 Happy Tuesday. Yes, I'm extra early, but I I'm gonna run up and help Judy with some stuff today. So early live Hooray um If you're new here, hi. Hello, I'm Erica. We are artists till death. We go live Most every day I Try to post on the days that we don't go live It's not always resin, but usually is it's always art and it's always a good time and Today, I'm going to attempt boulder opal one of you lovely subs sent me a picture of boulder opal Let me show you what it looks like And I'm gonna try to do it because you guys asked and And That's what I like to do. So this is boulder opal. I'm seeing a lot of a Lot of things that I can take care of with under painting. I'm not I'm probably not gonna worry about the darker areas Maybe just not on this layer But also maybe There's another shot of one and that just looks like crinkled up Like holographic cellophane to me So I think my mic died, can you hear me without it? This is a different Mike My mic died so I don't know what all you heard or what all you didn't so I'll tell you that This stand is available on Amazon that's linked on the description box, but I This nope the mixer is the stand Last I checked they are working on Getting that sent out and it was just they sent me like a prototype. I don't know but vamp is Working on helping me Finalize that so that we can get the stands for everybody That is interested So, yeah Also, I have put up the poor with us class on the website It's not very sticky So I'm gonna respray this We're bringing back the poor with us classes the online class where you just Use whatever you have at home or if you don't have the materials that we're gonna be using you can Purchase it from us Everything is all in the box. All you have to do is open the box and pour along with us I already have that available on the website as long as Along with what is in the box so you can see if you have it already at home and you can either use what you have or Get the kit. So yeah now that I have my this sticky That's a kind of the beauty about a spray adhesive instead of like Roll on or whatever. This is so much quicker so Calm down Bobo. I Have my roll of this it is just some Oops there goes that Cellophane from Amazon and It looks like I'm gonna want to put it all over So I'm not gonna use this little piece I'm gonna use this bigger piece so This is like rainbow holographic cell cellophane. I'm gonna crinkle it Because it looks like it has in my reference a little bit of that crinkly texture That to me is crinkled cellophane and it's kind of throughout I think the only areas where you can't really notice the cellophane is just because of the opacity of the rest of the colors so In the reference it looks Heard better with no microphone Is that better? That's better. We'll stick it stick with it that way. Just let me know. So In the reference it doesn't look like it's all over But I think that comes down to the opacity of the pigments not so much where the cellophane is and Also, it looked like the cellophane in the reference was more of a blue shade Mine's like a greeny pinky shade. So I'm gonna put some dye into my Clear resin trying to get these Bigger sticky up you pop it. Yes, it's technical term to lay down as smooth as I can so that it's not really visible under Resin because that texture will pop up if you're not careful So I'm probably gonna get a gray or One of Jeff's vinyl squeegees as well and stick that down a bit Just using an exacto blade to cut off the excess around the edge Be careful with exacto blades They will cut you also Bowie is in the other room Insisting they say hi to you guys You'll have your time soon big boy Right so here's our base could be a finish I'm sure that's nobody for you my boy Okay, thank you. I'm just using this. Oh, it's Jeff Squeegee to push everything down You would think that this would Kind of furnish out all of the crinkle texture, but it really it doesn't It's too high. So I'm gonna just Cut the top of it off and hope that it looks normal Better than I expected. So yeah, I'm gonna recommend that if you have any high peaks that wouldn't That aren't like pressing down to Cut the top of them off to the next actively again being very careful because exactly We'll cut you and we won't care. You can also skip this part and just build up an edge or use a resin that's colder Because Laying everything out. Alright B. Look it looks like this and it's all finished just kidding. It's not all finished Okay, we're going back to the mic No, the first one I had on died, so I need to plug it in but I put it back in the thinking right so Okay, we're about to get going Yeah, pop open that rare that one is a bigger rare than the other but I Think I already had it pretty much down with the this thing If you don't know a brayer is a squeegee mixed with a paint roller. It's a rubber roller All right, I have my resin mixed So if you're in Dallas Azals having a sale. All right My resin mixed I am using stone coat art coat because I'm gonna be using a lot of white in this piece If you ever wonder what your resin looks like when it's not fully mixed in this is what it looks like You see Over here some cloudy strings and right here as well That is from the two parts not being fully incorporated. You can see them right here if you see those little whispies in your resin Just makes it for a little bit longer. I usually see that once I finally scrape the edges Which is another note that it's important to scrape your edges and your stir stick when you're mixing your resin So you have a full and complete combo of your a and b Also, our coat is not the thickest resin. So I'm hoping it Doesn't leave peaks showing but if it does that's fine We'll just add another layer to it. No problem. Alrighty now that our resin is mixed I can't wait till this mixer thing is like live for real because ever since I got it, I haven't not used it because In my opinion not having to mix my resin is pretty red. I'll have to worry about a scrape in the sides Alrighty, all right. Hey So now that everything is mixed We're gonna get going with the art part so in the reference there's translucent white For the most part who's a fair amount of Clear with Milky Way in it and probably a drop of blue lagoon Gonna have some gold Not a lot Some opaque white Not a lot Should I put copper or bronze in there? I think I'm gonna put a little bit of copper We're gonna do a little bit of copper as well Just a little bit. I don't know why I brought all these out. Oh, yeah, because I don't know why still I'm gonna use some colors From this collection from color passion. It's start a collection number two And it comes with all the interference and sparkly powders that she carries So I'm gonna use some blue interference Some gold interference Some violet interference. I don't know about red interference and some green interference. That's our we're going back. Oh Kido ki To have all my colors Whoops Just filled all my little bees Sorry for all the racket. So that and that that and that I'm gonna need four more I'm not mixing a lot because this is just gonna be kind of an accent on top of my Everything else now we have some left over for Emergencies Okay, so let's start with some green interference So what an interference is is just something that shimmers a different color when hit with a different light This for example is green interference if I were to put this in to clear just a little bit where the Sun would hit it it will make it Shine green so see right here where it's thinner It's green. I hate my camera to focus, but it's a battle that That's okay. We'll just go back and get the other ones So you can see it has like a green pearlescent look to it. It looks white, but the shine The reflection is green You can see kind of the green hue in it right next color Violet I can see some purple, but it's kind of reading more of like a reddish pinky. What do you guys think? Am I getting a reddish pinky? Also, it does not take a lot of the product to get a good color payoff when you're working with Interferences in fact the more powder you add the more cloudy It's gonna look the more white. It's gonna kind of appear to be Well, that looks purple now where the color is hitting the light and it's thinned out It's hard to hear at times You love everything opal same Oh Meal raisin cookies that sounds delicious So that okay, so that looks more purple now Well, it's like a pinky purpley Okay Now on to the gold shimmer How's the weather where you guys are today? I hope it's amazing and brilliant and awesome Yeah, that's definite gold interference. The mixing stand is gonna be amazing. What's up Stephanie? Christy, what's up? I had to order your plastic for your big geodes, but I hope to have it This week, it's rainy. It's cold Opal's your birthstone. Yay Opal's your birthstone and you need to try this I concur All right, so now the blue interference If you're looking to try Some of these colors out these sets. I think this set is like forty five dollars something completely ridiculously affordable They're 10 gram Packets of color, but there's like a bunch of them in there Okay. Oh, yeah, that blue is definitely evident. I wonder if I need to mix more of this blue since There's a lot of it in the samples that I have pulled Hey Belinda, how are you? I'm glad you're getting a break from rain Make sure you soak your opals. They're very brittle and will break. I didn't know That you had to do that. Okay, that looks just hopefully just by itself So maybe I need to make some more of this color Here's the green The violet and the gold Right now we have these and thinking about mixing more of that and put those aside The big one's gonna be translucent white and for this I'm going to use my just resin titanium It's my go-to white. It's been so for many years at this point I'm just gonna use a t-tiny bit because I want it to be Like lactose intolerant milk like that C3 Look this is going to give a whole bunch of depth to the colors in theory. I haven't done this look before so Awesome, you can see the tone of the blue star stick through it What we're going for cool done check this one is going to be Milky Way That has copper on it different stick so these are our star sticks that we sell on our website along with all these colors and You should Use some because they aren't poor so they won't mix bubbles in Like wooden sticks would and you just wipe them off when you're done with them completely reusable I Don't care what I'm doing. It's gonna have some kind of sparkle in it And this is perfect for what we're doing today Chick What else did I say? Opaque whites So we're gonna use about the same amount of titanium Maybe a little bit more but in a lot less resin so that we can get a very Solid opaque white color. I'm learning all kinds of stuff about opals in chat that I had no idea I Am using our coat today So that is very opaque you can't see the blue color or the brown color through the stick Meow What was I gonna do? Some gold, but I'm considering changing it to copper Or at least putting some copper in with the just resin bright gold. Yeah, let's just do a hybrid and see what happens Actually that might be too much pace for this little thing so we may be doing a Gold and a copper I Mean bronze not copper even though they're so similar Just resin bright gold check All right, I think I'm gonna do I'm gonna do some chocolate From just resin I was gonna say I was gonna mix just a little bit of black in with it, but I think this may be dark enough Just in case we decide to do some darker accent lines because everything we've made so far is very soft there's no Depth to it and I think I liked a lot of those reference photos because of the depth between Like the opal and then the the dark kind of edge stuff I'm gonna put a couple drops of blue lagoon Into my Milky Way It was still translucent still transparent, but it has the sparkle and just a little bit of a blue hue to it Don't know what it's gonna do, but hopefully does something cool And I think I want a little bit of the beige Luster from color passion as well just like we've been doing with our marbles it just as a little bit of an earthy tone to it and Should this piece amber one day this will can help to conceal it But that's a beige luster by color passion. I'm not mixing a lot of this because I'm just gonna put a little swizzle into My Dairy Pour okay Something let's put a little bit of Milky Way into the clear that I have left. Give me a second Oh, that was cleaning it out. You can turn it back on so I can't see the chat right now. I'm gonna do some resin underpainting With the gold like I've done in my recent marble pieces Cool with that. I Think I'm gonna do some of this Chocolate is underpainting as well. All right. Oh So nerve-wracking Okay, so I'm back on chat if you guys are saying something that I need to see Let's put some of our abalone down. This is just gonna help move the Exotic pour a dirty pour cup that we're gonna fill up in a second And it's just gonna help that move across the surface of the piece and keep breaks open that show this Cellophane underpaint nope cellophane Layer not underpainting but kind of but isn't but kind of then we're going to Put some of the Translucent white down and I'm gonna try my best to Start to fill in These areas So there's nothing No dry spots no dry areas. I try to cover the what the areas that don't have any underpainting with resin First so that I'm not transferring too much of that color Across the whole piece, but if it happens it happens Can't control that much in nature Hope I didn't put too much chocolate down, but also we haven't done any of the rest of the painting yet I know it looks a hot mess right now, but just follow Follow this process with me. I'm really into this resin underpainting before I Meld all these other colors out. I think it It was a really interesting Look and it's not that difficult to do Okay, so here's where we are Don't know if I could say it's a finish all on its own But maybe in a minute Have you done a test or shown which you like between Angel white just resin and others? No, I haven't but it's on my to-do list I think that's an important video to do. I just haven't Sat down to do it But I'm going to I will swear promise swear. All right Now that we have that done Let's mix up Our exotic for I'm going to base it in our translucent white a little swizzle of our opaque white Little swizzle of the gold Let's do some translucent white again, and then some of our Interference colors and our milky way in blue color. I haven't done something like this with colors like this, so I Am low-key on the inside like super Excited about how this is going to turn out. I think it's gonna be great Pretty sure it's gonna be great But I'm glad you guys are here to see if it's Great or a fail along with me top it off with some of the translucent white There we go We have our this So I'm gonna give it just a swirl for good measure not mixing it up just Moving the colors around so that they're not just laid on top of each other, okay May have to do another one, but We'll see I'm gonna add some opaque white lines Because opaque white always brings out Other colors in my opinion I'm going to go ahead and do another dirty pour or exotic pour and use a little bit more of the opals those Interference colors You can also just add them on regularly. I just like the look of when they kind of Fold over each other Maybe that's just me. Let me know down in the comments. I'm gonna give it a swirl for good measure My dry spot. Let's be fun to do as a geode In fact, maybe I will do an opal geode. I think that would be a lot of fun All right, I'm going to hit with some heat We're I'm gonna show you a close-up and see where we're at and where we want to go from here And tilt it around a bit as well I'm just popping bubbles. I'm not trying to create any movement Nothing crazy and pour out the rest of these Interference colors before I start tilting around though Because I want it all to just tilt into a very cohesive kind of motion also tilting will Bring out some of the colors that aren't really visible right now because they're under everything else Yep Some white we're gonna get to tilting. I'm trying to follow along on some of these Textures for the white lines because I want them to kind of Go along with what's already down But if it doesn't look cohesive, that's fine. I love doing crack and fault lines but obviously That part is not for everybody Okay. Okay. Okay. We're gonna tilt Tilting just makes everything kind of roll and flow over each other and when you have Translucents They will just move around each other and you'll see everything going on and that is something that I love to use Translucent Pigments for you need to tilt back this way part of me wants to keep going and most of me thinks this is a good place to stop for this layer because I Don't want to shift everything so much that the soft flowing ribbons of the interferences gets lost and when you tilt over the texture in these The foil that we did it will give a different kind of ripple. So that's why all of this out here is kind of Scalloped kind of instead of being the straight line that's flowing. So I think we may have to do just another layer But let me get you guys Close up so you can see it the amazing that we created together You can see the texture in the foil under the interference blue that we have here You can see the dark underpainting of the chocolate I'm glad that we didn't do that all over or in the top layer because I think it would have been just too much That's the little bit of beige that we put in there see how fun it looks when you oops put the All the interferences in a cup and pour it out It they lay out next to each other and it looks even more like a Rainbow or an opal or Oyster really It's maybe a good technique to use for a galaxy So all the opaque white rolling over the soft colors Really stands out Kind of reminds me of old like remember the little ball marbles When you can see the white or the opaque colors swirling into translucent I like the way that some of it is cloudy and some of it isn't because that just speaks to opal in my head You love this blue and purple and gold interference that's shooting across over that chocolate It's still Opal-y, but since it's over the chocolate it has a deeper tone as opposed to being over just The the lighter shades like these Also Having just the chocolate as an underpainting you can see all of the directional lines that we did but it's not abrasive It's not like in your face It is very grumpy like is not this is so cavernous I hate myself for that Sometimes I get too into what I'm doing and forget that I'm really close But that looks fun, too, and I really like that even though we put this opal. Nope What is this holographic cello fame over the entire piece? It really is only evident in some areas because we did use so many translucent but also a Few opaque so you can see it in some areas Where we had a lot of the clearer resin and in other areas you can't hardly tell it. It's there at all If you wanted to you could like cut pieces of this out and then just only have the clear in those areas But then you have to worry about the resin traveling and then you would be able to see seams of Those areas so to avoid it just put it all over ish I'll over ish. That's the words I'm using Anyways, I hope you guys enjoyed this video on my attempt at Boulder opal I am going to do another layer or another attempt Because I think you learn every every time you do something you learn something new or something you Should have maybe done or want to do for the next time No matter how many times you work with resin Like Jeff and I every time we do something we're like next time we're gonna do this isn't this so I always advise people to give themselves room to grow and explore and Try new things but also keep trying new things. I Just realized I have no room in my dust-free zone. There we go. There we go. All right, you guys Thanks for coming in for my early live today. I'm gonna get on the road to go hang out with Miss G. Udy Help her with some things around the house And let Bowie play with the girls. Oh, yeah, I haven't showed you guys Bowie for today There's a big boy You say hi You say hi. Well, thank you at Mac. I'm so excited that you Enjoy that piece. I just realized both of my socks are upside down. So that's fun. And so anyways Thanks you guys for watching and seeing what we're up to today If you have any questions leave them down in the comment box below. I see your dust-free zone. You can but Heads up it's Dirty I just took the the front off so I'll have to put it back up So this is the piece I did yesterday. This is the piece from today Other pieces that we have curing but ultimately It's a big shelf that we put plastic all the way around the outside and then the front has Velcro on it so we can open it Put stuff in and then close it back up really quick. We also have Lights in there so that we can see What's cooking and then when it's really cold we put a little space heater like one that's like desktop That if it knocks over it turns off or if it gets to a certain temperature it turns off please mind your heaters because When you're not watching things that get really warm bad things happen, and I don't want anybody to Hurt themselves or their house Because they listen to my advice about a heater. Thank you Claire for linking our dust-free zone This is the piece I posted for yesterday The textured underpainting that texture did not come through pumped about that But I want to do it again and put more of that stuff down. I want more of a texture Think think it kind of I mean it's there. It almost looks like it's a painting on Aluminum in some areas Where the brushstrokes are But I want it to be more evident. So I'm gonna have to attempt this one again. Anyways Yeah, please subscribe if you haven't already and share a video if you haven't Shared it and think it's worth sharing Also, all the colors I use today are available on my website artistilldebt.com This is what artistsilldebt.com looks like All of the colors and glitter ever And yeah You guys are amazing. Thank you much for everything and I will see you guys tomorrow at 6 p.m Central for another live. Also, we have our pour with us kits up for our February pour with us online class Check it out and I will see y'all Tomorrow till then be kind to one another cuz you never know what someone's going through So you don't have to you guys tomorrow. Bye