 my own self in. Thanks. What is up, everyone? I hope you guys are having an awesome day. We are. I'm looking for a Tweezy, so, in momento. Here's one from, so let me make sure something. Oh yeah, there it is. What's up, Lisa? How are you today? Hello, Sophia. How are you guys? I'm just trying to set up my this so I can see what y'all are talking about. Hey, Marcy, hey, TeeGee. How are y'all doing today? I gelled up a gold a little bit, but I like the gray. That's shiny. That looks so fun. Smubby. Looks okay. So, I appreciate you guys more in here. Hey, Kim, Shelley, Mike, Pamela, other Shelley. So, oh, thank you. That one I did actually this morning. Is that the new one? Yeah. So, I made it a little more rounder, took this, moved it, and then shrunk it a little bit so that there would be more space. More surface area? No, this one is, I did this one this morning to try to get a handle on what one of the clients that wanted all those marble pieces. Yeah, I wouldn't have gone live, but I was very concerned about nailing the piece and I still considered this a failed it in terms of the reference photo. But if you guys want me to do more ink stuff, I will do more ink stuff with y'all. So, this is Jeff's new shape for the Freeform Geos. I started peeling this off and then I thought, what if there's someone that hasn't seen these before? So, we have these on our website, artisthold.com. Happens to be on our handy-dady gloves, that I am. And so it comes with this paper on both sides. It's not actually brown. And you just peel off one side and then you can paint it or pour on it or do whatever it is that you do on it. And then after it's cured you, or dry, or whatever it is that you do, once it's set, you just peel off the other side and there's no cleanup and that, my friends, is what life is about. No cleanup. I didn't know that I would value that as much as an adult. I used that term loosely. But yeah, the idea of no cleanup, take all my money. So, today I'm going to do inks for you guys on this new shape and what I'm going to be using I believe, PBJ71 Joe and everyone else. If you're new, what's up? Welcome. I'm Erica, Jeff's over yonder and Bowie, the studio pop is a begging tutor for a French fry. Be what size are these? I'll give the size measurement in a moment. But we're artists till death. We go live every day, usually. Usually at six central, I'm really today. Except for on Tuesdays, it's at two p.m. central. It's usually resin. It's always art and it's always a good time. So, welcome. If you haven't subscribed, please do so. If you have subscribed, just double check, make sure because YouTube likes to unsub people for my channel, which is so rude, but it is what it is. Hello, Teresa. Thank you for the reminder to hit the like, share, comment, and subscribe panel. I just realized that I need a brown. So, I'm over in my, maybe I don't need a brown. Let's just do dark gray. How about that? Cool. I agree. There's need above it. So, I'm gonna use natural gray that has a brown tones to it anyways. And this will be my outside edge. TV, I'm so jealous of your T-West trip. That looks so fun. I can't, I've from Fort Worth, that's not far. These are laser cut, but we do also make them ourselves with a laser. First things first, you gotta mix up. Kim, as soon as Jeff comes from wherever he is, I'll let you know what size this is. So, this gold is from Jacquard. And it's my favorite gold to use. The color is maybe a mystery. No, rich gold. I've had this one for quite a while. It's gotten a lot of uses out of it. First thing, I want to make my outside edge dark. In theory, it's a rock edge, right? Yeah, no, yeah. I'm using 91% alcohol. You can use any percent. I prefer higher percent, because it'll evaporate faster. And your inks, in my opinion, will flow better, because I'm not sure, but I'm pretty sure that the lower the percent of alcohol, that that means it's a higher percent of like water. And you risk some coagulation when you have too high of a percent of water. Cool, cool, cool. Tight, tight, tight. I'm gonna drop some gold in. Just randomly. Oh, I bet it was beautiful, TG. What's up, Sue? Oh, you collect rocks? Then I could be wrong. So you tell me if I'm right. So I'm just gonna brush through some of those gold drippy drops. It's a technical term. Just to get those flowing in with my first color put down. I also like to drip on some alcohol just for some more random movement. I'm gonna try to clean this edge up a bit. But dipping my brush in alcohol before I do this will create kind of a pushback of the colorants. Sweet, now we have our rock edge. I'll give you guys a close up. And it's gonna change and move a bit. And that's fine. I am planning for that. So I pulled some blues and teals for the colors for this. See, that might be too bright of a blue, but we'll see. I have a bow you want in your chair? Okay. Ready up? Oops, a big boy. Christine, that sounds beautiful. So this blue is called Persian blue from Zig. This is Copic Petroleum Blue BG-07. Sorry about all the racket. My windows are open because alcohol. And this is Copic Aqua BG-15. I'm also gonna use a Marabou's rainbow because it's amazing. This is another one you have to shake basically before every use. So just know that that's a thing. All right, so I'm gonna work a dark color in word. So I'm going to put a blue here. Then, oops, that middle tone blue for the petroleum. And then some of the Aqua. In between all that, I need to do another round of the dark color with some of the gold. Marabou's getting everywhere. So don't put Marabou down until you're ready to use it because it'll kind of dry and stick because it's got a bonding, some kind of bonding situation in it so that the sparkles don't kind of float away once the alcohol dries. So wherever you put that Marabou, you gotta move quickly. And I'm just gonna kind of be half on my first line and then half not in my first line with every pass so that we get that layered movement. The gold is rich gold from Jacquard. If you like alcohol inks, these boards are great for that because you don't have to prep them. It's like putting ink on, what's that, Tudor? The what size is this? Is it 15? 18. It's 18. I'm working my way in. What if, I just thought about this. What if you... I think if you did that, the vamp may be here but she was here all day today helping me out so she may be a little tired. Dropping some alcohol down so it reactivates our browns. Dabbing off the color after the pass is where I don't want to continue moving that color. Since I started in on this greeny aqua color, kind of dipped off the brush, may not look like the cutest colors right now because it's got that brown paper on the back but just you wait. You won't have to wait long. I'm almost at the center part. We're gonna do a little bit more of this lighter blue color. Hi, Imakate, how are you? Yep, there's vamp. I don't want too much of the dark blue so after each pass, I'm cleaning off the brush a bit. Also, I'm alternating which side coming on. I feel like I need... Maybe I'll just do only marabou. No, I'm not gonna do only marabou, that would be crazy. Let's do this medium tone blue. The petroleum, if you will. Tudor, maybe it needs some gold as well. Aqua, sweet. Now let's dry this off. I'm just gonna use a heat gun. You can use an embossing gun. I'm just using a low heat because I doubt this piece will warp with heat but I'm not trying to test it. And since it's 91% alcohol, it's gonna evaporate fairly quickly. Oh, he's good. He is sitting right here next to me. Okay, oh, okay. Now, should I do some more stuff now? We'll peel the back off and then we'll finish the front because I'm not gonna resin this. I'm going to make this one matte. So if you were gonna resin this, you would not peel this off right now. You would wait and peel it after you resin cured. Thank you for the thumbs, everyone. You can already tell I'm gonna wanna add glitter glass to this because why? Because glitter glass is light. It is my personal opinion. Glitter glass belongs on every geode. I still wanna say geoid, but geode. Every geode deserves glitter glass. So it looks fun and delicate from the, okay. It looks fun from the back. No one, nobody. Can we give me a piece of paper? Yeah, like this, like a, and I'll just flip this over. It's okay, I just flipped this over. I don't need that paper. I just need to see what this looks like. Glitter glass is love, fact, all fact. Loving it. Okay, okay, oh. Okay, ooh, should we add some of the new super glitter? I think so, let me go get it. So this is gonna end up getting everywhere on this piece because it's fresh. Let's go ahead and seal it, actually. If I were UV archival, where would I be? Right there. Come here, Bo. You need to stand upwind of this stuff. There you go, you look beautiful, good job. So I'm using UV archival from Krylon and Matt. Matt is very important because the gloss version and the satin and all that have alcohol in it. So if you were to spray it, it would reactivate your, something, your ink. So this is gonna act as a sealant. In case someone has this displayed and then they do something crazy, like drop ever clear on it. Glitter glass doesn't play. It is beautiful, but it's glass. So if you don't respect the glitter glass, it will bite you. Just a little heads up there because I learned the hard way. I have a verge for the primus house paint. Can I go and cut it now or resin first? You'll get better results if you put a coat of resin down first and let it cure for a few days. If you work quickly with inks, you could use gloss spray paint. Make sure that dries for a day at least. Maui, if you're really good with, I think it was Tudor. I know, I think he touched a box that sounded like he was knocking. If you're really good with spray gesso, use spray gesso and sand with 400. Couple coats. Thank you for tuning in, Tom. Yeah, you could totally do foil behind it unless you really like that side instead of this side. All right, Deb Tucker. This is not a mold. This is a freeform geode shape that is cut from cast acrylic and you can get them on our website in this exact shape. I don't know if I have this shape currently posted. Seems like they're fairly dry. So we're gonna use our super ultra awesome rainbow halo glitter, a.k.a. oak lawn. Oh, it does kind of look like the outer edge is variegated gold leaf, but it's not. It is alcohol ink sorcery. All right, let me see if my sticky pin works. Looks like it currently is working. So where do we wanna add our oak lawn glitter? I think for sure around the center. I like using that matte archival spray on inks when it's on something like this cast acrylic because then it just looks frosted and I love a frosted glass look. Maybe it's just me and that's fine, but sticky pin, check. I'm gonna bring you guys down a bit, turn the flash on so we can see what we're doing. Now I need my this and a something. A this, this looks good. Hello, hello, hello everyone. Just dust this in here. I love this glitter so much. And if you are new here, you may not know that this is the best glitter on the earth. It lays in perfect rainbow shape. Don't know how, don't ask me, I don't understand the sorcery. However, I know that it's a thing. It's actually a glitter powder. I have discovered and I didn't know that that was a thing. Turns out it's a thing. It doesn't take much, it's the same jar I've been using since when I first discovered this stuff was a thing. You guys see how it kind of lays in a rainbow? It's like green, blue on one side of it. But the rainbow moves, look at that. You guys ever watched the show How It's Made? I want them to do this glitter on How It's Made. I don't care about sprockets and those things. I wanna know how this is made. Why does it work? No one knows. I mean, I'm sure someone knows, I don't know. But I'm gonna dust this glitter out just a little bit so it doesn't look like it's a hard stop. I feel like it needs to be somewhere else as well. I'm gonna use this skinnier sticky pen or a glue gel pen if it'll work. We'll see if it works. We'll see, I guess. Looks like it's gonna work. Let's see. Hi, Betty. I'm leaving for the beach tomorrow. I'm jealous, hope you have an awesome time. Listen, I'm a waste not want not type of gal so I'm just trying to pick up some of this. It doesn't look like I have that much in there. So if I had patience, I could have waited a bit longer to add this glitter where the substrate itself wouldn't be quite so tacky and my lines would be cleaner. But I don't have patience, especially not when it comes to glitter because glitter is what, always an option. This line may be so fine that it's not even noticeable but we'll know. It's gonna end up being an all over kind of sparkle and that's okay. Trying to dust all the excess off. Not gonna get it all off because I'm impatient but you get the idea. We got that fine line of rainbow there. How, how does it work? Someone tell me science stuff. It's like a little rainbow caterpillar. So nice. So you can get that glitter on my website as well or just fill that down. Should we do another line? Oh, hello, hello. Right, the sparkle all over, totally cool. And my Kate, I believe it is makeup grade because of the particle size. You would just have to have a really awesome eyeshadow primer to get it to look even, which isn't like impossible to get a good eyeshadow primer. Okay, we'll do one more line. I think I'm gonna bring one out here through this bit. Try to charge my sticky pin real quick. We'll have that one and then follow it up with a fine line. Trying to kind of look at the line from the side. So I can see where it is. Thank you, Gail, thank you, Deb. All right, got a little bit more sparkle. I'm tapping it on instead of brushing it on since I'm kind of rushing the adhesive that I'm using. If you just go in there and like brush it and your adhesive isn't dry, you're gonna smear your line. So if you're impatient, just use the dab technique unless you like swipey lines. And in that case, do you. Once you have it all covered, then you can kind of burnish. I don't know if that's the appropriate word. I'm not gonna say rub it in because that's one reason. Make sure, make sure. So once you kind of think that your glitter is set on your adhesive, you can dust the rest of it away. Sticky pens tend to dry more quickly than like typical sizing. So I use those a lot. There you have it. If Elsa was a geode and she wanted you to let it go, she would look like this. And you know how it works. Let's be honest, I could have probably done a geo that was just all oak lawn glitter and it would, I would probably still like it. Thank you, Deb Tucker. So now my follow-up question is, how come it reflects always in a rainbow? So I just get my sticky pens from Amazon. If you look down in the description box, you'll see an Amazon link. That is my affiliate link with Amazon. And I have them listed and there should be. Well, Anna Kate, I hope I have inspired you as always. I hope that I've inspired you, educated you or entertained you for the time that you are with me. And I hope you get out there and try this out. I don't know if this shape of geode is on the website yet, but I don't, because I think all that's on there is the, I have 18 inch ones on there, but they're the longer ones instead of the more round ones. So I hope you enjoyed it. If you enjoyed the video, share it. If you didn't enjoy it, share it with people that you don't like through in their day. And as always, I'll give you guys some bowie bows. Hi, bubbo, what are you doing? Yeah, maybe I'm a lazy boy. It's a lazy boy. Oh, okay, okay. Such a precious boy. Mama knows, I know. Oh, okay. Don't roll all the way off, big boy. Come on. That's Bowie's Beyonce fan. He loves to stand in front of it. That's where he is all day, every day of the days. And yeah, thank you guys so so much for watching. What I'm up to today. I will be at Rhonda's this weekend. So the lives will be dictated by Jeffrey unless Rhonda somehow gets a magic, something that makes her wifi better. I got Tudor here, putting orders out. I got some fire sale orders out today. If yours hasn't shipped yet, it will be going out. Super ASAP, so apologies for the delay on that. We've been hella busy. My pleasure, Shane. I will try to go live with Rhonda. Ooh, I would love to go live on my channel with Rhonda while I'm down there. So I'll try to make that happen. So y'all are awesome. We love you guys so so much. Be kind to one another. You never know what someone's going through. Y'all are amazing. And we'll see you guys on the next video. Bye. Bowie, did you say bye? Bo-bo, hey, did you say bye? No, you just want to keep your butt in the fan. It's cool, it's cool.