 what's up you like that fog the edges thing I definitely definitely think it makes a difference hey hey hey kids so what's up you guys happy today these two are being extra I hey hey everyone so I've been working on this piece this week I was inspired by a Victor painting of Labradorite it's not where I want it but I think I'm gonna start adding resin and building up layers of it I did record the painting of it okay I did film this process I I will be posting it soon yeah right part of the puppy crew exactly what's up Julie Clara Jenny night till day art panda puffs love it no idea so I'm so TG Andrea I'll be in Alabama with Jeff and the pups tomorrow we're gonna be near mobile working on a countertop hey Sue you should be getting the first of three boxes soon so I don't if you haven't already I'll check on tracking for you so I'm mixing up some resin for flooding this piece I'm gonna be like I said a second ago completing it I guess in an extra layer because you know that's gonna build some depth are you living mobile July well we're glad you're here Kimmo so we're actually gonna be in Baymanette but most people don't know where Baymanette is so I just say mobile we're gonna be doing a countertop down there it's gonna be an awesome one and we'll be filming it of course I'm glad you got the tumblr TG so I went ahead and mixed my resin this isn't gonna be a very long video I've got people coming in to pick up paint before we leave Texas in the morning so it's gonna be a quicker video yes I will be posting a video of how the background was painted it's hand-painted but honestly it's not that difficult to do and so I'll show you all the little blending techniques and what colors I used maybe I'll edit that on the way down to mobile tomorrow if Jeff is driving then I'll get a chance to edit that down and so I'll be able to post it tomorrow so there won't be a live tomorrow because we'll be traveling but we may be able to post a short if you guys are interested so this piece was hand-painted with acrylics and I sealed it in with a varnish spray I think it was Kimara varnish but it could have been a different kind of archival spray I did use a mat just because even though nothing that I used it was alcohol based so do with that what you will if this was resin that I'm flood coating then I would have to just sand it with like a 220 grit sandpaper in order to create a tooth for the second layer of resin to hold on to however since it is not resin on the first layer it's gonna go ahead and grab on to the resin and I don't have to worry about any delamination of any sort I'm gonna put just the smallest t t tiniest amount of resin arts a gold sparkle like t tiny mouth because I want I want to warm it up I want to bring out the yellow green tones but I don't want to make my resin cloudy in the least because that will brighten up the fogged dark edges that I have on here so very very minimal it's gonna be the size of your thumb on that one for a third but it's also one of the smaller ones the second to smallest metal one yeah so a whole line and then your thumb yeah so a lot of people ask if you can put colorant or glitter or anything in a flood coat putting this minuscule of amount of a powder this fine won't change the chemical makeup of your flood coat it's not gonna decrease the durability or the FDA or anything like that and also particles that are suspended like mycos and glitters are gonna sink a bit while they're suspended they're just gonna slowly sink as the residents curing so I won't really have to worry about anything being surfaced side and or messing anything up like that so typically you want to mix between three and six ounces per square foot depending on your application and that is very math and I don't really math that well I usually have to phone a friend if I have to math something so I mixed eight ounces for this 24 inch actually probably nine ounces for this 24 inch hexagon I can find no resin calculators online for hexagon but there are ones for figuring out diameter for your circles volume for your casting tables and then obviously for squares and rectangles there's a lot of calculators online out there that'll figure that for you so I'm just gonna use my hand to move everything around this is also further mixing my resin by doing this now if you don't know resin is gonna self level it's gonna make itself level out to an eighth inch then anything past that if there's a break of the surface tension on the edge like if there's a roundover then it's gonna keep flowing off but this board is a right angle so I don't anticipate losing that much product but I'm still only pushing the resin up to the edge and not going over it just yet because I want to make sure I have everything covered on the surface so that it'll self level on the surface instead of leveling itself off of the edge hope that makes sense you really want to make sure you have enough product to to stretch the surface of whatever you're pouring on because if you have not enough resin you'll end up with kind of a wavy surface and if you use something gloss under your resin you could even end up with fish eyes if you don't have enough resin mixed in my opinion it's always better to mix a little bit more resin than what you need you can always make something with it and make it a sample piece to coasters the mold so many options I can't tell you how frustrating it is to be working on a piece and then have to stop and mix resin for three minutes or so it's just unnecessary so if you have it I would recommend just mixing a little bit over what you calculate and then utilizing it however you want to after the fact so let me move this so that that glare isn't too in the way looks like I'm not gonna be able to avoid the glare so I have everything down I'm gonna hit it with some heat to pop the bubbles I don't want to use too much heat because you don't want to thin out your resin too much again if when you heat your resin you're thinning it and thinner resin is going to travel more and so if somewhere has broken the surface tension then it's gonna flow off the piece particularly if you've thinned out your resin too much I usually heat my piece right after I pour it and then I'll come back and heat it again after like 10 or 15 minutes because when I heat it and let oops I don't know you guys are facing over there so when I heat it and let everything settle having heated the resin and thinning it is going to allow the deeper bubbles to be able to come up to the surface more easily and just pop on their own but just okay but just in case just in case I don't get it all pop the first time around okay Bowie the second round of heat usually pops in everything enough thinking about putting a mat UTC over this but yeah I'll be there in just a second unless you want to come do this flyover for me I'm using a resin heating pad is not bad but you you can get away with just putting your resin in a warm water bath and not have to spend that money on a heating pad just remember that every time you heat your resin you're gonna cut into your working time because when resin starts to cure it's because it's warmer I don't know if it's endothermic or exothermic it's a science term but one of those thermics is why it's there make girls are gonna get a flyover little flyover oh she put a little bling in there she painted this thing all day y'all she get into it there's a guy here that bought some colors from her so she has to take care of that for now you know we have a light up there so it's a little it's like wherever we go there's some sort of light something because then there's the window another light so I think it looks great that looks great I like all those little bling's you can really see the bling in the black side over here thank you chemo science with Erica again oh man TS she's all about that we call it e-science she really got into some details didn't she looks like we got just a little bit where's her tweezers that oh something over here did she heat it yet or you guys are you don't know she put any yeah tg it does thanks Gail no heat yet let's just do just a one time over with some heat that's good once that settles down it won't be wrinkly she did torch it she did one torch over yeah she was messing with it when I walked over here so it'll be all right okay all right well so you guys I hope you learn something with our flood coat video I will be posting the whole full process video this week we won't be like tomorrow but we will be live this week on location in lower Alabama and yeah I hope you guys have an awesome awesome evening be kind to one another because you never know what someone's going through and always remember we do the test so you don't have to you guys have an awesome night bye