 Alright, are you using all of those? I am. That is how I'm going to get my opal look for my opal onyx that I am about to invent with the first time ever. I'm using all the interferences that we have. And you can find all these on the website? Yep, artist till death, death com. We are home. Finally. You can kind of see just the shade on each of them. You can see really good on the rim of that one. So, we have been gone out of the studio for like two weeks, my bad. We had to do a countertop down in Houston. And then we had to do a workshop pro class with RK3, Stone Coat, and Chandel Paint, and Clara, all in Seguin, and it was amazing. But we had bronchitis from all the excitement, so you may hear him cough. It does sound a lot like Kujo if you've been here for a while. I assure you that he's been checked out and he's doing good. He got on meds today, so they haven't really kicked in. Anyway, today I'm going to do opal onyx countertop in theory. I'm going to try. And so, I have gone ahead and mixed up my resin. This is Stone Coat Art Coat, best in the biz. You can get it from our website, artisttilldeath.com, or on Stone Coat's website. If you go to Stone Coat's website, use the code Y-A-L-L, all caps, no punctuation, to get a discount. You have to go lay down. So, let's get this party started. Sorry about that little dance jig. I'm going to just dust a little bit of this something. It says translucent black. Shadow gray on my white board. Just a little bit in some areas just to give a little bit of depth. You're doing this at home. We're a respirator. We have some new ones coming. Just a little bit. I want it to be slight because white onyx is just white. It's just whiteness. With a little bit of like a cream looking, like a cream looking fault line. It's just, it looks like, still too light. Probably just looks like a little bit of a shadow, which is all I'm going for anyways. And honestly, we may not even be able to see it once we get everything down. So, whatever. So, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven. This is a lot of colors for me to be mixing up. So, I'm going to mix up about half of these cups. Maybe just under a half. So, it'll be about, yeah, just under a half. So, it'll be about an ounce of each of these interference colors that I'm going to use to make my opal shades. And then I'm going to need just a little bit for my fault lines. But yeah, there's about an ounce in each of these cups. So, first one I'm going to mix up is interference green. I haven't used interferences in a long time. So, I'm going to like just barely load the color as I go. Did you guys know I don't use a lot of powders? I just want enough to give it an interference type hue. It's okay if it has a little bit of like a color in it other than the interference. Because the more you add, the more opaque the shade will be. And I don't want them to be fully opaque. So, I want to be able to still see through it. Can you see the green interference? A little bit, yeah. Interference green check. Interference violet is next. Probably going to try to put a little bit less than I did for the green on the rest of them because I don't want to make it opaque. Hold on, I'm going to turn another light on you also. I'm going to set you down for a second. I hope you guys can see that interference. It's pretty slight. Is your class in August full yet? It is not. I was going to bring that up. It's too much, but it'll be fine. I was going to bring that up to you guys today. Our August class is not full yet. I have five seats left. Tammy has three seats left. It's the first weekend in August. If you have time and would like to come here, you can get $50 off if you come to both classes. I hope you guys can make it because Tammy is super talented. I'm very excited to be doing this class with her. This one is interference red. Two of these little stirs seem to be a good amount for one ounce. I keep forgetting how long it takes for a powder to mix in. Not that it's an exorbitant to length of time, but it's just different than paste. I promise you there's a red hue on it. There you go, you can see it there. I forgot my little camera. This one already has that yellow hue to it, so I'm not going to put too much in there. I don't want to have a yellow looking piece. This little light is pretty bright. This is the gold interference. Let me pick up this other one. Okay, that's the gold. Now the interference is blue. I want more of this one. So I'm going to... This will be the blue interference. I feel like you can super see it when I first put it in the... Can you see it on the outside? Like you can see that interference. With the light, you can definitely see it. That on the outside is what the interference will show. It's crazy how white powder can just turn blue. I probably should have called this like Mermaid Ponyx. I think it'll be great. And... I'm going to do number five. Then I have Abalone. Abalone is going to give me that awesome sparkle throughout. And it sparkles all of the colors that we just mixed up. I'm going to really load this because I want a great sparkle payoff. Abalone is a lot like Milky Way. Libby says, I'm glad you're using... For once you're using colors that I have in stock, I'm usually watching an end up button. Well, happy to help. Okay, meow. I need a little bit of a different color. So I'm going to use a little bit of beige. And in the sample I have, you could kind of see some fault lines that are a beigey, parchmenty kind of color. I don't know if I'm actually going to use this, but I wanted to mix it up just in case I decided to get crazy. Right. So I'm going to use this last one for an opaque white. I'm going to use titanium for this one. I want to be able to not see through it. This heavy, heavy white is going to sink through the translucent white that I'm going to mix up. And that's going to give us a great dimensional look. And this last one is going to be translucent white. Translucent. And so to do that, I'm just going to put a little bit of my opaque white into a bunch of clear. I have a problem as my husband says. I mean... And we all have this problem. Don't we all? I don't want to use up too much of my opaque whites. I'm going to add a little bit more just from the jar. Can I ask why you use art coat and not stone coat countertop? Is it working time? So the main differences between art coat and countertop are that there's a longer working time with art coat. And it's way more UV resistant than the countertop. The countertop is UV resistant. But the art coat is what you should use for whites always. It just has more UV resistance to it. Okay. Now I'm going to start applying all these colors. I'm going to start with my translucent white. The application right now isn't going to look too beautiful, but just write it out with me. This won't be a long video. Get to the finish pretty quickly. And now I'm going to do that exact same beautiful application that I just did, but with my interference colors. I'm kind of going for bigger patches of color on this. I feel like if I do more translucent color or thinner colors, that that'll get lost. I don't know if that's true. I just feel like that would be the case. So I'm trying to lay this on kind of thicker in areas. If this turns out how it is in my head, this is going to be the most beautiful thing. And I'm going to want to do every countertop from here on out with this. And I wonder what it would look like with that UTC on it. We can do that UTC on it. If the colors aren't obvious enough, then I'm going to just use our glow method. Well, you already put some of that red in there. Yeah, I'm putting the color my interference in. You can see the difference when you have that light on it as opposed to not, at least for me anyway. Well, this way it shows like at an angle. Then when you put your light over it over the top, it shows. I'm really hoping this gold I'm about to put on doesn't like. Okay. It reads as gold, but it doesn't read as yellow. So cool with that. I'm going to probably do thinner lines of the goal just because I don't want it to read as yellow. And I feel like if I put a big patch of it, then it's just going to try to get every last drop out of my this. Cause a way someone on. And I'm going to use all the rest of my clear for my abalone. I always keep a little bit of clear leftover just in case there's something else I want to mix. I'm pretty happy with how everything was laying out so far. So I'm okay using all the rest of it. Okay. I'm going to save just a little hint of it still in my that my cup just to be sure I have enough to do what I need to do further into this piece. Right now I'm just covering all of the dry areas. I'm not trying to mix anything. I don't want to mix anything. I'm just skimming over. We'll create some movement in a moment. So if you're trying to text me, I'm live. So not bad. I think we mostly have everything covered. Just going to hit it with a little bit of heat in a moment to pop the bubbles. I don't want to create any movement right now. I'm just trying to pop the blue blades. As my good pal Rhonda would say, this could be a finish all on its own. I don't even know if they can see that interference that we've got going on. I'm just tilting here right now to create some movement between all the colors. I'm just tilting off one side. What if you were doing that on a countertop? I would use a blow dryer or a heat gun to create this movement. Since I don't have a buyer for this sample right now, I'm just doing it how I know it's going to look the best. If it was for a client, then I would not have tilted something that I couldn't tilt on site. Going exactly to play in so far. What's our surface? This is a painted cradleboard? This is a white cradleboard. It's going to hurt my whole heart if they can't see it like I see it. Should I hold that light over here? They can see it. I'm just going to hold it here to see it. That's not. I mean, it's one way you can see it and then you go over the top you can see it or if I go over here because of that light. That's why I thought I was doing this. We can just take this. Now I accidentally just moved this and I really like what that looks like. Can you even see? Yeah, I mean you can see all the movement. It's very difficult. It's hard for it to focus because there's no... There's nothing for it to catch on. Yeah, it's like it doesn't know what to... Give you guys something to look at without passing out. It's a new draft. Use your face. Where's our painting? I love them. See, that's like so much better. Trying to break up the application lines and this is a great way to do it. This is just a little blower that we got from Amazon. When we got it, it was actually 50 bucks and now I hear that it's down in price. I have a link in our description box under this video. If you click on our Amazon storefront, it'll take you to all the things that we do on the channel that we don't use. A lot of people want to know where we got this thing when we did the Opalee. I'm just going to put a little bit more movement in it. Yeah, once you did that, that like... Brought out the colors? Spreads it all around. Yeah, that's... I can see a lot like... And you can see like put a lot more color in that. And it would be like... It looks like the inside of a shell. It's so difficult to see it on camera. After this video, we'll do a true color video on Jeff's phone. So these are all the colors that are in this, y'all. Does it matter if I put my light? It does. I just wanted to have a video of what we're doing just in case... Just in case that I'm about to do ruins it. So I wanted to have a video of how it is. So now I'm going to do just some lines, right? Let me pull up my wrapper. I think it would be... I think it would look nice. This makes me so nervous. I don't know why. I guess I'm going to try to do all these little pockets. I'm counting on all of these to sink so that I can shift it and tilt it as well. Like it's already shifting, so I'm happy about that. Don't like this. That's fine. Huh? You need to just do a lot more so it's not sticking out. You have like five lines out there. What if you did that spray paint and then the alcohol over that? That would like work really well. Just like spray paint and like put it kind of a, you know, a bunch of lines and then do one spray paint and then the spritz. Like it gives it that, like that subtle, real hint. Or it's like broken up or faded. That's exactly what you mean and definitely... Don't want to do it. Well, no, I can't now. You can do any of that. Let's see if we like how this looks and then we need to abort it or just take it to the next step. We can do that. Or by Emma literally just said, take it to the next level, Jeff. She knew. While you were saying that. This is stressful. I'm trying to round these corners to make it look a little bit... Are you going to heat it and blow on it or are you just going to leave it like that? I want them to sink and just stretch and move. If I blow on it, would it look like this? See how it's like sinking and like tilting? It's kind of what I wanted it to do. Do we have that white marble spray or do we only have it in black? We don't have white marble spray. All right, so I'm going to do some of these. I already know I'm going to get comments that are like, should have left it alone. Now I see, I love this subtle look, but then I seem to like most everything you do. Oh, these are the best. Casey. Cassie. Nash. Yeah, we got to go do her countertops down in Florida. He'll put resin all the way into my glove. Julie, I'm fine. I was like sitting down before she had me get up and record this. I was looking up how to set up this camera that just resin got us for a wedding gift. Let me show you guys this camera that they gave us. No, this is no joke. Like I've been looking up YouTube on how to set this camera up. It's one of those. And then side to side. Like it is amazing. It is not cheap at all. I'm guessing we could just get HDMI and plug it in. You can put a LAN, like all kinds of stuff in there. We're going to figure out how to hook it up and not break it. So that's all the fault lines I'm going to do. I'm going to do a video of how it looks. Law for just a second. Because we can't do the spurts and alcohol that Jeff is talking about when it's this fluid. It's probably just going to have to be on the in front of us, maybe up, up into the right so that, you know, it can get us. It can get the artwork in front of us. We've just been so busy. It's just our place is a wreck and I've been doing all these spray paint stuff. And our place is just a wreck right now. It's just coming back from being out of town for two weeks and all this stuff we had to bring back and then move around in here. We have a lot of stuff in here. So that camera clean house for you, right? I'd love to see this in the sunlight. We'll take it out in the sunlight tomorrow and have a look at it. You have to just look at all the rustling in cans and it's probably not going to be right there. We have been fully nonstop. Are you going to do this part? No. I was just getting ready. I have some. If I use a pencil, yeah. I have a pencil sharpener so I sharpen all my pencils. And I buy number two pencils just to have them around. Just to have, you know, 55 people. What's up, everybody? If you guys are new, what's up? I'm Thornton or Jeff. I got used to calling myself Thornton over the weekend. And this is Erica in front of me. We're artists till death. We're out of Texas and Erica is just kind of working on a, I guess, idea she had or did you see it or what? I wanted, so Judy sent me a picture of White Onyx and I was like, I want to make that opal. Do a White Onyx opal. And it looks like this. And I super love it so far, but now we're going to do some granification on it. 300 of them? Wow. In your garage. So I'm going to start in this corner. That was going to say, just like. Try the Italian drip. You can see it through there. So it's still really fresh. So it's going to move a lot. Probably doesn't make sense to actual counter toppers for me to have these lines and then do this. But we're artists and so we do what we want. Look how much different that White is. This is a great way to hide things that you don't like in your piece. Yeah. I think this is super busy. And I want to fade into having these areas and fade out of them as well. So make sure you don't do crazy cover it. I would just do a spray. You don't want to do a spray to see what it looks like right now. I don't know what you mean do a spray. A spray bottle of alcohol. It would look like this. I'm really hoping that all this that's in the middle dissipates like it did over here. I'm sure it will right? I don't want to do too much alcohol because I know that that can be a not a good thing. I just want to see what it looks like if I drop alcohol just into these. It'll do like that raindrop look. Come look at it from over here. I can see it. That is super fun. That may not stay because this resin is pretty fresh. But if it did, that'd be awesome. How's she just dripping it all over? I want to put those raindrops everywhere. So what's happening is the alcohol is pushing or dispersing the mica particles outward. And so because when you put a powder and resin it's essentially just floating in there. So when you drop alcohol in it it's going to push those particles outward. I didn't think it would do anything to the paste area but it kind of did. Sorry I didn't mean to outunfocus you. My goal is to do a finish that Rhonda's like I'm going to teach that on my channel because if it's Rhonda worthy. Look at all the little drops you can see. Bowie is in a mood. Hopefully that stays. I hope it does too. I'm going to leave it here. And I'll come back in an hour or so. Look at that big circle. Looks like a peace sign. There's another half one right there. It's just gone. You can see it there. I'm going to leave it be. And then come back and revisit it in probably 20 minutes. See if I can drip some more alcohol on it if those have moved. If they're still there I'll probably leave it alone. And we'll do a true color video if they moved or settled back then I'll add some more alcohol to it. I'm glad I didn't put the beige in. I think that would have been a distracting shade. But to be fair my sample did have it in them. I don't. This is my reference. It looks like a really thick spider web when it's real dense and a bunch of it. So like that banana spider's web. So that was going to be where that... But anyway, happy with it. It's good. I'm going to let it live. I feel like a full counter topper now. Subtle and elegant vamp says. I'm glad you're prettier. You want to come up and say hi to people? You do. You do. You feel it for it? Come on, search a lot. Oh, it's a big boy. Erica, yours is prettier. Two of those back to back. Yours is way prettier. Bowie bands. I think my phone is actually about ready to die. All right, you got it. Thank you for watching and seeing what we're up to today. If you liked it, leave us a thumbs up. Follow us for more art things because we post most every day. When and where is the class? The class that's here with Tammy is the first weekend in August, which is the 6th and 7th. I'm pretty sure. And then we also have one midway through September in Seguin with Mix Media Girl. So that. And then also maybe we're going to have a traveling class the whole rest of August, but we're waiting on confirmation for that. Anyways, that's where our classes are. You can find them all on our website, artiststilldeath.com. Just search classes. You'll find all of them there. And so I hope you enjoyed it, you guys. Be kind to one another. You never know what someone's going through. And always remember, we do the test. You don't have to. That shirt is flattering to me, but I can't show it to you. Surf shop. I know that, but... No. We'll see you tomorrow. Bye. Bye.