 just situate this a little better. There we go. How are you guys doing today? I hope you're having an awesome and amazing perfect day. It's Monday so sometimes it isn't the best day but also sometimes your days are kind of just what you make of it. You know what I mean? No I mean? So anyways I'm finally back home after a very interesting trip down to Louisiana with our fairy art mother Judy. But I'm back. We went to get Judy another little baby puppy and we did and now it's time to get life back on track. And that starts with putting orders out in the morning and arting with you guys in the afternoon. So here we are to do the arts. And today we're gonna be doing a trial swipe which I did on a video not too long ago. I'm gonna do two pieces today I hope if my pups are patient enough. And so let's get started. I went ahead and mixed up my resin. I'm using today actually just resin's diamond coat because it was closest thing I could get my hands on. And I was in a hurry because I was trying to do orders and inventory and ship out fire sale pieces. PS I mean fall sale. If you attended my fall art sale I appreciate it so so incredibly much. Thank you for everyone that showed up. I do have some pieces left over if you still want to support the channel by getting a very own piece of your ATV artwork. And I'll be posting that video probably later this evening if I don't just fall asleep first. Y'all that trip was something else down to Louisiana so we're back and it's all good in the hood. Did you guys happen to catch my recent post about doing crime and craft? I want to do a new segment on the channel like a weekly segment that combines two of my favorite things which is like cult and crime and mysteries along with artwork and crafty things. So I want to know what you guys think about that. I'm all kind of off today. I don't even have resin in my cups. Who am I? Struggle bus. That's who I am. I'm very excited about doing crime and craft and I think it's going to be really awesome but I do want to know from you guys what you think I should do for my first episode. Is there a case that you guys really really really want more information on? Because I want to do what you guys want to watch. So the first color I've mixed up is Pearl Shimmer. It's by Color Passion. It's going to give me some cells I hope we'll see. I'm also going to do some beach sand luster. I'm not sure why I grabbed this color for this palette but I'm pretty pumped about it. It's like almost it's almost my flesh tone to be honest. It's kind of a beige pale color. Okay it's very not my flesh tone but this is what color I see my flesh tone as. I'm so excited about crime and craft. You guys have no idea. Okay so if you can't you probably can't see it but this beach sand has a slight luster to it. I'm going to try to get it up into the camera so you guys can see it. No oh you can see it in the cup. You see that slight sheen? It's a little bit like a pearlescent satin. It's great. When I do countertops I oftentimes will put a little bit of this beach sand color in in order to offset any potential future yellowing or ambering whichever way you want to call it. I'm also going to be mixing up some this. I'm not even going to use a cup. I'm just going to mix it right in here because I only have a little bit left. Pro tip. I only have a little bit left of a color. Just mix it right in the jar. Kind of like if you only have a little bit of Nutella left in the jar. You just put some milk in it and microwave it and now you have Nutella hot chocolate. You're welcome for that little pro tip as well. Obviously this will be the last use out of this little cup of gold. This is a rich gold shimmer by Color Obsession. It's one of my ace in the hole golds. Ooh I could have messed that up so bad but I didn't ace in the hole gold. I set it twice in a row. I'm not going to jinx myself. I might say it again and mess it up. Right and then the last color is going to be the spearmint. This is also a pearlescent color. This one is by Just Resin. And it's like a shimmery breakfast at Tiffany's kind of but a little bit more of like that like pearly satin-y sheen. And I think I'm going to mix a big cup of this one. And as usual I'm going to leave about an ounce of resin still in my that. In case I need to make a little bit extra of any one color. If you have breakfast at Tiffany's you by all means could use that instead of getting spearmint. However I'm really into the spearmint color. It's like a pastel version of breakfast at Tiffany's. Maybe a powdery pastel satin-y version of breakfast at Tiffany's. Breakfast at Tiffany's is a flat color. Do you want to start with one in the news right now like Idaho 4? I'm not very picky at all. I've done extensive reading on most cases that are in popular culture right now like the Idaho 4. Like the Ludlow case. Like the lady in Australia that allegedly poisoned her whole in-law family with mushrooms. I blanked but there are some the girl that put her baby in a trash can in Mexico. There's so many. So many. It's sad that there are so many but there are so many. Thank you so much TG. So here we go. So what I'm going to do first is basically kind of muddle these two colors together. The pearl luster and the beach sand after I make sure that this can't come off. Cool. I'm not trying to mix the colors. I'm just trying to move them together and I am painting on top of a board that I just painted over. So that it may be a good idea or a bad idea. I have a whole another board handy just in case. What's up Evelyn? Hi Pam. Recently read a true current book called Con Artist by Tony. He's a crazy talented art forager. Not sure how you would incorporate an art project with it. So the art piece that I'm going to do while telling you these cases or these stories is it may not have anything to do with the case we're going over itself. It may just be something that I think I can articulate. I may choose a story that I can just articulate in the amount of time that it takes. You know what I mean? Sorry my little girl dog was rummaging. So I'm going to pop these bubbles and then we're going to continue with the color color. Also and additionally I think what I'm going to do is have an overhead shot of what I'm working on a face shot so you could see me telling the story or the case or whatever. And then also I'll have a little box down in the corner that'll have clips of anything that's been televised so you guys can see what it is that I'm talking about. And also I'm going to time lapse the overhead shot and then post a video of it later with the step-by-step instructions of what I'm painting so that if one were so inclined they could click over to that video and then get an actual tutorial on what I'm doing instead of listening to the crime case if one just wanted to. You know what I mean? Okay. Lance again started. All I know that I want to achieve out of this piece is some really cool effects with the trowel. And this is a trowel from our website or just soldat.com. And so what I'm going to do is manipulate the resin around. But since there are little teeth and grooves in our trowel I'm hoping it makes some interesting looks, textures, what have you. But I think I need a little bit more of an opaque white. Let's see. Let's just see. That's just strange. I know I had one open. Oh well. So I'm just going to mix up a top-cell white as well. The everybody wants to know what you're laughing at. Okay. So I'm going to mix up some top-cell white and get an opaque color. I'm sure I could build up my pearl and beach sand to a more opaque shade. But I am okay with doing a white, you know, in addition to the beach sand and the pearl. Because it's just going to give me more depth of tone. You should do with the anomalies of the Las Vegas. That'd be a three hour life. So these won't be live feeds. They're going to be premieres because I'll have to edit in video of the case that we're talking about. And so I'll be chatting along with you but it won't be actually live. I hope that's okay. All right. Let's do some white. You don't know about the mushroom case. You got to look it up. It's completely bizarre. Allegedly, this lady invited her ex-husband and her ex-in-laws over for essentially, allegedly it was supposed to be a get back together luncheon. I think like her, the in-laws, the brother-in-law maybe, maybe his wife. And she apparently was super into like fungus, like mushrooms, study of mushrooms. And she went out and picked some with death cat mushrooms and baked them into a beef Wellington, which I don't know if you guys have ever watched someone make one of those. That's a labor of love. So she put a lot into unaliving these people. Okay. So I'm going to try to just swipe it in kind of the leaf pattern. You can kind of see when I come up. This is all full pressure. Sorry. Can you guys hear that? I hope not. When I lift the trowel stick up, it's when it deposits more of this color here. So I'm going to try to be able to control that a little bit better. At this moment, I don't know that I am controlling that. Okay. So I'm going to be alive. Nope. Still did a deposit. That's fine. We'll make it a choice. Tigi, I, have I heard about that? Give me some names of characters. Oh, that was not a pretty one. Let's go this way because I'm running out of room. Veggies from down there are always bad. Nancy Grace is all up in every case. I'm not digging how this looks right now, but you know what? Everything can be solved with a tilt. I'm just going to heat up down here so that it moves a little faster. Shana, that's a great idea. I did put a poll out asking people what case they would like to see first, I think. But that actually may have been on our Facebook group and not on YouTube. So I'll have to post it here as well. So right now I'm just tilting everything around to change the flow of the piece. Sometimes you like a pattern, but maybe not where the pattern currently is. So like this trial swipe where I kind of put a lot of pressure and then lifted and so it deposited all this color right here. That I liked, but I didn't kind of like where it was. And so now I'm just tilting it around to change its location. And sometimes that will change the entire look of the piece into something that you're like, well, that was cool to try into. I thought I could sell that. You know what I mean? So this layout I actually really am into. What do you guys think of the look of this piece now versus before we kind of tilted it around and feel free to disagree with me? I am not by any means the foremost expert on artistic design and layout. We got some cells popping up in here. Are your sisters asked if I was coming to the baby shower? No, you can't hear me. Your sister just asked if I'm coming to the baby shower. So all of these cool cells are popping up here actually because of the gold. And these cells are popping up because of the color passion. You can see that they're a little bit different in how they're structured. These ones are a little bit more hazy. These ones are a little bit more rigid. Oh, very soft. That color is really nice. But yeah, it's experiment. It's one of the new ones from Just Resin. Do you want to apply the resin to this one? Yeah, imagine your shirt. Oh my goodness, TG, I heard about that. I didn't think that that was so recent. That one's real baffling. It is warm in here. Yeah, for sure, I heard about that one. And for sure, I'm into doing a review on that case. Should we do the same kind of pour on this one, but a different layout? Or should we do a different kind of swipe or a different kind of application altogether? You guys let me know. The technique would make great wings. Yes, it would. You just have to kind of refine how you lay everything out. I guess if you, so if I made a wing, if I made a wing come out like this, you could just swipe it this way. I'm not going to try it on this size piece to do a wing, but I agree that it would look great to do a wing with one of these patented trial sticks from my website, artistleath.com. But I'm going to have to do it on a bigger piece. This one's a little bit too small. Hi, Lori. Yeah, TG, I think it's very much still an unsolved case. I don't think it's cold yet. But what is the white on your tile? So this is a canvas board from also on my website, and the white is, oh, no, spilled. The white is spilled. It's actually dead flat by Bear, the I-300. And I just put one thin coat on and it's covering up another painting that I did. Don't mind that. So do a dirty pour and then swipe it. So I will, but I don't know if it's going to be very awesome looking to swipe, just because a lot of times dirty pours with soft colors, they just kind of meld together and look awesome just in their own right and then they're kind of just too soft to do anything striking, I guess is the word, with a swipe. However, I asked and you answered. Therefore, I'm going to do it. All right, I'm just going to do a thin skim coat. So that is essentially probably two ounces per square foot to do a skim coat. I'm just essentially trying very hard to just make sure that the board is not just bone dry. I'm trying to have just a little bit of resin all over the whole thing. And that's just going to make my dirty pour move more easily across the surface. If it were to be just a dry board, then once I did the dirty pour, it would just sit there. But while it's trying to self level, it's going to roll over itself trying to move outward from the center where you pour it. So it's going to try to blob out. And then it's just going to mix itself because it's going to roll over itself the whole way out and off the piece. Whereas if you have something clear down, it's just going to travel however you have it laid out. I hope that wasn't too rambly. And I hope that makes sense. And that is also something I'm kind of concerned with my crime and craft. As you guys know, I get on a little bit of a tangent and I just speak e-science-y things. And sometimes they don't make all of the sense. And so I'm hoping that it'll whatever it is that we decide to discuss makes sense even with my little ramblings about everything e-science. All right, we almost have our dirty pour filled. Boom, there it is. So I'm just going to give it a little swirl for interest. Try not to spill any of my other colors. Like I'm really good at doing. All right, here we go. I'm scared. Ooh, it's already starting to sell all up in my cup. Okay, so you can see it's just blobbing out, but it's not rolling over itself to get spread out. See, it's got like a wave of clear that it's pushing inward. See, see that rim right here where the light is kind of bowed right there. You can see that wave of clear and it's just growing in whatever way it wants to. And it's not really mixing. Ooh, meant to. It's not really mixing the colors as it's moving. So now let's hit it with a little bit of heat and tilt it around to make something amazing. Sometimes if you skim it too thin, it'll still have problems moving. So sometimes you have to just give it a little bit of help to roll off the edge. Now I wasn't trying to do a countertop finish today, but this may end up being one and it may end up being like the perfect one. We'll see as all of this settles and moves around. Let that tilt off. My own spin on the cases. I'm really excited to give you guys my like thought processes on these cases. If you guys know me at all, you know, I'm into like murder mystery cases, cults, some unique religions, we'll say, all sorts of like subcultures. I find them completely fascinating. The psyche behind them is completely in my wheelhouse. I love all things, all sorts of things like that. I love to do what are they called? What's the thing I like to do? Escape rooms? Love an escape room. Jeff actually bought me the like two seasons of, oh my goodness, what are they called? Hunt to Killer. If you watch any murder mystery channel, you've seen Hunt to Killer ads. Mine was paid for by us. This is not an ad, not sponsored, but if you're watching Hunt to Killer, what's up? And I think I probably missed my calling as a forensic psychologist, but also that sounds like a lot of studying. Let it sit for a while and swipe. I don't know if I want to swipe it. Like if I ever do my countertops here, guess what colors it's going to be? Gold, beach sand, whites, and spearmint. Look at that pearlescent sheen on there. Looks like it's just floating over the surface. There we go. Even got some beautiful little cells in here. And we can make more cells pop up. Let me show you how to do that right in this area. So let me find my torchet. Found it. All right. We're just going to hit a little bit. We're going to hit, okay, I don't know if you guys can see this. Okay, so here's the flame, right? And then there's like a slight blue right here. We're going to use the heat that's right here, all the way over here. Don't burn yourself. And I'm just going to refill this because now my flame's puny. Do you guys prefer heating your resin with a torch or a heat gun? Or does it depend on what you're doing? For me, it depends on what I'm doing. Right. So I'm just going to just dab it until it moves. And what I'm essentially doing in my head, this e-science not actual science, I'm flash heating what is on the surface, the resin on top. And so that's going to start to disperse over the cooler resin that's under it. In my head, that's what's happening. And so I'm just going to call that what's happening. I see if I can create a few more over here. I don't have white on the top of it. So I don't know if it's going to give me anything. That's okay. I'm happy with it. But I want to know what you guys think shrink. No, there we go. What's up to what cases? I've only done one. Oh my goodness. I've forgotten. I haven't finished it yet. So yeah. Yes. I want to look into the gildo beach case as well. Yeah, I think, oh, it did give me more cells right here. You know, it's super fun is when the top color is like a different sheen than what is piping up through the cells. So we have a shimmery satiny pearl over this gold. And so it's just shining through those little cell pockets. Thank you Vegas for the permission not to swipe. I was waiting on that. I wasn't going to put it on the shelf until I heard from you. Isn't that so pretty? Promise you, I'm not just fishing for compliments. I just love these colors. And look at that hint of gold because of that rich gold from color obsession, just giving that awesome hard line and then that fade. I'm all about it. These are the first cells we created. Ooh, that gold just glows. It's so subtle. So elegant. All right. So that's what this one looks like. Now I have to do my countertops and hope I don't get kicked out of my apartment or just deciding to do the countertops without getting approval. This is the first one we did. Also has that amazing rich gold shimmer, the subtleness of it, that slight gold sheen and the glare of the flash. Look at these ghost cells right here in the swipe lines. Forever and ever we'll call those ghost cells because I can't even see them in person. Oh yeah, I can. I can see them right there. That's beautiful. There's a wing right here. Isn't that lovely how it goes from white cells into the gold ones into it's just like hints of pearl cells out here. It's almost like Christmas every time you do a resin piece and set it down and then go do something else to kind of brush your eyes and reset and then you go back and look at it and it's almost a whole new piece. You see something new because your resin will just settle and self level just on its own and create awesome. All right, I'm gonna put this up. Which one do you guys like better, the trial swipe or the dirtay pour? I'm gonna grab some coasters. What a big pre-girl. Jeff left today to go cut some more sticks and Camus lost her mind. She was so hyped and very upset that her dad left her. She was offended. Oh fended. Okay so we've got a little bit of clear left. We'll make it half beach sand, some opaque white. We'll just do all opaque white and beach sand because that pearl I think will just get lost again. I think y'all's story suggestions are brilliant. I'm so excited to start this series. I'm so excited that I'm not the only art person that's just fully interested in you know cult crime and craft and I'm beyond pumped at how much you guys are into it like I am because honestly I probably would do it anyways because also honestly when I art just without you know doing a live I always have some like crime doc on my phone or TV that I'm listening to and you guys have shown me that I'm not alone in my love for art and crime. All right so let's do a couple of smashes. Tudor does escape rooms with me. He is my partner in escape rooming. We have the best time. Hey Angie are you like the dirty poor best? Yeah I like it too. I've made you feel better. Your husband doesn't thank your art mind and your deductive reasoning mind belong in the same head. Oh my goodness Susan when Jeff found out how completely into murder docs and crime docs I am he was like should I be scared? I was like no just don't make me mad. Not really but a little bit. I feel like this is gonna be beautiful. I hope a little thin but that's okay. We're just gonna heat it and see it got a little thin right here. I didn't have enough resin on it so we're just going to heat it a little bit on these ends so that everything shifts downward. Now we have this beautiful piece with these soft wispy cells over here. I'm just gonna pop a couple more of them up though. There we go. Yeah it's fine. Let's set that aside. See what it does. Agreed. Laurie you've had that conversation too. I will let Jeff know that he is not alone then. This one got all the gold from our so much. So lovely. That gold just does its own little cell stuff on its own and it always looks so fun. Look at this little smiley face of cells right here. This one is gonna do a whole lot more while it's just sitting. Okay I'm gonna set it down so we can do another one. Well this one. I don't have enough on this one either. I always try to mush everything out of the sides sometimes it doesn't always reach so we just have to add a little bit more. There we go. So it's kind of a little bit of a struggle to get coasters apart when you do a smush. I got real brave one day and decided I was going to do a 12 by 12 smush. I had to call in reinforcements to get them apart seriously. Not gonna focus. Cool cool cool. That's gonna give us some beautiful cells. I'm gonna put this I don't know right here. No right here. When you ask your best friend if you need to bring us shovel he got real nervous. Well you never know if you're gonna need one. I feel like that's just being a responsible prepared friend. You guys you really can't go wrong with this soft minty spearmint color white and gold. You just can't. You really can't. All right last two co-stars. Really hope all you guys tune in for my first crime and craft because probably I'm gonna be nervous. I mean I'm sure I'm gonna be nervous. I don't know why it's a subject matter. I'm sure I'm gonna be familiar with already. I guess I just want to do a good job you know. I'm just gonna use the end of this dirty for the will and then you know what in order to not have that same issue of our resin not reaching all the way to the end we're going to just grease the pan like we already know we should be doing. We'll see how different it turns out. It sounds like Jeff is breaking something in the background and laughing about it. I'm not sure what he was doing. I don't think anything is broken now. Swizzle what do you guys do with your leftover resin? Do you do coasters? Do you do molds? You know what even if he is breaking something he's cooking dinner and doing dishes at the same time so I'm just gonna let him live you know. No complaints. Not from me. Judy! How is Lil' Gidget? How is Dixie handling Lil' Gidget? TG we is in you and me or we is in the channel? Oh this is gonna have way too much resin on it but that's all right. Actually I should probably just get two more. Sorry y'all. I'm glad you didn't fall into the resin. I'm not sure what he's making. It looks like I'm mad scientists. What do they have? A layer? A study? I didn't even grease the pan just a little bit. I'm just gonna do a little bit of this. If our babies are good awesome. Oh you and me. I'll have to think about it when my brain is in four directions. TG I'm sure I'll remember it. Do I have enough to grease another pan? Yeah I'm sure I do. I grease it with the leftover white. Sometimes you just gotta make it work. Even if it doesn't look like it's gonna work. Yes this weekend Judy and I rode down to Louisiana to pick up a five-year-old little baby girl Maltese and her name is now Gidget. Don't ever stay in the candlewood in New Iberia near Lafayette. I had to help Judy who is in a wheelchair because she had the busted knee and she can't bend it. Had to help her climb up. Gladly I did but they should have done something up the stairs. It was a madhouse. It was craziness. I don't even know what to say about it but don't stay there because all they said was I mean sorry. And then Judy was like is there a discount or some kind of compensation for this massive inconvenience or is there somebody who can help me with my bags or anything because there anything? And then we're like no this is bad. Just don't stay there. This may be one of my favorites. Do you guys think about this one? If I had enough colors next I probably could just do a whole live on just doing coasters. Not a whole live but a whole crime and craft. Every time I well I was gonna say every time I open one of these coasters which I guess is kind of what's happening. I'm pulling them apart. I'm opening them. Every time I feel like I have a new favorite. I love this wispy look like soft ombre. TGI I have never really had a problem with an IHG property either. I'm willing to bet this one is probably gonna lose their flag soon which means they're gonna have to switch brands for their hotel building. I think it's probably a franchise. I don't think it's an IHG like corporate property. Okay I'm gonna show you guys these coasters as I take them over to oh this one took over with gold. Take them over to the dust-free zone. I used to work with IHG and I would have been so fired if any of my properties were in a condition of this one in New Iberia. It looked like there was just a hurricane that came through but anyways oh good Judy I'm good I'm glad I was gonna reach back out to them today if you hadn't heard from them. These changed so much just from sitting here. Oh that's what I'm talking about that like flat white over those shiny gold cells under it. All right so I'm gonna narrow down some cases tonight and tomorrow and I'm gonna put a poll up on the channel requesting you guys to let me know which one you would like to see first and I would love to get your feedback your answers your everything so that we can make this first one one to remember hopefully in a good way because I mean things can be one to remember just because they were not amazing this one just looks windy. I just noticed that there was all of these crime and makeup channels and I was like you know why that works because girls like both crime and makeup you know what girls also like DIY artwork and crafts therefore why isn't there one of those channels and thus the idea was born that was my equivalent mic drop. Anyways absolutely Vegas have a great night thank you guys so much for watching I gotta go too because in my heads it's almost done cooking because it's amazing I hope you guys have an amazing night have a great day babysitting tomorrow tg I hope you guys have an awesome evening be kind to one another because you never know what someone's going through but you never know what someone's going through you never know you do the test so you don't have to we'll see you guys tomorrow at 2 p.m. for our two o'clock Wednesdays nope two o'clock Tuesdays Wednesday doesn't even make sense anyways y'all have a great night I think I need to put my brain to bed see you guys tomorrow bye