 Hey everyone, Joanne from Art Resin here and today I have artist Jamie Marathew in the studio with us and Jamie I'm so happy to have you here. I'm really excited to be here. Thank you for inviting me. No problem Jamie is a Mandela artist and just to let everyone know I found Jamie on TikTok so I was scrolling through TikTok and I was so happy to find that you use Art Resin So I contacted you and here you are. So what are we gonna do today? So I thought I'd show you how I make my resin pendants So you make their bases out of resin and then I put a coat on them after I paint them So we'll go through that process and then I thought for some fun to make something a little bit bigger We can do this center spiral design on some round wood panels and this I'll teach you how we do this This is so exciting and your work is absolutely gorgeous And I'm not sure if I'll be able to recreate this but I am so looking forward to trying. You're gonna do so fine It's we're just gonna have fun. That's awesome. Well, let's get started Okay, Jamie, so we're gonna get started with our first project We're gonna make some of these beautiful pendants and do you want to walk us through the process? Sure So the first thing that's good to know is that you can do them in any color. I usually do the black That's what we're gonna do here today because the color really pops really nicely And when you put the top layer of resin over it pops even more. Yes, so that's what we're gonna do today But I've also done them in white and in clear as well So there's lots of different options You could probably do any color that you want really and I just use acrylic paints to tint the resin as well So we'll just put a little bit of the Acrylic paint into the resin and then we'll pour them into this mold that I got off of Amazon And then they'll be ready to go after they cure then we paint the design Okay, perfect. So should we get started because we're ready to measure next. All right So the first thing we're gonna do is mix the resin So I'm going to take equal parts of the hardener and of the resin mix them in these little measuring cups It's hard to see on camera, but they actually have little measurements on them so just like the little medicine cups and I could mix them in a large silicone beaker like this, but it's a little bit larger than what we're gonna need We're actually only gonna use one teaspoon of each of the hardener and the resin on this So we're not gonna use a lot of resin at all. So I'll mix this in here. I make sure I get as Much of this into the other container as I can And I think this is mixed perfect. So we're going to go Now we're going to add our tint. Yes. So we're just gonna put a little tiny tiny black of Piece of black paint. I just get black acrylic paint from the dollar store This is what I use for all of my base coats on my large canvases and stuff too because Not enough of it's showing through that I have to really worry about finding a fancy black one And just a couple drops like that. Yes, because I don't even need it to be solid black I just want it to have a darker background so that the colors pop nicely So you can use acrylic paint to tint the resin you can use our line of resin tint as well Which has been formulated for our resin you can use Powdered pigment you can use a variety of things to tint your resin But no matter what you use It's always best to put no more than six percent of the total combined volume So we've got ten mil here five resin five hardener, so it's ten So I wouldn't add more than like half a mil of Colorant and don't be alarmed too if you do pull your your resin out of the mold after 24 hours And it is a little bit flexible. It just hasn't fully cured yet So if you leave it for a few more days, it'll it'll harden up Yeah, and depending how thick it is if it's very thick it could even take like a week or two weeks To really really fully cure. Yeah, I noticed that with a couple of mine I'll take them and I'll put them where I store the blanks and then when I go to pull them out a week later They're nice and absolutely. Yeah. Yeah, so this is ready to pour into the mold then not gonna fill it up all the way So I don't keep pouring as it reaches the corners as it reaches the edges Because I want it to sell do the self-leveling thing because that's when I'm gonna get that nice little lip there So these are probably a couple of millimeters thick. Yeah, I was thinking yeah I think that's all we're gonna get out of this mixture and then we'll do just a really really quick torch I have over torched a couple of times and I have lost a couple of these There's chunks that have kind of come out of there from it just being too heated up So I kind of went into that knowing that this was all trial and error for me But I've learned very quickly if I am gonna use the torch do it very very quickly Yes, yeah, the torch can be hard on silicone molds for sure But if you want to prolong the life of your molds, you can certainly use a heat gun as well Okay, perfect. So we're done here now. We are going to let this cure and Once they're dry then we'll pop them out, right? And then we're gonna paint a beautiful Mandela design on and then put another clear coat of resin on top Yeah, right and then and then once that clear coat dries then we can glue on the Biles fails the hook That sounds great. Okay, so should we cover this up then? Yes So we want to protect it from any dust that might land in it while the resin is still wet and We'll be back in 24 hours So we're back. It's been 24 hours Our resin has cured overnight and we are ready to transform these into these beautiful pendants of Jamie's here So I'm so excited to learn how to do this Jamie. Yay. These are really really fun. I love doing little tiny things It's fun to create some really delicate detail and especially when you see it come out and actually looks pretty It's very gratifying. These are very gratifying awesome. Let's get started. Okay So we're just gonna pop our resin castings out of the mold And I still go fairly slowly even though it's been the full 24 hours because they will still be a little flexible There we go. So the first thing we need to do to get a mandala on there is to find the center So one method is to get a tape measure or a ruler and measure it all out and try and get that exact center But I am way too lazy for that So I actually have this flexible mold This is a mold by a company called happy dotting company And they create these molds for painting mandalas on stones to draw the guidelines on So what I do is I flip it upside down and then I put the pendant In here and just try and kind of evenly line it up With the different markings that are already on the stencil. Yes, and then I'll flip it over and then the center will be marked Because then I'll just take a really tiny tool And what I'll do is just put a little tiny dot Right in the middle there so that when I pull this out and remove the stencil now I've got my center that is fantastic. What a great tip Super easy It's a lot faster and a lot less frustrating than sitting there trying to find the exact center with the ruler and moving it all over the place Right, yeah, yeah, especially when you're doing a whole tray of them. I can imagine. Yeah, exactly So craft acrylic paint a lot of my acrylic paint comes from dollar ammo I love the deco art craft acrylic paint that I can get there. It's a really nice matte finish and they've got some beautiful colors Um, but otherwise, I'll just use anything that you can find at michael's or walmart Nice and easy. So we're going to start with red and The center dot is the largest dot that I'm going to be placing on this All of the rest are going to be significantly smaller. So I only need a very small number of tools So I'm going to dip And then I'm going to still try and kind of look Around to make sure that I'm not leaning on one end of that center dot that I'm getting that Little tiny dot as close to the center as I can looking good Yeah, so sometimes kind of getting those different angles helps right sometimes getting down here really helps other times You kind of have to get up top and just kind of take a look The nice thing is is the worst thing that's going to happen is it's going to be the wrong size And because the resin is so smooth It's super easy to wipe off that dry dot and start over again great point or You can just grab a slightly larger tool and dot right over it and it'll help kind of fix that stuff It's never going to be completely perfect But there's other adjustments you can make on your design if you start to see it's a little off-center, right? Yeah. Yeah, that looks good So we're going to do like a swirl or what sort of pattern do you have in mind for this one? I thought it would be cool to show More of the petal design where it looks like there's actual little flower petals and maybe some of the swoops Because between the spirals The petals and the swoops those are really the three main components that I use anyway And pretty much every single dot medulla that I do so if you learn those three Then you can pretty much go in and create anything you'd like. Awesome. Yeah, that's great And we'll get started adding the next couple of rows So I noticed um that these have a natural kind of lip on them, don't they? Yes That's the side that we're gonna Yes, thank you for mentioning that so we always want that lip to be up Because i'm going to paint the design on and then when I put the resin on it's going to create that wonderful dome And help kind of keep the resin in there and make it a lot easier without worrying about dripping or anything Exactly, it's like a natural kind of like Vessel for the resin. Yeah, perfect. Yeah now. I use really tiny tools for this So my favorite tool is a micro daughter I call it a micro daughter technically it's a clay sculpture tool But you can get them on amazon or pretty much anywhere that you get clay sculpture For the first little bit we're going to do just dip and dot dip and dot Just like when we did the spiral i'm going to lay out my first row the same way by dotting at 12 o'clock Around the center dot spin it around 12 o'clock again Making sure I clean off my tool very regularly so the paint doesn't build up too much that one actually needs to be a little bit bigger And then at 12 o'clock again spin And 12 o'clock again once I get the four Directions on there north southeast west now. I'm going to go in and just start literally dividing any blank space in half It's amazing when you look at the finished product and you're like wondering how on earth Did that you know come to be and it's so perfect, but it's a formula. Yes start the same way Yeah, every piece starts the same way. Yeah And you can make it as simple or as detailed I guess as you as you like, right? Absolutely space will allow And you can go with any size right like if I was to do a slightly larger dot Then I would potentially have some room If I can just show this one as an example see how that one has little tiny gold dots in between the red So that was that effect would be formed by instead of using this tiny tool for the orange I'd use a larger one space them out a little bit more and purposely leave space in there So it's amazing how just something so simple like that can change the entire look of a design Compared to keeping it super compact Gosh the possibilities really severe endless And that's the that's the fun part, right? You know, I've got a lot of people that ask me, you know What should I do to practice? Pick one design just a single design if you fall in love with the spiral Do the spiral over and over and over and over again and just change up the colors And then start adding more detail in between different things You can you can build on every single one of these patterns and they will all look different If you just switch up the color and changing the size of your dotting tool. Yes. Yes adding gold. Yeah So many variations when changing the size of your dotting tool too is going to basically change the number of segments You have in your mandala too, right? So you can have a completely different looking mandala Exactly the same colors just with the different sizes Okay, so I'm going to do one more row of these dots that are all the same size And then I will build out into the petal pattern So I'm going to keep following the colors of the rainbow All right, so I'm going to now start building The pattern to do some petals. So I'm going to start with a fairly small dot But I'm only going to do every other space Okay, so to create these petal designs We do a technique called walking the dots So up until now I have done dip and dot dip and dot This time we're going to do some of the dip and dot But then walking the dots is actually dip once and then dot a few times without reloading the tool Okay So the first thing I'm going to do is I'm going to create the peak of my petal So the nice pointy top if you want really pointy petal shapes You either need to increase the size of the dot that you're putting at the peak Or move the peak out a little bit further from that dot Okay, so not have it go quite as tight up next to that dot So I always do the peak dots first And I'm doing it with a larger tool than what I'm going to do The walking dots with So I do this just to make sure that my petals point in the direction that I want them to go And that's why I also dot a cross for me to hopefully create those straight lines So I've dipped the tool in the paint And now I'm going to Oh my gosh just like that So you're kind of creating like it's creating a fade, I guess right by that Oh my gosh So see how they just gradually get smaller and smaller So you want to make sure you don't put too much paint on and To clean off the tool On a very very regular basis when you're doing this You need a steady hand And again, there's no rules You want to do one you want to do five you want to do them in reverse so you want to Start walking them from the bottom out towards the peak You can do it any way you want to and that's the fun stuff to explore And there's so many different ways that you can arrange these patterns to create 3d effects too because of the Size difference in the walking dots All right, so I'm going to keep going with another color. We're going to do another row of the walking dots So actually So this time I'm going to use the same tool that I did for the peak dots in the blue But this time I'm going to use it for the peak dots and the walking dots I'm not going to switch to the micro daughter for the walking dots And I can start to feel that I'm starting to go up the side a little bit Um, so this is where I start to kind of really watch for um Am I going up the side at the same spot like am I actually centered on this thing? To see if there's any spacing issues That I might come across that might make it look like it's really off center. I see If you find that it's off center on the side that it's off center You just move your dot out a little bit further Once the design is done you will never notice that this Dot is A 16th of an inch out further to the edge than the others. Yes, you can camouflage an awful lot of spacing issues Um, it's a huge thing that I talk about a lot on my lives is Give yourself the opportunity to finish the piece before you criticize it and throw it away Yes, because once you build it and it's done chances are you're going to go back And you're not even going to be able to find the thing that bothered you so much Exactly, and there's an hour before a huge difference between staring at it close up and and standing back and taking a look. Yes Gives you a completely different perspective So what I'm going to do I'm going to do this a little bit different Because why not? So I'm going to do every other one in the purple And then I'm going to do the other ones in the pink This is absolutely gorgeous I am going to grab some gold And here for the last bit of detail that gold looks perfect And there we go. Oh my gosh. She's done that gold is the perfect finishing touch It's amazing how something just so little and tiny and subtle can make a big difference But we're done. This is now ready to dry It is absolutely gorgeous. I love it. Yeah, so about a half an hour It should be ready to go and then we can pour some resin amazing So our next step is getting resin. All right So we've got our resin. We're ready to mix up. Yeah, and we're going to mix a very tiny amount now Of course, this is going to vary different depending on how many of these you make at any given time But because we're just doing the one we're going to mix just a really tiny amount here And that's the great thing about art resin you can mix as long as you stick to the one to one ratio You can mix a teeny tiny amount like this or a larger amount. Okay. I think we're good. We're nice and clear So let's bring the pendant back I usually said it when I'm curing or pouring a whole bunch of these pendants I actually use a lot of these cups turned upside down on a tray Yes, because then once these cups once they're balancing on these cups Then I can at least pick up the tray and move it Without anything too major happening or I can move all the little cups But it's nice because it's a small enough thing to set it on So that the edge still kind of comes over so if I'm over pour by accident I'm not going to seal my paint Yes, tin shut right exactly. Yeah, and instead of pouring what I usually do is I usually go with my toothpick Or my tooth, uh, that's not nothing has to do with the tooth with this one. Is it popsicle stick And just kind of spoon it out What a great tip and then you can really control the amount of resin that you're Yeah, because I want to be really really careful that it's not going to go over that edge, right Fantastic, so we're going to let this cure now. We're going to cover it up. I actually know We're going to torch it. Yes, because there are a few bubbles in there. Okay. Okay. We're going to torch Okay, so I think I got it all Take a look from a couple different angles to make sure It really helps to look in the light to see if you've missed anything, but that looks amazing Jamie, I think you got it and it stayed in there everything stayed where I want it to be So now we just have to let it cure for 24 hours and it'll be ready to have the hook glued on the back Um, but instead of waiting for this particular one to cure I actually have one that is cured that just doesn't have it glued on So we can cover this one and put it aside and then we'll grab the other and I'll show you how I finish off The rest of it sounds good. So I'm just going to cover this up prevent any dust from getting in Okay, so the first thing I do is I have three different colors that I could put for the bales on the back of The necklace pendant So I lay all three of them out unless I or have already decided and built one of these colors into the piece I lay them out and just kind of place the piece on top so I can see Which one of these I like the best for the colors You can buy all kinds of different colors of these you can get these on amazon You can get a couple hundred of them for about ten dollars. Oh amazing So I'm going to use the gold. Yeah, I agree. That's the best it makes it punch a little better Especially with the yellow. Yeah, it really makes the yellow pop So what I want to do is I want to have that sitting there, but I also want to kind of plan Where that is going to line up with for the rest of the design So I know that that look keeps the paw print fairly straight. Yes Yeah, um, when you have something that doesn't have the paw print. It's just a circle It's a lot easier to pick a spot I use a tube of gorilla glue. Okay, and I just put a little bit of it on the bile itself And then I just pick this up and literally Just hold it there until it starts to cure Doesn't usually take very long So once I put the glue on and I know that it's set Then I usually flip it upside down for a little bit. Let it dry for about a half an hour Just to make sure glue doesn't get on anything But then you're good to go and the most fun part is when you've done a whole bunch of them Just like when you go shopping and you come home and you want to see all of your stuff again It's just get the all with its all all its buddies and just see them all together Oh admire your collection here and get some inspiration for the next bunch that you want to try, right? Absolutely They are so gorgeous and jamie. I am so grateful to you for coming in today and showing us how you create your beautiful Mandela pendants and you gave us so many tips and tricks on different color combinations and patterns and You know even the color of the pendants themselves, so I appreciate it so much. I'm so glad you invited me Thank you so much for having me here. This has been so much fun Okay, jamie on to the next project now I am so excited and I'm not going to lie a little bit nervous About this mandela panel here, but it is so beautiful. Do you want to explain what the process is sure? So we're going to try and replicate This kind of a spiral design We've got eight inch wood panels that we're going to do So we're not going to do these bands of colors or the gold in the corner Okay, but we will get that spiral in there So things that you want to keep in mind whether you're painting on canvas or wood or stone or anything Is that most of the time you're going to want to have some guidelines now For stone and everything you can get some stencils that will actually draw the guidelines on there for you Have all of your sections there, but on wood or canvas then I always draw my own now A lot of dot mandela artists get very very meticulous with their measurements And I think I frustrate them a lot because I don't Now I am taking a course in sacred geometry So eventually I would like to work those ratios into my guidelines Like some dot artists do but I'm definitely not there yet Right now my guidelines are there to help me keep straight Keep my patterns where I want them to be and to let me know that I'm on track Even if I'm not really paying attention to them. I kind of just like them in the background. They're my safety net right so um When you're painting on any wood or anything the the thing that I find the best is a watercolor pencil crayon Okay, because you can erase it off But then at the end anything that doesn't come off you can just use like a white q-tip and just wipe it off Then it'll get rid of your guidelines. Nice and easy Amazing. So we've got a little bucket of tools here. Um, I use a combination of a few different things I have a clay sculpture tool Um, and actually a bunch of other sets that are clay sculpture or nail art tools And then I also have a set by a company called diy mandala stones They look like these little pencils and they're all different sizes So every end has a different size So, okay, so the circle on the end will make a dot exactly So you dip the end into the paint and then place the dot now in a perfect world You don't want excuse me. You don't want the tool to actually hit the surface Because that can create some suction. Oh the paint and it can actually misshape your dots What you want to do is get enough paint on the tool so that when you kind of hover near the surface The surface makes contact with the paint and pulls the paint off of the tool As opposed to you applying pressure to force the paint onto the surface. Does that make sense? Yes, it does I can imagine if you put too much pressure the paint can kind of spread and yeah And heaven forbid if there's a little bubble in there and it pops out the side, it's infuriating Happens all the time though. So one of the other things that I'm going to make sure that I show you is What we do if we make a mistake or if there's something we want to change because it is not the end of the world We just cover it up with a little black paint same as our base color It's a lot of the reason why I use black base coats on most of my paintings Because it gives me that ability to hide anything. Good. That's a relief So we can make a couple mistakes and fix them. Absolutely. Okay, good. Um, so you need um, A watercolor pencil crayon or a charcoal pencil And a ruler an eraser And a compass as well Perfect and then these panels here. These are wood panels and we painted them with acrylic paint. Yes Yeah, just black acrylic paint. So um, and we're going to do rainbow colors just like in here We've got eight rainbow colors I put them in the little paint pots because it makes life a little easier So I'm not constantly cleaning out palettes and dealing with all the gumminess on the bottles and everything And this is also just a regular acrylic paint. Yep. Uh, these are acrylic paints that I got from Dalarama. Okay. Yep. So just crack craft paint. Yeah, exactly So the thing to keep in mind is when you're using regular craft acrylic paints when it's thinner paints The larger your dots get The bigger the chance that as they dry, they're going to crack. I see, right? So it's wanting to keep an eye on how thin your paints are and really getting to know your paints Do they like I tell people all the time you need to get to know your tools and you need to get to know Your paints and the only way to do that is to just paint as much as you possibly can Because then you're going to say okay. Well that pink I can't do large dots with it The way it is. Right. So then I need to either mix in another paint That's maybe a bit thicker or add in a bit of pouring medium. That could help kind of Bind it together so it doesn't crack and in the event that one of these did crack Can you touch it up afterwards? Yes So I would go back over and what I would probably do at that point That would help me identify which paint might be a little bit too watery that I didn't pick up on So I would go back in put in just one or two drops of pouring medium and put another dot completely Over top and see if that solves the problem right and if it doesn't then we just keep going with trial and error until we find something Love it. Okay. I'm ready to get started. I think all right perfect So we will start by dividing this in half So the first thing that I do is I just go in with my ruler now There's a couple different ways you can do this with a round Surface that you're painting on okay If you really want to make life easier for yourself get a piece of paper trace the circle onto that piece of paper Fold that piece that cut out the circle Sorry, then fold it in quarters and then snip off just the little corner Then when you lay it back down on top of the surface your center is marked, right? I don't like to make life easy for myself. I feel like I specifically go out of my way to make it difficult So we're going to do this with the ruler. All right So I just kind of move my ruler up and down when you get to the edge of the circle into the widest part of the circle You start to kind of watch where the lines are on your ruler So you can tell if you've actually started to center it or not So once it looks like it's Around the right spot. I am going to first mark halfway And then I'm going to draw my first line So that halfway is just what I can line up when I turn and do the second line. Okay. Gotcha. That makes sense Yeah, once I've got that marked then I turn my ruler And I usually turn the piece as well And then what I like to do is the long line on the ruler for say the five inch or the four inch mark I line that up on the line. I've already drawn and that helps me keep it perpendicular And then draw my next line. So I really only have to measure that once right the edge and then my center point So then I go in with my compass and I will Place it in the center so it doesn't have a super sharp end on it Try and keep your pencil super sharp as well And don't worry about specific measurements And then I kind of go out to the widest part first And the reason I do this is because if I go out here and this is really off I'm going to see it right away. Right and I've only got a couple guidelines down So if I've got it really off then I have not too big of a mess to fix up If I got to that point and realized that my last line Was super super off. I just paint over it and start over again, right? Right. So this gives me a quick little look at how I did with finding my center That is such a good tip pretty darn close. It's a little bit off, but not by much Not enough that's worth starting over. Okay. Good. So yeah, that's why I always do the outer one first To make sure that if it's off, I have the opportunity to fix it Good idea. Even though we're creating the same piece the guidelines don't need to match These are just for just for reference points, right the more more ways we can give ourselves reference points The better our spacing is going to be I love the way you're doing this. So it's kind of like free form Organic. Yeah, yeah, let's see what happens, right? And and that's a thing a thing that intimidates a lot of people when they look at a new art farm Is they think that they need to know so much before they get started you you really don't or it needs to be perfect Yeah, yes, what's the right way to do it the right way is doing it Just do it do it in a way that works for you Yeah, yeah, and if it means that you spend more time creating and adding some more beauty to the world and heaven forbid being happier Then who cares if it's the right or wrong way according to someone else's definition, right? I love that. So there we go That one is ready to go The next step is going to be going over it with this eraser and I just lightly erase it I want to still be able to see the guidelines But I want to remove any of that Additional waxiness that could be there Because that extra waxiness could impact the shape of my dots If I dot over top of one of these lines before I erase it It will pinch the sides of the dots in and almost make it look like a little hourglass. I see So you're erasing it just enough so you can still kind of see the ghost lines of as a guideline Exactly. So get all the shavings out of here So I can still see them but they're much fainter, right Amazing and that's it. So then we are ready to put down the first dot and start painting. All right. I think I'm ready All right, so we're going to put our first dot on but the first dot is the most stressful part So we're going to get all the stress out of the way at the very beginning And then we're going to be able to relax and just enjoy going through the motions as we get going Okay, the reason for that is is that even though you've got your guidelines down You still have to rely on your hand to bring the tool down on the spot that you want it to and keep it nice and nice and Centered, right? Okay So that's one of the reasons why we did these really small guidelines in here that smallest circle Because if it was much bigger you would have to guess whether or not this tool is actually in the center of that circle That you made Whereas if we do the smaller circle if we center it over here I'm going to notice that I'm way off center from my guide, right? Okay, so I'll show you Before you do your center dot So when you dip your tool in the paint you just want to kind of have like that quarter inch covered And then eventually that paint will snap off like that and then we're ready to place our first dot Okay, so you're not dunking it right in you're just going up Like just that little bit like a 16 through an eighth of an inch. Yeah, okay Trying to keep it at as much of a 90 degree angle as you can Okay, come down and what I try to do is when I get down to about here This is when I kind of try to look around the piece to see If it looks like I'm kind of centered within that smallest guideline And it does so then See how I'm not pressing hard down though, right? Right like you're making contact that you're not putting pressure. Yeah. Yeah, and it even still had a little bit Less paint than I expected So see how it's a little bit spongy and puckery it hasn't covered the entire surface Yeah, so that just tells me that I didn't have enough paint on there So I'm just going to grab a little bit more and then Just let that kind of pull down Onto that space and sometimes I'll even take a nail dotting stylus tool Oh, and just kind of move it around a little spread it out. Yeah Yeah Just to smooth it out the paint very much like the resin does a lot of self level Thankfully Um, but just in case so I'm going to clean this tool off Always make sure if you're doing this art form that you have Cloths paper towels something to wipe your tools off because you have to clean them off a lot, right? Okay, a lot a lot All right. You want to give a shot? I sure do. All right So this circle here is quite a bit bigger than the tool. Does that matter? No, that's okay So what we wanted to really do is to make sure that this outer circle wasn't our only point of reference Okay, so we don't have to line up with this circle We just want to use that as our point of reference because any Movements or off centeredness within that circle You're going to be able to see them pretty clearly from top down. Okay, so we just want to make sure it's centered Yeah, exactly. Okay, so I'm gonna dip. Yay. Here comes the moment of truth. Looks good Looks good. Well done. That's like perfectly centered So you got the puckering too and that happens a lot especially when you get to the larger tools So it's um, just grab some extra paint. Okay in again and just kind of add a little bit of paint to it. Okay Oh my gosh Okay, so you've added the extra paint you don't have to worry about pushing it around with that tool You can grab one of these nail dotting stylus tools and just kind of move the paint around a little bit And that will give you A nice spot There we go. There you go. That's perfect. Looks good. Went down So the only trade-off with these little paint plots is you do have to kind of take the paint the the lids off and on over and over again, but It definitely helps actually we're going to keep the red And I'm going to use this tool. It has a little metal ball on the end just like on the end of mine Yes, okay. Okay. So I'm going to dip my tool into the paint Not a ton of paint right still just kind of dip and dot dip and dot you want to be able to get into that rhythm So you don't need to stir and scoop and kind of play with the paint too too much So dip and then I'm going to put my first dot up here at 12 o'clock. Okay Just a little bit away From the center dot because I don't want the paint to run together Then what I do is I'm going to spin it and then I'm going to dot 12 o'clock again About the same distance away from the center dot. Okay. Okay. That's going to be it for the red For this first row because we're going to alternate a bunch of colors to get that rainbow spin effect. Okay, perfect. So The reason I paint across for me is it helps me keep a straighter line If I was to do the dots down here We all naturally pull slightly to the left or the right and so that can kind of script the spacing a little bit So I prefer to kind of always go across from me and then I can kind of almost draw that line From my reference point. So then I call this the clock method or The poles Right, I'm going to go now and do my north pole and keep spinning it until I start filling in Everything in the north pole and and it's opposite. Yeah, that makes so much sense. It makes it really methodical Yeah, and that's what makes it a little bit easier Especially if you have that kind of brain that likes to know what order you do things in to follow that process Yes, all right So I'm going to do my entire first small circle first then we'll do yours once you've got that down You've kind of got the foundation down and the rest is going to make a lot more sense Okay, when you are alternating your colors around you almost have to have a bit of a plan in your head For how are you going to divide this up because I have my north and south pole But now how do I determine what colors are going to go? On the east and the west or when I turn it this way my north and south again So what I usually like to do is I've got my eight colors that I'm going to use This is color. I kind of count. This is color number one Halfway is going to be color number four Okay Which means the start of the second section is going to be color number five Okay, so this is color number one. So in between Here and here I'm going to put color number one two three four And then five is going to start here and then we'll have six seven eight Going the rest of the way. Okay, okay So I just kind of make sure that my colors are in the order that I want them to be in I'll put the gold paint over there for now Um, and then I'm going to go to color number five, which is the teal Okay, and you've got them set out in the rainbow kind of pattern. Okay And then as I use them I just kind of go back into the rainbow and put them back where they belong So that my order is always there. It's really only in the first row though that it is going to impact you So we go in now same size tool And then do those dots again. Whoops me a little bit more Spin it around again So then the next thing I do To keep things simple Um is I now look so I've got color number one and I've got color number five Halfway between one and five is three. Yes I want to use color number three now, which is yellow And I am going to place this yellow dot halfway between the red and the blue So I'm going to spin this this way and it's going to go right there. This is so satisfying And then spin it again and go right here Okay, cleaning off my tool after each color change And when you're creating a whole bunch of them, then you clean it off even more Then I go back and grab color number two, which is my orange And the orange is going to go in between The red and the yellow red and yellow again. Whoops. That's a little bit big. That's okay And then I go to number four And then this is how we just fill in the whole rest of that first row Okay, so now I go in with the green Place back here It makes so much sense When you look at the you know piece as a whole, it's almost a little overwhelming. How how did that happen? You know, how did you know what order? How did you know the spacing? How did you figure out where everything's supposed to go? Right? And so between the teal and the red I've got three colors just like I had here. So five between five and Um color number one again, which would be nine. I was number seven So I'm gonna go that's five six seven, which is my purple And I'm going to divide this space in half If you were using a single color going around which a lot of these designs I start off that way You would divide up this center circle the exact same way The only reason this is looking a little bit more complicated is because we're changing colors, right? Right, but if I wanted that entire inner circle to be red I would just not change colors, but I would still go through the same process of continually dividing each space in half So follow the same pattern. Yeah, and that works even if you're creating a larger one Right like those bands that are around that original piece that we showed what I did is I started with the north Set in south poles turned it north and south and then literally just continually kept dividing each section in half Over and over and over again until I got my spacing where I needed it to be amazing I've had people ask me the question of how do you know what size tool to use so that the dots are going to fit properly? I tell them the same thing You don't I don't know We'll find out It's this beautiful, you know Combination of like process and science and math and like winging it which I love. Yeah Yeah, there's enough structure But there's not too much structure, right? Yeah, I like it Okay So what this is doing is this is laying us a really nice foundation because Every dot that we lay down after this is going to be somehow lined up with what we did here So our next row of dots for example Is going to go I'm just going to cheat and I'm going to show you the next one This next row just to give you the idea of where we're going. I'm with that same color I'm just going to put it in that line it up with that space Between the red and the pink from before Right. So when we talk about points of reference, right? I'm using the pink and the red that are already there as the point of reference for where I put this dot So it's in the center of those two, right and try to get them at about the same distance apart, right? Like the same size and the same distance from the previous ones That dot looks awful. So let's quickly before we jump into yours Let's quickly show how to do a deal with a mistake. Okay. So this one here looks like a soupy mess to me So what I'm going to do is I've got these nail dotting stylus tools that have a silicone brush on the end Um a q-tip a cotton swab a piece of tissue on the end of your finger anything can work I just like these because they're um a little more precise Okay, and I can get in really tiny with the detail Right like if I went in there with my finger in a Kleenex, I might as well just start over the whole section Yeah So I slowly kind of pull that paint to just kind of pull it off And then I usually wipe my hand wipe it on my hands And then we just grab a little tiny paint brush and a little bit of the black paint Just a tiny little bit of black paint and we just cover that over I need never know never know So then we could continue on alternating our colors again, right? So I put the red dot here between the red and the orange the orange between the orange and the yellow And so on all the way around and then by the time I'm done those other ones that little black spot will be dry And I can go in and replace that pink dot and be ready to move on good to try it on yours. I think so Yeah, perfect. So I'll help you out with the colors. I'll help you with the tool sizes any questions I'm Going to focus on you and then once you're comfortable then we'll start painting together and just build this out Perfect that sounds good. All right. Okay. So I've got my tool here I've got my red paint and I'm going to put two dots one at 12 and one at 6 right? Okay And how's that look that's a really good amount of paint perfect, okay and I'm going to put it fairly close to the red circle, right? Yeah. Think about that. Yeah, that looks perfect Oops. Oh, it's a little tiny. That's okay. So you know where you've got your location perfect So it just means that the paint just didn't stick to where it should have for some reason So it might be a tool size issue. I might get you to change your tool size But yeah, just add a little bit of paint and see I might have to put glasses on for this one you guys Well, you're perfect. Absolutely perfect. And then we're going to spin it around. Yeah, so we're working at 12 again. Exactly And then redip. Oh redip. Okay Yep, I need a little bit more paint. So redip again and what I'll do is for the next colors I'll give you a different tool that'll give you a little bit more Actually, no that one will probably still be good. Yeah, that's a little bit more. No, I think that looks good. Okay Okay, so I remember now We're going to do so that was color one two three four five. Exactly. It's going to be our next and I'm going to rotate this So I'm always working at 12 Now this paint is a little bit thicker. So this teal paint is a quite a bit thicker than the red Um, so it's possible that it might give you slightly larger dots. It might give you a little bit less. So, okay Um, that's the hard part right is they don't all behave equally So, you know what? I can see here that this line intersecting is not in the center of the circle That's a really good question because that's going to happen a lot. It happens to me all the time This is a moment where I have to tell myself then the guidelines don't matter As far as the bisecting. Okay, right? If we think of them less as guidelines and more of points as points of reference Okay, then we're okay. Okay, because what this can now do is that straight line can be a point of reference for you to Make sure that you're spacing this one correctly too. Okay, so focus more about about halfway between those two red dots Then wear that guideline. Okay, kind of always have the guidelines there is in the background But don't live and die by them. Perfect Yep Lovely. Yep looks good. This is a button. So then halfway between red and teal Yep It's yellow. Yep. You got it. Okay. So I'm gonna rotate make my own New and now you're just literally dividing those spaces in half This is really um Very relaxing. Yay. It's kind of a zen kind of activity. I can see that. I'm so glad that that's how you feel Okay, so your first row is done. Yes So now what you're going to do just to kind of see the ideas will get you to place that first dot Like I did there. Okay. So you are going to go with We're gonna give you a two so this ends And then when you place your pink dot you have a decision to make which direction do you want your spiral to go in? Looking at this piece. I can choose To place the next row of dots whichever way I want to align them So if I had aligned them this way instead of this way That would have had my spiral going the opposite direction So if you're going to keep going This way and have the pink over the purple the pink between the pink and the purple Or you can have it here between the pink and the red So it's going to just change the direction of your spiral. I kind of like this clockwise kind of okay So then you're going to do With the size two tool you'll do the same thing doing 12 o'clock and 6 o'clock again And you're going to use these two dots here as your main points of reference Okay, we don't care about any of the other guidelines right now. This one can be a little bit of one, but not really We want to get this as close to in between Those two as we can and not stuffing it down in there too tightly together We want to leave a little bit of space so that this next one is still its own distinct row It's not Interlocked in there. All right Good. How do you feel? I feel good. Yeah, so this will make sense You feel like we can just start going I think so. Okay. So what we'll do then is then I'll help you with the tool sizes I'll help you with the colors when you need to but I'm going to paint alongside you and then we'll get the design done and See how quickly we can get through it. Okay, perfect Fun I'm so glad. Thank you for showing me how to do this. You're welcome. We're not done yet. We're not done yet That's right. We got to put some gold. We got to add some bling So are you ready to add a little gold detail? Let's do it. Okay, perfect So Jamie and I had so much fun making our mandalas and we talked so much that we ran out of time So although I think it looks absolutely gorgeous the way it is There is one more final touch and that is applying the gold dots When you add something like this to a piece like this, it's really going to pop We don't want to take up a lot of the space in between We want to make sure there's still a lot of the black background showing through But it's just enough that's going to add a little bit of bling that'll just kind of take your breath away I'm so excited. So the idea is we're going to put teeny tiny little gold dots around the colored dots and then Go out exactly. So we're going to start with really small ones And then we're going to gradually increase our tool size as we move out towards the edge to gradually make those Gold dots a little bit bigger The hard part with one of these spirals is just following the circles So we're going to take our time and make sure we kind of get it in there But once you get going it stands out and you'll be able to see it nice and easy And what tools are we going to use? So we each have four different nail dotting stylus tools They're all about the same size. So we have one that is a micro daughter tool One that is a straight tool One that has a really small little metal ball on the end And one that has just a slightly bigger metal ball on the end So the nice thing about doing this is that You can change the size of the dot not just by changing your tool But by changing the amount of paint that you have on the tool So each of these tools we're actually going to be able to use them for two or three rows each And still be able to change the dot size without have to be constantly changing tools Sounds good. Yeah, so these are pretty tiny little dots. Do you think I'm going to need my glasses for this one? I would I would almost guarantee it Okay, so with this we're going to do dip and dot dip and dot just like when we were doing the spiral design Making sure we're cleaning off the tool every two or three dots Just taking a small amount of paint for now And then you're literally going to go right in between two of the dots in that first row around the center circle All right. I got it. I'm excited Are you happy? I am so happy with it. I think we should lift them up for just a little second So we need to wait for it to dry before we can put resin on Yes, um, and we had a couple little touch ups that we wanted to do So we want to make sure that that drives completely before we put the resin on right So it should be about a half an hour or 40 minutes maximum Before it's dry and ready to go and then we'll come back and resin. All right. I can't wait to see the resin on this I know all the colors are going to pop. Okay, so let's let these guys dry. Perfect. Okay All right, jamie. So you ready to resin? I'm ready. Awesome So what I did was went on to the art resin website I went to art resin dot com slash circle and we have a circle calculator there So these are eight inch panels So I've punched in eight inches and the calculator let me know that we need two ounces to cover this piece So we've got two So we need four ounces all together So that's two ounces of resin and two ounces of hardener for a total of four ounces All right, so should we go ahead and measure and mix? Perfect. Awesome. All right So what jamie and I are going to do is we're going to dome our piece So what that means is we're only going to apply resin to the very top Of our piece. We're going to leave the sides Unresinned now if you wanted to you certainly could resin the sides as well But what you'll probably want to tape the back and that's going to prevent Drips from accumulating on the bottom And you'll also want to put your piece up on a stand to avoid it getting stuck to your table Okay, but we're going to just dome it So we don't need to put it on stands And again, it doesn't matter if you measure your resin first or your hardener We just want two ounces of each and we're going to mix it up for three minutes. All right, we'll give it a stir Okay, so we're going to scrape the sides and the bottom as we stir and that's going to ensure that every little bit of resin and hardener Are mixed together because if there's anything left On the sides that's not mixed in when you pour you're going to end up with sticky spots in your resin from the uncured resin and hardener And just one more note too There's a couple little paint smudges. I've got one here. Jamie has a little purple smudge there So that's another advantage of doming We can put the resin on top and then afterwards we can touch up With black paint or if you want you can use gold paint that would look really nice as well with the gold dot So lots of options there for you How we do in there with the resin? I think we are good So Let's do this. I have to make sure that I don't pour too much and make sure I leave some for you That's always satisfying, isn't it? Yeah And you probably do want to pour the full like two ounces because one we're not covering the sides So there's probably a little more in there Then we might need Okay, so I poured just a little over an ounce No, just a little under an ounce. There we go Yeah, always better to start with a little less than you think you need Oh my gosh, you're right up to the edge. You're a little braver than I am. I'm going to use this little spatula And nudge the the resin right to the edge here I'm tempting fire for sure Now if you don't have a spatula like this you can use a plastic takeout knife as well that works really well too And art resin has got such a beautiful viscosity that really it just stays where you want it to go So you can nudge it right up to the edge And it'll hold hold in place Now when you're doming You certainly can tape off the bottom if you wish just for a little extra insurance But after you've been doming for a little bit you kind of get a good feel for it and you don't really need to tape anymore You just love how the colors are popping even more now Okay, so I'm done nine and Jamie how's yours looking? It looks pretty good. I think it is ready for a torch Let me grab our torch here a little bald spot there. So I'm just going to make sure that's good So let's just give it a quick pass just to get rid of any of those bubbles That's so satisfying. It is you only do yours sure. Okay There's lots of bubbles there for you So we're ready now to cover it and wait 24 hours and then it's going to be ready for the wall After we sign it always always always sign your work, right? Yes. Okay, here we go Okay, we'll see you tomorrow All right, Jamie ready for the reveal. I'm ready. All right Here they are Oh my gosh, they look absolutely perfect I cannot get over how much the color pops after putting a layer of resin on it. Yes It's spectacular. They look so good. You did a beautiful job. Thank you. You know what when you I first saw your work I thought there was no way that I could do this But I did and it looks fantastic. So thank you so much for showing me how you're most welcome Thank you for inviting me to come. This has been great. I've had so much fun here Me too. 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