 everyone. I'm live and not prepared. Okay, we'll get ready. I can see what you guys are saying. I'll see what I'm doing today. So this weekend I taught a class in Seguin, Texas. Hi, David. And I did this piece, this geoid, as my dear friend Rhonda's daughter likes to call it. And I love doing geodes. And this one was just so fun to do. I thought I would do one with you guys today. So for this piece, I used a new resin. This resin is by Mixmedia Girl. We've decided to start carrying her resin. And so I already have it listed on the website. I have a few kits in stock right now. And so the rest will be essentially a pre-order. And those will take at most seven days to get in. So if you want to try it, otherwise it'll be about a week turnaround to get your resin to you if you don't order it while I have it. So you'll notice that her epoxy is almost purple. And that is to help counteract any yellowing. I mean, all epoxies are subject to yellowing, but having it start off with a kind of a blue hue just pre-color corrects it. Hello, everyone. What is the working time? That's a great question. So the working time is about an hour. It's not quite as long as art coats. But I think if you're working on a piece that you've done before, like the number of geodes that I've done, or if you're working on a smaller piece, an hour should be plenty. I mean, obviously I prefer having a longer working time, but that also means a longer curing time. So if you're trying to get a piece done for something in particular, this will cure up a little bit more quickly. Hey, everybody. Hello, hello, hello. Marcia is in the house. So if you have any questions about this epoxy, she is the best one to ask because she helped create the formula. So it's really good for flood cutting. Nope, flood coating over your acrylic pieces. We can also use it like I'm going to just create the artwork using Mixed Media Girls Art. Thank you, Marcia. Where's my hair cut? So if you guys just came in, this is the piece that we're going to recreate today. Typically, I have my resin already mixed up for you guys, but I have been trying to catch up from being out of town an Instagene teaching class. So I just ran out of time a little bit. But mixing it is just like most other one-to-ones. Obviously, you want to read the packaging, but it's about a three-minute mix. Just make sure you have it fully incorporated by scraping the bottom and the sides. If you have any reaction to epoxy ever, just if you're allergic, just be cautious. Listen to your body. Talk to your position. And wear a respirator. Be involved in the needed space. Wear gloves. Do what you got to do to protect your own stuff. Hello, hello, everyone. Thank you for joining me today. Sorry, it's boring so far because I'm mixing resin, but I'm almost done. So on my original piece, I used a color called Mint by Color Passion. I am out of that color. It's on order, but so I'm going to make a similar color using other colors that I have because all the colors that we sell on our website, artisttilldeath.com, you can combine together to make custom shades. And in fact, I do that for people a lot. They'll message me saying that they need a color match or football team or school company logo or whatever. And I'm happy to color match for people and make custom colors. So shoot me a message, shoot me an email if that's something that you're interested in. So let's start with our main color, which is going to be the teal. And then we have a brown. And then we have a white and then a gold glitter. That's a Cheez-Itz Huntsville. We're just all over the states today. Thank you guys for tuning in. But yeah, let me know where you're tuning in from. Thank you in advance to all the mods for your hard work. I'm helping me keep our YouTube forum for many trolls that may be lurking. So this geode is pretty easy to do. You're in the awesome airport already. Hope it's not a long delay. Okay, let's start with the color we're going to have to custom make. I'm going to use deep turquoise for base. In fact, I think I want to use a little bit extra of this dark turquoise. I'm going to pour some of this other epoxy into another cup so that I can have just some of this deep turquoise alone. Do you want to be safe here in the hurricane's path? I've been trying to watch that. You guys don't play around with that hurricane business. You got to leave and you have a way to leave. Try to find a way out. Don't play with nature. No risk it. So now I'm going to add in a good amount of Bercus at Tiffany's from Just Resin and see what kind of color we've created. Hopefully, I didn't add too much dark turquoise. I like the look of that swirl in Just Resin. So I'm actually going to add some more just to swirl it in and just leave it swirl. So these pigments are made specifically for resin which means unlike like acrylic paints that you can put into epoxy you have to really watch how much you use because just a little bit of marbling. You really have to watch how much you use because if you put too much of an acrylic paint in because it's water-based it can set off your resin too soon and that's no good. It decreases your working time. It upgrades the durability of your resin. So best is to just use pigments made for epoxy. So if you have to add a little bit extra of a color in then it's not going to do anything crazy to your resin. It's not going to set it off early. Roam and grease. I love seeing all of you guys from not the I mean I love seeing all of you guys in the U.S. as well. Don't get me wrong. It's just it's just amazing to me to have so many people from across the world tune in to see what I'm painting today. Makes my heart happy. Well it's still hard and it's not completely mixed together. Yeah so since it's I didn't just put it in there and leave it. I did soft mix it. I did soft meld it. You want to incorporate it a little bit. Just not fully incorporated so that it will cure fully. But yeah if it, Marcy's right, if you don't incorporate it at all and just kind of put it in there that's new then you will risk it just staying tacky and never really fully curing. All right so we're going to make sure that this area is going to be teal since it already is. We're going to mix our gold. For the gold I'm using Just Resin's Bright Gold. It's one of my favorite gold. I always mix my paints in the jar before I put it in my resin because sometimes they tend to separate just slightly and you could be leaving some luster behind if you don't mix it together before you put it in your resin. You got a new knee install. Congrats on the upgrade. Hope you're healing well. Last color is going to be chocolate brown by Just Resin. I love opening new jars of paint. Don't get crazy it's not because of the smell it's just because it's fresh creamy goodness of resin. I like to make sure my colors are really opaque so I arguably add more pigment than necessary. That's okay with me. Beautiful chocolate color with kind of a gold interference and lastly I'm going to use some color passion. It's called Moondust. I already had one open and it is in here. I like about the Moondust is it has a whole bunch of different size particles of glitter and it has that rainbowy halo look to it. For glitters I for real overload and kind of make almost a slurry with it because glitter can be deceptive in resin kind of like nail polish. You think you have a whole bunch in there and then it kind of just dissipates. Beautiful love it. Okay let's see what we can do with my mess that I've created. I'm going to start by adding some of the fourth inch fire glass. It's done in this corner well corner of the circle. And I don't want it to come directly up into the middle. When you're doing DOD you really want to avoid having really hard peaks because that's not natural. It's not a mountain. It's not a McDonald's sign. It's just no it's something not uniform because nature usually doesn't really grow that way. So just make an interesting shape to start your design. I always put my glass on first so that I can get an idea of the shape and completely pull it off if I don't like what it's looking like without having resin down so that none of my glass is wasted. Awesome. We're also going to add some glitter glass later super hot about that. Okay so I'm going to start with the bright gold around my glass area. The center or the druzy. Anytime I add a color I kind of thin it out with my finger or a popsicle stick. Because when you pour resin out it's going to lay at maybe a fourth inch depending on your ambient temperature and your resin's temperature and your resin's viscosity when resin will level off at an eighth inch. So essentially I'm pre-leveling it off so that I can reduce the amount of mixing that my colors the lines will do. I hope that makes sense. I do not do grease the pan or skim coat on my geodes because of the same reason. I don't want to give my colors any extra opportunity to mix together. I always do some kind of peaks kind of like string lights or drapes. Right love it so far love it love it. Let's take our custom teal. You can see that I didn't put this color right up next to the first color because I'm going to help itself level again by pushing the second color just up next to the first color. So doing this will help it level out some. I usually do the inside first and then the outside. I don't know that that is beneficial. One way or the other if you do the outside first than the inside. This is just how I do it. I hope you've all had a good week so far. Had a good weekend. Thank you to everybody that came down to our classes again. We'll probably have one more in-person class before the end of the year and then we'll start planning our classes for next year. Are you guys wording better than I did? It's quite likely. So you can see where I'm moving the resin. It's leaving kind of a relief essentially scraping that resin. Since resin self-levels it'll fill back in all on its own. I don't have to do anything. Another important note when you're doing geodes is don't make each line the same thickness and don't just repeat the colors exactly. So don't do gold, aqua, brown, white, gold, aqua, brown, white, gold, aqua, brown, white. Marry it a little bit and that will help your piece look like it has a more natural flow. So I'm doing this piece as if I have like a quarter cut of a geode of a slice. It's going to be slightly offset but if you prefer to have everything all even that's totally up to you some people can't have things off-center has to be even. I'm like that about a lot of things but I like my art to have not so much I like it to have balance in a different way. I'm struggling having words for how I typically lay out my designs. But if you follow me for any length of time then you know what I'm talking about. I'm going to try to make the lines on this side a little bit thicker than the other side because I have so much room on this side versus this side. This is titanium white and I do have some still in stock if that's something you're looking for. I know it's one of the colors I sell out of the most quickly but in this moment I have probably 30 left of the 80 I had a few days ago. It is one of my favorite whites. So this is the deep turquoise by color passion. This is also a base cell activator so having it under the other colors will create cells and the cell color will be whatever colors on top of it. So for example if I push this white over the deep turquoise my cells will be white. If I push red over the deep turquoise my cells will be red so on and so forth. In fact I'll probably do a little bit of that in this video so you guys can see kind of the difference in what happens when you push another color over. Have y'all of you guys tried to do a GF before? There's so many different ways to do them. This is just my favorite way. Also the gold glitter that we made I'll be putting that on last after I manipulate everything around because when you hit resin with heat it thins it out and so when you have a particle suspended like with a mica or glitter bring it a kind of flake you're going to cause that particle to sink or to kind of thin out a little bit because you heated it. So I'm going to not add the glitter till after I've done all the heat that I'm going to do on this piece except for like a final popping of bubbles. I'm really liking this color palette a lot. I should probably use it more often. It's my opinion that the most classic geodes have the jewel tones. Is it only color passion that works for the pushover? So to my knowledge, yes. There used to be a line from Stone Coat that did the same thing but they just continued it. So to my knowledge color passion is the only brand that will do base cells. Now I'm open to being proven wrong but you have to prove me wrong. Like tell me what other brand would do it so that I can get some and sample it and make sure because you know new stuff comes out every day. Give me this information and so if there's something out that I don't know about let me know. Thanks so much Marcy. Have a safe flight. Marcy and I are also working on some class dates out on the west coast for the new year. If you guys are interested make sure you subscribe to my newsletter on my website. That is where I post all my updates on when we have new colors come in, when we have a sale, and when we have new classes. So it seems like my table is a little bit maybe off because things are still falling this way. So I'm going to rotate it to see if that helps things come back this way just a little bit. So I have a lot left of this color so I'm going to put a really thick line of it. I know a lot of people that will use hot glue or a sculpey to kind of dam off in between your colors but if you take your time and don't use too much heat make sure your resin is not too thin then you really don't have to go through all of that. Having said I'm going to be adding a lot of heat so that I do get some design purposefully from melding because some of these colors together. Also in accidents like this happened this little I don't get worked up about it because geodes often will have color that travels into different veins, different layers, and also I find beauty and perfection. Maybe I'm alone on that. I can't wait to add the glitter glass to this and all of the blue glitter from color fashion. It's going to be amazing. If you don't know you can get all of these colors and more I have over 800 colors on my website artistilldebt.com and we add more fine it seems. We just added this resin that I'm using to our website today. It is our resin from Mix Media Girl. That's a pretty cool resin I think. We're going to see how it sells up in a minute. Do you guys have any question about this resin or any other resin or geodes or any other designs that I tend to do? A piece that I keep for our art show coming up in October. If you guys don't know we have an art show coming up in the film it's going to be a really great show. Vamp will have a piece in it, Tudor will have a piece in it, and of course Jeff and I will have multiple pieces in the show. Oh, I was confused for a second. I want to learn not alone in my I guess my I don't know what it is my attraction to imperfection and art which is kind of bizarre since it can be quite a perfectionist in many other facets of my life. No shame, no shame. But I think everybody has things that they're particular about and other things that they're just like meh. Bowie just walked up. I'm sure he has missed you guys. I'm a good boy. You guys don't know the director of our studio is named Bowie and he is precious little big boy. I'll show you guys my little logo in a minute. I didn't know that about the guy with the mansion wanting imperfection in his arms. That's really neat. I have to know where Tammy got the arms on her spinner. Carol, I think she got those from I can't remember the name. Maybe Erica Hughes? I can't remember. Someone not in the country in the U.S. anyways. But Jeff and I have been looking into creating arms for a spinner as well. Since we have a place that'll let us cut with a CNC machine. I brought it up to our builder and he may have been confused or maybe I was confused. One of the two people in the conversation were confused and it could have been me. I just got to draw it out. I don't want to, I absolutely don't want to take anything from the original creator. There's some stuff that I want to adjust to make it really suitable for my cradle board. So I'm going to be working on that soon. All right. So we have our base colors down and it looks like this. Now, and I just happen to have one right over here. But one second because I have resin on my back. I love resin. Alrighty. So now's the fun part to me. I can start manipulating the lines even more using heat. I'm going to use our concentrator nozzle. This is on my website called a groom's cake because it's a small wedding cake. I'm going to go ahead and pop the bubbles first. Thank you so much. I appreciate that. You guys don't know every dollar that is donated to the channel goes right back into it and every dollar is very much appreciated. All right. So I'm going to push this chocolate into the tea we have here and also they want to push the white into this aqua here. I'm just going to create a little bit of a preheat just for a little bit of space to push the resin inward. Some of that green came forward. That's fine. I'm just going to push a little bit out on the other areas as well so it makes sense. It's like that. And now I'm going to do it to this chocolate over here. And in theory I should get some really rad cells. Where's mine? Now I'm getting rid of a lot of my peaks doing this but it's like the look so much that I'm fine with it. I'm going to bring you guys in for close up and just I'm going to hit these areas that I just manipulated with some heat to get them to sell up a little bit more because oftentimes a little bit of heat is all you need for really awesome to something. I think I'm going to leave it actually. I wasn't going to add another bit of texture to these outside areas but I don't want it to get too busy. So what I'm going to do is draw a line of light through this bit to kind of get some more directional lines to the geode since we have so much action in some areas. This resin is letting me pull a really long line. Very impressed. And I think I'm going to do a chocolate line through here just to bring back some of that classic line that people come to expect out of resin geodes. Missing some alcohol on it. So I'm not going to do that because I'm not going to be able to control where any of that mist goes. And I'm not sure that really needs a mist of alcohol because I have the cells kind of where I want them. Obviously could. Totally could. I just may not for this one specifically. Also just realized I don't have any clear for my geode. So I'm going to probably use this glitter mix for that. Okay so let's make some glitter lines. You can see that this is super thick now. Which is fine. I kind of want it to be kind of a thicker consistency so that you can pull a line with it without having it kind of jump. Not going to be able to pull a full line because it does have a lot of purple in it. This is definitely not going to stretch the whole way. Sadly. We're so close. We made it. Just barely. Another line of this. Probably, probably, probably where the gold and green really have a formula for where I add these extra little lines. Except for that I want them to stand out. So I'll always put right there and right here. Totally cool that I think I'm going to do an on-purpose one maybe right here. I'm just going to add a dollop of this chocolate. I'm going to try to be as careful as possible to only let it be in a circle and not kind of trail away. Then I'm going to add another glitter, a little dollop. I think she's looking at me. Then I have to put this gold over. I don't have any other clear. You should leave clear so that you can put it on your fire glass and it will help it to adhere to the board. I'm just going to hit this with a key so that it melts into my board. Then I'm going to add some glitter glass because what is a geo without glitter glass? I have glitter glass on my website but you can also get it from MyerImports.com. He's going to code ATD2022. We'll give you super awesome discount. I think it's like 10%. I'm going to melt this down so that it runs into time for glitter glass. I have gold glitter glass and white glitter glass. I think I'm going to put the gold. It's called white. It's actually clear. I'm going to put the clear in the middle. Maybe I'll kind of surround the clear with the gold into our little geoid circle to make it sparkle. How'd you do the little circle again? I just put some brown, just a little a dime size and then I put some glitter resin mixed and then I did the white. Nothing too crazy but since resin is going to self level when you put more resin on top of it it's going to disperse and so it just disperses out just like that so you'll have that little ring kind of look. Now typically I add another area of glass but I think I'm going to leave this one to simplicity because we have this out here and I think it's awesome. I'm going to take you guys down and give you a close-up and y'all let me know what you think. Okay sorry about that movement. This one was an accident because I put the gold it kind of rolled over the light aqua color that we made and because this is a base cell it just started selling. That is also why all of these cells are here because it's over our base cell. Also this dark color is a base cell and it's over this one the white the titanium and that is why these cells aren't really awesome right? So this is with a paste over a base cell this is with a base cell over a paste just so you can get kind of an idea of the difference. Now this is chocolate over the base cell and our little dollop of geode right there so that's how I do my super simple geodes. So what do you guys think? Would you change anything when you do it on your own? Oh yeah love the chocolate that deep rich chocolate color with that gold kind of interference it's one of my favorites. It has a sparkle to it that's not abrasive and in your face love it. So I taught this one at our class in Seguin. I didn't have all the exact colors that I had down there but this is my for here version. So yeah I've got to go start filling more orders and do inventory to put other orders in for pigments for you guys so please let me know what you think down in the comments below. If you are interested in getting any of these colors you can get them from me at artistilldebt.com. One more time they are this teal color is just resin breakfast at Tiffany's mixed with just a little bit of deep turquoise from color passion. The color passion is what is making these cells come up. The gold is just resin bright gold the white is titanium by just resin. The glitter is color passion moon dust. The dark color is color passion deep turquoise. The brown is chocolate by just resin and then the sparkle is the clear or white glitter glass in the super shard size. You can get those from my website or mire imports.com and yeah I hope you guys have an awesome rest of your day. If you're in Florida please be safe. Thank you to everyone who tuned in to see what we're up to today. We'll be back live tomorrow at 6 p.m. central to do some awesome resin oceans with spray paint. So yeah I'll see you guys tomorrow till then be kind to one another because you never know what someone's going through and always remember that we do the dust so you don't have to. We'll see you guys next time. Bye