 All right you guys here's the deal We're not proud of this piece completely fully or at all But making it was always fun. We experimented found out some new techniques that we're gonna use in future pieces and The point of test pieces ultimately is to figure out what you like. We don't like works What doesn't work then utilize that in? Sellable artwork That being said Please enjoy this Piece not working out twice We're still gonna redo it. We haven't done it yet, but I wanted to post something other than pro tips for you guys to enjoy so Oh Here it is. Hope you enjoyed your Sunday. Have an amazing weekend. I'll probably be painting probably probably be painting through part of the Super Bowl tomorrow Because yeah, it's what we do anyways Shenanigans and enjoy This is a test piece for a client that wanted teal base with Browns a dark brown and then White and I think so too. It looks like it they wanted a Rose gold or gold and a dark brown and white But in order to not make the colors muddy up because if you use too many colors with resin Especially on a smaller piece Sometimes it gets a little bit too busy or the colors that you want to be more dominant get lost So we're basing it in The blue because they wanted his What's it? What is it? Well, the their island is he wanted the island to be like kind of like an art piece because he's going to be Filming his food prep and cooking and his plating and all that food stuff So he wanted to be a little bit different almost like a piece of art more Than the countertops so he wanted to be a little bit more flashy Flashy or whatever So we thought if we painted the base teal Use a little bit of clear less white and the teal would show through you put the brown in there And it wouldn't muddy up with With the teal as well. You can still see the teal on the bottom Right. Yeah Well, usually we will base out with spray paint We don't want to do that with this because we want it to be true to the color that we're gonna use in his house and Since he does a lot of food stuff We don't want to use spray paint Using spray paint in his home is not a good idea to all of them Maybe in the summertime when you could open the door So we're basing it in craft smart Turquoise it's gonna be the color of his logo or his logo is that color Just like we do with the canvases we like to put push pins in the bottom corners So that there's a base we can easily pick up and set down Our working surface and when we put it away for it to set up it won't stick to whatever we set it on This makes life easier With a canvas, it's easier if you aim for where the two Guys meet Right in this It's easier to No, and put these in before you put the tape on because if you put the tape down first And you stick these in there, you're not gonna be able to pull your tape up. It's gonna rip tear They'll be real messy So put your tape down you can just cut it always stay in this overlapping the same direction as well So don't like tape that one and then take this one take it in Succession also, we're gonna use an airbrush today to Move some resin around you can use a straw in your mouth, but odds of Passing out or greater. Now. Why did you pull this up? You start you take when you start peeling it Grabbing this one you could just I Would never have thought of that my brain looks like this It's healing. I think you're always gonna be able to see it though. It's gonna be forever there Anyway, we're using an exacto blade to cut off the excess all the way around You could use a box cutter And lastly you could use scissors, but that's gonna be harder to get a Really close cut you can get an exacto blade from any craft store ever any one of them or a box cutter from any hardware store What else is new we're doing a lot of countercops lately We had to finish up a lot of Actual paintings because we have show and develop right now. It's a group show collaborative show. I don't know It's a show And so we got those out of the way and we've been compiling other videos Make sure your surfaces level especially if you use the push-pin trick because if you push one not as much in as another one Obviously, it's gonna be off some You see the other side of it We've gotten a lot of use out of our level So it's not level anymore. We have to get little resin drops off of it The reason it's nice and flowy Since we heated it up with the warm water Using an all-purpose mixing container that shows the ratios You can also weigh it Look like a food scale I've seen people do that You will try that eventually so while he is Doing the measurements and mapping I'm gonna go over our colors for today's video This is a rose gold spray paint. It's metallic Which is the important thing the Apostolium doesn't have a rose gold. So we're using design master We've used it in a couple other things We're also using We're also using An ink by Doc Martin. This is a metallic ink Or an iridescent in the shade nickel It leaves like a glittery metallic hint We also used it in the first counters in Alabama the white and teal and gold Yeah, I mean you can see the slight hints that this leaves We're also incorporating it makes so much faster when it's like I Everything about warming up resin is great except for you really want to make sure you don't push it all the way to the edge When it's this thin because it's all gonna run off your surface. You're just gonna waste a bunch of resin We're also using an acrylic brown by Amsterdam in the color of Van Dyke and And our go-to white by Art District. It's also an acrylic This is what the rose gold looks like Make sure you shake your spray paint thoroughly and completely a lot especially if it's colder because You can't tell science spray paint about why cold spray paint you have to shake it up a lot Spray a little bit before you spray it into your cup or just get a Really not consistent spray paint Particularly with metallics we found out the hard way after we'd already applied it to a countertop That we needed to go back and add a different Add more of it because we didn't shake it up all the way it looks kind of chunky gritty. It looks gritty Whereas if you do shake it up enough, it looks real smooth and oily like this Also use plastic cup because if you spray it into Styrofoam or plastic It's gonna eat it and you're gonna spill paint and resin everywhere. It's not a fun time When you spray it into a paper cup bend The end of it or the side of it in a little bit so that it has somewhere to hit So it doesn't splash back in your face It's not fun either When you use Acrylics in your resin, it doesn't take a lot just a couple dabs will do you You can always add more Can't take it away You can use any means to spread your resin around On bigger surfaces will use a trowel on smaller surfaces will use Whatever stirring apparatus. Nope, you can pull that We've been using But honestly one of my favorite tools to move resin is my hands Now you left some spaces open on purpose client wanted a more artistic feel to this piece so it's not really gonna be marbly but it is gonna be It's gonna have a marble aspect to it for sure When you put heat on a piece you can use a heat gun a torch We have a blow dryer that gets really hot you use that to the purposes to pop little air bubbles that come up from when you mix your resin together Which less air pop air popples air bubbles come up when you heat up your resin before You mix your two parts Brown it's very like sky Just like picks up all of it. Well, we stay true to The live artwork and if it doesn't work out We show them so usually we use a little blue and yellow roller from Hobby Lobby or Michaels All we had is a bigger one and it's soaked up as you can see a lot of our resin So You got a roll of the punches on this one Maybe we'll like it It's all are all in there And then it gives it back, you know the sparkly hint Let's just Like the thicker you know like the opaque just a good and certain like puddles So use it that little Like I guess I think of it as a little island and then there's it goes from real shallow to deep You can smell the spray paint, you know, it's funny if I think that there's a cold air Like breaks it up it doesn't heat it up so it's not trying to set Like it breaks it up When you mix a little bit of resin into the spray paint If we mix it into Like just a little bit it Almost it gets with it and then it just kind of puts it under it or it gives it a little layer You can do this on the top It just looks like it literally like there's no There's no Seam it looks so good like it looks like it's in it, but I'm pretty sure it's on top of it We never went over the sides So that piece didn't turn out quite like we had planned so We're going to buff it out And redo it there are often times where We just don't even want to mess with something as a base. So we'll just Wipe it out and start over So that's what happened continue action everyone in youtube land Today, we're making a new Today, we're making a new test piece A previous test piece that we absolutely hated So we're going a different route. We're starting over And this is the video making of our starting over So if you've watched any of our videos before you know that I harp on making sure That you mix your resin evenly and equally Every single video you say that but what if someone's watching it for the first time and they don't know what you say Well, you just have to look for the video right here No, then you can make a some of those little funny sounds or it goes Can I make it a doink doink doink? By the way, I'm all the way up here. You guys I'm standing on to this Not fall while filming, huh my way down So notice that everywhere in our studio has this black tarpy stuff This is why It's basically magic pro tip pro tip make your whole place Like dexter's gonna do work in it Okay Do we have enough paints? Also, if you haven't checked out our social media Facebook Insta And email us if you have any questions or if you want to show us your work We would love to see it, especially if you have questions about a piece you're working on in particular We don't charge for our information or tips or anything like that We're just happy to help I mean unless you want to throw a dollar at us That sounded real strippery So this is a Or birch. I can't remember board wood canvas I guess because it's framed in the back And We got it from an art store What is the name of it? That one was Aaron brothers, right? This is Aaron brothers, yeah It's an 18 by 24 and then we spray painted it White Make sure it's super mixed in because remember If you heat your resin And then you mix an acrylic paint into it You you need to make extra special sure that your paint mixes in all the way because you'll end up with chunks And that's not fun because then you have to mix it in with your hand on your project So he's just spreading out The resin over the surface The white we're using is by art district. It's an acrylic medium body in titanium white Our resin Is in viritex light Because it's waterproof heat and alcohol resistant and it's FDA approved since we're going to be using it for countertops Here's one of the blues. We're probably maybe going to use it is A greenish blue number 557 from amsterdam Are you gonna use all these? Whichever ones we decide to use I'll tell you all the colors This is nickel. It's by doc martin. It's an iridescent Super pretty when it's mixed all together I guess I'm gonna put everybody back in This kind of getting it even cold and also we learn that you cannot Use a very dense foam brush while doing marble veins Um the way we do our veins with a foam roller You don't have to excuse me. I'm sick so By cough or sneeze or very much. Oh Um, so this way you're pretty much just spread it out evenly And you're soaking some of the resin into this so then when I For the nickel down I can just go right over it and it's not taking up everything I've put down Is this the teal you want to use? Oh, yes So the teal we're using is peacock Focus focus. It's by deco art. It's acrylic. I don't think it has a number on it But that's what it is. It doesn't take much Using this much I want to do I want to do all these I want to do in one that one we did It was like crazy lines. I don't know what I was doing like a beginner This client wanted a predominantly blue or teal artistic piece not so much marble, but we're doing the rest of this kind of cops in a similar style, but it is marble So we're gonna have to make an artistic marble out of this one We're a play on marble. I guess See what we do is you just go over this you can Go on the outside but you just try to follow it And when you're just basically smashing it in you're you're you're just kind of making Look like a With a marble effect With the roller picking it up putting it down Distributing it moving it out This will be a good example Like that looks so amazing And see some of it will be on there so it'll catch it and Distributed in other places real light Those little waves that you see left in the resin Those will melt back into itself soon as we add heat onto it Yeah, I was gonna say pull that one back just a little bit We haven't abrupt stop there. Well, there's I'm gonna do I am We're doing other colors too But that's for everybody that's asked about How we achieve our marble look Super easy that little roller came from michaels for $2 and 47 cents The ground we're using Expresso by craftsmart Blowing on it with a straw helps to clean up lines sometimes or to narrow The vein if you want to like push it back into itself or break it up Like you could break it up so like and it'll break up But it'll give you a kind of like a hard edge and then go into the Breakup so it looks very natural back to the roller See that you can make a Hard edge That's what I read this gold looks like very pretty Very metallic It just these colors just don't go together See how it goes over that The teal Take that look at teal and the rose gold here You want to filter it? In the mud as well It's so weird It's like you're probably in an ocean spring It looks like those claws that are like I love the nickel Spray that in there Oh It'll just make it It'll make it cuter Cuter? Yeah, what do you want to do? Filter it around in the circle Like I've been a meteorologist would buy that That storm Lucy On the horizon Coming in, lukewarm That looks like it might be coming in a little hot Well, if there's any meteorologists out there that would like to purchase this it is for sale This is a northwestern shift Headed off of ghost of the pacific Electric avenue Eddie money? No, not any money You know, 80s music Just here's lightning Specific area The pacific post I say we got a winner I say we came up with something A little bit We can do You should see this from that side I could see it It's the gold stuff The gold rush of 1904 Back in gold is Russian Pink Those rolls kept coming Can you guys see that? Like this Here, here you go Looks like this So yeah, that's how That's how that turned out So we did learn some things We got a We got a piece out of it That we're going to end up Probably buffing out and trying again For the third time Just like the glitter table Sometimes it takes a few tries But we always like to post Our successes and failures Just so that no artist out there Thinks that Mistakes don't happen no matter How long you've been working with in the medium How long you've been arting Whatever Not every time is perfect And we're not perfect To put All of it out there for you guys So there's that Let's go see what it looks like Now that it is completely set There are some pretty parts Like these cells That popped up from Focus Mixing the rose Into that Is it Van Dyke brown? I don't know, the last brown that we used So that turned out nice This still looks like Chocolate, caramel and mint Waves Maybe some kind of funky coral But The selling is undeniable Out really nicely In many areas Take a picture of that I think I like the cells With the solid hard line Of green gum There's the tropical storm Twisty dew That Jeff made That's what it looks like When you just spray gold on it And work it around in a circle It turns into, I don't know if you can see that Very visually interesting It did end up flattening out Even So I didn't think that would do that Since we had worked it for so long What else do we have on this piece? Gold separating out of the chocolate Ultimately, not our favorite piece So bad But You live, you learn You work with what you have And then you wake up the next day And do it again So, thank you for watching Tuning in Commenting Focus And everything you guys do for our channel We really appreciate every single one of you See y'all in the next video