 And I want to kind of explore this style a little bit. I also did one that was like a splash kind of, I don't know if that makes sense, but it was a splash and I really loved working on it. And I'm going to try to do another splash, but I guess it's kind of what I've been trying to do with, what is that, alcohol, nope, the acrylics, how I like to get some motion and it never really worked. So I'm going to try to do that with these guys in theory. We'll see. Also, it's been a crappy rainy day and I'm hoping that doesn't interfere with Bowie that is not for Bowie's to lay on. Hoping that doesn't really interfere with the inks drying. Hello, Shelly, Susan, TG, Carol, and Melissa. Hope you all have had a great day. I'm going to watch you guys on there and hopefully I'll stay in focus. Also, Bowie says hi. Hi, big boy. So this one was with aquas and browns. Really hard to show without it folding. Anyways, looks like that. And then Jeff did a decal on it for me. And this was aqua and a red and then Jeff did the diamond decal on it for me. I like how both of them turned out. It's been great so far until 9 a.m. Awesome. Yeah, the flooding in Dallas is no joke right now. But Jeff and I live in a high rise. I mean, we're only on the second dish floor, but we haven't had any direct issues. I know there's a lot of places that like lost power and had issues, but we're good. Bowie took a couple of walks over this paper. So there's a little bit of dust on it. So I should probably zoom you guys in just a smidgen. Hopefully that's a little bit better. It is pre-Bowied. Hello, Meryl. What's up, happy? Hopefully that silver shimmer will be in this week. And I can ship all those. Excuse me, the back orders. OK, I guess for just a warm up, I'm going to do one that was kind of like the blue one. Thank you. I'm going to be using 91% alcohol. I have that already in this bottle and this little tea time, baby bottle. Really going to sniffle all through this. I hope not. So. Hey, Jacqueline, Lisa, but we go lay down. You don't need to breathe any of this alcohol in. Also, TG sent me some of these epoxy candy colorants. I just cleaned that. OK. So Bowie says hi. Hello, Tressa. These epoxy candy shimmering mixture alcohol inks. Um, TG sent me AM 015 Tropical Grapefruit. AM 1 Nope. AM 016 Mermaid and B. And AM 011 Kaleidoscope. And they are kind of reminiscent of the Marabu inks. But I think they're not as heavy and they're not as I guess sticky. If you've tried the Marabu inks, you know that once they hit your surface, that's where they live. Come over here. Good boy. And these ones are a little bit more mobile, movable, moving, I don't know, words. Anyways, I'm also going to be playing with some of these from Funkadelic. They are also shimmery. I don't know if these ones have a ball bearing in it. And if not, then that's going to be a crucial flaw with these, because all of the particles will sink to the bottom and never move. It looks like he's frozen on the board. Well, he loves to get on the boards. Yeah, there's no ball bearing in these or it's no. If it sank, I would have seen it in the bottom. So I'll have to hard stir those. I do have Marabu bronze. I might use some zig colors. Some Spectrum Noirs, Copics. Healty inks. I don't know if I'm even saying that right. Some Wayan, I don't know if I'm saying that right. And some Ranger. I think that may be a spectrum of colors I may be working with today. If my sniffles get extra horrible, then let me know if I had a tissue. So, yeah, the word is that you can use those alcohol inks from epoxy candy in resin. I don't know if that's a fact. I will be testing that, but not right now right now because I don't have any resin mixed, but I will, I will be testing that for you guys. Ultimately, if it's alcohol, I don't know how well it's going to do. And all I can do is test to see if the color looks good and if it stays vibrant for a couple of days. Ultimately, the real test will be longevity of alcohol inks in resin if it will fade or not. So that would be hard to test just on my own. If I turn this, is it still in camera? Yeah, it's mostly in camera. All right, so how I'm going to do this is I'm going to throw some ink on here, put the colorant down and resplatter it. I'm not putting the inks directly on the paper. This is Yupo paper, I believe from Blick. And I have a whole bunch of big sheets, courtesy of my fairy art mother, G-U-D. And so I'm going to splatter alcohol first because if I use inks first, it could stain the Yupo and that may ruin what I'm trying to go for. This is heavy Yupo, so I will be using an embossing heat gun. So it's got less airflow and a little bit less heat than a regular heat gun. So it's probably going to warp it just a little bit because I get crazy with my heat, but only just a little bit. Okay, so I'm scared. Okay, I'm just going to go for it, right? I'm just going to go for it. Why does it make me so nervous to just do the first thing? All right, I've got two splats of color. So now I'm going to add actual, nope, splats of alcohol. I'm going to add the ink to where it looks like the color went. And I think this one I'm going to mix with some browns to start. So that first color is duck blue from Copic ink refills. This color is coffee from Wayan alcohol ink. Oh, okay. Sometimes it's hard to see where the alcohol ink has been. I mean, just the alcohol, the ink, obviously you can see. So we're going to start right there. And now I'm going to add more ink to splatter it out. And if only it would stay looking like that, it would be awesome, but it's not. So I'm going to have to maneuver it. I'm just going to turn it back to be in camera. I wish the splatters would stay, but I know they're not gonna. So all I can do is kind of maneuver the colors to do what I want them to do. And it looks like the brown is a lot more faint that I would have wanted them to be. I'm going to add some black from Wayan inks just to darken some areas that I haven't already evaporated too much of the alcohol. And that black is not super black, which can be good. May not be good for what I'm going for because I'm really wanting to bring in some depth right there. And I want this to curl in just slightly. So I'm going to just push that ink into a curl. And I can see that the heat's making this Yupo bubble up slightly already, which is fine. But while I'm letting some of that evaporate, I'm going to put some of this Kaleidoscope from EpoxyCandy. So because this has a ball bearing in it, this is the brand that I reviewed forever ago and said I was not a fan of it. I cannot remember if it was EpoxyCandy or EyeCandy, but there was candy involved. And the reason why I didn't like EpoxyCandy or EyeCandy, I can't remember which one it was, whichever one it was, they had droppers similar to this for their colorants, but didn't have a ball bearing. So everything came out kind of chalky. I can see the shimmer, but it's not that obvious, which could be good. Right now it just looks like kind of a dispersion fluid with just a little bit of shimmer in it, which could be good. It does kind of look like an abstract hair lip, doesn't it? Now I'm just trying to meld those extra drops in a little bit with the air. And I need more depth of color. So let's try some Spectrum Noir BT-8. This should be a really deep toned blue color. And if I have to add more alcohol, that's fine because nothing's really that dry yet. This kind of look like teeth. Hey Swamper, how are you doing? Glad to see you. So, oh, I also have some Let's Resin. Now, typically Let's Resin's alcohol inks have been not very pigmented, but I haven't tried them in a while, so let's see if they kind of changed up some stuff and made proper adjustments to darken the color just a little bit. I'm gonna add a little bit more alcohol to those areas. And ultimately what I would want to do with this is to have those gold, that looks like butterscotch a little bit. I would love to have gold foil kind of worked throughout. This piece, maybe just a circle or an oval that comes around so it looks like it's kind of, it's not exploding out, but maybe a little bit of exploding out. And also I thought maybe I would make like force a splatter with an airbrush, not on. That's okay, I can turn it on. Yeah. Sorry about the ruckus. That's what an airbrush sounds like. I'm not gonna use this airbrush because it doesn't have a guard on it. And I know I will break it. This one has a guard. Thank you, Bowie, for not stepping on the artwork. Look at my big boy. I'm gonna have to. So using an airbrush, it has no heat. It's just forcing air. You can hear the compressor in the background. So what I'm thinking about doing is kind of some of this, maybe. Grass is a deep blue-green color, usually golden this time of year. I have missed what you guys are talking about. That color is, I have no idea, from Kielty Ink. I wanna say it says Fuwa, but I could be very wrong. I've been wrong before. I just want a whole bunch of movement. And since there isn't a whole lot right here, I'm gonna see if I can kind of wake up a line of this aqua ink. Bowie, what are you doing? The compressor scared him. He didn't know how to get a knot over here. Bless him. So let's see if I can trail some of this color out. So that worked. I'm just not sure if I like the look of it. I think it got way too dark, but that's okay. So I can lighten it with like a Posca pen or other kinds of additions after it's dry. I'm not gonna do those additions today because this is gonna move to dry and be, what is this, the uterus is gonna have to unwarp. And that's gonna take a little bit. So I'm just gonna finish drying this and I'll let it relax while we do another piece. I just need to finish drying this before I move it or else it's gonna pull a resin and do whatever it wants to do. This almost looks oceanic to me, so I may do something drawn on it that has to do with under waterness. Maybe something in the realm of coral. We'll see. All right. Where's my this? I'm gonna do one with my go-to colors because I know that they won't really super muddy. Oh, I grabbed two. Big boy, you can't lay on that one, okay? Also, you shouldn't be next to this alcohol. Go lay down. Go, go, go. Go lay down. You wanna lay down over here? Oh, right there. Here it does say you can't. I'm gonna start with aqua and red. And then if we see fit, we'll throw in yellows. But maybe I'll just use gold, we'll see. Yellow and red are great to work together because, nope, this is not that. Aqua and red are great together because if they stay to their selves, they're awesome, like complementary colors. They really bring out the best shades in both of the colors. And also, if they mix together then I just make a pretty red purple. So, like this one I did, I only used the two colors I'm about to use. So, the aqua and the red look great and also the purple that they made together look great. So, that's what we're gonna do. I'm gonna put some of this metallic bronze from Marabu in there. Anytime you use a metallic, oops, make sure you shake up it because it really likes to separate, unfortunately. Okay, so why can't it just stay like that? Why does it have to keep moving? Someone help. Well, that color came up really easy. So, that's a good thing. I don't want a lot of hard lines in this so the heat that I'm adding right now is mainly to move the colors around. I'm gonna grab a rag as well because I'm working on my floor and it has got carpet on it. So, I have a little bit of Aline. So, I'm just gonna grab this airbrush and make everything move once I find this color that I was looking for. Yeah, there are some people stranded in Dallas due to flooding. So, as you can see, this airbrush pushes a lot more air than the heat gun but I wanted it to kind of splatter like this but not all of it. I'm gonna try to pull a couple of these out without, I don't wanna do this. I don't wanna create, well, maybe I do, maybe I don't. What do you guys think about that orb we created just there? Well, it's about to fill in anyway so it's gonna be a non-issue. So, I can already tell I'm gonna do a whole bunch of this that's not gonna be cohesive because I've got them going this way and this way. So, this is not gonna be the full look that I'm going for but sometimes I think you have to explore ways of getting the look you're going for without trying to do the piece in full. I don't know if that makes sense. In my head, it makes sense. I know that'll work to give me the splatter but I don't know if I can control it enough to make sense. And then in the final piece, I wanted to have some infinity lines as well and the way you get those is by drying areas, letting the ink kind of hang out and then continue to dry them. So, wherever the ink is when the alcohol evaporates is where it's gonna kind of stain and Claire can probably explain infinity lines better than I can. In fact, I'm sure she can or why it happens and what it does. Claire, if you don't know, Claire Lawrence Art is a crazy awesome genius when it comes to alcohol inks but these are infinity rings, these here. You guys, it has not stopped raining for, dare I say, 24 hours I think. So, you can see kind of some beating. I've been known to call it coagulation because I feel like that's what coagulation looks like but I think that is from having too much ink down and there being a lot of moisture in the air and I cannot believe I just dropped that word but it fit so it shipped. I didn't think this Marabu would sink so well but it did. Let that be a lesson, Marabu will sink wherever it is. Hi Melody, thank you. I've missed seeing your face. Your pieces have looked gorgeous and if you guys are in Australia and want, well actually she ships worldwide but she has some of the best silicone molds of ever if she's still making them. I know she's in high demand and I need to get another portrait done. I want to get a Bowie piece to go with my Pujo portrait. I'm wanting to plan another trip back to Australia. See some of our fam over there. I'm trying to blot up some of these coagulation areas because I don't know, sometimes I like them and sometimes they're a distraction. And they just bubble up like that. Yeah, she did this stained glass of Pujo. I saw her, some of her like people portraits. I don't even know how she does it but she is crazy, crazy talented with glass. Like even color matching, I don't know. She has talent that I didn't even know people could even have. Things are crazy in Dallas with the rain. It still hasn't stopped. Pretty sure animals are trying to find a boat to get on two by two right now. Just dabbing up more of the coagulation areas. We want to come back to Australia too. I'm glad like the world is finally reopened so we can get back to planning that trip. There is a whole new here. Nope, Bowie here. So my infinity lines are looking good. I tend to use indirect heat to do this but you have to be careful when you do that because a lot of times that's when your UFO can start to warp. I think I'm gonna make this something floral. It doesn't quite have my splash look that I wasn't going for but that's okay. I can make it something beautiful. I'll try not to give up on a piece until there's just no hope. But even though it's not exactly where I want it to be, that's okay. I'm not using that much alcohol because I find that when I do, I just wake up areas that I like and don't really end up fixing the areas that I'm trying to move, adjust or otherwise fix. I haven't tried that Revlon brush but I mean I have an airbrush that I could turn the PSI down on and have less risk of splatters. Honestly, I think if I bought one more air mover, Jeff would be like, what's wrong with the other 42 air blow machines that you already have? And he wouldn't be wrong. I just want this little bit to dry. I'm gonna use both. I don't know why I think using both will work better but if it's in my head then it is so. It dries pretty fast. And as you can see, there's a bit of a bubble here and a bit of a bubble here because the heat makes the Yupo kind of swell in those areas. But that's okay because it'll go back down. Meow. I'm gonna set this aside so it can finish doing its thing and go back down. And I'm going to ink this last sheet of Yupo and then tomorrow I will add all of the dust and the designs that I wanna add. I'll probably on that last one that I did do florals and then on the first one make it a something. What's the word? What did I, oh, coral reef. How did I forget that word? All right, I'm just grabbing some yellow. So I can use my favorite color palette, which is rainbow. All right, I'm not gonna try to splatter on this one because it didn't work on my last two attempts and I don't wanna have too many of the same looking pieces. Also, Clara Bowie is, he got up and started to come over but then I came back so he was like, no, I'm good. Hi, Gina. We're having a great day. I hope you are too. So I'm going to do kind of my favorite patterns, which is kind of from here to here. I don't know, sometimes I call it a scuba but mostly I call it like a Pepsi because it just is. So I'm actually gonna start with yellow even though most of the time I hate using yellow because it just always turns to mud in my world. But with alcohol ink, it seems to be the first color that gets lost, so I like to start there. I'm also gonna add the, where's Kaleidoscope? Nope, yep. Hopefully it won't get that lost in this one. I don't know why it's called Kaleidoscope. It doesn't have all that many colors in it. It looks more like just pearlescent. Also I'm a glutton for sparkly and shimmery things so that's why I use so much of that. This color looks fun. I'm gonna try to use some more of these funcadelic colors. It's Yupo and I can't get this one open. Okay, give up on that one. Ooh, this one sounds like it has a ball bearing in it. Makes all the difference. Ooh, and it's gold. I forgot these were like paintbrush applicators. I have a feeling that these are gonna sink. We'll find out together. Apparently not all of them have ball bearings. I feel like it would have shaken up from the bottom if it were present. That is a fun pink color. And it definitely has a lot of really nice shine to it. I'll get you guys in for a close-up in just a second. So everywhere that I'm gonna add a red, I'm gonna put a little bit of that pink color. And then for the aqua, I'm gonna try another one of these funcadelic shimmers. I don't think, you know, all of the prettiness is at the bottom of that one. Is it, can I get a little bit of the pretty? Yeah, there's a little bit in there. Okay. I'm gonna do my best to not have all three colors mixed together because when that happens, you get mud. But if you can mix just a couple of the colors at a time together, like these two and these two, and then these two, and then these two, I'm gonna put a little bit of blue right there. And then that will mix those two. That'll make nice colors. The secondary of all these is nice except it's not really that cute when all three of them mix together. So I'm gonna try to avoid that. I feel like it's getting really close to mixing all three of them right there. I think I inadvertently made an infinity symbol. That's okay, because we'll make something pretty out of an infinity symbol. So I'm not trying to go in and out through all of this and create all of these hard lines. I wanna have a lot of very soft looking blends between the colors. This is gonna be a real sketchy area because they are all coming together right there. So the shimmer from the Funkadelic Inks is a lot, I don't know if I'd say nicer, but probably nicer. It's a lot more evident than from the epoxy candy. That's not smart. So I'm gonna try to just control where these colors go for just a moment. This almost looks like a fish, but it doesn't, but almost. How far am I from the Yupo paper? I'm probably an inch and a half up from the paper. With the airbrush, I'm considerably higher because it's moving more air. It kind of feels like it's higher than 20 PSI. B, did you turn up your airbrush? Is your airbrush higher than 20? Susan, I'm putting an order in actually right now. What size are you looking for? I have an order going out tomorrow to the builder. I'll tell you what, you guys, alcohol inks definitely 1,000% do not work the same in humid conditions as they do otherwise. I did not have all this beading on the drier days and I used the exact same colors. A 40 inch round, but it's gonna have to go free and that is really expensive. It probably ended up being more than the cost of the board itself. So the biggest would probably be a 30. Would that be a size you're interested in or did you want me to find you pricing on the 40? See how soft these blends are instead of having all these hard lines? That's one of my favorite things about alcohol inks is how soft of a gradual blend you can get with them. You see, I was in a mask. Maybe I'll make this a Mardi Gras mask then. You can use photo paper for sure. These Yupo sheets are really great that Blick has. I am not an affiliate with Blick, mainly because I don't know how to figure out their paperwork for affiliates. It's actually quite confusing. But Judy got a lot of extra Yupo sheets and I was in the right place at the right time and she bestowed upon me a bunch of these large Yupo sheets and I can't thank her enough for them. She also let me borrow the Funkadelics to play with. Yeah, I can quote you, Susan. If you could send me a text or an email, that way I don't completely goldfish and forget by the time I get to my computer. That would be super awesome. So Jeff and I used to play this game where he would draw like three lines and then I would have to make an image based on the three lines or squiggles or whatever that he drew out. And sometimes I feel like that's the case with the alcohol inks that I do. And sometimes even the resin pieces. Like the medium gives me the challenge and then it's up to me to kind of manipulate it, move it or add to it in such a way that makes it a purchasable piece. And I think what I'm gonna end up doing is some of my favorite stuff, which would be adding some dots and then line work. Yup, that is gonna be what happens to this. It's just gonna be shapes. And obviously it can't help but to do flicks of color, flicks of alcohol, like that. Unfortunately it never shows up as well in yellows. I don't know if it's because the pigmentation is so different. Well, that would have to be it but I don't know why the pigmentation would be so different that that would happen. Also, I don't know what's happening here. I don't know why that messed up but sometimes you just have to blend it in and make it work splatter is some of my favorite. I think I like it best this way. And so I might even just some drips out of it. I don't know that the yellow will really do that much. Even if I don't like it this way, or I guess it would be this way for you guys, I could do it the other way and I could make things float upward and also make this a coral reef and have little fishies. Maybe I'll have Jeff cut me out some little gold fishies. Hi, Sandy, how are you doing? Yeah, Aqua and Brown is some of my faves as well. I appreciate that, you guys. Susan used one of my AI services for a piece that's on display at the library. I love it. I'm glad you like that surface. So there's some shimmer in the gold but the other ones aren't that impressive of a shimmer. Let me turn flash on. So you can see in the gold, there's a lot of really great shimmer from those spunkadelics and that worked up into some of the orange and pinkish areas. But if we go into just the blues, it's not so much until we hit back into the gold and where the pink was that we added. It is also not so much until we hit some of the gold. So it really comes down to making sure that those spunkadelics are really well mixed and the only one that I could kind of force mix is the one that the ball bearing moved and which was the gold. So the pink one and... Hey, Bubba. I wanna show you some pieces I did the other day and see what you guys think. So I did this one and it was the first one I did that got the movement that I was kind of really looking for all of this motion. But this was on a bigger piece of the Yupo that Judy sent me. Gina, I don't know. I have so many favorites. Gail, thank you so much. B, will you make a party sound? I cannot thank you enough for that, Gail. Your donation, super awesome, helps us and I really appreciate it. Everything that comes through the channel goes right back into the channel and it helps us to be able to do daily videos. So it makes my heart happy. Thank you so much. So, yeah, I love the movement. And my favorite medium is hard to say. Oh, TG, that's some of the Funkadelic. That's the mermaid one. Nope, not Funkadelic. That's the epoxy candy that you sent me. So these are actually the two colors that I just used on the red and aqua piece that I did. Same colors. That is super sweet of Gail, for sure. It definitely does help. So I did that and I was very into it. You can see that it kind of, this I tried to wipe off and it stained a bit. And I did this other one over here that didn't work out how I wanted it to so I started to wipe it off and it created this awesome, hairy, swiping look. And so I just went with it and then added a bunch of directional drips and ended up really liking how it looks. So I'm thinking about doing a video on this kind of pattern as well. Just let me know what you think if you would like to see this. It reminds me of like a punk mohawk right here. But this is, it's like a happy dream. Definitely is like a happy dream. So I can do a video on this very, not that difficult technique. This is also some of the epoxy candy shimmer in this one. But as you can see, it sank and did not want to go into that pattern that I was trying to get everything else to move into. Like slow motion of a wet hair flip. Oh my goodness, it is. So have you guys seen those people that are like in the water and they're like, whoa. And their hair just goes into this funky mohawk. I can definitely see that being what that is. Anyways, because of these two things I wanted to alcohol ink with you guys, but the wetness in the air didn't want to cooperate with me. So this will be the next alcohol ink stuff that I do. Maybe it will be tomorrow before we add the decals. If there's no wetness in the air, we'll do some of these. If you came in late, then come with me and I'll show you the pieces we did. I did these the other day. We got this one, this one we did today. A dehumidifier probably would help a little bit, but I don't know if it really would enough. So these, this one I did the other day, this one we did today, and then this is the one we did today as well. Very different from the other ones that I did, but that is okay, because you can always do something with them. It just, I just have to look at it till I see something that I can make with these shapes that the inks have given me. You know what I mean? Hope that makes sense. Anyways, yeah, I'll do another alcohol piece tomorrow if it's not too crappy outside, but I hope you guys enjoyed this video. Thank you so much, Gail, for your support and for everybody that watches. Every time you guys tune in, give me a thumbs, leave a comment, share a video. It's a lot of support and I can't thank you enough. Judy, thank you for these products. Tigi, thank you for the inks to play with. Have you ever added foil to almost dry inks like gold? I have used Saran wrap. I haven't added foil, but I can. I can give that a shot for you guys if you wanna see. Anyways, I hope you guys have an awesome day. If you're in the trajectory of the rain that's going around, then be careful because it is no joke. And I hope you have an awesome Monday. Have an awesome Monday. And we'll see you guys tomorrow. Tomorrow will be early, two o'clock, Tuesday, central. And so, yeah. We kinda want another because you never know what something's going through. Always remember, we do the task. So you don't have to. We'll see you guys later. Bye. Bye.