 Um, the mic is over there. Are we live yet? What's up, y'all? Of all you buttercups. Using my handy dandy. And you're here now. Thee. I'm using my handy dandy mix-o-matic to mix me some resin. Um. And I went ahead and spray-painted this old board earlier to show you guys what I'm trying to do. And I don't know if you guys have seen Laramite? Laramar? Now I've confused myself and I'm not sure which is what. But anyways, I'm going to show you what I'm just going to look up at. Oh, it's Laramar. Okay. Lar. So. Well, I spelled it for you wrong. So it's Laramar. And Bowie's on another level today. But it's essentially this beautiful, I don't even know if you guys can see. It basically looks like ocean. Reflection. I'm going for something that's like closer to this one. Not quite as oceanic because I can't really secure. I can't get down that that look quite yet. I don't think. And so I'm going with a little bit more like this look in theory. I don't know if I'm going to be able to nail it or fail it. But we're going to find out together. I'm very excited about it. So let me find the chat. The reason why I'm on this is because my mom got me this beautiful Laramar necklace when she was in Aruba last. And so reasons. Okay, so this was this was was a piece that did not sell or look cute anymore. And so I have lightly spray painted over it. It had some aqua in it and some brown tones. So I kind of let that show through. And so after I let that dusting of white kind of dry a little bit, I went through and like harshly painted these lines since I'm going to use a bit of translucent anyways. And the colors I'm going to use are they low blue, which I had to rejar, but it looks like this. It's by just resin. I'm going to use Kimmy shimmer by color passion, titanium white by just resin, rich gold shimmer by color obsession and Bondi blue from color obsession. Yeah. Okay. So that's what I'm going to use. That's what I'm going to do in theory and hope it really works because I think Laramar is beautiful stone and it would be super, super beautiful as a something a countertop. And so this is going to be a sample piece for that finish in theory. Have you guys ever heard of Laramar before a side question? Am I saying it right? Because I'm pretty sure that I'm not. Also, I'm waiting to hear back on the something. The stand for this mixer dripping over everything. So I, you guys haven't seen my review on that mixing apparatus. It does pretty good. It mixes it for the most part, but there's still some swirlies that I could let it spin for another round. But I'm just going to self-mix it because bubbles don't really matter as much. And you can see that it doesn't really mix in that many bubbles, which is super rad. We're going to be using some heat tonight, so I'm just going to turn with a blaze. Yes, it is charging. So you guys have already heard about Laramar. It is from the Dominican Republic and our wisdom and manifestation. Is that what Laramar signifies or helps to improve? I have a painting that you bought from the last fire sale. And I couldn't, I couldn't remember if you covered the invoice or not, or if we sent you one, or if I just couldn't find your email, but I still have the painting. If you still want it, it is in my studio. Okay. So you can see from hand mixing just that little bit that there's so many more bubbles in it now than I've read that using a wooden popsicle stick because it's porous mixes more bubbles in than would otherwise be in there. So I should be using our patent no longer pending stir sticks. But you guys are buying them so fast that I can't hardly keep them in stock, so I'll just suffer for y'all. All right. I think we're mixed enough and can now do colors. So like I said, we're going to be working with mostly translucent because in my opinion, that will give you the most realistic look in anything. Anytime you can add depth, you add intrigue to a piece in my opinion. I don't know, could be just me, but I'm pretty sure it's not just me, but who knows. But maybe, but probably not. Okay, we're going to do a translucent Kimmy shimmer. Maybe an opaque Kimmy shimmer. Then I need titanium and gold. In the pieces I just showed you guys, there wasn't that much gold, but in a lot, a lot of the things that I found that wasn't right now, there's a lot of gold or actually like lighter browns and if I'm going to be doing a lighter brown or yellow and something, I'm just going to make it gold. Makes it prettier in my opinion, but obviously if you prefer to use brown instead of gold, knock socks off. This gold is called something rich gold shimmer. It's by Color Obsession. It's super beautiful and it makes a really interesting cell pattern just on its own because of some kind of magic that's in it. So, I'll be showing you a close-up of that in a little bit. I do have all these colors in stock at the time of filming this. If you're interested, if you're so inclined, get there before someone else does. I forgot I had to do some of my Hattello blue. Julie says, I love your stir sticks. Well, thank you. Thank you. Thank you. We love them too. If you guys don't know, this is some of our older version stir sticks. They're no longer blue, but they are super awesome in that you can just wipe them off after you use them for what? I would use alcohol or baby rag to wipe off them. Oh, sorry, baby wipe. You know what I mean. Words are hard. So, this is a very much brighter blue. The phthalo blues that we carry are all translucent. So, that'll be cool. Put this over here. So, Kim, I did not say what I spray painted the board with. This is an old piece and I hate just fully covering over an old piece. I like to use them if they don't sell or don't need them anymore, if I don't like them at all. I'll just lightly spray paint over them or not at all and make them just a bottom layer for another piece that I'm doing because, one, I don't want to feel like I wasted the time and product and energy and all the things for the layer to be covering. Secondly, it's another way you can add depth without overthinking it or doing too much. If that makes sense. I'm almost out of my Kimi Shimmer. But I believe I have enough for this because we're just doing a translucent to start with. Kimi Shimmer is a really beautiful light baby blue aqua. Can that be? Is that a thing? Baby blue aqua? I don't know. But if it is, that's what this is. If you guys don't know, I will get every last bit out of one of these jars because waste not, want not. Okay. I'm not lying. This is such a pretty creamy color. And I do have it currently translucent. I can see through it. I don't know if you guys can because you're right above, but I can see through this piece. I mean through this color. So I'm going to add some of this to another cup of color just to give it some tone. No, I didn't want to do that. It's fine. Wait. It's fine. I need to add just a little bit more of the Kimi to it. Pro tip. If you come down to this much resin left and you only need about this much resin made of a certain color, just put the resin in here and use this as your mixing cup and just scrape all of the goodness off the edges. That's great. Okay. So now this one's even more translucent. But look, it's already doing fun things. It's exactly like what I'm trying to make. Not exactly type of way. So probably isn't that readable on camera. But just now it looks pretty cool. All right. So I'm going to take a little bit of I'm going to mix some white into this one. But I'm also going to mix a little bit of white into this one. I can make it a little bit of more of a milkier that looks kind of like that color. Yeah. Tim, I would love it if you grab me one too. It made it not as translucent anymore. I wasn't paying attention to how much opaque white I was putting into it. So I'm going to mix more of the translucent and clear that I have left into it to kind of water it down. So to speak. Didn't quite work, but it's still cool color. So we're not upset. And the white is titanium. It's my go to white. It's opaque. It's heavy. It makes great cells, makes great ocean waves. Basically, whatever you need an opaque white for. This should be in your repertoire. All right. I need a little bit more white because I forgot what I was doing. I always keep some clear resin in my mixing cup just in case for emergency purposes. What's up, Keith? How'd that go? Hey, Carrie. Cool. Another question. I know you say use flat when painting canvas. Is that okay too? You can use any finish of spray paint you want. Base painting in flat. Satin's very close gloss I've had issues with because if you don't put the resin on thick enough it'll kind of pull back and give you fish eyes if you're not careful. But it'll still work fine too. Okay. So I don't have my reference up. So we're going to just remember what it is I looked at and I'm actually going to do something. I'm going to do something I don't usually do and that's under paint some lines before I put anything else down. This is going to give us a great great bit of depth. The pattern on this stone is so all over the place but I feel like I nailed it. I'm also going to go ahead and put this just a little bit of this darker blue in some areas and that'll get picked up when I blend everything out in a moment. Okay. I'm so nervous. I'm not nervous. I'm very nervous. Okay go. So we're going to take our Kimmy Shimmer that's a little bit diluted and I'm going to just pour it out into the everywhere. A little bit more opaque than I would have liked but it'd be fine. Keith have you ever tried to do this stone before? You guys don't know. Keith is with KCDC designs well he's not with him. He is KCDC designs and he does great countertop looks and he's also super smart. He does pro tips all the time you can check him out on his channel and in Rhonda's Facebook group RK3 designs or RK3 insiders? RK3 designs insiders look up both because she's in there. Okay I forgot to mix up my Bondi but here we go. Bondi is a transparent translucent tint from color obsession which means you can add as much colorant as you want. It will never be opaque but you can deepen the color by how much you add. This is a very light fast color fast liquid pigment tint that won't fade or discolor with time because of being in the sun also it's translucent so it's going to work great for what I'm trying to create and I know it looks very hot mess right now but it'll be a hot mess success I'm pretty sure I hope. Just give me one minute to blend all this out you'll love it swear promise swear okay I'm going to take my discolor I don't know how much I'm going to actually use because it's more opaque than I wanted it to be but it's a color that was in the finish so we're going to rock on with it okay I'm going to add a little bit more white and now we're going to blend it all together which should look amazing even though it looks very much like a Pollock mess in this moment but just hear me out okay hear me out so now I'm going to fill in all of my dry areas I'm going in this consistent emotion I don't want to get crazy with the flow of it right now until I see where I'm at with it just going to glide over everything just when she'll wiper it not trying to mix everything together just trying to blend it and cover up any dry areas on the board well some of the pictures of it looked kind of marbly except for the ones that look like full oceanic reflection type feel which I haven't quite figured out yet but I'm going to so can you take the class down and show them where we're at in this moment yeah everybody in there Emily Kelly wants to know who all hasn't left a thumbs up yet and it's a great question so this is basically our base of everything and I'm going to add more white I know that if I tried to do the white how it is in that reference photo that I showed you guys I don't think it would work because it's kind of like a tortoise shell so it's like this you have to round everything and that would just look great but I don't know if it does because it's kind of sloppy you know what I mean I think it'll go out we have to make sure you round the corners out because that's what tortoise shell looks like which is essentially what it reminded me of so yeah I guess I could try to round these out but I just feel like it's just so sloppy maybe once it settles and moves a bit it would look right but I don't know if I have the patience for that in this moment I'll add some intense heat to it in a minute and see if it does anything that I want it to do but first let's add some gold so I usually add a crazy amount of gold like all the way across but in this it's like it's not it's just in parts so there's parts could you try the white in a piping bag? I could and I've thought about that I just haven't pulled the trigger on a piping bag for this finish just yet I kind of want to just secure the colors a bit and I think I've narrowed down the colors well enough that I probably could try it in a piping bag you definitely need to use stone coat, art coat if you're going to use a piping bag because the longer working time embossing gun over white lines yeah but I don't want to dig out my embossing gun I'm going to go down below and do a gradual tilt just for right now just to see what happens trying to give my white enough time to sink so that when I do tilt it like this I just crunched my lifting cups those ones this gold always kind of blooms out so I'm going to just pinky blend it in I don't know why pinky blend I guess because it's fancy I realize I'm wrecking some of my tortoise shell lines but for the greater good I'll just redo that tortoise shell line pinky blend t-shirt oh I should make the pinky blend a t-shirt idea I'm not opposed to that so Jeff's helping me round out my lines which actually is creating kind of a shadow where the blue and the white are kind of like coming together a little bit so that actually is interesting most important idea with doing something like this is to make sure that it's rounded because that was one of my main takeaways when I was looking at reference photos so I don't have any triangular corners if I do I'm just kind of cutting into them 2-2 I was like 2-2 here somebody said 2-2 I'm going to round these bad boys and then I'm going to tilt again I think it's not not working probably would be cleaner with a piping bag but I'm just going to have to be an idea for next time which I intend on trying this again never let a finish beat you I always say I feel like it looks a little bit like one of my references right so darn pretty love the colors watching while I wait for my first primer to cut my back into dry well good luck with your bathroom finish it's going to be amazing Christy how are you doing killing it I'm sure because it's fancy exactly so you can really see in some of these areas like right here no I don't know where you guys are that's the screen so right here you can see this line it's from the underpainting the white lines are sinking and then I'm going to tilt it in a minute and that will give a drop shadow Jen what's up do you want my bracelet that's amazing the close-ups really show the softness of the colors in detail that means a lot to me coming from you hey happy what's up phoenix flow so yeah let's tilt this bad boy try not to break anymore cups you need to spray seal it a few good times and then most cork has like a backing on it right so now that we've done a tilt to this piece you can see the shade here this is a drop shadow from the translucent rolling over the white that sank here and here and here and if I set this to dry or to cure whatever in an area that's not exactly level but not too far off like the bubble is still within those two lines in your leveler but isn't like going over this will continue to shift and make a really great drop shadow please do not walk away from this video thinking that I'm telling you to have everything that you ever store off so that it makes a shadow it doesn't always work you have to have the right materials but with this piece I'm going to do that and it's going to do that so you can see where the camera and here you can see a lot of and here you can see a lot of the underpainting all the white fainted lines the blue that we added which I think may be too aggressive for this piece but who knows I think I got close I think I need to further investigate it Italian drip so I would but I don't have any gloss white spray paint if you were to want to do this you could not do any of the white and do the Italian drip and get some fractals on it maybe I'll do another one and specifically wait to do an Italian drip with it but I think it works maybe we give them a closer upper there's cells popping up right in this gold the gold that I used has some kind of magic in it and it sells on its own I don't know if you hold on and go back you catch at different angles so I can show and I'll roll back up keep going it's doing its own cell job you can see it over here as well and in here I think you have to be on this side maybe not, I don't know where I am yes, supplies can be purchased all the colors that I used today are available at ArtistsTillDeath.com the link is down in the description box if you would like to order your stone coat from StoneCoatCounterTops.com use code YALYALL all caps, no punctuation for a rad discount you can also order it from RK3Design, she does same day shipping if you order before noon it doesn't look good but that Kimmy Shimmer I used was a luster it was pearlescent so it should it has a shimmer to it, it's just really y'all know resin, it's hard to see the vibrancy of colors on camera, sometimes so, do you guys have any questions for me on this piece or any other piece? the festivities went swimmingly swimmingly? yeah, I'm a mermaid, I can say swimmingly, like all the time what was the gold used? the gold is rich gold shimmer from Color Obsession it is a paste, it is magic, and I love it so yeah, anybody else is it for a commission? it is not I wish someone would ask me to do Laramar countertops, I'll probably try to sell the next person to ask for a blue countertop you can tilt it, we don't have to tilt it we can do it with a heat gun it is for purchase if anyone is so interested in this piece, thank you so much Keith I hope you try to do it, and even if you show me up it's okay, it's okay it's a good sell job thank you, thank you, I try my best what's up Lynn my little tea tiny baby sister that's not so baby or little anymore is in chat room, and she actually does geological stuff she works with rocks all the time, so do you think I got kind of close, Lynn, or nah you better say it's close but also yes you do that would be great in a bathroom or in your pool I would love it in both of those conditions oh wow, Carrie you need to take a nap I think she said she worked, Carrie worked 13 hours shift I'd say it's pretty close not bad for the first go about it, anyways, I hope you guys at home attempt this finish, I'm going to be trying it again using some of the things I learned and mentioned that maybe I wouldn't do next time I hope you guys give it a shot if you do, post it in our group ATD's Poor People, so we can see it and will I name the colors again, yes, so I used Kimmy Shimmer from Color Passion, that's the teal color, the softer teal it's a shimmery color, so it's got a little bit of pearl look to it I used Bondi Blue Tint from Color Obsession it's the darker translucent color I used Thalo Blue from do you remember if it's just resin or color obsession, but they're pretty similar across those two brands I used Titanium White and Rich Gold Shimmer from Color Obsession can I share a reference again, absolutely now I feel like I have to find a reference that is as close as possible to what I created give up I can't get the iPad out of the thing, hold up okay, that is one version okay so it takes a lot of different forms, that one kind of resembles it, but I really want to get to where it looks like something like this but I think that's gonna probably take piping it and a few different layers than in any case pretty pumped with how it turned out it does look a little bit like Amazonite I'm pretty sure I said that wrong as well but yeah, I don't think I failed it I don't know if I nailed it, but I don't think I fully failed it either, so call the inspiration out reference so you can say you nailed it no matter what the outcome that is brilliant so maybe the webbing effect in multiple layers I think it would take multiple layers for sure and honestly, hey Tabitha, thank you and happy new year to you I think honestly if I wanted to fully nail it it would be not that difficult if I just airbrushed in the lines first, would you guys like to see that version of this piece and then doing all of this on top of it so it's like one video let me know cause that's not a bad idea that I just came up with off the top of my head right now this is a necklace that inspired doing this piece it's from Mama you can see it has kind of that wait for it it's not gonna focus cause that's my life it has more of a dark color in it I like it either way, so yeah, okay they've never said no, I don't wanna say it, but I like to give them the option to what they say Jen said you could crinkle up a paper bag and leave it and I would watch it, so yeah you goofball okay, so you guys close to the last picture, so it will I just don't have any gloss spray paint and to do the Italian drip you have to have gloss spray paint flat is not gonna do it at all thank you Keith for being here, so next time I do this I'm going to under paint it with airbrush to get those white lines in it and then I'm gonna follow those white lines with the resin top layer and maybe I'll just hold this one for when I do that I'm gonna give this one a second layer and that way I have two versions of how to create this and I can just refer people back to this video anyways, you guys are amazing, I hope you have an awesome evening if you haven't subscribed please do so, if you haven't shared a video could you think about it and also share with people where you get your awesome pigments from if you get them from me, it's super easy to share something and it really helps us to grow as a channel and it helps my shop to grow if you could just tell people that you get awesome pigments from me if you have anyways, you have an awesome evening, be kind to one another because you never know what someone is going through so you don't have to and we will see you guys in the next video but what do you want to say bye? of course you do he does want to say bye blue-eyed boy oh I know it okay guys, see 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