 Let me know So today we are gonna show you how we prep our canvases to do airbrush acrylic pouring resin Alcohol ink we're gonna show you all those different methods that we use to prep Yep, a little bit of it all. I was trying to let it catch you again Yeah for like a second Hello, hello, hello Yeah We're also recording with our alien So we're gonna be prepping one of our new styles of cradle boards that aren't even on the website yet, but Lord Taylor, what is up? Have you been Also hi Libby tg Swamper Prosperity Cynthia. Thank you guys all for seeing what we're up to today. So This is our new style of cradle board He's gonna show you in a second I'm just pointing it at you Do you guys hear Jeff okay? So We are using What kind of paint is that this is just regular flat white house paint I normally like to use dead flat Now you get that Walmart like it. I feel like it's a little bit more durable a little bit more Opaque and you'll have to go over your piece so many times Some of this flat white is Not very opaque Yes, Laura you have to come to Texas again spend a little bit more time Take all the pups to the park. I've been putting lights on the back of our cradle boards and that's that's cool Fun, but when you hang it they're actually touching the wall And I feel like it might make it uneven So if you hang something and something's on there This is gonna stick out a little bit more than this part so the light might not be as even What we have our guy Basically Cut a piece inside here like bevel it just right out not bevel I guess it would just be Router So that way you could put the lights on here and they would project outward And then you know, this would be like this would be up against the wall flush Put all the stuff in here if it doesn't stick out a lot The new lights that we actually kind of do the piece of the line will have to go out I mean there's obviously gonna have to be a line that goes out But Because they're electric You have to plug them in so With these kind these are these are good These aren't bad and these are a lot easier to install than the ones that we're gonna be using for these But basically it's just a sticky side just take it off and just All the way around so you can either do it like this or you can do it like that Obviously all this stuff goes up inside This part will pop out down here so that you can plug it in Just a controller. You can either have that down there so you can control it from there or hide it up in here since it's flush It's actually higher. So that's good. You can just give them the remote Make sure the little remote thing is pop down here so it Deception but yeah Genius Yes, this this board is being prepped on a lazy Susan Just because it's easier and Hey everyone that I forgot to say hello to when you guys came in So yeah, the first step of what we do to prep our cradle boards is to paint it with a flat white interior house paint Jeff today is using captive aid. I think by Sherman Williams interior Flat or dead flat Cynthia are you talking about battery operated turntable or the LEDs? TG says that's so cool. I want some like 10 so after you paint it white with your Yeah, use the mist a little right there With your flat interior paint Then we are gonna let it dry and sand it down and while that's happening We'll show you how we prep canvases so they don't dip in the mirror These are Pretty cheap canvases Normally they are wrinkled a little but This is what we do All you do is just get you a spray bottle Spray it back get it nice and You don't have to soak it, but just enough to wear You can kind of see it on there and get you a heat gun So this works kind of like How clothes shrink in the washer So canvas is essentially a cloth and when you wet it Excuse me and put a whole bunch of heat on it It's gonna shrink it and so that'll tighten it So that you don't have as much dip if you do like fluid art on it and then you would sand it and do the house paint like we just did on this canvas and then Difference so you can see you can tell here these will go away. You just heat it up more Obviously came from the same canvas And that's that's pretty Where Taylor you just get what is that? We're Taylor that'll be enough of that. Thank you so much Laura. I don't know where We really really appreciate that Laura when you when you do that when it's this tight a little easier to sand Because when it when it's like this we've got kind of this dip and Sometimes you get lines from this wood You can kind of see that line. I just made there Because it's real loose And that doesn't go away even if you paint it because it's you're sanding on something solid and it'll Basically help you Sand it so it'll make it really Align a definite line So tighten your canvases before you sand them and then pick up from Everything else we're gonna do with this part Laura Taylor you're a rock star and we super appreciate it We miss you too super much. Let us know next time you're in this area because She said she likes yours better we need a new hype button. She said she likes yours better Hello from grease All right Welcome grease Yes debbie we We spritz the back if it's a canvas With water and then hit it with a heat gun to tighten it up and then we'll sand it and then paint it With the flat white the idea behind that is to to knock down some of the texture that's already on canvases and when you do When you put this on here Tg I think it's just called a hype button h y p e When you put this on this will actually help it too It's still That's crazy and normally you do want to sand it before you put your your paint on Because it'll knock down whatever gesso they have on there Um make it a little smoother. You don't have so much to sand Because as you you can see It's it's a pretty They're pretty textured. Well, you can't see but I just sanded it But see that is a It's a very flat sounding I have no idea why that is laura. I sent it to the address. You sent me the last time I'm gonna check tracking on that And then send another one It's hard to get wooden cradles there. I can ship to grease um obviously The heavier and the bigger the piece the more shipping is gonna cost But if you can find a woodworker in your area someone maybe that's retired That did cabinets, which is what our guy did before he retired um Maybe that will assist Laura, I don't understand the problem, but I'm gonna figure it out That's crazy, right? Makes a world of difference so Prep your canvases to tighten them and prevent Dipping if you use a pouring Method of painting larger canvases That's just canvas. I mean you can make it pretty tight. It'll it'll be nice but canvas will probably go back If there's weight on it like I'm sure it'll dip a little bit Sure if you go to a big size like 24 by 36 like that's Yeah, I'm sure customs are silly high. Wow. Jeff really tightened that bad boy up So that's his this has been his process forever because when you do portrait work when you look see so Remember those little knots that were at the bottom that's already gone in the corner Yeah, the little corner when you sprayed it This just tightened it up like Getting that wet too Well, the reason why those corner notches came up is because water didn't hit that area when we tightened it So the corners didn't tighten everything around it did But putting paint on the front will retighten it you can still see That sanding line from standing it before you tightened it right there So when you do excuse me like portrait work and you lean your hand on A canvas that will change some of the dimensions especially if you use a projector to get your proportions Proper And so the tighter your canvas is the more accurate your portrait work will be We will be adding the new cradle boards with the light groove on the website We just want we just got these in today. So we want to just Do some tests proof of concepts get some marketing photos done because you guys are the first to see them Would you say the house paint is pretty equivalent to gesso? Or saying but more bang for the buck Okay, this is the thing whenever I paint I do a lot of erasing and and a lot of scratching Babe, you don't have to Use your inside voice Okay, so I do a lot of scratching with the exacto blade and erasers and whatnot And gesso Is very thin so once you start scratching or erasing you're basically taking off that And when I try to do this house paint, it's a little thicker I like to paint them at least Two times possibly three Just so I can get a good layer so I can do some you know a little bit more scratching than normal And what I use the scratching for is to do highlights Hairlines, you know highlights in the eyes or teeth or whatever And it just makes it a little bit more durable gesso. I feel is a little thin and It takes a lot longer to cover A surface with gesso than it does house paint Like if you like gesso gesso works for you. I do like the spray gesso. That's that's a I don't mind that stuff But maybe prep your board with the house paint So it doesn't take as long and you get a nice layer down and then just so that board maybe you know, it's going to be different When we prep for alcohol inks we actually do all the process that jeff's about to do and then we do a final layer with spray gesso and then sand that with A 220 Because the alcohol inks don't absorb into spray gesso as much as it does These kind of paints the house paint But yeah, and gesso is a lot more expensive This house paint is like I want to say 19 This was in the 19 dollar So this is a latex paint I would assume outdoors more durable as well But make sure it's flat the gloss will take longer to dry and um It just doesn't If you're doing portrait work, it's not the most ideal. Are we going to be home on the 30th? I think so JJ was asking I think so JJ let's Message us after the live feed so we can check the calendar Yes, just 320 sandpaper So the sandpaper is 320 and he's just knocking down the high points like That dribble right here that may show through um Yes, we have classes coming up this weekend in sagine. We're leaving tomorrow Some I have no idea what time tomorrow um Marcy from mix media girl is going to be teaching on the 24th acrylic pour and then on The morning of the 25th claire is teaching an alcohol ink class, which I'm super pumped about and then The afternoon of the 25th. I'm teaching resin such as Oceans and I think I'm gonna do a swipe as well Anyways, we do have a couple seats left in those classes if anyone is interested claire has listed some links Um, but you can find all the class information on our website artist till death comm What's up lisa? Welcome to the live nice to see you Yeah, claire's pretty magical with her inks We can have lisa six Mm-hmm. I need a message here So Now that jeff has sanded this piece down with the 320. He's painting it over again making sure not to leave lines or lines that overlap each other So tell them your process about avoiding lap lines well A lot of people when they do it They're going back and forth, you know just kind of pressing You're definitely going to get a line from here or lines from here What I like to do Is basically When it's all painted you have a hole It's all painted And if you see some like sometimes you'll get either A hard line or a definite line as you can see What I like to do is put pressure On this side of the on this side of the roller the handle side the handle side So then you go right over here And you're just basically feathering that out There's hardly any pain on this but Just go back over until You don't see any lines So now we got to spread all the paint out What you what you want to do is just kind of go slow Like I said, see you can notice I pressed Right on there I'm pressing again over here I'm pressing over here again over here There's a lot of paint in here because I dipped this in the paint If you notice there is a line Just lightly go over that There'll be a little pressure on that side And there you go and that's basically what you do with Uh UTC when you're doing UTC Yeah, that is a good tip for using UTC Uh learning so much so glad that's what we're here for Haven't been here for a while Laura says y'all are over halfway to 100k subs. It's true And we're saving that bottle of Dom you got us at 10k For our 100k Hopefully We'll pick up some more momentum So now that this piece is basically Dry with the second coat of paint I guess it depends on what we're going to use it for What the next step is but a lot of times when we are in A situation where we don't know what we want to paint But we want to get something done in the studio or you want to get momentum to art or if you're in an artist block Prep a bunch of canvases We have two three four five six seven eight nine 10 11 12 13 canvases in here we're prepping it get as much Prep done as much as whoa as much as possible So that if you're in an artist blocker if you're filling a funk like I don't feel like doing it If you already have some of it done the majority Prep like five or six canvases Sand them do everything to just to the point of where you're painting them Even if you did maybe paint a color that you like for a background or Sketch something on it so that you know that you remember What you were feeling, you know or an idea that you had or something Just so that it's there So maybe you come home and you're like I kind of feel like painting, but I don't oh, yeah I already haven't prepped Look at that. I already got it drawn out. Let's paint it. Let's just let's just start it Just enough to start, you know Starting it is the hardest part sometimes even if you're not in an artist block, but this will Help you feel a little bit more motivated to paint when you have kind of the busy work done So So these are the new lights that we were using Do you want to put it in your mind? Um, so If we were just going to Do a Portrait on that some airbrush, maybe acrylic That one's ready to go You could do just one layer of that on a cradle board in order for it to be prepped for a an acrylic pour or A resin pour Just make make sure you give the House paint A 24 hours to off gas so that It doesn't um yellow So these are fun. You could change colors um You can have got it. There's probably like 15 different colors on here that these change And they kind of go they fade in fade out to different colors Claire. Yes. These will be on the website. They're just not on the website yet because We just got them in today And we need to just make sure the kinks are worked out And get some promo Like pictures for the website and you could do it to music or just do it manually different colors See this this is the only thing that I don't really like is there's spread out so far So if you do get these this is like what is this 16 feet? Yeah, I believe the lights are on our amazon site They should you can find that down in the description box below this video I don't know. Maybe it's 16 feet, but What I do like about these is You can turn this like you can bend this You can bend it to a corner When you take this tape off it'll stick to just about everything so Um, you can turn this if you want you can cut it and it shows you right where to cut it So you're not, you know cutting into something that you don't want cut Um, I guess you just cut right here at the Where the little arrow is But you see that These are bright these will do the job Um, but it won't be a solid glow. You'll be able to see like the gaps Um, which like I said, I'm not really a fan of but it looks fun. It still lights up This is a lot easier than the than these so Let's take these off and now those are you can see the dots so if you look right here That's that same strip of yeah Lights and so we were like I don't like having so much space and we didn't want to double it up So we found these Which look like A piece of neon like imagine that y'all So what we're going to do is put it here and it will be a solid glow All the way around like We're probably going to have to do a little Hot glue or a little super glue one of them. I don't know Maybe a little UV resin. Yeah Um, and these come in all different colors Um Let me show you the There's a blue. There's a pink Um, I think the camera is dulling this a little bit, but this is super bright Y'all that's insane Like it's blowing out Yeah, you can't even you can't even see it. Yeah If I'm further away, it's like white. Yeah And you can cut those too We created a cradle with a ledge Yeah, for neon and I think that you can get I think you can get a remote for these. I'm not sure I do know that you can cut these and splice them People are making all the neon signs with them like our who sent you sign is made with this stuff I'll show them that you have a mic now And you can see it like right in between each letter there's a little wire And I'm not sure how that works. I'm gonna probably youtube it and find out. I'm sure somebody's made a video And anytime where it's like a hard bend Or a really straight cut I'm sure that's how they did that like they just took a little wire spliced them together and It connects all the way around Um, I cut this one to this length So, yeah There you have it So if I were not a sponsor video, oh, yeah, not sponsored But if anybody that does neons or phone neons are watching what's up? So If I were gonna do alcohol ink on any of these boards I would do the final layer. I would sand it down again with the what did you use 320? I would sand it down with 320 and then I would get 220 if if you Put it on a little thick and there's some bumps, especially canvases canvases Normally are pretty rough as you know 220 is perfect for that 320 is good for because this board is already smooth. You don't need to Nothing too major So if I were going to do alcohol ink on this the last layer I would do spray gesso because alcohol inks and On mediums like that Seem to not absorb as much into spray gesso as it does in other paints You could also do a clear coat of resin and then alcohol ink over it But yeah, I would do last layer spray gesso if I was going to go directly onto it with alcohol inks and then sand it with the 320 again making sure it's super smooth because as you know if you've worked with alcohol inks If the color catches on anything then You're gonna see it forever. If you don't have sandpaper You can use paper It's really weird. I know that sounds crazy and sand people sandpaper people probably are like One of the ladies in arizona. What was that place called? The little art place that we taught a class at she's like if you don't have sandpaper you can use paper And I'm like you are crazy But it's true Is there any difference when prepping for acrylic or resin pour If you're doing it on a canvas, I would do step one first, which is to tighten Your canvas with spritzing the out Nope spritzing water on the back of the canvas and then hitting it with a heat gun to tighten it and then following the rest of the steps Whether it's acrylic or canvas It's the same prep if you're going Nope acrylic or resin. It's the same prep if it's going on an actual canvas because Both mediums are heavy It's not like super Super duper fine Like it's not like super duper, you know smooth, but amazingly It knocks down so you can hear that Like it knocks off little high points and whatnot Pretty cool To definitely feel a difference. Hey Robin So yeah, the prep is the same whether you're prepping for acrylic or resin pours The prep is just a little bit different if you're doing it on a canvas versus a cradle board So, yeah Does anybody have any prep questions or cradle board questions or Looks like Jeff's gonna have to sand this one down No, I think there was paint on the back of that So when Jeff does airbrush, he does two or three layers of the house paint And sometimes a final layer of spray gesso. We prefer spray gesso over Roll on gesso because Roll on gesso is really thin. It's expensive for what it is And it is definitely more expensive And I feel like the spray gesso lays on more smooth because it is an aerosol And I feel like there's some kind of property in it that Helps um alcohol inks not soak into Your substrate makes it not porous. I don't know words are hard anyways Any more question is And if you put paint on the side of these like if you notice if you try to sand a cradle board, it just doesn't work um, I would suggest painting The side and on top Obviously you don't want to if you try to sand a cradle board before it's painted it makes it rough You're gonna end up with peach fuzz. Yeah, and the sides you can paint and then sand You might have to repaint them after sand them because it might knock some of the paint off, but You could still get these nice smooth if you want resin to run over them Um, we're coming out. Love you science. Well, thank you. I'm a fan. I Um, we're gonna have some more merchandise come out with our go-to slogans soon Um, I'm trying to see if I have any spray gesso Yeah, we're gonna do them in square rectangle as well for the backlit Should we sell the neons with? The cradle boards or just the cradle boards and you just find your own neon We would have to stock a lot of colors then Yeah And that would be we wouldn't even know what you would get There is there is one though with the with the fun neon the good neon that turns different colors And I think it's like around $40. I think 47 bucks or something. I'm not sure that's almost much of the board cut that You can cut it however long you want it and spliceable This thing is still on we'll see we'll see Um, I haven't tried to buy spray gesso in a while. I usually buy it by the case from dickblick.com Not sponsored, but if you're watching what's up Uh, can you show us how you spray are there tricks to the trade? Hi debbie Uh, let me see if I can find some spray gesso Can you just spray a board white and that may Give some insight into how we I'm surprised we don't have any We have a lot of fixative So Is amazing So I can't find any it goes up and down basically We just get one of those little canvases that we just prepped So because they want to see how you spray If there's tricks to the trade on how to get an even spray It depends on if you have but I've noticed I always thought that You have to like spray it evenly across When you're doing like a big background and what I've noticed is If you use like a stock tip Because it's such a like it's Like these you wouldn't want to do this because it comes out such a solid line Such a nice that you you would probably get lines in there. You'd probably see them But if you use just like a stock tip that comes on You're You're crazy This is just it's such a crazy spray Like it there's no direct like it just it just comes out Being a well ventilated space You don't have to do the whole thing. I was just thinking of Uh showing how you stop spraying to not have those like bulbs of oh, yeah, just like this Like all all you're doing all we're doing is just you're spraying where you want it to go Don't sit there and like like Use up all your paint on one little area like what you're doing is just paint paint paint paint paint paint I'm definitely gonna start filling that right here in your In your hand. So you might want to practice or just don't paint for too long There's a an attachment for spray paint like a trigger attachment Um, so if you just hold the button down and spray continuously you're gonna end up with areas that are overlapping And that have just built up color Yeah, and it takes a lot longer to dry if you have just spaces where you're just like doing this. You can see, look at all that. That's just leaving the paint on. Do that little bubble right there. That can happen if you just keep your, keep the button pressed down. So when you spray, spray one direction and then let off your trigger and then spray in the other direction. That is a key tip for basically how you airbrush. Yeah, I missed how you spray and heat it to tighten a canvas. Okay, we'll show you guys on one more. Will you grab one of those? Do you have the cradle boards with the ridge available on the website yet? Hopefully I'll have them up today. I would have to get them cut so essentially it would be pre-order. Hi Margaret. Our friend in Greece says that's exactly what happened to me today and it took way too long to dry. Yeah, there'll be dry spots, there'll be you know, semi-wet spots. You can see this is just take your spray bottle. I would definitely just try to get it much area covered as possible over a couple times. It is J-Science, for sure. Laura Taylor said, I did not know that about spray paint. Thank you. So now he's just hitting the back of the canvas with the heat gun to basically just shrink the canvas. The analogy I mentioned before was putting wet clothes in the dryer on high heat. It'll shrink some fabrics and linen or canvas is one of those fabrics that will shrink with high heat. So essentially we're forcing the canvas to shrink around the frame in order to tighten it. Also painting the front side with the house paint and drying it with a heat gun will further tighten it for you. So in just a moment we'll show you the sound difference. I mean that's like a drum. Sorry I got too close with the mic and it vibrated on you guys. I know you guys felt that. So that's how we tighten actual canvas in order to paint on. That's how we prep our boards and I'm glad we got to show you our new cradle boards with... I was just doing it just for me. But if you guys want them, look who's here. She is standing. So all right you guys, we will be traveling down to RK3 Designs tomorrow to do class there this weekend. So if you want to sign up you should. The piece Jeff started. Yes that is vamp lurking. So Jeff started this piece and he prepped it the way I just mentioned. Super smooth. And so yeah I'll be posting from RK3 Designs this weekend in between doing the classes. If you're wanting to join please do so. We have a couple seats left. And so yeah you guys have an awesome day. Thank you guys super much for donating. It all goes right back into the channel and for coming in and seeing what we're up to. So please leave a thumb for me and subscribe if you haven't already. And so yeah I hope you guys learned something or otherwise entertained. Well thank you Kathy. So yeah we will see you guys next time tomorrow. I won't be live but we will be posting from RK3. So y'all have an amazing day, amazing weekend. We'll see you guys later. Be kind to one another because you never know what someone's going through. And always remember that Jeff says this line so I don't have to. So you don't have to and always beat the devil out of it. So yeah we'll see you guys next time. Bye.