 I just know that we missed you guys. So, I'm going to do her countertop in aqua and red. So, that's what I'm going to attempt to do for and with you all today. Why isn't mine this going? Oh, there it goes. So, that's what we're doing today. Let me pull up my, this so I can see what y'all's are saying. And hello. So, she, the cover photo for this video is kind of more what she's interested in. So, this was the first version I did for her. And I was like, it looks a little bit like one of those vintage bomb pops from like the ice cream truck. And she liked it for a while and then people were like, it's too much. And so, she saw this other sample that I did and she liked these bits but not the fracturing with the spray paint. So, I'm going to try to combine this finish with this finish, which look awfully the same in terms of flow. But I'm going to take out some of the red. I also deepened the red and I'm going to incorporate a little bit of this color, which I can't remember what it is. I'm not sure if it's almond or pale gold. New Waverly, Texas. That's not that far at all. What's up? So, I'm using my this, Istoyo resin mixer. I have it linked on the description box. To my knowledge, they haven't released this handy-dandy stand that I have. But hopefully that will happen sooner than later. Because I'm telling you, it's just a breeze to just set it and forget it. Did I just age myself by knowing that phrase? Do you guys remember that phrase, anybody? From like back in the day when I had like, was it like a rotisserie thing? I think it was like a rotisserie thing. Anyway. Super missed you guys. Haven't seen you in what feels like a whole forever. Hope you're all doing well. What's up, Sue, TG, Clara, Van, Nancy, Susan, Betty, Donna, and all the other people that I can't see your names because you haven't commented, slash, if you commented and have moved out of my screen. Because I can't scroll on it. Because sticky hands. So, that mixer does a really good job at mostly mixing everything, but it can't scrape the sides. So you really have to make sure you scrape your sides if you use a resin mixer and make sure you scrape your star stick and incorporate all the way you just scraped into your bulk resin mix. What's up, Cat? Delaware. I don't know if I've seen Delaware in here for a while. Welcome. All right. So, my friend Tiffany, she's amazing, very smart, brilliant purple. Nope, person, not a purple. She's not a purple. Brilliant person. And she is often quite particular. So I'm going to try to do her proud with this finish because she wants it for her kitchen, which I'm super flattered and excited that she came to me to do it for her. What's up, Tim? So, I think based on my sample pieces, I'm clearing out from the chat to check out my sample images again. So if you're asking me as something, I can't see it. I need to combine this look with this look. Which in my eyes, they look super similar except for it has a little bit more flow as the darker colors is the base paint. I was a base paint resin. So it was a resin piece, but I spray painted over it with red. So you can see some of the design elements from the first piece. If you guys have followed me for any amount of time, you know, that I don't ever fully cover a piece if I'm using it for something else because I feel like I would be wasting whatever I used on the first layer. And I think it brings extra amount of depth to the piece. Hopefully that'll be better. So, yeah. Catch cat. Hello, Shannon. So I'm going to start mixing colors. I'm going to be using white opaque. Nope. White opaque. Translucent white. In fact, I'm going to use a white. I'm going to use pearl luster by color passion for this. G-U-D. I'm going to use a blue diamond, possibly a dark turquoise, either almond or pale gold, and possibly another turquoise. In theory. Is it Ashen? G'day, free spirit. Okay. So, I do have in between size cup. Translucent white, opaque white, and a lot. Blue diamond, Bermuda Bay, almond or pale gold, and a dark turquoise. And I'm going to need some clear as well. So I'm leaving some resin still in my cup. We missed you guys too. Thank you so much for popping in. I hope you have a good trip to the doctor. So, let's start mixing color. I'm going to be using a pearl white luster for my whites. One, because I don't have that many titanium's in stock and you guys love titanium, so I'm not going to pull those from inventory. And two, lusters are great to use when you want a little bit of shimmer, but not really sparkle. I hope that makes sense. So, since the first one we're doing is translucent, we're using the t-tiniest bit of pigment, because we still want to be able to see through the resin down to our underpainting a little bit. Just some hues, some different tones. Erica, paint white, do you mean aluminum or titanium? Usually I would mean titanium, but I am running low on titanium, so we're going to be doing just the pearl luster from Color Passion. Okay, so this is translucent, so you can still see the color of the stir stick through the epoxy. The next one we're going to do is with the same pearl, but with a lot more pigment in comparison. And this is going to be our opaque. And the difference in opaque and translucent is that translucent, you can kind of see through it. It's a little bit cloudy. Nope, yeah. Translucent is a little bit cloudy. There's a haze. It's like a little bit if your windows were frosted a little. And then opaque is solid. You can't see the color of the stir stick through it. And then transparent is you can see completely through it. It may be a different color, but you have no distortion when you see through it to whatever's behind it. I love these colors too. I'm so excited, but also nervous. Okay, now we're going to mix up some Bermuda Bay by Just Resin. Pardon my jars because I'm a messy artist and I'm okay with it. This is a beautiful, opaque, non-luster pigment from Just Resin. All these pigments, by the way, you can find on my website, artistildette.com. I'm sure Clara is throwing links in the chat as we go along and she figures out what colors I'm using. She's quick on it. She knows colors like I do. I'm so glad I'm not the only messy artist. Cool, cool, cool. Working so far, it's working so far. So now we're going to mix in some blue diamonds. This is a darker color. So I think I may omit the... If you guys ever run into this issue where it's kind of solid, just hit it with your heat gun a little bit and it'll, with a little heat and then it'll start to melt back into itself. We'll see. We'll see how dark these other colors turn out. Now, blue diamonds is one of my favorites. A similar color in other brands that we color. Carrie would be Appetite Blue from L'orese or Caribbean Dream from Color Obsession or Thornton Shimmer from Color Passion. So maybe on the dark turquoise. And I'm still not sure if I should use... I think I'm going to go with the almond over the pale gold. It just seems to be more tonally correct in the palette. Oh my goodness. Thank you so much for the compliments, you guys. That also goes for if it's a little bit like this. You can still use it. It'll mix fine into your resin, but it just makes it a little... You took time from your day to come see what we're doing over here. So thank you guys so much for that. Makes my heart happy. Dark turquoise is a must. Well, I'll see what I can do. I have that little bit still, so maybe I'll throw some in there. Might as well just mix it. I already have the resin allocated. So it's a little bit brown, but also has that bronzy gold kind of sheen to it. Okay, mix some dark turquoise. Mix some dark turquoise. I haven't even opened this jar in a while. Okay, I'm open. So it looks black in the jar, but you can see kind of on these rims. Nope. Yeah. Ridge. What color it actually turns out to be before your daughter picks you up. Well, I'm excited to have you for the next 20 minutes. Shy, what's up? We've missed you, lovely. That's true. Judy is absolutely correct. I always overload my pigments. I definitely make them last longer, but now I'm using as much as I am using. And then that's how you make them last longer. I'm just a glutton. All right, I'm also going to mix in something. Where did it go? What is this? Milky Way? Yes. No. JK. I have no Milky Way left. I don't know why I had this even on my shelf. My windows are open, so things are just flying everywhere. So the Milky Way is just going to give a little bit of sparkle in the areas where we want the red background painting that we did to kind of shine through a little bit. This isn't quite as much sparkle as I'd like, so I'm just going to put this into here. Sparkle. I don't know if Tiffany is going to want this sparkle, but she's not here to tell me not to use it. So basically I do what I want in this moment currently. All right, so I'm going to go back to my visual. So if you guys are talking to me right now in this moment, I can't see it, but I'll tell you when I get back to it. In the meantime, if you ask the question and someone with a wrench answers it, those are the mods. They're amazing. We love them so much, and they know what they're talking about. Also a lot of other people in the chat know what they're talking about as well. So in the reference that she said she liked, there's a little bit of a flow to it. I use that as a template to my flow. I hope that makes sense. Essentially, that's a little bit too much sparkle in those areas, so I'm going to put some clear over them. So if you put too much of any kind of glitter or shimmery pigment in your epoxy, it's going to kind of make it cloudy. If you see right here, it's not really clear with sparkle. It's cloudy with sparkle. So if you just throw some clear on top of it and mix it in a little bit, it will blend out some of that sparkle. So I'm also going to put some white. I'm going to be tilting this piece as well so that I can get the flow to be a little cohesive because during application, it always looks a bit sketchy. At least I have found, which is why typically I don't let anybody watch as I put color down and prepare to do a pour because they're just going to have questions that I don't have time to answer. I'm also trying to separate my colors with the whites and the clears because it appears that's what I did in the sample that was approved. I'm also putting down thicker areas of color because it seems like that's what she liked in the sample pieces. And if she doesn't like it, then she's just going to have to like it. I'm sure she'll like it. I'm toying with the idea of doing some of it as a dirty pour. I think I'm going to apply these colors and then see what I'm working with and evaluate from there about doing a dirty pour. So I go back to the comments. So now I'm going to just make sure there's no dry spots. Because when you start doing design elements, your resin is going to just part over the dry spots. And you don't want that. It's going to make your job more difficult if you don't have everything blended in a bit. I just realized I have this whole section right here and right here that's barren. That's okay because we have plenty of resin. I'm trying to only blend out certain colors at a time so it doesn't get kind of muddy like this. But in the sample, I did have kind of busier sections. So we can work with that. I'm actually switching hands to blend in the almond color. They don't want to contaminate which apparently this did. So that's great. Whenever you do samples for clients, it's super important to let them know that this is just sample size. When you go to scale, it's going to kind of read a little bit differently. So don't really get married to things looking only like they are on the sample piece. Because things will change when they kind of scale up to a larger surface. It's making a little bit more of the translucent white. I would do it. Or I'll just have to do it when he gets back in with the babes. Alright. Where is my alcohol towel? I'm going to mirror you exactly. The colors make you happy. The colors make me super happy too. I'm always a fan of aquas and reds together in any form or fashion. I mean they were my wedding colors after all. Just hitting with a little bit of heat. So I can see what we're working with. I'm going to throw everything I have left into a dirty pour. I'm not sure why. I feel like I want to do a dirty pour here, but I'm sure there's a reason. Calm down, big boy. White. Y'all, anytime I do an art piece or a sample piece, anytime I'm arting anywhere, it looks like a mad scientist is just trying to invent a new species or something. There's just stuff everywhere. And I'm just throwing things together sometimes. Anybody else have that happen to them? Or is that only me? It could be only me, but I'm hoping it's not. It's what we got. So as it stands right now, I think this is too crazy of a piece for a kitchen. But we'll see if we can salvage something. I really like that dirty pour that we did through there, that ribbon. But she kind of exed out those design elements on one of the other sample boards I sent her. So puppy's back. What did you guys get up to? Went up to the dog park. Oh, yeah? Which I don't think she understands the concept of, I'm free now. She just kind of stays and smells stuff. Like, there was two balls over there, threw them both, and she was just like, okay. It should be a little bit different when we take Bowie out with her. I am planning on tilting the countertop. I'm going to get to them before she installs them, before her brother installs them. So I'm going to show you in a minute the reason why I like to use translucent. Because the look is so fun. I'm waiting on this to tilt all the way before I bring it back. So see how that is ever so gently whispering through and around and over everything. It's still showing a bit of red in the background. Oh my goodness, I am dripping all over my finish. Oh well, we'll get that. So I like everything that's happening up here except for those dots that I just added. This part I'm not that thrilled with. So I'm going to hit it with some heat to get it to flow a little faster. Because when you add heat to resin, you're thinning it out. When you thin it, it goes faster. So I'm trying to do that in order to not lose what I have going on in this upper half. That just made me lose a lot of that almond color. Sometimes it takes a couple of tilts to get it going in the direction you want it to. So she said she wanted aquas and reds, but that's a really hard color combination to put together. Unfortunately, I'm going to try to make it work with red, but if I can't make it work, what I'm going to have to do is kind of just paint the red in as an accent, maybe after the fact. Like hand-painted in. Oh, with a counter that you can't tilt, I'm going to tilt it. It's not going to be installed, so I'll be able to pick it up and move it around. It's not going to be installed by the time I get there, so I'll have plenty of time to work with it pre-installation. If I have some gloss, I'm going to do another table version because it's due. I feel like you really don't have a lot of gloss. I have a satin. Yeah, for countertops, 34s are really, really nice. I totally agree. All right, so I'm going to try some satin apple red that may or may not work. Maybe too bright. You can't even see how bright that is from there. Where can you guys see best color? I don't know how I'm feeling that red. I'm not feeling it. What's up, Tabitha? Yeah, I don't know if I'm feeling the red. What do you guys think? Hey, can you take it out? I don't think Tanya is watching. It doesn't matter. If she is, she's here with me. If she is here with you. I don't think she's in the room. Can you fog it? So, oh yeah, Milky Way did change shooting star. Sorry. But on my website, I have it listed as both shooting star and Milky Way. So in the other samples that I did for her, she said that she liked these areas and did not like the fracturing with spray paint. So I'm hesitant to do a fog. And that's your resin is gonna resin. I know if I'm not feeling it, I'm not feeling it, but client wanted red. And I thought that I could make it work with some just peekaboos. I think that's working better than the top side red, the floating red. I mean, if he likes the red. Well, ultimately, it comes down to what, you know, the client wants. So I'm going to defer to what Tiffany likes. I thought she would be in the speed, but apparently not. And I will say the piece as a whole looks better. IRL than screen. If you work with resin at all ever, you know that. That's just how resin is. It's gonna look better in person than on screen. It would be cool if Tiffany was here. So she can be like, I like this and not that. Maybe I'll just set up a time with her to do that. If you don't like the red that sparkly could use, core red, devoid of sparkle. You could use any red. I like the red better than, you know, I like the sparkle red better than I would. The red without the sparkle. But you could use a core red. She wanted more of a crimson red. So I couldn't, if I can't substitute it out, but one could substitute it out. I hope that makes sense. No problem. Donna, have a great day. What's up, Christine? So I think I'm going to add some darker lines. I don't know if that's doing anything for me, but can't hurt to work it until you like it, right? This may be a suit question, but what do people do with their sample boards sell them as art? So I actually do sell my sample boards as art. You can do that or you can keep them as samples for future clients so that you don't have to remake them at any time. Let's say a client wants a Carrera marble, what's the word I'm trying to do? Conserving materials. I will let my clients purchase their sample boards for like $30 a piece if they hire me for the gig though. Yes, VAMP is absolutely correct. This is a specific color request for a specific client that wants these specific colors. So I can't really... I don't have that much. Didn't I just fill this in front of you guys? It was happening. So I don't have that much, like, freedom to just throw design elements in. Cool. Just dropped a whole bunch of stuff. Not my favorite finish, but we'll see what client says. I think I'm going to put some gold on top of it. She didn't say... What if I use copper? What's with copper? That's not a bit not important. I got distracted by copper. Oh my goodness. I can't even open this. Give up. V, I can't open it. Sometimes you just have to beat the devil out of it. Yep. Got it. Crushed it. Me no help. So if you guys are new here, hi, hello, what's up? I'm Erica. I have things over there. So we're our two furry babies. We're artists till death. We go live most every day. We're at 6 p.m. central. We're two days at 2 p.m. central. It's not always resin, but it's always art, and it's always a good time. So, I'm proud to say that earlier. Also, if you're new here, I am trying to soak out the propellant from my floating gold. So I put it in the back of a Dixie cup. See how it's yellow on this rim here? I'm trying really hard not to drop this on the piece. So it's yellow on the rim. That is because the propellant is yellow, and it's soaking into the paper of this cup. I do it on the backside instead of the front side, because usually the inside of Dixie cups are lined with wax, and so it's not going to absorb. When I stir this up like this, and the paint cracks, you can see the darker shade of what's in there. That's propellant. And that's going to make my lines or veins that I put on the piece crack. See how it's doing like this? So it's going to bloom, and it's going to crack. And I don't want that. I just want a solid, beautiful line of metallic floating paint. And so in order to do that, I have to have some of the propellant soaked out. The propellant has to be in there or else it wouldn't stay fluid for that long. Clear resin, just a little too tiny bit, but not a lot. I want it to be even close to 50-50. I'm just going to use what I have left of the Milky Way or Shooting Star resin. I have some new boards and coasters to show you guys in a minute, so I hope you stick around for just a second. And if you haven't subscribed, please do so. We're really trying to grow our channel and can't do it without you guys. That resin's just not going to do much because it was so... such a little amount. We'll take this. Read the comments. What? What? Tiffany has arrived. What dick-looking blob? Where? I don't see it. Tiffany's been here the whole time. She's just technologically challenged. No worries, Evelyn. All right, Tiffany, so you said... Okay, so you like the red bits, the aqua bits, the white. I guess maybe you're talking about this. I can move that. Oh, the shadow cast. This bit right here. Does the thing you're talking about move if I do that? Okay, so I can take this out. And I'm thinking about adding some copper. What are your thoughts on copper? I'll just put a little bit in and see if you like it. I'm going to do a close-up. We'll just put it over here just on the edge. Sorry for a moment. So we were testing that red. I don't know if you were here when we did that, but not sure I'm feeling it. I'm going to put less sparkle in the clear for my next sample. I'm probably going to do more of this color. We're going to leave out the blue diamond. Or are you talking about this dark blue? Two different kinds. But they're both aqua, so that's what that one looks like. I like the sparkle, but I didn't know if that would be too much for your taste. Both dark blues. But they're not blue. They're actually aqua. So you can see the green hue in them. Anyways, if you don't like that, then we don't do that. And so we'll put that color in. The base, that color. Translucent whites. And the aquas. Bye, Clara. I hope all is good. Thoughts on the floating copper? So I like the color. I like the color. So I like the floating coppers because or any of the floating colors that we use because they really catch the light. Totally up to you. I love it too. So on tomorrow's sample, I will do Sorry guys, hold on. Sorry for the weird movement. So on tomorrow's sample I'm going to rework this piece leaving out the blue diamond and the dark turquoise. I may work in some of this brighter red but I don't know if that's going to it probably will work better without the darker blues because these two colors look good together. You can't really see from the vantage point that you're at right now but a second ago you could see it. We'll leave that amount of the Milky Way slash shooting star. We'll keep the almond we'll keep the translucent and we're going to work with the flow a little bit differently and I'm going to work on a bigger board so we can get a better feel of the flow. I'm going to add some more of this actually right now because it's here and I can and I love it. Tiffany, that part that you didn't like the white speckle She's not going to get rid of the red. The those white circles that you didn't like like everybody was like suggesting that because it's pretty common thing to do in countertops but it's like my dogs are losing it in there. I feel like this needs to flow differently but this isn't a final piece so I'm not going to get that obsessive about little bits like that. I could play mess with this all day but I'm not going to do that. Do that color just more floaty. I have no idea what you're talking about. Not the almond blob. So you want me to take this part out because you circled it in the last reference that you did but I can take the copper out I mean not the copper the almond actually I think removing the almond on top of a dark red background with the copper floating would work really well. What if you put the red in the copper. Don't mix it all. Just do all this and then add the red in the copper and then blow it. Well the red's underpainted because we don't want purple. What's I'm saying put in the copper. So you would just see just a little bit of the red. Yeah that could work but she's I liked it in that one but it's a different pattern. So thinking about resins and patterns is I can will it to go in certain patterns I can apply it the exact same way but resin is going to do whatever it wants to do. This will actually look very different an hour from now and even tomorrow. Can I say tomorrow from now because it sounds like an hour from now or tomorrow from now. It's going to change because resin's going to settle and move and level off for hours. What's up Tia how are you doing? What you doing? I'm working out a sample piece for a countertop and the client is actually in the chat right now so I'm going over options while she's watching because she is actually in South Alabama. So since we can't get together and look at things in person I invited her to join us on a live and so now did Tiffany consider Dirty Pork? She did but she likes larger blocks of color from what I gather in the sample pieces that I've already done and she's kind of so this was the first sample and then we did this sample but she didn't like the spray paint bits and she did like the almonds and the flow is similar but this piece is huge in comparison to this one. Excuse me so once I get this to a larger scale it's going to also look different. So she likes the bigger blocks of colors but now since she's seen kind of the flow there's also more white in this sample which she'll also like. Okay so on tomorrow's live what I'm going to do is the larger patches of Bermuda I'll probably put some breakfast at Tiffany's which is this color but lighter and that will give some depth of tone because since we're not going to do the dark turquoise or the blue diamonds we'll need something brighter or darker but since she doesn't like darker we're going to have to go brighter. So we're going to do Bermuda Bay the lighter version of this color which is breakfast at Tiffany's which is appropriate because clients name is Tiffany we're going to back spray it with the dark red color we're going to mix some Milky Way slash shooting star in our clear and we're going to add more white and we're going to omit the almond and add more of the floating copper so that's the game plan for tomorrow the pups are playing very extra and um the resin is starting to set and I'm out of resin so I have to yeah there's no way I can finish filming today because there's too much happening in the house right now and putting on my reminders okay so 58 minutes ago but tomorrow so don't forget sixth central tomorrow alright you guys um I think this is great actually in order to show you guys how you can work with clients when you can't be right in front of them and oh it's at 2 p.m. tomorrow sorry tomorrow's at 2 p.m. central I forgot tomorrow's Tuesday I will tell I'll tell him Tiffany so yeah tomorrow's going to be at 2 p.m. central but the feed will be posted to the channel so you can watch it whenever whenever so yeah this is a good um video on how to kind of work with a client when you can't be right in front of them hope it helps somebody I could use Rhonda I don't know how much I have um oh sweet you're going to be okay so set your calendar for 2 p.m. tomorrow Tiffany and anybody else if you subscribe and hit the notification button hopefully it'll send you a notification that we're going live you want to go see what Bowie's upset about what's wrong do you I hope you I hope to see you what is that what Bowie wanted you don't want to share she's getting so big already you guys she also likes to flaunt that she has something that he wants anyways I hope you guys have an awesome Monday evening and um we will be back tomorrow at 2 p.m. Central for a rework of today's piece if you want to see the changes that we make I hope you guys tune in she is four months old and her name is canvas she's a husky-pom mix right Evelyn I saw it too anyways see it's like she has nothing he is like she's trying to beat what even is that guess my butt I think she figured out Bowie I think she figured out that's how Bowie plays you'll be able to see him both of them come down there Tiff it looks like she's just trying to pee on his foot so when Bowie plays he just throws his butt at people I think so TG I was gonna come over here and referee this but I feel like it's gonna make both of them tired look these choose right here this same thing this one same thing that in there same thing all that's the same boop boop boop but he wants that one one because she's chewing on it two because he likes them after they've been chewed on for a minute anyways you guys have an amazing evening we'll see you guys tomorrow oh I forgot to show you the new boards it may recognize this river board that we had a long time ago it will be on the website I submitted it tonight so hopefully tomorrow I'll be putting out a sale code tomorrow so y'all may not want to order till tomorrow anyways and then I also got some of these little trivets but they're cutty outies so you can just fill them and then flood them I think that that may be what I call this line of boards fill them and flood them these were damaged in transit but I also have fill them and flood them coasters what river table coaster what pretty cute idea it's already barricaded off on the edges of the coaster so you don't have to worry about resin flowing out but on the river boards you're gonna have to tape the edges anyways hope you guys like these new news I'll have them on my website tomorrow I'll send an email so keep an eye out and you guys have an awesome evening be kind to one another because you never know what someone's going through so Bowie can win this treat back he's got it he won it he won anyways I'm sitting out orders and we're answering emails so hopefully I'll get everything caught up within the next couple of days if you needed something from the website sorry for the delay everybody needs a little break every once in a while and actually I think I'm battling a cold as we speak you guys have an awesome evening and we'll see you guys next time bye do you find a new thing to chew on that it's not for you to chew on look at all these things you can chew on what about this one there you go bye bye