 Because I don't have my headphone thing. My headphone thing? What's the word? The thing. Mike, that's the word. So, how was everybody's today? I've only forgotten the password from my iPad, so fun. So, I have to say that I know it. We're going to work on fixing this today. And this is a piece that I did at the F.A.E. Fluid Art Experience. And it was really cold, and I have a divot, a few little divots. People call them different things, but essentially it's a low spot in the resin. Hey, Melody. Yes. Am I early? What's today? I don't know what day it is. Hey, Sue. So, that bad boy went all the way down to my sand layer. This one did as well. You can even see the texture. What's that? Vault. And then there's another one over here somewhere. There it is. This one's not so bad. Oh, it's Tuesday. Isn't it two o'clock? What's up, Melissa? Tee-gee. So, that bad boy is what I need to fix. Usually it wouldn't be so much of a problem. Amy Day Cheney at work. Well, don't get in trouble, but also, I'm so glad you're here. Everyone. Oops. Right. So, yeah. Sorry about the sniffling. I'm still living with perpetual allergies. That's the issue. So, I guess I should bring you guys in to deal with that first. So, what am I going to do? I'm going to take some 220 sandpaper. It looks like this. Usually I miss Tuesdays because you're at work. Well, I'm glad you're here. I'm glad all of you guys are here. If you haven't subscribed yet, please do so. You're already watching. You may as well. It doesn't take long. It doesn't cost anything. And it really helps our channel to look good. And if you want to get notifications sometimes whenever YouTube decides to send them out, put that little bell to be sometimes notified. Okay, so what I'm doing right now is sanding all the pits that I have. And I'm pretty sure that these are a result of the weather. Also, I was in an acrylic paint environment. Some of the instructors did use silicone. So that also could be why you can even get divots like this from using too much heat, which I use a lot of heat when I do my oceans. But this is way larger of a divot than is typical. So I'm willing to bet it's an oil or a cold weather issue. You can even have oil on your hands that transfer and cause problems. Who knows? But just to be sure, we're going to do whatever we can to fix it. I'm just pouring out my resin into smaller cups so that it doesn't cure up super fast on me. And I have to make more. So the next thing I'm going to do is take 91% isopropyl alcohol and further clean out this little guy. It's going to help me get all the sanding dust out. And if there's some oil still left, that will come out as well. I know a lot of people, when they like coat their acrylic pieces that they use silicone to create them, they will wash it with down dish soap. I don't know if my divot is a result of an oil-based whatever. So I'm not going to do that step, but just so you know that you can do that. I'm going to take some UV resin now, any brand. I hear now that there's UV resin that is UV resistant, so I won't yell. Most UV resins will yell. I have never heard of that. I don't know how that would work because UV resin will cure because of UV. So how does it have UV resistant and still cure? I don't know. That's science that I don't have the answers for. So I filled my little divot with the UV resin. I'm going to take a UV light and just set that bad boy right over it. This one is a quarter inch maybe between this rim and the actual light. So I don't have to worry about the resin getting on my light. And most UV resins will cure up within like five minutes. You just rest up, misting up. All right. So while my little divots are curing up, I'm going to start mixing the resin colors for a second wave. So after the little divot is filled, we're going to sand it down a little bit. And then we're going to add our second layer. If you're trying not to have a second layer of resin, then it's really hard to just use like a patch resin like a UV to have a fully smooth surface. I've actually never really seen it done unless you are into honing. And that's not something I want to do. That's a way more elbow grease in time that I have currently. So let's mix some resin. I'm going to put some Milky Way into some clear. Not a lot because it will take over and be opaque. My oceans to be transparent because water is transparent. So I'm just going to put a little bit in there and mix up it. So I should be able to see all the way through it. I'm actually going to do a little bit more as well. I'm not going to put any Bondi or other blue in my shore color. I'm just going to put some deep water blue because I'm not the biggest fan of how some of these waves ended. So I'm going to use a darker blue. A blue I haven't used in an ocean before. It's actually called a reef. Yes, reef blue shimmer by color obsession. I'll mix that up in a second and show you how beautiful that color is. I've never used that. I don't think I've used that color at all at all. Now that I'm thinking about it, let's mix some of it and see what it looks like. Nope. It's not to sniffle on camera with you guys. If a sniffle just happens to pop out of my bed. Oh, that's a nice color. It's kind of like steel blue, but darker. And I think with a bit more shimmer to it. So I'm not going to use a lot. And for all that I have left in here, I'm just going to use this much to start with. And that may be too much. Even just that little bit was too much. I can't see through the stir stick really. So I'm going to put my Milky Way mix into it to try to thin it out. And then I'll add a little bit of extra sparkle to it anyways. I can see through it a little bit now. Still way more pigmented than I thought it would be. That's okay. All right, all right, all right. I'm going to move this over to this other dot. And it's good to go. While that's curing, I'm going to mix up my white. And to do that, I'm going to look for my this. Titanium, Breakfast of Champions. It's my go-to white for my oceans always. This one I'm going to use more pigment because I want it to be super opaque, solid color. How about this? We don't need a whole lot of white because we're just going to do one line. And it's going to be the perfect amount. This is actually going to be too much white. That's good. So, have you guys had an awesome today so far? I hope so. So while that's curing, I'm going to wipe my hands off with an alcohol rag. I'm going to sand down this little guy just a little bit. So I guess I need to bring you guys back down here. Further wipe my hands off. And then I'll show you how level it is. But I don't want to run my phone to my stand. So I'm going to be careful. So you can see that there's still like a ridge. And if I wanted to slash had time to, I could sand it down, put more UV over it, like a thinner layer, and repeat the process till it's more smooth. But since I'm going to put like designs over it, I'm not exactly that concerned. I just wanted it to not really dip. I'm going to take the same 220. Anytime you work with resin slash resin dust and sanding, or a respirator. I'm not because then you'd have a heck of a time hearing me. So if I were to let this just regular and put another wave over it, it would have dipped down and interrupted the flow of my wave. So I really wanted it to be at least just a smoother. Let's get started. Okay. Make sure you guys get up. There we go. Okay. Start with clear just like usual. Typically don't like coming this close to my first wave because the odds of it rolling, adjusting, settling, and pushing forward past this first line is pretty high and it never looks good when it does that. So I'm going to put Popsicle sticks to shim up this side and hopefully keep everything very slightly rolled backwards. Also, I forgot about this little guy up here, this little divot. So I'm trying to camouflage it by only going half into that divot. Hopefully that'll be good enough. That was my most nerve-wracking part. I'm going to take my Milky Way Mix, make it my second color. You can use Bondi. Just use a little bit less than you did on your first layer. This is the flimsiest, weakest Popsicle stick I've ever used. Look at that. I need to just bust out more of my stir sticks, but I'm running low. I'm waiting on more plastic, but there's some in the shop for purchase, but I don't want to take them from y'all. Okay. So now we got our this. And I guess I could use the Milky Way Mix for the clear that I put down, but I didn't. I won't. That's fine. I feel so bad sniffling so much in front of you guys. Just know that I'm sorry with every time I sniffle. Okay. This is more Milky Way. And now we're going to mix some of our reef shimmer color down here in the deep. 15am. Don't want any of the reef color into 15am. So it is just slightly colored so we can still see the other shades from the first layer. But the fact that it has its own shimmer gives it another layer of depth and dimension. If you will. I'm going to mix some of it through all of it just to make sure it's kind of uniform. I'm just skimming over it maybe a little bit more through here. Not being too specific with my application. It doesn't really matter because we're all going to shift to the back anyways as soon as we start manipulating the resin. So now we have all of that. I'm going to add my white. I'm going to do it just like I always do to where it touches my clear and the substrate. I want to do a thick line. Kind of a thinner line. And then I'm going to go back and make sure it's touching everywhere I need it to. You guys saw my video yesterday with Mitch and Lou. Lou was always also in the house which is awesome. And then we went in that thinner loop. This is also awesome. It was a quick thinner because we always had to get up early and cut out. Okay. Here we go. I'm going to get my heat gun all the way high heat. It's clear in front of my white right here. All the way high heat and all the way high airflow. Okay. Not plugged in. Okay. Here we go. I'm going to start down here because I'm scared of this. Well first I'm going to heat up the whole thing. Make sure I don't have anything floating in it. It should be good to go. But just to be sure. Preheat the sit. And then T-tiny circles. Preheat and T-tiny circles. Preheat and then T-tiny circles. Aim all the way down. I'm not pushing all of the white the whole way because it's just going to go since everything's tilted. I'm not doing too many T-tiny circles over that divot. Because I want it to stay hidden under that white wave. Try two anyways. I'm going to come back in with my white again just to stiffen up my front line wave. It to have a very distinct white front line. I like when a wave rolls in for real. It's just a great way to differentiate between the two waves that you have. Also still super sorry about myself. This wave has already come all the way up to almost my first wave. So I'm going to have to really keep an eye on this to make sure it doesn't reach forward. It's just not a good look. Just trust me. It's just not a good look. Hair by hair is what? Just softening these back waves. It's pretty good. I'm going to take you guys down so you can see up close. Fix this little patch where I just set my finger into it. I'm going to do that. I'm just going to give my hand over. So, so here we go. You can still see where the divot was, but you can't see really where the divot was. This one covered. Hmm. May have to do another wave on that one. There's all of our pretty ocean waves. Frothiness. Doesn't want to focus so that's cool. I really like the look of the waves over the gold. What do you guys think about that? The white I used is titanium by just resin. I should have plenty in stock as of filming. So yeah, I think it turned out okay. What do you guys think? What would you have done differently? Comment down in the description box. Nope. In the comment box below the video. And there you have it. That's how I fix the low spots. That one you can't see anymore. I'm mad at that one. The ones we had over here are completely gone. And you can't see the texture in this one. But because I put too much heat there, it broke around. I just did that. I definitely just did that. I just put my whole finger in there. Okay. Well now I have to fix it. Alright, let's see. My options are hit it with more heat, which will interrupt all of my wave gear or just make it a thicker white, which is probably the direction I'm going to take that in. Whenever mistakes like that happen, don't get hard on yourself. Don't freak out. Just take inventory of what's happening, what needs to be done, and then move forward. Now it's going to be making it make sense, which that might do it. It might come up right here so that this doesn't look so out of place. Just make this whole part of the wave a little bit thicker. Now I'm going to put just a little bit of heat on it to pop the bubbles in the resin that just applied, but I'm not trying to create any movement. Literally just pop in bubbles. So, I must tell that we survived. Alright, so now it looks like this, which maybe I should have done that in the first place, but no texture, which is the whole point. Anyways, thank you guys for watching and seeing what I'm up to today. If you enjoyed it, please leave me your thumbs. If not, still leave me your thumbs, because I said please, and I'm polite like that, and yeah, hope you guys have an awesome over the rest of your Tuesday. I will be sending out orders. We are going to see Jeff's family in Kansas. We're leaving tomorrow, so if you want to order something, we're going to be shut down. I'll see if Tudor can ship while we're gone, but just to be sure, if you want something, need something, want it shipped out before we leave, then today is your day. Look at that subtle sparkle, just like an actual ocean. Makes my heart happy. Anyways, yeah, otherwise we'll be back here in Dallas in the shop later this weekend. If we go live, it'll be family time live, but we would love to see you guys. Hope you have an awesome Thanksgiving. If I don't see you before then, till then, be kind of one another, because you never know what someone's going through. I'm just taking a nap, but if he was awake, he would say, and always remember that we do the test. So you don't have to. We'll see you guys next time. Bye.