 Hi everyone. Happy Wednesday. I'm gonna do a live video every Wednesday. It's been three in a row now. So welcome to this third edition of Putting Resin on Something and the last two videos created a bunch of questions in the comments. So I'm gonna go through some of those questions, and if you have any more questions, hopefully I can help you. And let me just walk around and chat while people join before we get going. So we are in the studio space of Art Resin in Canada in quarantine. The last couple videos we did was Resinning this huge canvas piece. It turned out great. Then the video after that was this one. I just love it. So this one was on wood. This one was on canvas. Hello everyone. Thanks for watching. We're gonna be resigning some things and answering some questions in the studio. And this one I just finished. And I am so happy with all of them. Look at all the color. No. Let's get to some questions. Why don't we? So, oh and I want to say hello to my mom who's watched my last ones. Hi mom. So the first question we have here is from Chevy LaLore. It says, do I need to use a torch on my painting after I pour Art Resin? The torch heats up the resin and then it makes it runnier so the bubbles just shoot out faster. So it helps you make sure you don't have any bubbles. Do you have to use it? If you were to heat up your room, put some heaters on in the room and then resin, maybe you don't need to use a torch. But I always use a torch because then like why risk having a bubble, you know? The next question is from Ashley Griffin. I have a question. I'm new. Oh, your question is about how to cover large pieces of art so that dust doesn't get on it. I mean if you ever come in contact with a really big cardboard box that you can just cut, save those. We have a bunch of those. And let me flip. I'll show you one thing that Jasmine in the studio made for us. See that big thing? The clear thing? So it's made out of just scrap wood that we have. Like look it just thrown together. It's taped on this plastic. It's very light and then you just put something at each of the four corners, put it over and you can still see the painting. I love that you can still see it too. So good question. Let's go on to the next question. And then we'll get resonating some stuff. Okay. The next question was can you use resin on the oil painting? The answer is yes, but someone might tell you you need to wait six months before you do it, before all the oil is left. This was an oil painting that I've resin. This pinky stuff was all white. So I resented it too early and there was still some chemical reaction going on underneath the resin and it made the white turn pink. But I actually kind of like it. Anyways, I sanded it down and I'm going to pour another coat of resin over it or I was thinking maybe putting some more color in there. I don't know. It was inspired like this piece by Emily Carr. I just loved that piece and somehow that's the one I'm coming up with. Anyways, so if you want to resin an oil painting, let it dry for a really, really long time. Next question. Oh, how do you photograph resin art? Great question. We actually got this guy see how to professionally photograph your artwork featuring Jeff George. So we made this video. How to photograph your resin artwork like a pro. So watch that because I'm not going to answer it nearly as good as Jeff George does. How is everyone? It's crazy times. It's chaos. Why don't you put on your mask? You don't have to wear a respirator when you're using art resin because there's no solvents, meaning there's no VOCs, meaning there's nothing that evaporates into the air that you have to worry about breathing in. So that's why I don't have to make a mask. Let me have all the certificates and the science and data that makes us comfortable to do that. This will be exciting. Oh, Annette Van Eaten. Thank you for the enthusiasm. Wow. Maybe it could be exciting. I never considered that. Next question. What's the clip called for the torch? So see, I took a picture of it. That's the clip that goes in the torch that makes the flame instead of going straight. It fans it out. And that was a good question. What do you call this thing? So we ended up calling it a flame spreader, I think, something like that. But on art resin.com, you can get it there. And if you buy them, then Ali, the CFO of art resin, will let me make other products. Because if they don't sell, then they won't trust you, right? Okay. Are you in the Dundas Hamilton area? Yes, we're in Dundas. That's an hour west of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and it's in full lockdown basically. And who knows how long that's going to be. It's going to be a long time still. And last question. Bubbles. Pour and stir bubbles. What do you suggest? Stirring causes too many bubbles. I mean bubbles. Stirring is just going to make bubbles. So sorry, you can't get out of that Louise Collette. Okay. Now for today. Today, what I'm going to do is I have three things I wanted to do. One of them is my daughter's always been asking me to resin this for her. So I'm going to resin this. All I'm going to do is set it down on this plastic that is on this table. And I'm going to let the resin just pour off the edges everywhere and get all over here. Then the next day I'm going to come and I'm going to use an exacto knife and trim it. And that'll be perfect. So it will be happy. The second thing I'm going to do is I should probably get some more of this wood. I have a bunch of just interesting pieces of wood that I just wanted to continue to coat and resin. And they're just turning into like these almost like plastic manufactured items. So I'm just going to put some more resin on that. I have a bunch of weird pieces of wood I'm doing that with. These are neat. So we have that on ArtResin.com we have a coaster kit where you can everything you need in the kit to make these. We call them Petrie dishes. We stole that name from Josie Lewis, J-O-S-I-E-L-E-W-I-S. I love her to bits. I love you to bits Josie Lewis. I don't know if she invented this or what but everyone's doing it and loving it and it's just fun. So you get three colors in the kit and then there's color mixing guides that you can get every color in the rainbow from the three basic colors. Alright and the last thing that I want to do this piece is about ten years old. Look at it. And I just love this piece. Now before I discovered epoxy resin I was fluelling around with different top coatings. This is a gel medium. That's all it is, a clear gel medium that I painted on a bunch of times to kind of get like a really thick coat over top of this painting. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to add a coat of ArtResin over top of this gel medium. And then I'll just love it even more, okay? And I'm more organized this week. If you have any questions let me know. Again I wish I could play music in the background of these videos and take a breath. Stretch. So we got these six chickens. So much fun. So much fun. And the kids and the chickens they just love each other. They just so need to see like kids walk up to chickens and chickens and they don't mind each other. It's just like normal. Okay, let's do this. Globes. So first thing find out how much epoxy resin am I going to use. This is. Now we made ArtResin.com slash calculator. So you don't have to do the math, but I'm I can't go on my phone because I'm recording so I'm going to have to do some math. So I'm going to just say it's 2 feet by 3 feet even though it's a bit less. So that's 6 square feet and I'll mix up. I know a 32 ounce kit covers 8 square feet. That's going to give me extra. So I'm just going to mix up a 32 ounce kit of ArtResin. So 16 resin and 16 art resin. Okay, that's a great plan. I need like a smart way to take you with me. So funny my husband bought six chickens. Oh great. Yeah, chickens are so much fun. The eggs are so neat and anyways. My chickens. Here's the ArtResin. So I'm just trying to use up used bottles. That's 16. I'll use a bit more. So this this Lego is interesting. It's for creating molds. We'll have a lot more on that later. Plan to start a business selling eggs. Oh, so smart. Turn into a business. Great idea. So one thing I'm worried about is there's some creature getting into the cage at night and lifting off the lid of their food and eating it. Problems, eh? Okay, you know what? I can't hold this phone and do this. I'm going to use 16 ounces of ArtResin, 16 ounce of ArtResin, and I'll leave plenty for these three things. Resin, put more of this on to this bigger bucket. Easy for stirring. So every week we're going to give out a Petri kit or some resin. If you just use the hashtag ArtResin on Instagram. Sorry, I missed that if there was a question. And then I just leave this one upside down and I'll be able to peel out when it hears. All right, the three minutes of stirring time. It's an ASMR. My wife loves this stuff. Like someone pretending to like pick out your ears. Just got here, love the coasters. Oh, cool. Yeah, they're just fun to make and they're just a good craft. You know, something to do. I wouldn't suggest this. My kids are five and three, but we let them make those coasters. They love it. They love just putting color in, but they always put way too much color and then the bottom of the coaster is sticky with color. You know? Oh man. At least the weather is getting nice, hey? And then Southern Ontario anyways. Take the bottom of this please. See? Yeah, I'll see you at home. I just wanted to explain something. Oh, thanks. Yeah, I don't know how the torch head is selling. I'll have to ask Ollie. I didn't check. So this is alcohol ink. And this is resented. And then resented we have in the metallics and the neons too. And they're very different. And the alcohol ink is the one that sinks if you use it with white alcohol ink, which is called the ink sinker. Resin tint is just good for making colors. Alcohol ink is good for some different effects. Or translucent. We really should make the packaging for the alcohol ink look a bit different because they are different. Okay. If I get resin on the sweater, Rebecca's going to be so pissed off. I know you answered on the bubbles, but I keep having issues. Oh, pen size bubbles. Oh, interesting. Yes. To be honest, I feel like every once in a while that just happens and they're almost like they're different than bubbles and they don't really pop. I'll talk to our chemist about it. But then it kind of just stops happening. And there's some, I don't know, I don't even want to pretend that I know what it is because it could be so many things. But it's just some chemistry going on. Some extra reaction. Oh, yeah, I don't know. Or is the product really old? Hi from Detroit. Cool. Yeah, sorry, I wish I had a better answer, but it just kind of happens every once in a while. And you're like, crap, what is that? It hasn't happened to me in a really, really long time. So this, oh, so it is new. It's not old. Okay. From Greece. It's so cool. Hey from Greece. Is Greece okay? Like is Greece coming back online in here? Slow and steady. I think I've stirred enough. Yep. My gosh. Okay. YouTube? Yeah. Yes, right here. What is that? This is all right. Hey, hi. Are you sure? Am I sure about that? My face could be there. Yeah, it's already there. Okay, I won't bother you. Continue, sorry. Okay, nice to see you. I'm from the north of all the resins. So that was Orr, and he, he lives in Guelph. And he gets lonely and sometimes he comes in and he works upstairs in the office. So we crossed paths. Sometimes I get lonely and I come in and I work in the studio. Okay. So next, we're going to spread this. And Orr is one of the wonderful Turkish people that work with us. I don't know. I've all these Turkish people in my life. Nothing wrong with that. I like Turkish people. Okay, here's my spreader. And see, we got these too. These corner stands. So you can get those somewhere. Okay, so this is our resin overtop of a gel medium. A 10 year old gel medium. I didn't say anything. And I think it'll be fine. Good. So this is in the dollar store. So I was very proud of it. I'm going to get back to it. We're not waterproof. I'll do the whole stick and everything. So this is just PLF plastic. And I'll trim it with an exactly knife. Anything can make Zoe happy. All right. And last is this piece of wood. That's one of the many just interesting pieces of wood that I've collected. That I just keep coating and coating in our resin. And then they look like pieces of plastic. Hyper real or something. I don't know. So I'm just going to keep coating and coating and coating and coating all of these different pieces of wood because that's what COVID makes you do. That's what COVID makes you do. You know? Look at me. Look what I've become. I'm coating a piece of wood. Isn't it great? I'm... I'm making more heart, I think, yeah. That bark is so thirsty. The resin's going to keep disappearing. Yeah, I know. There's probably already... Maybe this is coat number four. But yeah, it's just going to be like a solid piece of plastic after. Well, last... Oh, I got to torch them and then cover them from dust. Let's do that. I was so organized. Thank you for showing that tree bark. Oh, I have so many more. So next Wednesday, assuming we're all still alive, I will do a bunch of wood stuff from my dried wood collection. COVID fever, yeah. So, the thing about resigning wood is you want it to be really, really dry. Otherwise, with temperature changes, the wood will continue to expand and contract and then the resin will just crack and crack and crack. Ohio, does coating a piece of wood make it waterproof suitable for outdoor patio use? Yes, absolutely. Absolutely. We have this... I took like a big, a big round chunk of wood, put an X and O pattern on it, coated in resin and you can make all the pieces too out of wood, coated in resin and just leave it outside. But again, you want to make sure that your wood is completely dry. And, yeah, you just want your wood to be dry. But like, let's say worst case scenario, my neighbor, we did his bar top out of wood, outdoor bar top out of wood. After a couple winters in Canada, yeah, two to three year old dried wood. Nice, sweet. After a couple winters, a crack opened up in the wood and it split the resin. So what we did is we just filled in the crack with more resin, sanded it down, again. So if you have something that's resin that's outside and if something happens, you can always just fix it with resin. You guys got me excited about talking about wood. I'm going to take you down to my wood pile. One of the wood piles. So, okay. I got so excited and I ran upstairs and apparently the internet's good down there. Next Wednesday. But yeah, there's lots of cool stuff you can do with wood. Let me torch. Attach my flame spreader. Ollie, how many of these do I have to sell for you to just stop bugging me about them? There's a whole bunch of resin pooling at the bottom of that, so I'm going to go grab a cool piece of wood and then rub resin on it. Okay, I got a whole bunch of stuff. So see what I was talking about? I have a piece that has two to three resin layers, but I ran out of resin for a few months. Yeah, you can add layers for the rest of your life. You can be on your deathbed adding another layer. See, so this is for outdoor use. Now these are just some other interesting pieces of wood that I'm just turning to like plastic. So I'll put another coat on this one. I thought it looked like a little fairy house or something. Can you just see a little creature look what this COVID's done to me. And then this was just a neat piece of wood. So I'm just soaking that keep soaking it in and soaking it in and soaking it in. And this was the last piece of wood that I grabbed. I love wood that is so cool. Is it safe? Like for fish tank. Great questions. One second. See like this whole crack up filled in. I don't know if you can see. Isn't that beautiful? Yeah, I'm really into collecting just pieces of wood. Maybe next Wednesday will be Wood Wednesday. I'll do a live video with just tons of different wood stuff. Maybe I wish I could bring someone in. Anyways, oh, is it safe for in fish tanks? Well, I was thinking about do this thing. This is a terrible joke. So between resin and epoxy. Let me tell my bad joke first. And then remind me if I forget the difference between resin and epoxy. So my bad joke is about fish tanks. So I thought that we could put on the label of our bottle. It says something like proudly tested on animals because we put our art resin things in fish tanks with fish. And then the fish don't die based on based on all the data. As long as you like measure really carefully and mixed really well and everything cures then it's good for in aquariums with fish. And I really wanted to do a bunch more work on that and get a nice big aquarium for in the office and stuff and and learn a lot about that. And I think it says that yes it is fine and we just haven't dealt deep into it. But if I can talk to our chemist as well more about this aquarium thing if you're really interested because it's something that I'm really interested in too. Okay. Well, thanks everyone. Let me know what you think about the proudly tested on animals tagline for aquariums and make sense. And have a good rest of the week. I'll see you next Wednesday with a bunch of wood and I'll try and answer any other questions. But thanks for watching. Stay safe. Call your friends and family. Do do some form of exercise. What else are we supposed to do? Take vitamin C. Yeah. What's the difference between resin and epoxy? What is the difference between resin and epoxy? I don't know. What's the difference is between resin and epoxy? No, because yeah. Yeah, see you later, black crow. It's called epoxy resin. Sometimes it's referred to just epoxy sometimes and it's not that one half epoxy one half resin because it's the resin is the one side. It's resin is the one side. And then there's a catalyst, which is the hardener, but that isn't called epoxy. So for when you have a resin and a catalyst, it's called epoxy resin as opposed to like polyester resin. I'm not sure. I'll get back to you on that. Okay. I'm going to go drive through Tim Hortons and get a and then give my chickens some mealworm treats. Bye Maria. Bye everyone. This was fun. So nice talking to you and getting me and thanks for getting me back in the studio to do some stuff. It's all because of you. Bye bye.