 change. What's up y'all? Pardon. I get you situated. Sorry I'm tardy for this party. I hope y'all are having an awesome day. What's today? Tuesday? Can you turn my lights on in here for me? I guess I could just open a curtain. Hey guys. Hey, hi. Hello, how are you? Can you come up in your spot belly? Okay. Oh, probably could have done that. But thanks. Central Florida. How are things down in Central Florida? Have any weather issues from Elsa? Hope not. We're all having an awesome day. I hope so. So if you're new here, hi, welcome. I'm Erica and Jeff just came over and helped me with some lights. We are artists till death. We go live. Every day, usually. Usually at 6pm central, except for on Tuesdays, we go live at 2pm and something else. Oh yeah. It's always art. It's usually resin. But we are very diversified artists. And so, some days it's airbrush, some days body paint, some days it's acrylic, some days it's glitter, rhinestones. I know I'm missing like 17 different mediums we work with. But anyways, we teach live tutorials every day. And today, I'm doing an ocean piece on this cradle board. I went ahead and prepped it. It is from our shop artist till death dot com. It's like a canvas, but it's not. It's a wooden canvas, I guess. So that I won't dip in the middle. Perfect for any heavy medium like acrylic pours or resin pours. In my opinion. Do you say no ripping and tearing? Okay. Hi from Vegas. Jeff's gonna be in Vegas next week. I will be with Judy and Tammy Anderson and a bunch of other lovely ladies down and both use creating art. And Jeff will be with some of his friends in Vegas creating trouble. You know, we're creatives. Anyways. So let's get started. I'm gonna add some shimmer to this piece by using this Viva modeling cream. It doesn't look like much in here, but it creates an awesome little shimmer effects. And I'm using it to make it look like now under the ocean when the waves break and create the sand moving. I wish I had the words for this. The words are hard. Okay. But essentially, when you look into the water, you see different ripples in the sand created by the waves moving the sand. And you also see the shimmer from the sun hitting the different angles of the water. I'm trying to do both of those things with an underpainting. You can't see it very well right now. I'm sorry. That sounds probably very annoying. I'm not going to cover the whole thing. I'm just going to create some lines. But after we add the resin, you'll really be able to see it. So I'll give you an up close shot of how how it looks at that point as well. There's not that many occasions where we do underpainting. Well, I guess it depends on the piece. There's really no point in doing an underpainting unless you're using transparent and with oceans, I always use transparent pigments to get that depth that it really looks like water. I'm not teaching a class in Vegas. We need to find another venue. I don't know if Bronson's letting people teach in his space anymore. So if you know the place where we can teach in Vegas, we're happy to set that up. I think once we get back from this round of travel plans, we need to get with gingerms about doing that Santa Cruz class. I'm almost done chopping on this shimmer. I can hardly even see it, but I promise you, it'll make a difference. I'm trying not to let the peaks of the pigment be too high because I don't want it to interrupt the flow of the waves that we're gonna add. The waves need a fairly smooth based flow over. If it doesn't have that, your your ocean cells, I guess we'll call it, they'll split and it just doesn't look there. But if that happens, then I'll just use it as a teaching moment. I'll show you guys what to try to avoid. Okay, I did not do airbrushing for prep. This is spray paint. Thank you, Clara. I got Joe Ella. I'm single Joe. So this modeling case dries super fast. I'm just hitting it with the heat gun just to be sure. I'm running my hands over it to knock down any high points. As you can see, not a whole lot has come up. Sweet. I went ahead and mixed up my resin. If you guys know anything about our channel, you know that our favorite resin forever and ever amen is stone coats, art coat. However, for all the things that it's amazing at, unfortunately, this style of ocean, it just doesn't hold up to the amount of heat that I'm about to add to the resin. While art coat is very, very heat resistant, once cured, I don't know what it is about this process, it just doesn't do what I need it to do. So I am using my go to resin for oceans, which is just resins, diamond coat. If you're in the States, you can get it from me at artisthildup.com. I'll have links down below the video. Otherwise, you can get it from just resin. Right. Now I need some this and then some this. Not going to need a lot of white. That's why I'm using that smaller cup. Okay, what modeling paste were you just using with brush? It is from Viva Color. I actually got this from our fairy art mother Judy, but she probably got it from Amazon. But the brand is Viva made in Germany, Viva decor, Viva dash decor.de or creative imaginations.us apparently. Is it going to focus? Of course not. Where would it focus? Nope, this way. What am I doing? Oh, yeah. So for my ocean, I'm using my go to bondi tense from color obsession. It is of the 800 colors that we carry easily in my top five colors. It is transparent, which means you can see through it like water. And you can build the color from like a couple drops, which is what I have here all the way to all of the drops, I suppose, if you wanted to. And you can make the color lighter or darker, you can vary your shades, which I'm going to do. I'm going to do my shore area with this and then add a couple more drops as I get deeper into the ocean. But it will never be opaque. Thank you, Claire, for that look. So we got our first color. Now for the second color, I'm going to use Belize Blues from Resinart. I'm not sure why I've decided to do this. I usually don't. I'm gonna do less than what I've got poured out, actually. I usually don't use powders in general, much less in my oceans. But I use this color on a geo the other day. And I've been wanting to have a reason to use it. That's arguably too much powder, but I'm a glutton for color. Can that be a brand or a shirt glutton for color? Y'all better not take that. You heard it here first. Copyright pending. Joe, what are you asking when I will have in stock? The Bondi or the Belize Blues? Is that what this is? Also, since I'm going to be in Belize, this I thought was appropriate. I actually wish it was a little bit darker. But is what it is. Actually, I'm going to drop some blue lagoon in it to darken it. It is somewhere. There it is. Another awesome thing about these pigments is you can mix them and create your own custom colors. Here we go. Still just as beautiful and shimmery as just a little bit darker of shade. So luxurious. Now I'm going to use lures angel white. You can also use color obsession. Snow white or titanium from just resin. They have the same or similar consistencies. Color obsession may be a little bit thinner, slightly. Just want to put enough in the resin to make it opaque. Which we got cool. So I have my shoreline. I'm going to actually put my clear further out. Further in makes more sense. Because I like what it the resin looks like when it's just clear. And then you have the waves. Other than that, I like to have clear in between my white and my colored case because it creates a separation so that my white doesn't turn blue once I start moving and heating up and mixing my colors around with the heat. I'm a sleephold. Hello, Lady crafting nook. How are things? How are you? So I'm just moving the resin around so I don't have any raw spots. Next step is my shoreline color, which is the couple drops of Bondi. Then I'm going to make a little bit more adding a couple extra drops. So the first one I did two drops. We'll start with four drops and then we'll add from there. You can always add your color. Super difficult to take color out of resin. In fact, I don't know anyone that's done that successfully. If you have seen someone do that, send me a link. Hey Evelyn. So Daphne. Lord Taylor, what's up, lady? So in a second, you'll see how adding a couple extra drops will change the color of a tint even though it's out of the same bottle. It's very Willy Wonka like in my head. People are astonished even though, of course, it gets darker the more color you add. Anyway, I guess we're going to amaze the things that are simple, more simple. I'm just going to move these two variants of the same color together, blend them a little bit and add just a tad bit more for the deepest part of my ocean. What's up Petra? Your most recent geode is amazing, gorgeous stunning as always. I'm actually going to add a couple oops, sorry. I just Ritterhoffed y'all. Yes, if you haven't seen Annery Ritterhoff's work and you're into acrylic art, no acrylic cores, I guess same. Check her out too. So in this one, I added a couple drops of the blue lagoon into my Bondi. So it's going to be for real deeper color. So as the title says, this is going to be an easy, easy peasy ocean. Once all this prep is done, which it almost is about to be the exciting part. All right, that looks ocean-y. I'm going to add some of this Belize Blues and then blend those out. You could have done oops, all of what I just did with just the Bondi. If you didn't want to add the shimmer and you don't have the other colors that I used, it would still look amazing. I need a rag. Thank you, Sue, for reminding people to give me all of your thumbs. Erica, what is the called for geodes? One more time? What's up, Jessica? That's my sister's name. So I love it. Okay, your thumb is definitely up. Well, I appreciate that. So now we're going to add our white. We don't want to add too much white and we're going to add it to where the white that I'm adding now touches both the clear resin as well as the board. You don't want to create a line that's too thick because then your wave will just cover everything that you just added. All your pretty blues is the fun part. This is going to go from basic ocean to what? In less than a minute. So, well, I hope anyways, we'll find out together. This is a heat gun we use. It is a super cheap, no name brand. It just says hot air gun. This is the everything for it. The voltage, the Hertzes and the wattages. I got it off Amazon, but that's about all I know about it. So I'm going to use a platypus attachment. If you don't have one of these, we have them on our website, artistle.com, which is where you can get the pigments too as well. And also, Jessica, I'm using a little res angel white for this one, but you can also use titanium. It'd be just fine. I'm going to use this to create my waves. It's going to just... It creates a different style wave. And if you haven't seen my video on heat sources and ocean waves, I welcome you to check that out because it'll show you what it would look like if you use a heat gun versus a torch, different attachment. Here we go. High heat and all the way high air flow. I wonder if I should bring you down closer for this. Maybe possibly. We'll see. I'm going to pre-heat a little bit of it. All right, I'm going to let these cells, the waves, stretch out a little bit. Put it on a bit of a tilt. I'm using the torch to just stretch certain areas. You can see that mainly the area that's moving is the area that it's getting a little bit more heat. Move a little bit further up the way. Oops, sorry about that. I'm not touching the flame to the resin. I'm just... Oh my goodness. Okay. Trying to get the camera to stop moving. I'm just touching the heat. So once it starts to move, I pick up my torch. You don't want to scorch your resin. It's super easy to do, particularly with a torch. So be very mindful. Once the back of this wave to kind of feather out into the ocean, that's why I'm still heating it at this point. So with the torch, I'm just kind of hand picking what areas I want to add more cells. You can see where I'm hitting it with the torch. That's where everything's really moving and creating those cells and waves. I think so too. I think it makes a whole lot of different. I'm liking the prep with the way before and really makes a difference. Great. What's up, Tim? Sorry. So now I'm going back in and adding more white to my shoreline because it gets a little bit thin. And I want it to really look like a wave is crashing up onto the beach. So I'm starting a little bit more there. Be a second. Can I borrow your face? No, the resin that's on the board right now is way hotter than the resin that I have in these cups. So as the resin sits next to the hotter resin, as the cooler resin sits next to the hotter resin, it will catch up to that temperature and this noticeable white line will fade in just a little bit better. For example, this is where we first added the new white and it's already blending in a little bit. Whereas this is where I most recently added the white and it's still very noticeable. You can also just hit it with a little bit of heat to further motivate it to catch up. But that's risky, obviously. Next lady at next layer add tiny mermaids. Possibly. Oh, there's a hair. Do you guys like what this looks like? I was really hard looking cells right here. Leave it. Let it live or mess with it or kill it with fire. Literally. Also, bothers me when the wave doesn't continue out over on the edges. So I'm just going to swipe it with a popsicle stick and then help it to disperse with some heat from this little torch. So we only have any, you don't have, we have one person that says kill it. So unless you guys change band wagons, it's gonna stay in the areas where it's a little bit too evident. I'm just using this popsicle stick to kind of stipple out the hard line. And this stippling kind of looks like cells anyways. So it'll help it to blend easier than if I just went and you can quote me on that. I think I love it. What do you guys think for kills it? I'm curious as to how you kill it. So if I were to kill it, I would just take my heat gun and push it. Because with heat, it'll make things start to mix together. And hopefully blend out. For example, as well, this that's coming around right here. Looks very, very, very out of place. So I'm going to go ahead and kill kill that or at least temp to by just pushing it off the edge. That's very similar to how I would kill this, I would just push it around to mix the white into I guess I can just go ahead and show you me. Get you a little closer. There we go. Cool, cool, tight, tight, tight. Put a flash on it. Effectively, I'm just using the heat to erase it. That is out of focus. The sand on those islands is much wider. On the next one, I'll do a white sand beach weather. Well, thanks you guys. Thank you. Thank you. So let me get rid of these glutties. Apparently my hands started sweating because that was not the easiest thing to do. And we'll give you guys a flyover. So at this point, you'll be able to see the stippling that we did under that modeling paste. I didn't put it everywhere. I just put it in a few areas. Looks kind of like clouds almost. Maybe next time I would just kind of give it a dry brush look instead of a stipple. Alright, back to the cells. Thanks you guys. Do you think I need to add more left side? What's up with the sand? What's up? Yeah, that would be a layer one of this piece. I think we're gonna add another wave as well. Right here. Sue, Joe, I believe in you. Don't get nervous. Don't listen. resin can smell your fear. Thanks you guys. Okay. So you think I need more white to go over the edge over here? Okay, okay, okay. We want sand in a salt shaker. I am very confused. Do one with the resin. Exactly. I forgot I turned my heat down. Okay. I turned it way down. We have waited a little too long for doing that. That is okay. Nothing that can't be solved on the second layer. So anyways, you guys, I hope you enjoyed this video. I always enjoy painting with you. Hopefully I will see you guys tomorrow. For another live video, it will probably be the second wave on this ocean. 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