 Sorry about that little thing blinking right there. Now it's trying to string in. Not today. But now reconnection is successful. We got some jokes. Anyways, this is what we are looking at right now. Howdy, howdy, Clara, howdy. OBS just has jokes today. So here we are. It doesn't want to stay where I put it. Ornery for no reason. Even adding just that line, if I wanted to leave it, it could be a finish all on its own. I'm going to leave this rough edge on the outside and then try to blend the inside bit. Also, I'm seeing that I've made it put a little bit too much because it's already eating into my yellow and also green. But geodes aren't perfect, right? Right. So in that little squirt bottle I had is just 91% isopropyl alcohol. I keep it in different size little squeeze bottles for ease of use. I don't want anybody getting confused because I'm using a whole bunch of different little bottles of liquid. See, that part looks geody, right? It looks geody. Yeah. Now how you do this and keep it looking awesome all the time. When Clara comes up here, she's going to do an alcoholic piece of me. I don't know what we're going to do. Do I ever? I think there's two. You guys haven't seen Clara's alcoholic videos. Make sure you check them out, especially if you like drag any things. She is Mother Dragon. I keep having to remind myself not to mess with it too much. Let the inks kind of do what they're going to do because inks on all on their own have some awesome just effects just because they're awesome. I mentioned they're awesome. Let it for a minute. I'm going to move on to the green. I would do the yellow, but I feel like if I add too much to it, it's going to disappear because it's already kind of not there. What's that, Joe? What can I be of assistance? You know, I give you practical advice from my experience. I don't do that many molds. However, the FAM is very experienced in all things resin and we're always happy to help. So like Clara said, bring it. I like this look so much. I have to stop myself from letting it kind of take over to where it doesn't make sense anymore. Oh, currently that's what I'm trying to avoid. This is Monday part two. I feel like it is. Pretty sure. I'm adding more ink there because some of the red transferred my paintbrush. What is the best resin and can I mix mica powders in the resin? It's a large tic-tac-toe mold from Julie Butts in Australia. She's pouring your heart out. I love Julie. She's great. Super talented. Get a casting epoxy when you're doing molds. I don't care honestly how thick it is. Your result will be so much better if you use a resin that's made for what you're trying to do. And so that's why I always push people to get a casting epoxy. For example, the B that we poured this one, it is pretty awesome. Not just because Jeff made it, but in terms of like clarity. We use any heat because I don't want to melt the mold. And it did just fine because the resin is for mold, so it doesn't hold onto bubbles like art resins do. Less than a quarter inch. It was less than a quarter inch. You could definitely get by with not using a casting epoxy because it's very close to the thickness that like art resins are poured, but still. The other thing I'm going to have issues with is you're going to almost always end up with a flimsy piece out of them just because of how shallow you have to pour. I see it in groups all the time. People making comments that they don't know why their mold is still flimsy after x many days. And it's almost always because they use the wrong epoxy or they had to pour it really thin because the mold itself is super thin. Just another unfortunate thing about casting resin. Excuse me. Jeff just had an epiphany in use. A little knife over there. Great tips, Clara, as per use. So after I get these colors done where I want them, I'm going to add a few to create depth within the colors, the different colors. At least in theory that's what I have in my head that I'm going to do. Y'all know that inks are going to ink and resin's going to resin. I still don't understand why I don't have a shirt that says resin's going to resin. That's not this video. Excuse me. It's a heavy mold. She made the channels deeper than the channel. She made a quality mold for you. She's awesome. Clara said, hey girl, I don't know why I put more blue there. It's already getting kind of saturated. Do you guys think I should add glass to this piece or nah. Glass is a very Erica thing to do. That is very a point. That'd be true to your brand people. We're good with the blue. And we're going to go on to purple. Which one did I use? Are you going to use purple? Yes, glass. I was going to find large molds for your market girl. That would be an expressive mold. The reason why molds are so expensive is because cell phones aren't cheap. That looks so fun. I wish I could leave that, but it's going to end up growing where I want it to be. I have to brush that out just a little bit. Speaking of on brand, I'm thinking about adding some splatters as well. It's weird. I want to be on brand, but not be too far away from typical geode, but I don't want to be basic geode. Strong, really real. I'm just blending the new wave of color in while pushing some of it backwards to create the darker lines. I'm trying to remember to talk my way through some of this because sometimes I just do art as if we're just all hanging out, art-ing together instead of instructing people. I'll do better. I swear. Hi, Bea. I'm making an apology. Do you think I should add? I think it's stupid. You're going to either have to do a couple layers or use a casting epoxy. Are you going to be talking about doing a cross, not rainbow colors, but more realistic looking? Cross, not rainbow colors, but more realistic? So are you asking if I thought about painting a cross that has no rainbow colors, but just painting a realistic cross? I haven't tried the crystal resin you're mentioning. They have good reviews, just like you see in many pictures. I guess I would need to see a reference. I don't want to get it wrong. This purple is looking mighty similar to the purple I have in front of it. So I'm either going to have to use, I'll probably just use more ink since it's the end to keep it darker unless alcohol. Just google it, okay. But if I google a realistic cross, I want to just bring up like wooden crosses. I just want to make sure that I'm looking at the same thing that you have in your head. And a lot of times that can't happen unless I'm directed to a specific image. You know what I mean? I would just hate to look at something because you asked me to do something and then have been studying the wrong reference, which is something that I would do. I'm just trying to give this outside purple some motion without making it look exactly like the purple right in front of it. Like stagnant color lines. Mist boring. Wooden cross with detail. Okay. Yeah, standpoint art kind of is not cheap. It used to be 55 per half gallon, but raw materials went up. So it is now $60 per half. It is a good price. Honestly, you get what you pay for with resin, and I know that could come off not as genuine from me since we're very close with stone coat. That being said, if you ask me about a specific resin that I have used, I'll give you an honest opinion on that because we're review channels, well, and I'm not going to steer you guys in the wrong direction. I'm putting up these inks before I make a mess, and then we're going to add to this geode. Well, thank you, Elena. I try to come off as genuine as I can possibly be while being fair and unbiased. I know there's probably definitely people out there that look at our channel and are like, they're not going to get an honest review because they're friends of stone coat. Which people are entitled to their opinion, no matter how wrong or misguided it is. I don't get upset. Now we have this. Do you want to do glass or shall I just do glitter glass? While we're thinking about that, while we're milling that around, I'm going to spray seal this. For this, I'm using Eevee Archival in Matte, if they met. Lisa, how are you doing? So, I have with some heat to dry it up. I'm filming from my side right now, but I will definitely check it out as soon as I get off till I see it. I'm glad your knee shirt really went well. I'm really digging how this looks. It's a little bit rustic for my ultra refined case, which is not very ultra refined, but you know what I mean. Glitter glass. Definitely going to use glitter glass either way. I'm just trying to decide. I want to use fire glass as well. Now, I did just seal it in with the Eevee Archival spray, which would bless you. Which makes your ink smooth less if other alcohol is on them. For example, if I put a couple drops down and leave them, it's going to reactivate. That's the word. It's going to reactivate the colors. However, what I'm sealing it in for is not to protect it from more alcohol. It's to protect it from the resin because sometimes resin can fade your inks or change the color of them completely. I like adding a little splatter here and there to make it not as perfect. You know what I mean? That's the Marabu ink. Yeah, I would let the mold sit out and dry for like a day, Joe, before using it if you use the water trick. It works. You still want any water in there. No. Whether I should use fire glass and glitter glass or just glitter glass. I still want it to hide. Actually, I'm not going to use this fire glass. I'm going to use some other fire glue. Actually, I wonder what would happen. Okay, I'm just going to do a quick test real quick. Okay, it'll take just a second. Just hear me out. So funny when I approached Jeff and I opened the phrase like our conversation with, okay, just, okay, hear me out. I'm just going to drop this alcohol over the glass, even though I've already sealed it. Just dropping a little bit all up in there. I just want to see if it'll kind of take on the texture of the glass as it dries. But I'm not just dumping a whole bunch of alcohol on there because I don't want it to like kind of blob out. Now that I have alcohol down, I'm just going to help it evaporate. We did James Clara. Okay, don't do it on high. Don't do it on high. Don't do it on high. I'm hoping and foreseeing that this kind of works kind of like how you do the alcohol bubbles, not quite as rainbow-y. So yeah, Megan, for sure that, but I'm not trying to color my glass. I just want to have the glass kind of texture or print of the glass. Now let's pull one up a little bit. It might be a thing. Okay, now these are going to be red, so I'm going to have to put them somewhere. I don't want to just scoop them all up because like smear any not dried alcohol that's down. Y'all, if this works, it looks like it will. Then what? I can't put, I don't know, put glass and hide it if it looks good. Maybe we'll just do fire glass or I mean glitter glass. Yes, I want to look glitter glass. It looks like right here, not right here right there, but like the same process but with glitter glass. Right now I'm going to have to get out some like actual crystals, prop ink on them, see if it'll do some coolness. Megan, I sure can let you know about the picture you sent me, but like I mentioned a little bit ago, I'm filming from my phone, so I can't check it right now. I don't think that one was going to let go of it then. So I don't know that this so much looks like glass, but I'm digging the texture, but I need your guys' opinion. I need to check in on Ann Marie. I haven't logged on to her channel in a little bit. Who? Eddie G? Yeah, I have that in her cart. I didn't read enough reviews on it. So what do you guys think? Absolutely, Arlene. Looks better with the crystals? Yeah. We'll stay a little, oh it's dry. It'll stay like that. Ann Marie is still classy and awesome, sweet. I think I liked it better with the glass on as well. So let's mix some resin, seal that in, but I'm going to investigate this further for sure. Do you want to try something before we move on? Let me try this. I just want to see what the glitter glass looks like with pink. Sorry today. Now I'm just going to take my alcohol ink and just drop it over the glass that I just put down, and hopefully I'll get a fun texture out of it. Hopefully. We'll find out together, yeah? Not high heat because I don't want to project all of my glass everywhere, which I'm doing anyways. Hey, David, thank you so much. Man, it's all that's doing in the early hours. Hey, Evelyn, I know YouTube does indeed forget to send out notifications sometimes. This looks like it's going to end up with a fun texture. Hey, Pamela, how are you? Actually, y'all, I may not resin this. So sorry about all that movement. That interesting texture to it and the glass kind of stuck. So now I'm wondering if I want to continue this and put like with the glass and then drop alcohol on it. Just jump to resin. What do you guys think? I'm going to put at least some more glitter glass here either way. Texture of glass all of it, but then I'll be wasting the glass because the resin's going to cover it up. In the meantime, I'm going to go ahead and mix it. Okay. I wanted to see the texture. So now I'm wondering, not wondering, should I continue this around? This is a 30 two. I'm trying to figure out if I want to resin it or I feel like probably because that matte spray really glass or resin and glass. Resin and then do your, you know how they have the lines? Maybe do like lines, highlighter, but a little brighter. You know how they do the lines in some of the geodes? Resin and then lines or lines in that resin? Do you need resin on anything? This is a trick for getting every last drop out. Just be careful doing this. Anytime you heat resin, it's going to want to set up more quickly than you probably want it to. It's so crazy. It feels like it's going to get there without me having to finagle it. And then it gets so close. And then J.K. Thanks for playing, J.K. Just me. Cool. Why didn't you chat today? Either the food is really good or so glad I'm not alone. Love me some popcorn. I think I'm going to mix a little bit of abalone into this, all of it, and then that'll be that little bit of extra sparkle for my everything. Big slady swimming, yellow and green peppers. Is that a whole sentence? Word. Denise, the answer is Clara. Clara, let that dog bell. I'm not doing the other part because I sound silly. What if we like, okay, here's my turn of thought. I was going to say I couldn't be a baker because they have to like, mix all the things all the time. And then I was like, J.K., they have stand mixer and I was like, wait. Stand mixer, this should be. You're welcome, JJ. I hope it's ready for the rest of the day in the most sweet way I could ever say that. I hope you're saying yes to the fact that it's been three minutes since I started mixing, but the dog's out. I'm not going to do the other part. Still not. You're only doing one? You sounded like the song makes it a little bit of tool time, Taylor. 32 inches, I believe. I'm going to start giving discount codes for the website, like at the end of my videos, and then have it only be live for like an hour. We'll have to watch till the end. I started this video with like 50 people and 20 have all gone to let the dogs out, apparently. Evelyn says, I hear you, Jeff. Thank you, Clara. The other time she tells me that I have mixed long enough, I feel like I got early parole. I don't know what that feels like in real life, but I feel like it would be that exciting. Okay. So I know that we have like the trowel and all that to move your resin around. And I love our notch trowel. You don't know what that is. It looks like, wait, it looks like this. You can move your resin about and have it lay evenly across your everything. I just really like the feeling of my hands in resin. Okay. So I'm probably the only one, but I'm going to ask anyways. Am I the only one? I'm probably not. Okay, I have a question. In the very beginning, when you open it, it doesn't have you an option that you can enter the size and all that? Well, it says, I guess it depends on how high def you want it. I don't know if you guys heard Jeff's question, but any of you guys proficient with procreate? It's not want not. I'm going to have to go put some of this resin on the piece we did yesterday because I didn't have the clear, put over my glass. So that's going to have to happen. But I'll do that in a minute later. Denise says I procreated once and that was enough. But you're experience is handed. I don't know. I can't even, I don't even know how to words it so that I won't get hit with all of that. That's what she said. Helen, will you come over here so you can read it? Because I'm going to go put this on my alugia. I made the paste. I just want to know. Okay. So, Claire, now I just want, whoa. Now I just want to make it to where when I, when I push, like when I'm drawing, I don't want it to be really thin and then I could push it to be thick. I just want it to be a solid line. I just want to know somebody knew something in there. Now I go to all the settings, but it's still like, I mean, you could barely write on it and it gives you a line, but then you press a little bit and it gets larger. Technical pen. All right, I'll try that. I think that's what I use, but I just got to get used to, you know, the pressure thing. All right, I appreciate it, JJ. What do you think about my this? It looks like you're going to need a little bit of playing notes you have as I need more resin. I forgot to say it's beautiful and amazing. The assistance. It shows. No flicking your pen. I'm going to assume that's PG though. So I'm just going to use the red fireglass that we pulled off of this piece earlier because it was not want not. This would look the exact same whether I dropped it in alcohol ink earlier or not. I feel like I should do another round glass. What do you guys think about doing it between the green and the yellow? I guess I could just make it a thinner line right there or should I do that? What do you guys think? This is a group project. Hi, Lisa. What's up, Sam? Where else should I add the glass? Or should I? Should I just not to hang out with resin? She's going to tell me. All right, figure it out in the field. Thanks, Joe. I agree. The colors do liven up with the addition of resin for sure. It gets thinner. Come on. So essentially, since this is not a mirrored fireglass, the glass is kind of going to disappear a little bit in the liquid of the resin. However, bring it to life a little bit with bubble beads and glitter glass. The thickness of this line of glass. Nature is not perfect. Actually, I think I like that. Not going all the way around. Look like Australia. That's what I was going for. I missed a little bit. Does the bubble bead disappear under resin? It won't because it's got a slight color to it. It's got like a bit of an opal look. They're clear, but kind of not also. I think actually, I'm going to add some glass just here. Just a little bit. Just a little touch. A little sum sum. Not to cover up that texture, but just because it just looks like something needed to be right here. I actually didn't mind that texture, and I would have done it all the way around, but I don't want to waste my glitter glass. It looks like I'm covering up things that I detailed in the ink, but it's just because I see extra detail in those areas. And until I get the look right, I'm just going to keep trying to add in those areas. JJ and Clara. Have you guys ever tried to make an NFT or anyone else in the room and in the resin that I was using for my beads? You want to get resin in your bubble beads? It looks very subtle. That's one of those things once you're looking at it, you're like, ah. I'm going to use these bubble beads to trail off further. Just very small shards of glass. I'm going to just use it all. Clara said, what is an NFT? I'm going to take it as a no. An NFT is basically a crypto piece of artwork. It's digital. I don't know a whole lot about it just right now, but it's going to be a big thing in the crypto world. They've already sold some pieces for just millions of ridiculous amounts of money here that if people resell your. It stays the artist forever. When I first heard that description, I was like, it's pyramid scheme, but not really. So with every sale of like, if Jeff bought a piece from me and then he resold it, I would get a percentage of the resale value. It always stays like the artist gets a commission every time it's sold, which I think is pretty cool. Down so you can see what the beads on the resin looks like. Sorry, sorry. So those are the bubble beads. You can kind of tell the iridescence, but since the light on my camera phone is kind of extra, it's hard to see the iridescence, but you can really see it in person. But I like the way it kind of feeds off of the glass, so it's not a hard stop. Finger was gross looking. So it's not a hard stop of where the glass is and then just nothing. So I kind of trailed it off. I think it looks very whimsical as far as a rainbow geode goes. And now I'm going to add glitter glass because it gives you some inspiration for the glitter glass. Bubble beads. Bubble beads is what I meant today. Glitter glass, it's very fine tea tiny shards of glass. If you purchase this from me or anybody else, be advised it is glass and it will cut you if you don't respect it. This you won't be able to really see until the light hits it. So it's very subtle sparkle, which I'm a fan of in your face sparkle, subtle sparkle, sparkle, sparkle, but sometimes you need a subtle sparkle and this is just the product for it. I have the bubble beads, the fire glass and the glitter glass on my website, but unfortunately I don't sell alcohol in luckily there's a million places you can actually get alcohol. Like in the description box below this video on our Amazon link. Shameless plug. Buy this stuff by the kilo and I sell out of it all the time. Bee can I borrow your face? I like how it like blended this these two colors together this seam of texture. It's very cotton candy. Joe the working time for art coat is two hours. I love this piece. I love the progress that we made with it during this live feed. Let me know what you guys think. I agree. It's very whimsical. So yeah, I'm going to take this to the desk free zone and Evelyn who told you I was engaged? Yes, May 1st 2022. Joe if you, I don't know if you've ordered anything from my website, but next time you do just drop a note and I'll send you a like an eight ounce sample to try. So this Saturday I'm going to have a fire sale for wedding funds. We have a lot of art we need to sell priced to move and would love to have all you guys there. Tell all the people you like. Yeah, I know it's breaking away from the edge. Some of the purple. So I'm just I'm gonna have to baby it. Tell all the people that you like and then some people that you don't like about our fire sale help support the cause because I need Joe and you kind of want another. You never know what someone's going through. Boy cat's like, so what are we doing? Anyways, hope you all have an amazing day. We love you guys so so much. We'll see you guys tomorrow. 6 p.m. Central till next time. Bye. I said bye. We're the ex that can't reach it. That's sticky fingers.