long as you can without it draining out. 24 or 24 may have led that I wanna do something on. What do I need to do to prep it? Let it go or two left from your paint. I'm gonna have to prep it, I need to do something else. Melissa, has it been primed with anything or is it absolutely raw wood with no sealants on it or oils? Is it fully dry tree or is it kind of green still? So I'm gonna take some of my clear and I'm gonna do exactly what I just said. So I'm gonna have the wave come here. Actually, I'm not gonna do that because I'm not sure how I wanna do this wave. So I know the part that I want will look like this. So I'm gonna fill in everything around that, which is why I use clear for my ocean wave layout so that I can change things if I need to. All right, can't really see that right now but you'll see it in a second. Do you prefer titanium white or top cell white? Honestly, they're fairly interchangeable but if I had to choose between the two, I would go titanium. You'll be in NYC in about two over 10 days order stuff from me or where you're shipping times like so I can bring stuff with me. Jessica, if I have it in stock, I ship same day as long as I order them by noon and to get to New York, probably take three days tops. Where I would came from home before I was. Okay, so you would need to prep it for sure. I would put a couple of coats of paints on it and like an interior house paint. If you wanna be extra, if it's gonna be functional, use Primer from XIM and it comes in a couple different colors, so white is an option and then a couple layers of white paint. Either paint front and back or put something on the back like a polycrylic, because sorry, if you don't, wood is really porous and air will come in from the underside and give you air bubbles that you'll have to sand out later, so keep that in mind and either paint both sides or seal the back with something. Polycrylic or paint. Okay, so you guys probably couldn't see it at the time that I did it, but I didn't bring my second wave really close to my first one that is an inch back because resin will creep up and relax and move and if your second wave breaks over your first one, it does not look cute. It actually is, it's kind of like a mushroom cloud. Once it breaks that surface tension, so try to keep it, back set a little bit on your second wave. A lot of resin on this back part, so I'm just gonna pick up a little bit and put it back in my cup for the longer piece we're gonna do. So, do, do, do. Where's my this? What's that, pee-pee? All right, now I'm gonna take my titanium white resin net and I'm going to lay it where the dry canvas is and my clear it is. I want it to touch both and not be any thicker than a pinky for this side piece. So it looks like I may have gone over in some areas, but that will be fine. Mix Media Girls resin is about half the working time as stone coat, so I'm gonna try to pick up the pace a little bit here in a second because I don't want this resin to set up on me before I get to the second piece. Right, heat gun, not plugged in. Up, of course not, why would it be plugged in? So I'm gonna use my heat gun. This is a red amtic heat gun, you can find it on Amazon, I've got it linked down in the description box at my Amazon shop and this is my Groom Cake attachment, it's a concentrator nozzle. It fits any heat gun because it's got these little sluts on the side so you can make it bigger or smaller to fit any heat gun. I'm gonna use high hair, high heat. I'm gonna go ahead and pre-pop some bubbles just to make sure I don't have anything floating in my resin. I'm gonna tilt my piece just a little bit, pre-heat a third of it and push that resin down in T-tiny circles. The T-tiny circles with the concentrator nozzle just gives that ripply crashing wave look. And I'm not pushing all of the wave all the way down before I move on to my next section because it's still going to move and stretch and tilt and then fall to the back of the piece while I'm doing the other areas. From y'all's view, it actually looks like a wave rolling out and that makes my heart very happy as a mermaid. That makes me smile. Gotta break up those waves back there a little bit and then we'll be done with this one. Just a smidge somehow because I like my waves to have a really grumpy start to them. I'm just gonna trail a line along where my wave, bam. Wipe my hands off and I'll give you guys a close up. If you wanted to, you could take this to the next step and do another layer of waves. I probably wouldn't do another layer of base painting though just because that would be unnecessary. Hi from the 242, what's up Desmond? What's up, Mike Reed? How you doing? So yeah, that's how this ocean looks right now with that awesome underpainting from the power wash. And I'm gonna set you guys back in the tripod. Take this piece to the desk free zone and then we'll do that big ocean piece. Just gotta make sure I'm not gonna drip all over my hardwood. Cool. All right, we're back. Love resin. Cheese and crackers, things are sticking in. Ooh, we're dry. Okay. Now here's the other one that we did today and I think this is gonna yield a better look under our ocean wave. Angela, have an awesome day. Okay, let's mix up a little bit more. Fun guy. Our resin is starting to get a little bit warm since I mixed it right before we went live. I'm gonna try to get this out as soon as possible. So I did not edge up this wave when I originally did the piece. So there's a little bit of not perfection. So we're gonna come back again to a little far out. In fact, we may actually come up closer over here. So the reason why I do the clear first on top of not wanting to have any mistakes and have to wipe off the clear and it possibly staining is that it separates my beautiful white wave from the blues so that my wave doesn't turn pastel blue instead. I think on the back end of this one, I'm gonna drop a couple more drops of Caribbean to make a slightly deeper shade. Let's get going. Hairboop, when you use house-based coat, can you use acrylic paint? To paint the boards white or whatever other colors you want, you can use acrylic house paint. Just try to make sure you let them off gas, whatever paint you use to help prevent any yellowing. But yeah, you can use just acrylic paint. Really, you can use any water-based paint is make sure it dries before you add your resin. And I'm just gonna drop it directly into our big bucket. Can't neglect a little bit of sparkle from Abalone. I love doing ocean floors. Maybe it's because I'm a mermaid. Maybe it's just because ocean floors are awesome. In any case, love them. Should we have any dry spots? Because that will impede our wave. I taught Oceans at my last class in Seguin. We'll be starting up our class schedule again soon. I think I'm gonna have another one in December. Probably in Dallas, though. You guys are interested. I'm also doing resin demos at an acrylic Fluid Art Convention in November. Beautiful. I don't know about you guys, but I love the feeling of touching resin through gloves. I can't be the only one. If I am, let me know. It's fine, but also I'm not the only one. Okay, so with the white, we're gonna do just like before. Here, so it's coming out a little bit squiggly. Just fine, because I had every ocean wave just created the same and sometimes they're squiggly. I just wanna make sure there's no clear resin that's in front of my wave. And that happens, your resin's just gonna kind of glide over itself. It's not gonna grab onto the board and stretch like we're trying to do it to do. So making sure that it's touching both your board and the resin is key. In fact, I think we're gonna do like a seven-year wave, because why not? Just see how it looks. I'm gonna kind of zoom you guys in to the next bit. See exactly what I'm doing. No. Where's my pops and bubbles? That's a 10. You're tardy, but you have a note. Is it notarized note? I'm moving forward to a possible question on LA area. Steve, I am actually talking to Marcy about doing a class near LA in her name, CEO in January. We're gonna have a slight little bit of a tilt. And since everything's going that way instead of just that, I'm gonna have to kind of teeter it between the two different ways that I have this going. Let's start up here at the top. It's a little bit too much white up here, so I'm trying to break it up. It's a more difficult way to tilt, because you have to kind of teeter back and forth, but once you get the general feel of how it's supposed to go, this part's not that good. Everybody from my last class got it. No problem. And their pieces look phenomenal. I'm gonna get this resin off my thigh and I will give you guys a close up of what we just kind of learned from our work right now because we have a show in Dallas opening on the 18th of October. So we have to fill a whole gallery with our work. Okay, so right here, see where that white doesn't meet up? That's because I somehow didn't get that white in front of the clear. And so it just kind of glided on top of the resin instead of stretching down like everything else. For the white, I'm using titanium white by Just Resin. You can get it from my shop, artisttilldeck.com. I have it in stock in this moment as of recording. So if you're watching late and I'm out already, then you should have been on time. What fun, beautiful, stretched cells those are. And I don't know if you guys have noticed but what we did for the underpainting kind of faded into the background a lot. So if you want those to be more evident like in the last one we did, then use a little bit more spray paint when you're spraying over the power wash like we did in the beginning. You can kind of see that little bit of a leopard print under this area where it was a little bit more opaque. So I'm learning along with you guys the best way to do this kind of artwork. You can see some of those power wash cells right there and in the background here, right here. Loving this piece, love it. And it looks fun right here on the outside of our resin. So because we had to thin this out a lot because there was so much white that I put up here. I had to hit it with a little bit more heat so that's why those cells are thinner. Whereas down here where I use less heat and just let the heat that I did apply and the tilt stretch the cells that's why these are a bigger cell structure down here as opposed to up here. It's just really thin resin right now. Oh, you can see the depth from back here as well. So it looks kind of like an overhead shot of an actual beach that has like some coral under it. I'm gonna try that technique with like some coppers and browns and things that you would usually see in terms of coral. I'm gonna really explore this for sure. Hey, all looks cool. You can get the power, can you get the power wash in Canada? I have no idea of Rumpel but I'm going to be looking it up. And if I have to start stocking power wash to ship international, I will. So yeah, that's what our wave looks like. Thank you guys so much for hopping on and seeing what we're doing today. I'm gonna take some coasters and smoosh them into these bad boys. So I'm not wasting any resin. And I hope you all have an awesome day. Jeff and I have movie night tonight and I hope all you guys in Florida are staying safe. Beebe says I think you can get something similar, Rumpel. Anyways, I hope you guys give it a shot. If you do, post it in ATDs, pour people so we can see if you want these colors, you can get them from my shop, artiststilldebt.com that is Abalone Shell from Resinart. It's a blingot, titanium white from just resin. It's a paste. Bondi blue from Color Obsession. Blue Lagoon or Caribbean from Color Obsession. Those are tense, they're transparent so that it actually looks super-depthy. You can see through it to all the layers you create. And it looks like water to me anyways. As a mermaid, that's my opinion. So yeah, I hope you guys have an amazing day. Hey Valerie, could you do a little less color additive on the top wave and let the bottom color come through? Absolutely, Steve. The top was already a little bit faint in color so I wanted to add a lot of depth in this one with the darker colors. But for sure, if you want to see a little bit more, I would use just a drop of the Bondi and none of the Blue Lagoon or Caribbean. These are some pieces that are going in to the art show just working on. And of course, some of my alcohol inks still working on. Well, I really appreciate you guys coming in and seeing what we're up to today. Hope you have an awesome rest of your day. We'll see you guys again tomorrow for a live. Be kind to one another because you never know what someone's going through. And always remember, we do the test so Bowie doesn't have to and also everybody else. Hi, baby. Did you say hi to everybody? Did you say hi to everybody? My precious boy. All right, you guys, please subscribe. Leave me your thumbs and we'll see you guys tomorrow. Bye.