 It is six o'clock somewhere. Do you know where your artists are? Uh-huh, that's cute. Maybe just me. Was it just me? It's fine. I could be delusional. Anyways, I hope you've all an amazing day. It is today, which is something Thursday, probably Thursday, a little bit Thursday. It's 100% today and it's probably Thursday. And I'm going to Amethyst. If you saw my video yesterday, which let me go get that piece. I did a purple and beach sand marble, which looked fully like Amethyst. And I love it so much. It's just apparently a whole mile away. There it is from the shop. It tilted a little bit more than I wanted it to in curing, but I think it's still pretty bananas, like a whole 10 bananas worth. What? Look at that. Just OK. So every part of it is my favorite. So I'm going to kind of jack this recipe and basically geode it. And if it looks as good as I'm hoping it will, then I'm going to do. I have a 35 inch, like, half geode that I'm going to texture the edge like I did one from forever and ever ago. And I haven't figured out what I wanted to do with it yet. So it probably will be this. What's up, what's up, everyone? Brenda Shelly, Fiona, Sue, Kathy, Pam, Lewis, Sue, is that a mold that can be bought somewhere? So this is actually a free form geode that you can use as a stand or hang on your wall. It is available on my website. It is not a mold. I know I said free form. I just didn't have another word for it being not a square or another recognizable shape. It's kind of just a geode blob. And these are available on my website. Yes, yes, yes, yes. I know the Amethyst Marble I did yesterday is like my new favorite thing. I'm, oh, hi, tape. I'm a fan of purple anyways. If you're new to the channel, then you may not have known that. But this is my new favorite everything. So to dirt, I'm going to try to make it on here. Yeah, you can get it on my website. Hi, Renee Thornton. I really like your last name. It's very similar to mine because it's exactly the same. So if you haven't subscribed, please do so. It really helps my channel. And I mean, you're here watching, so you might as well. It's actually free today to subscribe. So do it. Today only. I am waiting on more glass to come in for a project. So I only have large mirrored glass. I usually don't use mirrored glass, but it's happening today, which is fine. I'll just get a little extra sparkly sparkles. And here on my channel, glitter, sparkles, and all things girly are always an option. So yeah. So I'm just putting some fire glass down. I don't have the mirrored fire glass on my website, but I do have the clear fire glass. Use whichever floats your boat. Also, tink. I went ahead and mixed my resin with this handy dandy. I stow you. I hope I'm saying it right. Mixer. I know they don't have the stand available yet, but the mixer part of it is available. And cool thing about it is it goes both directions. So it swirls up and it swirls it down. And the auto feature right here when the lights are blinking goes for three minutes. So when I mix resin, I know I always end up forgetting what time it is and not wanting to mess with an alarm because I don't want to get everything sticky. I mean, everything's already sticky, but I don't want to get everything else sticky. So this just times it for me. I don't even have to pay attention. And anytime something pays attention for me and I don't have to pay attention, it's one of my favorite things. If I had to have, what is it, Oprah's favorite thing, things of whatever she does, that thing would be on it. I have it linked down in the description box below this video if you are so interested. The only thing is you do have to mix it after it's already mixed. You can see in there those swirls. Looks like fishing line or angel hair. There's little squiggles that are in there. That's from me scraping the sides of my mixing cup because the paddle that comes with it is just not going to scrape the sides. And if you try, you may be able to do it, but it also may rip through your mixing cup. And so to avoid that, just don't hit the sides. And just hand mix what comes off the edges. I think that mixer is like 20 bucks and it takes a few batteries. And I highly recommend. They are not paying me to say that, but they did send me that one to review. But it helps us out if you use our link down in the description to get to Amazon. What is the problem? So now that I have it all incorporated at this point, we can start mixing colors, color colors. All right. All right. Now, let's mix color. I'm going to need a translucent white, a purple. Ooh. No. Yeah. Maybe. So I need a translucent white. I have a translucent purple. I need an opaque purple, a gold, and opaque white. Bam. That's our color palette. Bing, bing, boom. So I have usually, please help me find the geoboard. I guess Clara is not here yet. But I think JJ just gave a link. If that's not a direct link to the geobords, just give me a moment. This one is 18 inch. I also have larger ones. And I have ones that have kind of a rim on the side. Anyways, using Alexa Timer. That's smart. I just always forget. Hi, Christine. I'm so sorry. I just looked up. What was your question? I actually don't see your question, Christine. Are you sure? Oh, help me find the geoboard. JJ is looking for the direct link for you. Just give him two seconds. Also, you're never unimportant. I don't read. While I'm doing this, I have to wait for a second because I have to watch a little bit what I'm doing. But please don't feel unimportant. Everyone's very important. All right, so now I'm going to divvy this resin out into the amount that I need represented in the piece, which I'm not exactly sure how much I want of different things. So I'm just kind of eyeballing it at this point. Actually, I think I need more, I don't know. So since I'm not sure, I'm going to put a little bit aside just in case I need some extra. So, OK. So I need another pipette. Never mind. It's right here. Boom. I'm going to first mix some translucent white. And to get it translucent, I'm just going to use a very minimal amount of paste because all the colors I use are very opaque, typically. They're very pigmented. And so I'm just going to use this much white. The white I'm using is titanium from just resin. And I want it to be like a lactose intolerant shade of milk or skim milk, as Oronda likes to say. So I can just see through it so you can see the color of the star stick through. Lynn, how are you doing? I hope you got your tracking for your package today. And then I'm going to need also an opaque white. So I'm going to use basically the same amount, but in a smaller vessel. And this should make my color opaque for this resin. So I don't want to be able to see through it. Bam. Good to go. See how quickly the paste melts into the resin? It's one of my favorite things about using a paste specifically. You're in research lab today. Well, I know you're doing amazing, wonderful things. So the next color I'm going to use, if I can get this open. Sometimes tools are required on old bottles of color. Y'all, I get asked all the time what the shelf life is. And color obsession doesn't even sell their tints in these glass jars anymore. They're in plastic jars. I've used this for forever. See, it's all still liquid in there. OK, so anyways. OK. So I want this purple to be vibrant and translucent. So I'm not going to put that much in, at least not to start. You can always add more color. You can't take it out to my knowledge. So just add bits at a time. I think I need a little bit darker of a color. And that's kind of the cool thing about the tints is you can add as much color as you want to get the shade lighter or darker, but it will always be translucent no matter how much you add. I think this is almost the color I'm looking for. I don't want it to be too bright. This color is purple topaz by color obsession. It is tint. So that may be good. I just don't want it to be too bright because I don't want it to be distracting from the depth that we're trying to do. OK. What else did I need? I need a darker purple. And so for that, I'm going to use berry, which is what we used yesterday. And I'm not so concerned about it being opaque or not, even though this is an opaque pigment. So I'm going to use about that much, which will probably knock it into opaque. It was outside. So that's a great color, but I feel like I want it to be a little bit darker. I'm going to add a something. What's kind of a cool thing about the colors that we use is they're all able to be used alongside each other, with each other. That is red. That is brown. And none of that is what I'm looking for. OK. So I'm going to add some blue dye to it, darken it some. This made it fully blue. OK. That's not what I wanted. If you guys could have seen my face just then, it was a very lucille ball. Backtrack. I need an actual. I have a dark purple tint. Maybe this will bring it back. Hey, just resin. How are you doing today? I don't like this color at all now. I'm going to put a little bit more purple in. If it doesn't do what I want it to, we're going to abort and just make a new color. I'm not so sure about this color. I'm just going to set it aside for now. And I know people are concerned with wasting product. That is definitely always a concern. Wasting product is never good. Well, that just went basically black, but that's OK. It'll lighten up next to just resin titanium. This is kind of a cooler shade than I initially wanted, but it'll be fine. I think maybe everyone said bless you, babe. I think maybe after we add that topaz color, it'll brighten it up. All right. Right, right, right. And the last bit will be gold. And I told you guys yesterday that when I mix the color, oh, Vanda Violet would be good, but I don't have any more resin mixed up. Next one. For my bigger one, I'll do Vanda. Yes, I know it looks like a lot, but I want it to be basically almost half and half. Because if you have not enough gold in your resin, then it'll kind of turn like a brownish color. I'm out of just resin bright gold. I would use that. I sent you a message on Facebook, Natasha, hopefully, and get that other order in super quick. OK, now, unlike how I usually do it, I'm going to try to do a piece that is kind of gradient out. So I want to have dark to light. So I'll have the titanium on the outside edge and, ultimately, I'll put a gold rim on it if it looks how I want it. OK, I know Vanda is one of the best colors. And I don't know why I didn't think about using Vanda in the first place, but I didn't. So let's get started. I think I'm out of Vanda anyways. So I want it to be darker on the inside and then work. It's way out into a lighter color. So I'm just going to kind of smooth everything around with my finger. I'm doing this instead of just pouring a bunch of resin because resin, typically, usually, there's a lot of factors. But generally, it likes to kind of level off at about an eighth inch. And when you pour resin out, typically, generally, depending on a lot of factors, it comes out at a fourth inch. And so in order to not have all of my resin just kind of run off, I use my finger to kind of blend it, blend it out, and kind of thin it and move it into the shape that I'm looking for. OK, maybe I'll just use this as a mid-tone. It probably won't look like much difference in color. But give me a minute because I'm going to do, hopefully, some neat things. But you never know what resin is going to do. Resin is going to resin. Vant Violet should definitely be a color. OK, now I'm going to take the purple Topaz and this color around. I think I like the look of that kind of undertone to drybrush sketchiness that that created. I'm just going to roll with that. Wait. I'm going to turn my this because my table is not level and everything was shifting that way. And I'm parched. Now I'm going to do the dirty pour. And I may dirty pour in within this as well. I'm going to put a little bit more of this darker color around so that it rolls down the inside face of my this. If you get any resin on your glass, don't stress about it. It's OK. You can always remove any glass that a fin do. I remove pieces from my artwork all the time. OK, now for my dirty pour, exotic pour. That we did to make the amethyst. I didn't make the beige because I wasn't sure if it would like go. So I don't have that. I'm hoping it won't make that big of a difference. But if it does, we'll just double back and do it on the next round. So we're doing a whole bunch of the translucent white and then very minimally using the other colors. And I think that's going to be enough for us to go all the way around. So I'm going to just give this a swirl because reasons. Because if I were to pour it out now, it would just be kind of a hamburger. It would be a sandwich of colors. So I'm going to give it a swirl to kind of bring colors up and push some color down so that it comes out at a nice. It's got a nice look to it. In theory, we'll see how it goes. I'm going to give myself some space. OK, so close to not making it all the way around. I really like how that looks. That ribbon candy of color. And I think I'm going to put one of those through the deep tones. I thought I just spilled something. I didn't. It's good. We're cool. So I'm not going to push my ribbon line of color. I don't want it to move. It will, but I'm not going to make it move. So I think I'm going to put one of those a thin line of ribbon through the center. And I think I'm going to do white on the outside, I think. I usually create some movement between the colors with the heat gun. But since I'm not going to be able to reach that dark purple color, I'm just kind of skimming over it to create some movement. OK, so I'm going to just roll this same cup that I did my last report in. Let me just a little bit more of that. Some of the gold, more of the translucent white to kind of top it off. Apparently all of the rest of my translucent white. I give it a swirl for good luck and good measure. I wish I did this in a paper cup. So I can't really make this a thinner. Well, I didn't pull up enough because a lot of my fun color is still in here. So I'm going to just pour over some parts of it. I got real wiggly with that one, but I'm OK with it because this is only a proof of concept test piece anyways. So I already know that I have too much resin right here. It's way higher than it should be. So I don't think I'm going to have the room to do a white edge like I wanted to. So I'm just going to help some of this color off right here. And that's going to allow that resin to flow over. And so it's going to flow off right here and right here. And then right here. And so we can balance it in this area. So I'm going to just put some of the opaque whites and some of the opaque whites. Try to find a clean finger. Don't have any stir stick it is. Now I know that my resin is more likely than not going to push this white that I just added off of the piece. And I'm fully OK with that because no matter how much you like something, resin is going to self level unless I built a dam around it until it got really a lot thicker. But maybe I got time for that. It's so cool for just resin to come in and check on us today. We love them. Hopefully they'll have us in Australia again super soon and we can do another class tour. That would be amazing, I think. I'm just going to put the gold on these edges that are probably going to run off. But just in case they don't, there's a color. And I need to put more gold throughout the whole piece as well. Resin is going to resin. And that is fully, I mean, as resin artists, we all know that resin is going to do whatever it wants to do. Not a whole lot that can be done to change what resin feels like doing. And it will have more ocean coat for you guys soon. I just need to order some more ocean coat. So I feel like I want to add, everything I add now, since it's got a lot of resin down, is going to push the resin to one side or another. It's going to make everything move. So I have to add color now knowing that things are going to move. I know we were planning right before COVID, but now that the world isn't on time out anymore, should make something happen, Captain. Well, let me just show you guys where we're at before I put anything else on this piece. So the ribbons of color look crazy amazing. The depth from using translucent and opaque gives such an awesome color and depth. And then mixing just a little bit of that gold and our dirty pour, our exotic pour, gives just strings of gold that just light up when it hits the, I almost said the sun, but that's not accurate. Right now I'm just tilting in some of this pour on the edge. And everything else is going to just tilt into this center area, which I'm OK with. Because this center area got real squirrely on me. I don't think I've ever tilted a geode. I'm not mad at it. Trying to kind of make it all a little bit even and ugh. OK, I forgot about that part. Won't tilt quite so crazy. As I say that, I almost tilted it crazy and it almost did something crazy. You guys, I have a client that wants a shattered glass look and it's all I can be using my extra brain space for. Like I have extra, but you know what I mean? It's consumed my mind since it was requested. And I'm almost out of ideas. Oh, goodness. Thank you so much. Jeff just cleaned the studio and I don't know where the hype button is. Yes, I do. There it is. Yay. Thank you so much. Megan, how are you doing? Thank you, thank you, thank you. Are any of your colors translucent? Are any of my colors that I'm using right now translucent or any of my colors in general translucent? Yes to both. I actually don't. I have like eight ounce kits of Marcy's resin in stock and that is the only one I have in stock. But I have some on the way. I swear, promise swear. And I'm going to order some more Ocean Coat and Diamond Coat. So many people want us to come to Australia. Makes my heart so happy. And I hope we make it there this year. We got to get planning that if we're going to do that though. OK, so I'm going to add some gold because I want to. There's so much that didn't go like I wanted to on this piece. So it has turned into a piece of experiments. And I think it's important to experiment as often as you can because you never know what kind of magic you can make. Accidents turn into some of the most beautiful pieces. Tell anybody that until my last day. There's always beauty in accidents. So I'm going to use this little shovel spoon to kind of control the flow of the gold I'm about to lay on. So that didn't have much control at the beginning. That's OK. It looks better than the blob it would have made with just a stir stick. I feel like I'm doing like a mini dust pan with just one color, obviously. Ultimately, I definitely would use Vanda on my next one. And I think I'm not going to use something so dark in the center. I'm going to make the majority of it the dirty pour. Oh yeah, it does. That it definitely does. And I think I still like it. I'm going to put some gold through this area to kind of tie in where this gold is going, where it's been. So walk away. Thank you guys so much. Wonder what glitter makes the gold would look like. So I don't know because the gold is really opaque. And if you want to, that looks so pretty. But I don't have anywhere to put it on a coaster. That looks geody to me. Colors together. It looks crazy. Layed out like that. I'll put that aside. OK. Looks like we should all just plan a trip to Australia, everyone. That's what I'm seeing. I'm going to put a little bit more of the just raw gold, the liquid gold on here. I got some splatters. But I like the splatters. It's probably just me that likes the splatters. But I'm OK with it, fully cool with it. All right. Now for one of my favorite parts, the glitter glass. I'm using the clear because I don't know. It just goes with everything. If you've never used glitter glass before, it is glitter glass. It is tea-tiny, little teeny baby mousse-sized shards of glass. And they are clear. And they are super sharp. They will cut you. You have to respect the glitter glass. I like to add it on top of my fire glass because it just gives extra sparkle because it gives more facets because all the little tea-tiny particles, like there's no glitter involved. The reason why it works is because all the little fine shards of glass are laying in different angles. And that's giving the appearance of facets because different areas are catching the light in different ways. I think that's what is happening. That is 1,000% an e-science explanation. Somebody that does mathy things can tell me if I'm right or not. And I just realized I didn't coat all of my fire glass with resin like I usually do. So a lot of the glitter glass I just added kind of fell in. But not all pieces have to be like all of your other pieces, you know? You know what I mean? So let's get you guys down for a close-up. All this out here, I'm loving it. Getting a little crazy on this inside ring is the splatters of gold from my amateur use of a pipette. But I'm here for it. I love this bit of gold that is streaking through because of the exotic pour mix. Need to hit it with some heat and see all these bubbles over here. Just these swirls of color reminds me of the little circle marbles. Why won't someone let me do their countertops as purple marble somebody hire me and let me do that? Reach out to me via the website. So that is not how I wanted it to go. Take one of this. My amethyst geode. I'm going to do another one using Vanda Violet from Just Resin and apply my color in a different way to get a very different result. I think actually I'm going to tilt this one around a bit more just to see because there's so much resin on this. I'm just trying to tilt it and get it kind of a bit more centered, a little bit more even. And I love the gold dots too. It's very on brand for me. I always end up flecking gold, typically on accident. I'm kind of just running this color into the center and giving that outside exotic pour area kind of more real estate on the face of the piece. I love how that gold is just hooked on the rim right there. And since I put that on dry resin, nope, a dry board, that's just going to hold on to that area and stretch out. I'm trying to do that same bit right here. When you're working with something that's kind of marbled anyways, the more you kind of move it around and get it flowing in different directions, I think the better it looks anyways. I just don't want this much purple showing. So I'm going to try to tilt it back to. Hi, just saving. What are you doing? How are you been? How are your everythings going? I haven't seen you in a while. I wish I had more dirty pour. I could just meow, meow, meow, meow, meow. But it's OK. I think I'm good with how we're living right now. It's definitely going to move and relax and shift more. And maybe this will be an instance of just a background painting for something better later on. Who knows? Who's to say? I don't know why I have a dry area over here, but I'm going to put a little bit of resin on it. I'm not mad at it. I'm going to let it live, but it's definitely not what I was going for when I started this project today. But I think every time you do something, whether it works out in your favor or not, it's a positive. Because you can learn what colors you want to use or don't want to use. You can learn what techniques you may want to use or what techniques you definitely do not want to use. So much can be learned from just rolling with the punches when things don't happen the way you want it to. A lot of our favorite techniques were learned when we were doing something that we didn't mean to do in the first place. I still super love how this piece turned out. I think this looks more like a geo than what this area right here. If I gave you just that-ish, I think that looks more like a geo than what we did today. But you know what? Maybe I'll do that. Maybe I'll just do just a whole bunch of dirty pores with some background painting on a longer than 16 by 20. And maybe that'll be what we do on tomorrow's live. If you guys aren't completely over it with purple, marble, amethyst-looking things, is the DFZ close now? I have questions. Erica sounded close. Clara, it is in the same exact spot it used to be in. For now, I just have a mic on. So winning. A vanity with gold hardware? Yes, yes, yes. If I had to make myself into a marble, it would look very much like this. If you guys give it a shot, post it in our group, ATDs, Poor People. Get all the colors I use today and every day on our website, artisttilldeath.com. Don't forget that we have our Poor With Us class coming up at the end of this month. I'm shipping for those kits this Saturday. And I have in-person classes in Dallas in March and May. The 18th and 13th, respectively. And I'm trying to think of any more announcements, but that's like that's all I got. Thank you guys for watching. If you haven't subscribed yet, please do so. I have orders coming in from all the companies. So hold tight if I'm out of colors that you are looking for. You came to the live because you saw amethyst. Well, I hope I didn't disappoint you, but I'm going to nail it. I'm going to get closer to this. What's up, Melissa? So if no one has any other questions, please subscribe if you haven't already. Leave me your thumbs if you haven't already. And share video if you think it's worth sharing. Comment under the video if you can because it helps with the YouTube algorithm, so it shoots it out to more people. And yeah, you guys are amazing. Thank you so much for watching and being with us today. If you have any questions that I didn't answer, hit me up on email. Vamp helps me answer those. And so yeah, be kind to one another because you never know what someone's going through. I always remember, will you do the test? So you don't have to. Bowie, you beautiful. Are you cutest one? Did you get to eat some presents today? Yeah. Oh, he was on Cadillac commercial yesterday. I'll show you guys as soon as that's out. Anyways, you guys are the best. I'll see you guys tomorrow. Bye. Bowie said bye.