 Let me know if you can hear me, because lately we've been having some issues with my mics, Diane. So, hi, hello. I'm Erica. This is my husband, Jeff, because he's my husband. And we are artists till death. We go live most every weekday, usually at 6 p.m., sometimes it's at 2 on Tuesdays. And we always do art. It's usually resin, but sometimes it's something else today. It's a something else kind of day. And today Jeff is going to show how we embellish our artwork using paint pens. So, yeah, what's up you guys? Yeah. Sue, Sue and Atmak. So B, what are you using? I'm just using this gold pen touch. This is the fine line. I don't mind using the extra fine lines, but you got to get a brand new one and keep it sealed. I don't know if it's these pens, but I think sometimes you just click it and you think that it's on, but you really have to click it on to get these lids to stay on. So that one over there was not a new one? No, it wasn't. I just picked it up from over there. These two are both brand new. And I'm just, right now, I'm just priming them, kind of just getting my hand ready to just kind of draw on these resin pieces. Do you always do warm-ups like this? I know you always do warm-ups when you do airbrush, but even when you doodle? Yeah, I mean, I should, and sometimes I don't, but if I'm going to be doing it on a piece, I should just kind of practice on something. Just to get you warmed up. But sometimes when you do a warm-up, you kind of come up with something that maybe you wouldn't have thought of if you just started, and that way you have a cohesive piece. Sometimes I'll just do it, and then it just kind of, I don't like how it starts, so then I do something else. So if you warm up, you're kind of just doing random stuff. You're not, there's no pressure on having to do it nice or perfect or, but normally what I do is just do stuff that I would do. I'm sorry, Susan, but I'm glad you're here. It is a B night. Hello, Pam. She says, hey, love you guys. Love you too. Jerry, what's up? Jenny, what's up? Jenny said muscle memory. Yes. Muscle memory and kind of getting a pattern or some sort of rhythm down that you're comfortable with. Sometimes it just doesn't go off. I can't imagine guys that do engraving just start engraving on a watch or a pocket watch or a ring or whatever. I'm sure they kind of get something primed up, used to it. I also do this when I airbrush. This is a consistency practice. A practice to know where the pen is at, where your hand is at, how far you want to draw, I guess, just kind of how the pen is working. Now, with these pens, you don't know, when you get them, take the wrapper off and the tip will normally be white. What you do is you just press down a couple of times, and you just came down out of there. If you do it too much, it will come out of the end. It will overflow, so just prime it a couple of times, shake it, you know, set it up. Set it up. Set it up. Just set it. Let it set. It was literally just there, whatever, you can set it like this if you wanted, but just let the paint go, shake it a couple of times, it will prime on its own. So we actually just started carrying these pen touch and pilot paint pens on our website for lesson, I think, lesson what it is on Amazon. We came into a few of them and decided we would put them on the website, so if you are interested, we have them on our website, artistledet.com, and we use these to doodle over existing artwork at embellishments, and these are the pens that we use to sign all of our artwork. They're gold, they're beautiful, they have like a shimmer to them, they're metallic. They actually look better when they're on resin because when you put it on something that's porous, then it kind of soaks in. Alright, so I'm warmed up, but enough. What these are good for, should we sand this? It has floating gold in it, doesn't it? I know. If you want, if you're going to plan on flood coating it, I would definitely sand it 223 something, just to get some tooth so when you do flood coat it, and if you have anything on it, make it a nice and smooth. Brush it off with some alcohol and rag. What I'm going to do with this is really not planned, this is just for a demo, but these are really good for enhancing or adding, like if you don't like how lines are faded or not very visible. I think I'm going to bring the camera around other ways so you can see the metallicness. How do you decide what you're going to doodle? I don't, I don't, I just kind of start drawing lines or circles or filigree or letters. That's kind of how I get in the mood to do it, is just, just do practice stuff. Sometimes practice stuff inspires new types of doodles, this is the fine, you see each of them have, are we selling the extra fine or no? We have extra fine, fine, and then the medium nib. They're asking if we're going to sell the silver and someone else asked if we're going to do other colors. We can. There's really no other colors. I think it's just silver and gold for the pen touch and the pilots in terms of the metallic colors, hope, ever. I really like that. However, we absolutely can carry the silver. That blue almost looks like a face. Oh my goodness, I see it. It's an eye. Hey, Rhonda, will you resin over this? Yes, yes we will. Wish you could get Posca pens. I'm working on Posca, getting ahold of some of those. TG says it could be or Kenny, I'm, yeah, but it's probably Rhonda. Kenny's probably sitting there with her. If you do marble and you can't quite get any, like, fault lines or veins down, just draw them on with a Posca pen. I like how that looks. So what are you guys working on? Anybody working on a new project that they're kind of intimidated by or nervous about? Again, we carry the pen touch and the pilot markers on our website and we're working on getting other ones. Sometimes the Bermuda hat unfocuses the camera. So right now he's adding some fine white lines with a white Posca paint pen. We don't carry those on the website, but they're a really good pen and we have them linked down in the description box below this video in our Amazon affiliate link. You can find all the materials that we don't use, that we do use on the channel, but that we don't carry in our shop. Jillian said, you saw my pick of yesterday when I used the wrong resin. You're not the only one. I just recently mixed two part A's the other day and I'm pretty sure Rhonda did that recently too. So you're in good company. Oh, so you're doing the Boulder Opal coasters. Sweet. Can't wait to see those from, I assume you're inspired by the live that we did the other day on Boulder Opal, but I bet it looks amazing. Well, hello, Rhonda and Kenny, thanks for stopping in. Y'all are immersing. It's very simple, very hassle just to add a definition lines and textures and pop. Yeah. But you want to say hi to, um, what'd you call him? What do you call Kenny? He's not just eye candy. He does stuff too or something like that. I don't know. That's, that's a saying. I'm calling that. No. Well, anyways, Kenny's also around. Hi, Lisa. Is that Kenneth? Have you been playing golf lately? Mwah-ha-ha. Valentine's Day coming around. Well, it is the next holiday coming up. Is it bothering you if this is in your face instead of stringing? The holographic foil will be nice. I need help with a wood screw bolt insert. Don't know anything about hardware. E, you can't help me with that. Yeah. I cannot tell you about any of the things that you said. Nope. Nope. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. agree. I think he is gonna do a snake on a piece soon. Now you're showing off. I don't know how you do that. If I were to try to do swirls like that it would have to be... I'd have to tape it off. So he's using the medium nib metallic gold paint pin at the moment. There is a large one I think and a calligraphy type one but in my experience the calligraphy one and the extra fine point ones both they kind of clog themselves really easily. Well thank you Miss Pam. Arlene says hi my favorite YouTube artists. TG says this is so cool to watch always love Jeff doing this. Claire says that gold looks super pretty over the pink and the cream. Agreed. A lot of times if you're in like a an artist block or a funk you can doodle to still be expressive while not being hard on yourself for being in a funk and sometimes they could pull you out of that can bring you new inspiration. Also when you have a piece that hasn't sold and you need to do something to it a lot of times just drawing over it. Right it levels up for sure. I mean look at this and again this is also what we sign our artwork with so we carry a lot of these gold paintpins. That reminds me of like and thank you Matt Danny Ham. I was gonna say it reminds me of pumpkin vines. Does this pen erase with alcohol? Over resin you can put some elbow grease into it and wipe it off with alcohol. You can. But you got to work at it because it is a permanent marker. I mean it's not a permanent marker but it is a marker that is permanent. Stephanie says they've been in a funk for a while. I think I need to clean my art room. That's something that we need to do as well for our art space but that might be even worse than finishing the back of an art piece is picking up the art room. Both a necessity but not the favorite. Great like and you don't even have to put resin over it. I like the contrast of it being flat but metallic over a shiny. Yeah it doesn't like pick up the glare of the paint pen. Good evening my first time on your channel just stumbled across the live tonight. So happy I did. This is beautiful. Well Ms. Hazel thank you so very much for coming in and seeing what we're up to today. We were just doodling over some existing artwork with the paintpins that we just started carrying on our website. I think this one looks great. I was just showing it to the camera. So yeah if you are new here hi welcome. We're artists till death and we go live most days. We always do art. It's usually resin. It's always something fun. Today it's embellishments with paintpins. I do like this like I like how that's that fade was already there. Yeah someone else commented on that fade especially right here where it's like coming off of it a little bit more. If we put the matte UTC over it it would look super heavy. It would dull out the gold though. Well if we put resin over it and then did UTC it wouldn't dull out the gold. You love embellishing artworks. It's a lot of fun. What's up KL Artistic. I always said that the first time like I've been sane at my whole life. Virginia says when I pick up my art room I find lots of pieces I need to enhance or finish. Same. Maybe that's one reason why I put it off because there's so many pieces I need to finish. The Mayeron gold kind of looks like the paint pen. Is this Mayeron? No. That is just resin bright gold. So do you want to do. Sure I will put a flood coat on these. Well the marble one I will. Sorry. The pink one I think we've decided we like the juxtaposition between the matte metallic gold and the glossy resin. Have you guys ever repurposed anything for artwork? Oh my goodness Jerry. We do we find things in the hallway in our building and we decide to paint on them. Tables, chairs, picture frames, TV trays. There's so much. I have a table that someone commissioned me to paint a truck on that I'm editing down the video for now. But I'll show you guys that's the end of this one. When it rains it pours. Love that name. They're about to do a 20 by 30 epoxy floor. We want to do a floor. I just want to prep the floor. It's a lot. I would wager that it takes longer to prep a floor than it does to pour a floor. No Bowie. The heart is gorgeous. Jerry says that is so cool. Yeah, I would love to see your floor posted in our poor people group. When you get it done. I like the heart before, but doing this over it just makes it so much more fun and whimsical. It's like not just a stagnant heart in the middle of a round board. No. I feel like it's more of an art piece. I think Bowie is playing in the water. I found that I have picked up a lot of your drawing technique. Do you want to do anything on this one? If not, it's cool. Thank you. I was gonna do one of those like like a foil like triangle or some kind of like any outie look like the pink Floyd. I'm probably not right. Virginia says my garage floor needs done and I'm dreading the thoughts of emptying it out and cleaning the floor than putting it all back together. So Jeff and I want to find a house and shop to move into and every time we think about it, we're like, we're gonna have to box up everything in our studio and move it. I'm gonna tell you when you're drawing with these. It's real easy to press on these while you're with them and you really want to be careful because if you draw with these and you press down and you don't realize it that paint will just come out of the tip of that like and it is not fun. It's true. That's when you ask friends to help. That's awesome. Don't shake them over your piece either unless you want blobs of gold all over them. That's one of my favorite accents on a piece is growing gold and other colors. What's up stone coat says I could watch this all day. What's up? Big Mitch behind the keyboard today. Excited to see you in a few days. Big Mitch. Sabotaging me. I haven't sabotaged a piece. Well, those are the markers. I'm gonna show them these because we're gonna have a new series coming up. Okay, here's a thank Judy for this. Yes. Thank you. Fairy Art Mother Judy for these boxes of Pantone color. Swatches. Swatches inspo. So, we're gonna do a new a series where we just open a box and then we just pick a card out of the box. I would not be happy with this palette but I would accept the challenge and then we're gonna paint based on what's in the box. So, all the Pantone coat. Yep, they're super neat. They come in two different box sets. Jeff has box one. I have cube two. And so, they have just all sorts of inspiration and life. Like it's just basically it's still life shots. Yeah. So, they're in order right now. I think we should mix up them. I don't know what the order is for. No, like card 15, card 16, card 17. So, we're gonna just do a new resin series where we or maybe even alcohol inks where we just come in, open the box, pull a card and then run through the shop real quick, pull the colors and then pour based on the palette. Pretty cool. Yeah, I'm super super pumped about the idea. Nice. Ooh, I like that one with that pale pink on it. The one before that. Yeah, those like moody blues and then that blush. Mitch says, I can make such a good peacock sound if only you could hear me right now. Well, we'll hear you like in a minute. I don't know how to make peacock squeal. Like do their cry, their cry, their whistle really, really loud. Let's not do that right now. The color cubes come from Sarah Renee Clark and she also has a coloring book channel. Awesome. Where did you get those cards? They came from Judy, fairy art mother, Judy Howard Sand, but I don't know where where she got them, but I'll find out for you, Mitch. When it rains at poor said, could you paint it first instead of sanding? I saw stuff that says no prep needed at Home Depot. So you got to be really careful about resins. Mitch could talk more on the subject, but no prep needed. There's always prep needed. It may be a different kind of prep, but there's still prep needed and I haven't had good results with Home Depot resin, but you could you could paint it first instead of sanding. Well, when you say instead, they're not interchangeable, but ultimately you you could probably still get a good bond without sanding, depending on how long it's been cured. You've seen those cubes advertised, but haven't seen them on the inside. Well, happy to show you then, but that's awesome, Sue. I'm learning so much about Sarah. It's awesome. When it rains at poor says, I need a good discount on an epoxy to do a 20 by 30 floor. I'll drop ship you. Shoot me an email. All right, so there she is. I was putting my email out. So, yeah, you can also get color editors and so yeah, I can uh yeah, I'll drop ship you or use that code. I also have a code. I don't know if it's as good as that code, but I have a code with stone code. It's y-a-l-l all caps. I think it's 15 percent off. It's either 12 or 15 percent. I get the codes mixed up. So, I was showing them this table that we got commissioned. They just took the legs off and so it's a repurposed table. I didn't do the resin part. Don't get on to me for the drips. It was brought to me that way to paint a tractor on. Well, thank you, Jerry. So, yeah, um, I think it's a cute table too. I hope you are inspired from this video on when you don't know what else to do doodle. I don't know how to say. There's probably a better way to say that. Doodle. And it can really enhance a piece. It can level it up. We sell our artwork sometimes, a lot of times, quicker if Jeff has overdoodled on it. And, um, yeah, it can give you new inspiration to try new things or to break you out of a bunk. And so, yeah, we now carry the pen touch and pilot pens in three sizes, the fine, extra fine, and the medium nib on our website. I'll check into getting the silver ones for you guys. If they still have any left, I'll go get them. I price checked them and I'm pretty sure we sell them cheaper than on Amazon. But you check for yourself. I have a sale going on right now. Through tomorrow, the code is RESTOCK, R-E-S-T-O-C-K. Yeah, I think I saw that. I saw that, right? Um, for 10% off our website, artistle.com. And so, yeah, going to do doodle today. Well, good. How much for the heart piece? Is it? It is Valentine's Day. Uh, I'll probably let it go for 120 bucks. Anyways, I am starving, so we're going to go eat dinner. But we love you guys so, so much. You're amazing. You couldn't have this channel without you. Please subscribe if you haven't. Share one of our videos if you haven't yet because it really helps our channel to grow and we're really trying to get to 100,000 since we've been stalled at 50 for many minutes. And um, yeah, we'll see you guys on maybe Monday. Monday? Maybe tomorrow. Could be tomorrow. Could be Monday for our next video. Anyways, till then be kind to one another because you never know what someone's going through. And always remember we do the test. So you don't have to. And we'll see you in the next video. Oh, I gotta show you Bowie. Why don't I pause between so you don't have to? Because B, I'm very blendy. Yeah, you're not blendy. This is my cute little meatball. Bowie, you look like cute little meatball. Can you look like cute little meatball? This is Bowie if you don't know. He's our channel mascot and my fluffy little son and he loves attention and pets and love and shedding. Anyways, y'all have an awesome night. We'll see you guys next time. Bye.