 My situation's situated. It's like that's the best situation I can do. That's fine because you guys can see anyways. But I can't. So I need to log into this and see what y'all are talking about. We're going to get rid of some of that going there. Now it's a little dark. Nope. Let's turn a light on. So let me know if you guys can hear me okay. So sorry it's been forever since the last time we have been live. I'm working on a big project. Hello everyone. Hey, hey, hey. So glad to see you guys. Okay let's get started. So this is a the piece that Jeff did forever ago. So forever ago and it has turned. This was essentially translucent resin and the yellow definitely peaked all the way through. So for this for this live I'm going to show you guys what I do to um fix it, hide it, mend it, repair it, improve it for um I guess a future hopefully sale. Now I'm using colors today that I've never used before. I'm using the just resin spearmint which is one of my new favorite colors because it's a super yummy. So I'm trying this glare getter rid of her and I feel like it's just dulling my colors right now. So I'm gonna put this back up for a moment because I don't think it's doing me any favors and we're not working on a black resin surface so I'm not really that concerned. Back to the yummy. It's light. Breakfast at Tiffany's. It's a little bit more pastel-y because it's got a little pearlescent in it. Love it. Some of my new favorite colors. This is what it looks like mixed into resin. What's up what's up everyone. Thank you guys for coming in and seeing what we're up to today. I'm Erica. Jeff is out cutting clear stuff. Bowie is observing and canvas is I hope she's napping. So the next color I'm going to be using is dark and stormy from color passion. You can kind of see it up here where I've kind of raked it along this edge. What kind of color it's going to be. It's like a moody turquoise and the next color I'm going to use. I've never used before either. It is warm taupe which is it's kind of a grayish. It's a pinky gray beige color. It is from color obsession. I'm so not sure about putting these colors together but we're going to we're going to live it together. I also mixed up some beautiful abalone from resin art. You can find all these colors on my website artisttilldeath.com. Look at that beautiful sparkle. I did not overload it so when I'm picking my stir stick which you can also get on our website out of the resin you can't really see it but then when it hits the light you can fully see the beautiful glitter and sparkle. I also mixed up a translucent white with the passion top cell from color passion so you can see through it. Hello hello everyone thank you for coming in. I'd love to see where you guys are watching from. And then I use my just resin titanium for my opaque whites. Looks like it may not be that opaque but I think it'll be fine. I also have to mix up my interference oyster. This is also from resin art. That should be good. I'm so not used to mixing powders anymore because I use so many just pastes. Pastes are my jam. I don't have to worry about these little chunks of mica mixing in. If you haven't ordered from Erica and Artist Till Death you need to do it. She hooks you up. Well thank you so much for that shout out. Miss Paula it means more than the world to me to have y'all's support. So this is a little bit translucent. You can see the color of the stir stick where the resin is breaking. I'm going to mix just a little bit more in there because I want to have more of an opaque look. The most color that I mixed up was my translucent white. So I'm going to get a little bit of the warmth from this amber resin coming through. If you don't know why resin ambers there's a million videos out there essentially for this one their reason was there was no pigment and all resins will amber eventually and so this is very old and so it is very amber. Amboring and yellowing are not the same thing. Yellowing is usually operator error whereas ambering is a product situation. I do ship out of the country. I ship internationally every day except for Sundays because post office doesn't want to work on Sundays which is fine. Everything except for resin because most countries that I'm trying to import into don't want to let me import. That's the other color I need to mix up. So yeah they don't want to let me import it so it's fine whatever. The last color I'm mixing up is color obsession rich gold shimmer. It doesn't look like the most brilliant color sitting in this jar right now but after I get it mixed up and you guys see the amazing reactions that it has you are going to want some too. I happen to currently have a pretty good stock of all of these colors that I'm using today. It's a little bit of a like maybe an antique gold rustic gold rich gold. It's not quite as vibrant as the bright gold that I use a lot or the 007. Look it's just molten goodness. Let's put some in resin. Look even on its own it's just sticking together and floating with some of it same but all the shiny bits floated which is one reason why I really like this pigment because I like some of my pigment to sink and some of it to float. This resin color almost has like an oil slick effect. I don't know what's in it. It doesn't smell of anything but it acts kind of like an enamel-based pigment. I love it. Okay so we have mixed up way too many colors. Small to dare cook me up on my last order. You should order from her. You won't be disappointed. Oh thank you so much. Watching from S.T. Beautiful. How do you pick your colors with hundreds to choose from? So for this piece the way I picked the colors was I wanted something to accentuate and kind of work with the amber color that's presented as well as some cool colors some blues to mask some of it as well so it's not just kind of one tone because right now when you look at it it's much the same. There's darker yellowing or amber in here because it's a thicker pour. I think right here I have I don't know a quarter inch deep resin and so I want to kind of work with all of that to change it. Other than that the way I pick my colors is I pick the main color I'm working with which if I'm working out of this palette here I would say like this would be the main if I chose this as a main color then I would want something opposite on the color wheel so that would be something in the pink family and then I always do either black or a white and then I always do a metallic so for this one I would have the gold. I'm not doing just a painting I'm doing kind of like a marbled geode on this one so the colors I chose are a little bit different but if I was going to do just a regular pour that's my basic formula. I usually try to keep it to four or five colors. How do you take care of yourself as you always work with resin and strong chemicals? So I'm in a very well ventilated space. My ceilings are 15 feet and this room is 2600 no 2400 square feet. I have windows open I have air purifiers in the background I don't know if you can hear I'm running and then I have two or three windows open around me to help ventilate. I would be wearing a respirator except for then you guys wouldn't be able to hear me. At home definitely take care of your health. It is not bright gold it is rich gold from color obsession. Oh key doki. I'm happy to continue to answer any questions that you guys have as I go through this piece so keep it coming how can I fix my top coat that I did when there was too much humidity in the room and it has an oily looking residue. What grit do I have to sand it before reporting? No name I would do a 220 grit that's what we typically use. If it's sticky or gummy at all you may have to kind of scrape it with like a big paint scraper but it sounds like it's just got an oily sheen it may have blushed because of the humidity. So if it's not sticky then I would just sand with 220. So let's get going. The first thing I'm going to do is mix up a dirty pour and then I'm going to put the dirty pour down and then we're going to see where we're at from that. With my subtle marble dirty pours I use a lot of translucent and then just a little swizzles of color so that it's very elegant. So I started with my translucent white which is kind of like a skin milk type of opacity. Then let's drop in some of our dark storm. Not a lot just a swizzle. And I think I need to keep my dark storm separate from my warm taupe because I think that if those two colors make a secondary color it's going to be not very pretty. That was the, oh I didn't even tell you what color that was. Spearmint from Just Resin. Put a swizzle of the gold in there. I don't know what it's going to do. It may take over. It may not. We'll find out together. Put some opaque white in there. I think I have made enough separation to put a swizzle of the warm taupe in. The warm taupe is basically a cool version of this tone that I have in the background that has these kind of reds creams and amber but it's a cool version of it even though it says warm taupe. Let's put a little bit more opaque white in there. I never let my this sit for very long. My dirty pour because you don't want it to have too much time with itself and then separate and mingle and then make secondary colors. How fun is that already? Let's give it a swirl for interest. There we have it. Okay so I'm going to go ahead and put this around one or two times. See where we're at and then we'll add our next bunch of lines. Oh my goodness. I may just want to do another pour of that because I love it. I'm going to bring you guys down and show you up close what we just created. Sounds like dad's home. Look at that movement. Look at it. There's that rich rich gold coming through right there. I don't care who you are. White gold and that pastelli experiment will always look good together. Can you just one second so I can let Bowie down so we can go say hi to dad and get down? You can come say hi to you over here. Okay love this. Love every bit of this. I would say try to keep the humidity in your area as ultra minimal as possible. I don't know. Thank you. I don't know what exact percent is recommended. I can ask Mitch find out for you. Right I'm just filling in some of these unusual gaps and I'm peeking that area. The rest looks okay. Looks kind of like countertops who did a while back. Hey Karen how are you doing? I agree. It does look very much like the countertops we did not too long ago. I think just do another little dirty pour just like what we just did because I really super love what it looks like. So why not do more of what you like? Sandy works in a basement so she knows all about trying to work around humidity issues air flow issues all sorts of things like that. I do have a little bit of resin left over on the side that I may have to utilize. I always make enough resin to have some just waiting on the side for extra things. Thank you Clara so much. Oh my goodness I haven't used any of my interference oyster yet. Forgot I made it. This is a great color because it's kind of like a warm cream so if you're going to do white countertops I always include some of this because should it turn color eventually? Possibly. It'll be less noticeable because you've already like pre-ambered it in the eyes of the client. You're kind of masking it in advance. That's something I do especially if my clients countertops are indirect sunlight for a lot of the time. Okay so I can't go all the way around I'm gonna have to get crafty. I think I'm gonna have to put one of these through the rest of it. All right let's fill this in. Fill this in. This little corner pocket. This little pocket. All right now that I have this base marble look going on I'm just gonna roll everything around to fill in. I can do this because I have an edge. If I didn't have an edge I may not be doing this because you don't want to like invite your resin to run off of your piece. Loose piece of glass. Okay not sure I'm feeling this area up here but you know sometimes the areas you like the least end up being your favorite bits by the end of it. At least that's the case for me. I'm just gonna move that around blend it out and now we can do dark accents and I can worry about what's happening in here. I already have one breach which is fine. It'll be fine. So I'm gonna have a breach right there for sure and by breach I mean resin from the outer well is going to get into this inner well which is fine. It's something we can always fix you know whenever at whatever point. So I'm gonna add some dark lines. Just need to figure out where we want to do it. I think we should cross right there. I like adding dark lines like this because it kind of breaks up the kind of consistent tone that's throughout the piece. But I hesitated a little bit so I have a little bit of squiggle so I'm just edging that out with a star stick. A lot of people like that scallop look. I do sometimes. Huh? Oh he's talking to himself. Yeah he listens to podcasts and he just kind of chats. How can you fix a golden pen line that is one of the finishing touches. Sand it down. You could probably acetone it off but also you can sand it off. I like this bit but this is kind of too chunky of a dark. Are you gonna be okay? I'm pretty sure I want gold to be in the center or around the center so I'm gonna go ahead and add that before I get crazy and put it around other parts of the piece and forget that I want it to be here. Oh cannot wait to show you up close to this gold. In fact I think I need to make more of it. I know I do so I'm gonna go ahead and allocate resin to this cup before I forget. And I use so much pigment in my colors that you can just add more resin to it and it's still opaque because I'm a glutton for pigment. Is that too crazy of a name for a resin shop? Color glutton? Probably. Maybe. I don't know. Probably maybe. Ugh cannot wait to show you up close to that. And I'm getting way more breeches and that happens when there's a low spot that is a void and then there's too much too much resin on the top. So resin will act just like water. It goes to the lowest point. There's nothing you can do to stop it and once it like breeches something you just kind of have to let it live because there's no fixing it at that point. Okay. I think I'm going to go ahead and add some glass to the center. It's not at all even a little bit going to stop those resin breeches. It's got to go here anyways. I'm using mirrored glass this time. Whoops. Because I have a lot extra and why not? I'm also going to mix in some epsom salt and geode into this as well. In my head I need to do another dark rim on the outside like maybe this far from the outside edge. But what do you guys think? I need to know. In the meantime while you guys are answering me that I'm going to figure out you got an answer maybe. We'll see. So I don't want to use all my resin to make my epsom salt mixture. So I'm going to use some old Mod Podge if it's fluid at all. It's a little bit. It'll be fine. It'll be fine. It'll be fine. So I'm going to use Mod Podge instead of resin. You can use resin but I don't like this. You can use resin. I'm just low so I'm going to use Mod Podge. You can use any glue that you have. It'll be fine. I'm using epsom salt. A lot of resin instructors won't tell you the secret of epsom salt because they're stingy. And that's fine. That's their prerogative. They can be stingy. But I want to share everything with you guys so that's what I'm not going to do. I'm going to try to stir this away from the resin because if it falls into it it's going to leave a texture thousand percent. Also maybe use a bigger cup than I'm using. I'm using the luster Mod Podge. I'm hoping it'll kind of bring up a little bit of a sheen. I want it to stay on the chunky side. I don't want it to be kind of flattened by mixing it. So if you see that your mixture is a little bit too runny then add more epsom salt. And if it's too kind of dry and flaky like this then add more Mod Podge. I haven't done this with Mod Podge before and I'm hoping that since it's water-based it isn't going to kind of start breaking down my epsom salts. But I believe. I have a belief. I think it'll be fine. It's going to work. It's going to be fine. I feel like scented epsom salt should be still fine to use. I don't see it giving you any issues. REC. Okay I before you accept after C. So it's R-E-C-E-I-P-T. I have no shame of still using those little grade school methods. I also still count what month it is on my fingers. That's very true Clara. So I want to just add this around. Dang it. Oh it's fine. It's fine. I'm kind of trying to what's this called when you do this move. Sprinkle. Sprinkle. Sprinkle's good. Trying to sprinkle this on so that it doesn't end up flat like this because it's it's like playing with wet sand at this point. And if you mush it it's just not going to look as nice and kind of what I'm going for as if you sprinkle it on. And I know a lot of you are probably looking at this like what the f is she doing. But you know what sometimes you got to just trust the process and that's exactly what I'm doing right now. I teach a lot of classes using this epsom salt mixture. I think it looks super realistic once it's finished. But before it's finished when you're in this stage where it just looks like you you accidentally spilled a tub of feta cheese. Yeah when it just looks like you spilled feta cheese on your painting. It's not the best look but it's going to be the best look. I'm going to get extra experimental with this because typically resin does not like water. And I'm going to I think I need to mix up a little bit more. Dang it. Typically resin doesn't like water and mod podge is definitely water based. But I have to put resin on this or else it's not going to bond to the base of the piece. I typically put glitter and sand into my epsom salt. But I am out of my translucent glitter that I typically use. And the last time I put sand in it the sand wasn't as white as my everything else my epsom salt. So it just didn't just didn't look right. I'm gonna have to get some more mod podge into this mix. But yeah you can use white glitter and white sand. I would recommend using bleach sand or even better use synthetic sand because real sand will still turn kind of a gray color when you wet it. It's just the nature of sand. Thank you Smalls. Have an awesome day. I was hoping I could level up this piece within one live feed. I think I'm going to be able to do it. Yeah I mean you can it still looks neat to have real sand in your resin pieces. It just this is not my favorite when you're using real sand because no matter what color it is it's going to turn kind of a weird gray color. So that's what I do to avoid it. I use synthetic sand and a plastic fine sand you know because those reasons. Did you guys say whether I should add another dark line on this or no? I still want some of the glass to show through and I want levels. So I want some high points, some low spots. I'm gonna have to put some glass in the middle middle. Kind of cleared it out a little too well. I'm trying to be real careful going up on these edges so I don't put splash too much of my epsom salt mixture into the actual resin teeth. My goodness my hands are so sweaty and it's near impossible to put a glove on the sweaty hands. Have you guys ever had that issue? There's a pro tip about that just put two gloves on and then you take one glove off. The underglove will be perfect in theory. I always end up accidentally taking all the gloves off. All right so I'm trying to just mix in hide in some glass here. I had to hollow it out earlier so I could mix stuff in front of y'all. Just a winter wonderland darkroom darkroom darkroom cool okay oh my goodness I forgot about these little I'm just gonna use some of that. We don't have to make a whole new mixture. Clara we're usually on the same page I feel like okay so here's what we're gonna do. That's what we're gonna do. I think I need to add I think I need to add a white maybe not. I know for sure I'm gonna add more gold so we're gonna go ahead and do that. Can y'all hear him? Now if I was gonna do this on a table I would have left it many steps ago. I would not have added any of the darker lines but since this is wall art and not supposed to be just marble we're finishing it out with the design lines. Love the gold so I'm adding it in these areas. It's okay if it kind of gets on your glass it's fully okay and right now because I'm kind of laying the gold down loosely you'll see some kind of lines or textures just from my application but that'll smooth out. How much did I mix up? This was 16 ounces. I'm gonna take some of the clear that I made. I'm gonna pre drizzle it on these little corner bits mainly for the epsom salt mixture that we put on. This will just bind it to everything else that we have on. I'm doing the same in the middle and I'm hoping that the fact that I used a water-based glue for my mud I mean for my epsom salt won't really interfere or react too much. With the resin I'm sprinkling over the top of it but you never know we'll find out together. Could you add construction foam border once hardened? You could. I'll probably do either bondo or modeling paste rim on the edge to give it kind of that rocky texture but you can use construction foam for sure. I did get some of my epsom salt mixture dropped into the this but it'll be fine. Okay next is well I want you guys to see how pretty is that gold and then when you heat it it turns even more beautiful because the particles will decide if they want to sink or float but in the meantime it gives that like interesting looking spine in the middle from some particle sinking and some particles floating and I think that's just an awesome little extra texture. By heating the resin I'm thinning it and allowing some particles to sink and some particles to float. Now it's time for glitter glass. I'm not doing the rim in this episode. I will do that in post-production. If you guys want to see a video of how I do that leave me a comment. So this is glitter glass. It's quite actually literally super fine tea tiny slivers of glass and I love it because it's clear and they lay in all sorts of different directions so it gives the impression of sparkle glitter without it being like oh glitter. He's not laughing at me. Sorry about that. I keep getting calls. You think people know I'm live right now. Wait till you see the difference this glitter glass makes. Even when you have mirrored glass like we have right now this just adds just the next level sparkle and pizzazz like an actual geode would have. I would never do a geode without having glitter glass. Never. If you do use glitter glass it has to be the last thing that you put on because it has to be on the top. If you let it sink or if you put another layer of resin over it you unfortunately will just not see it anymore. It will sink and disappear. Since we have this little blurb of texture right here I'm going to add some glitter glass so that it looks like a choice. I could pull it out but since it's in the middle of this line of gold I'm going to leave it because I would really be able to fix it cleanly if I were to pull that that part out. All right now let's see it this time. Let me turn the light on. I prefer the clear because you can put it over pretty much any color and it will adopt that. I have it in other colors for example here's a gold but it's there is a solvent on them and so depending on what you put with it the color that's on this glass could very much clear them. It could come off so I prefer the clear because I know what it's going to do. Thank you Craig. I'm super fan of blues, whites and golds together and yeah that that little bit is kind of a mistake but I find beauty in the unperfect and I think that that's just a little something extra and all this extra little blurbs. Oh no worries Connie I'm happy to see you here. So yeah I think that is a great improvement from the first version. I would love to know what you guys think in the comments. You can find all of what I use here except for the Epsom salts. You can get that on Amazon. Use my link down below. To get to Amazon it really helps our channel when you buy through our link. It doesn't cost you anything and it really helps support our channel. As Claire said the colors I used were color obsession warm taupe just nope color obsession rich gold shimmer color passion dark and stormy just rose in spearmint just rose in titanium color passion top cell white abalone and that's it. Please join our Facebook group ATDs Poor People where we talk art all the time super supportive inspiring people in that group. I love it love it love it. I'm so down for these colors together but I want to know what you guys think. Look forward to hearing from you guys. Um so yeah be kind to one another because you never know what someone's going through and always remember that we do the tests so you don't have to and now I'll show you my puppies. A bright vamp that is very true most colors ever. I usually stick to four at tops of five. This is my baby boy he's very tweepy but he's feeling better thank you to everyone for the well wishes on his allergies. Are you feeling better my boy? It's snap time so he's not not into it. There's the big girl Hogan Bowie Stan. Anyways you guys are amazing and that's my shop. I hope you have an awesome day be kind to one another because you never know what someone's going through and always remember to um that we do tests so you don't have to but I already said that. So um we'll see you guys tomorrow at 6 p.m. central for another amazing live. You guys are amazing and we'll see you next time. Bye. Bye. You said bye. Thanks y'all. Thanks a good girl 120. I also did a flex.