 And that guy uses stencils. Cheater. Oh, cheaters. Hey, hey, y'all. Is it beautiful? Is it perfect? I'm going to try something different today, y'all. I'm going to try something I haven't seen anybody do. What are we going to do, babe? So, you know how we do the ornaments that have all of the acrylic micas. Nope, acrylic micas on a thing. The color art micas inside of the ornaments. I've done vases before. Let me go get a vase. But I have been wanting to do it on a canvas. I've wanted to do it on a canvas ever since we did this piece. What I'm saying is how we're going to film today. Oh, I thought you were talking about something new. Thank you. We're going to film you guys. Nope, we're going to film for you guys from under the piece. From under. From under. Because if you think about it, you have to work on one side, but the display side is the opposite side. So what we have set up here is a this. So you're going to see our up under everything. You're going to see our from under. So what we have here is one of our clear. Okay. Let's do this. So what we have here is one of our clear. I mean, you have to do this first, babe. So if you have a big piece, if we sell these, they can hear me just fine. The only mic is this one. I know. Like this doesn't work. I know that. Okay. I don't think they could over the heat gun. Just heat this up with your heat gun and it'll tear off super easy. If you guys don't know, this is a piece of our clear cast acrylic that we use for our star sticks, our coasters, our ornaments, the necklace charms, basically all the things that are clear. It's this stuff. And typically we tell you guys to leave one side on however, I want you guys to see what we're doing. So we're going to take both sides off. So I'm going to be working on this side and you guys are going to be observing from below. So this is what's going to happen. I'm going to turn you around. Have a piece of plexiglass. We're going to put you on the floor and put the piece of plexiglass over the top of y'all. We don't get anything on our camera. This is an attractive view. Derp. So we're about to do the thing. I'm nervous. I've never done this before. I've wanted to do it for a while since, like I said, we did the vase. I have no idea if this is going to work or not, but we're going to figure it out together, right? Because that's what we do here. The test. So you don't have to. Yeah. Yeah. So let's get this party started. I hope you all had an amazing holiday. We did. Hope you tune in to see my tea, tiny lady baby niece painting slash making a mess and throwing a tea, tiny tantrum there at the end. So. I'm so glad you like our star sticks. There's some of you on it. Can they leave a review on our website? They can leave a review on the website and they can talk about it in other social media places. If you guys would be so kind, share some of our products or our channel because we're trying to grow our business and our YouTube. Can't do without you guys. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you so much for watching this and our YouTube. Can't do without you guys. And we're trying to make it to 100,000 soon. Okay. We've been at 52 long. First thing I'm going to do is take our this, my Vallejo pouring medium. Oh my God. This is going to be so crazy. I'm so nervous. Okay. Here we go. Oh my goodness. What if I just like did a pollocky type thing? A tutor pollock. Tutor pollock? Tutoric? Do you don't think like putting it with the brush with one of those brushes, it will smooth it or it will leave those lines? Well, I'm going to put enough product on here that I can smooth it out with a, this, a foam brush cutter. And my main concern with this is it drying too fast, which could happen. But if that happens, I'm just going to put more pouring medium on. Your hair looks so cute, E. Oh, thanks you guys. I, E and Jeff and our beautiful mods, T, D, M, N. So I'm just like rough brushing this on. My goal in this is to make sure there's no dry spots. Because where there's a dry spot, your paint's not going to stick. When we do ornaments and vertical things, you have to make sure you get full coverage and you don't have too much product on there because it's a vertical surface. So once you set it upright, like how it's supposed to be displayed, all of your pretty colors will run. However, since we're going to leave this horizontal, I can put as much pouring medium on as I want and not have to worry about it, like dipping and moving and whatever. So I think we're good with this and now we can start applying the color. You guys can't tell. I'm excited. I've been thinking about this for a long time. So I'm going to tell you the colors we're using, even though I'm not going to, I don't carry these colors, but essentially I'm doing this palette but with more green and blues. This would be a good time to have our colors set up. This would be a good time to have our camera set up. Okay. So first things first, we're going to do this spirit gum. This is, nope, gum Arabic. I always get those mixed up. I got this on Amazon. If you want some, check the something, the description box under this video. Okay. I need a bigger possible stick. It doesn't dry slow, but it's not crazy fast either. This is a Vallejo pouring medium, but you can use any clear, glossy pouring medium. You can use Minwax. You can use Mod Podge, whatever. So what the gum Arabic does is it gives some dark accented spots. I bet I could do a pretty bomb galaxy with this. What is the gum Arabic? What? It's made for making watercolors. I think it's a binder for watercolors. It has something to do with watercolors. But for purposes of this, it gives the fun dark patches. Should you be worried about too big of splotches or should it be even or doesn't matter because you're putting so much other color down? So it doesn't really matter except for if your splotches are too peaked, I guess. Like, yeah, that right there, it'll stay white if I don't beat the devil out of it, essentially. What if you were to take that brush and brush this? And you make it all uniform? Yeah. Yeah, that does nothing. So we're just going to let it live and be peaked. If you were to take the brush and brush over it, then it'll just make it more uniform. I think this is underneath. It is underneath, and it will be fine. We can clean it off? Yeah, it's water-based. Right now, we can paint scrape it. You don't want to do anything to this. Oh, I guess... This is just for demo purposes. This is proof of concept. You're going to want to leave your paper on if you do this so that you have nothing getting on the front of your piece because you want that to be solid, clear, and crispy clean. Yeah. So the next color I'm using is Bling It Interference Red Pearl. It looks like that. It looks like this. And the difficult part about this process is thinking about it in reverse because you have to apply it in such a way that the first color you put down is going to be your main color. I don't even think I'm saying that right. But you know what I mean? What you see as the last color is going to be the least represented color on the front side because it's on top of the other colors and the display side is on that side. Okay, so if you blow it, it moves. That may be a whole new thing I experiment with after I get my proof of concept down with this. So this Interference Red is just going to give me like a... Can you put that on that other one? Yeah. It's going to give me just a bit of a red sheen. E-science. Very E-science-y. Okay. Oh, some of it doesn't move. Okay. I hope that wasn't too loud for you guys. Where's my this? I'm just going to use our little blower to thin out any of these pieces. I don't want the airflow to be too much because then it's going to move your pouring medium. Okay, the next thing I'm going to add after my gum Arabic and my interference is the dark shade. The dark shade that I'm using is chestnut and I'm putting this over mainly my gum Arabic bits because it's going to give the most accented look. It's going to build up and get blurry on the bottom piece. Yep. Yep. If it starts to build up on the camera, we'll just fix it. So I'm concentrating all of... Nope, not all of it, but most of my dark color in the areas that I have, the thicker gum Arabic. It looks just like up here. Give me a minute. Also, this has to settle just like with the ornaments. It's going to look way different second day than it does today. But it's going to look amazing because the ornaments always look amazing. Therefore, this should look also amazing. At least that's what's in my head. That's what my brain says. Whether my brain is working or not. Yeah, basically a flat ornament. Yeah. And just like with the ornaments, it's not really a piece until... We put the gold behind it. Actually, in this case, I think I'm going to do copper and gold. B, if you want to tap some of this blue on... I wanted them to be able to see that. You can kind of see it more. Tap some white blue on. Tap, tap. Yep. Scared. No, just tap it on just like regular tapping. On the ornaments that I did, this color was definitely like left behind because I did so much of the brown, the chestnut color. Alright, now I'm going to take our blower because there are peaks on this and I'm just going to... It's doing something. But I don't think it's doing enough to warrant doing it at all. Opportunity cost. There isn't much. I'm trying to figure out if I should add some of this blue color that I don't know where it went. That blue is probably too much for this. You think? That's pretty... This one? Pretty color, but... Like this area right here. Oh, yeah, that looks good. That'll look good next to that. I think so too. But I'm not sure if it's that color or this nebula star. Oh, yeah. It was the first one. It was this one. You kind of have to work fast with this because your pouring medium will dry on you. And I haven't tried to see what would happen if I had to add more pouring medium. Those colors are showing up. Look at that down there. Oh, yeah. Come on, y'all. I'm going to try to lift this up. This kind of artwork you definitely have to trust the process a little bit. That's what it looks like from the top of the light shining through it. It's great for the movement, y'all. This is what it looks like from the back, basically. I think what's going to happen after this, you put gold over it. I'm going to go back in with these other colors again a little bit. Add a little bit more of them. After we get enough coverage with these colors, we're going to add the gold and that's going to fully fill it in. And then you have to wait for it to kind of settle. By settle, I mean the pouring medium is going to kind of engulf the powder that you dust onto it. And then in the morning, everything should be dry and should look amazing. And so in the morning, I'm going to post a story to YouTube and show the finished piece. And there's probably people asking, well, Erika, how would you display this? And what I would do is get some of those standoffs from the Amethane. I bet I could go in with something and like... What if you took a piece of wax paper and this is when you put all the gold down, take one of those rollers and just roll it so all these little clumps would flatten out? We can try it and see what happens. You can see in these the first color that we put on here. It's dissolving right here. Right here. I don't know if they can tell. Think about this, y'all. Obviously it's not going to look like this, like very... Splotchy and patchy. Splotchy and patchy. When this is all said and done... This one's dissolving too, right here. This is going to be like resin. It's going to be so shiny and smooth. But there's no resin involved. Yeah. If I wasn't teaching you guys, I would probably have a respirator on because there's a lot of mica in there. Just be mindful of that. You probably don't want to breathe it in. You don't want to breathe in any particulate, really. So if you're doing this at home, just take care of your own health. Do as I say, not as I do and whatnot. Do you have a starter bundle kit of your glitters and micropotters? Actually, I have some bundle kits on our website of mica's and some paste. I just released the mica set today. I haven't even sent out an email about it. I only have six sets that are put together right now for each one of the color packages. But they're pretty great sets, I have to say. They're by color passion. And if you go to the website and go to the shop and click new products, it should populate pretty quickly and easily for y'all. Hold your breath. Oh, okay. I said, hold your breath. After you blew. I wonder if I put... You can see all of it in the camera. Oh, yeah. Actually, it looks really fun. I wonder if I did this. Sorry, that was so loud, you guys. I won't breathe that in. Okay. Nice. Noice. I feel like it needs more of the green represented. Why doesn't that shine through? I put the most... I don't even have that much of it left. You sort of have to put the... I know, but I want more green on it. I just... Dipple it in a little bit. I would look at that before you start doing that all over. I think it looks good. Like it's shiny. Say that better. What's wrong with this shiny? It's just still very wet. Yeah, I need it to be wet so that... I'm just kind of popping the mountains. E-science. But if there's like a peak of powder just kind of hand-stippling that down I want it to be shiny because I need that fluid to still be not dry until I'm done adding powder to it. What is happening when I kind of stipple these little mounds of color as it's kind of dispersing? Pick it up and let's see what it looks like. Gold. I think so too. There's a good amount. I wonder if that blue is a bad idea. No, it looks great. Okay, then you're right. It's time for some bronze, some copper and some gold. Yeah, she said mountains. So this is 006 rose gold. What this is going to do is fill in any open patches and something else. So it's going to fill in any open patches and give kind of like a duotone color to some of these areas. If you want to show them what it looks like from underneath this area is going to get covered in a second. Hold on, y'all. I'm going to show y'all bird's eye view. Right here. Can you guys see it being covered? We'll be able to tell when I lift it up. When you're down there with the light I can tell what area I haven't covered yet. I think my phone is covered in just kind of tapping it around because it's going to stick. I'm tapping it around to get it to spread out so I don't have too much of it So I only have a little bit left to cover and then once this is done I'm going to just put a quick coat of resin on this back. It's like being inside the ornament. You are inside of the ornament. Welcome to the inside. So when this is done I I imagine it could be done drying, curing, moving, etc. in a couple days depending on how thick the pouring medium was applied and so once it's dry I'm going to put a quick coat on it and then I'm going to use standoffs to display it. So while this is curing up and drying I'm just going to show you guys what the see the dark edges that are in this red area you see where it's darker or like let me set this down so like the see how this has such variation of color in this spot right here there's like dark bit and it's surrounded by like some lighter right here that's from the gum arabic this and this the white patches are the gum arabic that I put on too thick and didn't be the devil out of it so all that around the full perimeter what I notice is very light like very like you might want to put some like brown or teal it's dry I can't do anything with it the my pouring medium is dry there that's why nothing's sticking and it's still really fluid in these areas where the gold is shiny I'm going to wipe it off as soon as the feed is done and it will be fine so yeah tune in tomorrow to see how this bad boy finishes out I expect these white splotches to turn dark like kind of like these depending on if I put enough if I beat the devil out of my gum arabic puddles but we'll see see how these dots are kind of hazy there's like as long as the dot is dot and it kind of bleeds out a little bit that's the primary element mica kind of mixing into the pouring medium just on its own so I think it's going to be great but I won't know till tomorrow ergo you won't know till tomorrow oh look see I turned it up and see how it kind of like puddled right here see how it's like that's because of how thick I have the pouring medium on and that's why you can't do that when you have ornaments or a vase I'm even a little bit kind of shifted that's fine I'm just trying to say the reason why it's doing that and why you can't put that much pouring medium on a vase or an ornament because it will slump and that's not good it's not cute not a good look so hope you guys had an amazing Christmas we did finally back home and we're getting things back to normal here in the shop I have one page of orders left I've been shipping like a mad lady make sure you guys get your stuff super prompt boycat and girl cat now live with my mom because boycat was getting too curious around the artwork and I just knew he was going to get stuck to resin it's just not good for boycat and he was peeing on everything so now he lives with my mom and he's very happy I posted a quick video for you guys showing him playing outside I used this one that is Vallejo pouring medium you can also use I had the flash on where is everything so sorry about that y'all that's not on all the way but you can also use I put crimson on that one and it just took over that's the color palette from the one we just did that's so fun and now I want to do a nebula in this style like shooting the color I feel like if we use the airbrush to move there was a way that you can put that on so much more well I was thinking what if we airbrush the powder airbrush the powder I need you to face over here so you can also use the golden gloss medium you can also use the gloss mod podge I have heard though that if you water down your mod podge it tends to pull away from plastic but it doesn't pull away from glass I also have a vivid enamel pouring medium that's not it that's an extender you can also use minwax polycrylic basically as long as it's clear and glossy it'll dry good enough for your this project I'm really pumped about how it's looking so far I think it's going to be amazing I'm super super pumped that I don't have to worry about anything furry landing on this so um I saw a video of him playing outside he loved it probably he stops peeing on everything he's going to probably pee on everything outside which is a go thank you Judy I hope you are awesome and thank you for reminding people to hit the like button if you haven't subscribed and I hope you do because you're here so you may as well subscribe also we have this stack of hats that are going to get designs on them soon so we're thinking about doing it on New Year's Day New Year's Eve Saturday probably around two or three and doing some names having some fun colorful backgrounds a old it's just kind of an old school retro fun throwback hat throwback hat also you look cute Erica thanks if you haven't checked out vamp's channel check her out she's posting her skulls that she's been working on they are super blingy super sparkly kind of gory glammy super unique super beautiful if you haven't checked them out check out vamp's channel glam and gore that's actually a youtuber that I used to watch you can just click on havenavampsname and go to our channel after this feed is over if you haven't subscribed please do so we're trying to grow our channel to 100k it's taking forever for some reason and I feel like let me know what I need to do for you guys so that you'll share my videos you just used your ATD apron I'm so glad you liked it if you can anybody that's ordered from us leave a review post on Facebook in your art groups about where you get your color from because it really helps small businesses so much to have word of mouth from you guys it's the best form of advertisement and since we're small business free advertising is my go to advertising so JB what's up you want a fun hat well we're going to be painting them live on this channel on Saturday I can't decide if I want to pre-sale the hats on the website before or just once you're on the channel pay palace the amount and your hat will be done in the order that the payment is received with actually anyways what's up man well yeah we have to go because I haven't really eaten anything today because I've been sending out orders and such thank you guys for watching thank you to all the mods for all your help you guys are the best I hope you had an awesome holiday we'll be back live to not tomorrow we'll be back live tomorrow I want a hat but my grand cuties will be here Saturday I'll send you my tg you got my number shoot me a text with what you want and if your grand babes want a hat also anyways thank you Paulette you guys are amazing and we'll see you guys live tomorrow I will be reviewing tomorrow some beautiful new interference sparklies from color passion that I just got in the kits that I mentioned earlier I only have five so if you want one before I review them because that's when they sell out go ahead and get them now you can get all the pigments that we sell there we have 800 plus colors these are acrylic colors I don't have these on my website except for the gold and the rose gold and the interferences all the primary elements you have to get put my name in the notes maybe Leslie will send you some extra I don't know can't promise so yeah you kind of want another because you never know what someone's going through and always remember we do the test so you don't have to that was my interpretive dance of it should I better so you don't have to some say love okay I'm going to go eat dinner now and you guys have an awesome night bye till next time bye get money