 Hey everyone, Joanne from Art Resin here and today I am joined by artist Shilpi Patel. I'm so excited that you're here with us today. I'm so excited to be here. Thank you for having me. You're welcome. Shilpi is a geodartist and this is one of her beautiful pieces here behind us. And Shilpi is going to walk me through how to create a piece of geodart. And I love the look of this work that I'm not going to lie. I've been intimidated on how to make it so I'm so excited you're going to show us. Yeah, I'm so excited to be here as well. So this will be like a beginner thing. So along with you, I know a lot of your viewers are going to watch this as well and hopefully they can follow along. And at the end of it, we'll create something really pretty. That's amazing. I love the color palette you have here. So do you want to just walk us through what we have on the table? Yeah, so we're using some resin and we have crystals that we obviously need for geodart. And then I'm using mica powders today. You're using some resintents and you have beautiful crystal and glitter and all of that fun stuff. I'm excited. Should we get started? Yeah, let's get started. So before we start any type of resin artwork, the first thing I like to do is prep work. So luckily for us, these boards are already primed. They're primed white. So the only thing we have left to do is take the back off. Right. So we have some tape and scissors. And taping before you start is one of those things. It only takes a couple of minutes, but it saves you so much time at the end because the tape is going to catch all of the resin drips if there are any. And then you'll have this really nice clean finish at the end as well. Exactly. So when your piece is dry, you just rip off the tape and all the drips come right off with it. All right, that should do it. And we decided to cover the entire back lip of the panel just in case there was any runoff, right? Runover. So what's our next step now? So this part is actually my favorite part. It's where you get to plan out a design. So we're going to use our crystals and we're just going to go for it. We're going to pick a pattern that we like and kind of play around with it until we're confident enough to start the resin. Okay, perfect. So just make sure you have your gloves on. Yes, these are glass crystals, right? Yeah, so you don't want to hurt yourself. And I typically like to use like a mixture of different kind of crystals. I feel like that really gives it a really nice texture. Okay. But instead of it just being one stone, obviously using you could just use one stone that still looks as pretty. I just think that with the different tones, it kind of adds a little bit of dimension. Okay, great. So feel free to use whatever you like. So I'm just going to follow your lead. Yeah. So I'm just going to watch what you do. Okay, so I like starting off with these clear crystals first. So I think today what I want to do is a little bit more of a symmetrical look. So I'm going to kind of aim for like a little bit of a, I guess, symmetrical type thing. So we'll have this all going on. I like to use a lot of these. So you can go symmetrical or you can go kind of abstract, right? Yeah, abstract too. So for example, like in your case, since you have that big stone, if you wanted to make it a center, you could do that as well. It's all about, you know, expression of the artist. So whatever you think will look good and whatever you want to do, by all means do it. Okay. So yeah. So you have this going on. So I'm just going to have a little hill here. And then I like going in with like a little bit of a lighter gold shade. And I kind of like having a little bit of an outline. These are typically a little bit smaller than these ones. So I think that they complement each other perfectly. Yeah, they do. I love the, you've got the clear, you've got the kind of gold and the silver. Yeah. Yeah, beautiful. So we'll do that. So I add just a tiny bit. And they're all slightly different sizes as well. Yeah. That's where you get the dimension from. You know, like it looks like you're actually, there's so much going on, but it looks so pretty. And then we're just going to play around with it until you're kind of happy with whatever pattern you like. And yeah. So I think I'm going to go with something like this. And kind of focus on it being more resin maybe. Yeah. And so you're going to build your design out like all the blues and the golds based on this. Exactly. Okay. So I do have a little trick. I sometimes like using a brush. So I'll use, if I don't want to use my hands to push it, I'll just push. Like if I want to be like a curve. So it's really hard sometimes to like do both, right? And you could even cut yourself because this is glass. So if you use a brush to just slightly push, you can alter it. Just to make little adjustments. Yeah. Yeah. That's great. Go ahead. Let's see what you've got. I'm going to use this crystal. And this actually is one that I made using our mold making material. So I found a crystal that I really loved, but I thought it just was a little bit too thick. Yeah. So I used mold making material and made a mold. Yeah. So it's great. So I made it a little bit, it's a little bit shorter than the original. And then, you know, you can also make them tinted, whatever color you want as well. Yeah. And it's way more cost effective than going out and buying like big pumpkin crystal like this every time. Yeah. Yeah. So I wanted to incorporate this. So I wonder if I should maybe follow your pattern there. I'll start with it at the top and kind of build my rocks around it. Yeah. That sounds good. Yeah. So go ahead. And I was thinking of doing maybe an abstract pattern since you're here to kind of guide me because that seems harder to me. So I think I'm going to. I think it looks harder but honestly it's pretty much the same process. I feel confident with you here to guide me. You're really replicating like something from nature that's totally organic and natural so there's not really any right or wrong I guess, right? Exactly. Yeah. And that's the beauty of geode art as well I find is that like each piece is different, you know, like you're probably never going to find a geode like in the world that's the same as another geode. So like with artwork that kind of takes a stress like pressure and stress off of you because it doesn't need to be perfect, right? It can just be whatever you think and whatever you want it to be. So that's always nice. Maybe I should use the brush to kind of create some. Yeah. So it's looking a little bit like a rainbow right now. If I wanted to build this out I guess I could just push it away. Yeah. And just add more clear glass. Yeah. So sometimes you'll notice that these ones come in all different shapes and sizes. So if you don't like, for example, this one's like really huge, right? So if you don't like where this is placed you could even place it a little bit closer to the bare rock. Right. So it really depends on personal preference. If you find that after we do our layers because geode art work is a layering process. So if you find that, you know, I've done a layer now it's kind of washing out the effects of these crystals. We can always go back and add more crystals on top, right? Right. And so you'll find that we'll be doing that a lot as well as we go through the process. Okay. I feel like you should always take your time with this process because since these are not glued down, you can change it. Yes. Sometimes you'll have this layout and then you realize, okay, I don't really like it. So then you can easily move it around, you know? Yeah. This is, it's such a good idea to do it this way. Yeah. So instead we're going to pour the resin on top and it's almost going to be like a glue. Yeah, it is going to be a glue. Very cool. You have a lot of time right now to play around with your pattern. So Shilpi, we're creating our design here and putting the rocks down. Are we going to take the rocks off and then put our resin on? Or like how is this going to work? So no, we don't want to do that because obviously we don't want to ruin all the hardware that you put in. So what we're going to do is once we have our resin mixed with our first batch, with the clear resin, we're just going to slightly drizzle it over the top of the stones that you have. That way your pattern is kind of glued down exactly the way that you have planned out right now, which is the benefit of doing it this way. If you had done it another way where you kind of put the resin down and then you put the stones on, you won't have the freedom to move it, you know, because it'll be kind of stuck in place. Right. And that's smart for two reasons. One, because once you have the resin down, if you put the rocks on top, it's so much harder to move them and adjust. And then two, you're stuck with that 40 minute working window before the resin starts curing. Exactly. Yeah. With this technique, like you have, you can use as much time as you want, right? Yeah. So smart. I love that. I think I'm happy with what I have. It looks amazing. Yeah, yours looks amazing too. Are you ready? I think I am ready. Okay, awesome. So what's our next step? So our next step is going to be the resin part. But before that, we actually have to put these up on many stands. Because we don't want our piece sticking to the table when it cures. Exactly. Right? Okay. We did forget that. I have the stands right here. Awesome. So before you resin, let's do that. Yeah. So we're going to measure out our resin now. So it's equal amounts of resin and hardener. Okay. So we're going to measure out 100 ml, right? Yeah. 50 ml resin, 50 ml hardener. Awesome. Okay. So I'll start with the hardener and then we can swap. So some resins are measured by weight. Ours is always by volume. And it's a one to one ratio. And then we're going to mix for three minutes. And then you always want to make sure that you scrape the sides and you scrape the bottom as you mix. So we're just measuring a small amount because we're going to drizzle, right? Yeah. So I guess a tip I have if you're working with larger pieces. So I think anything from like maybe 20 to 20 inches. I like doing, like taking this extra step and doing like a little drizzle first, like a separate batch and then doing another totally separate batch for the body, I guess, of the G.O. If you want to call it that. Just puts a little, takes a little bit of pressure off of like, you know, the time frame, right? So our resins all mix now. And we're pretty much at the part where we get to drizzle the resin over the stones. But before we do that, an important step is to make sure that our boards are leveled. So with the weight of these crystals and any other additional stones or stuff that you use, sometimes the boards are not leveled. And as you know, your art resin is self-leveling. So it will drip and sometimes it'll ruin your pattern if you really fall in love with the way you poured it. So we're going to make sure that it's all leveled. Perfect. Good. Perfect. Awesome. Good. So we're pretty much ready to drizzle now. And the good thing about drizzling it is that since resin does dry clear, it won't, you won't be able to see that, you know, there is actually resin on top. And it's really important that you drizzle it and you don't flood it because what happens when you flood it is that these crystals or these stones or whatever you use, sometimes they will kind of lose their shine. Right. And that's not what we want, right? We want there to be a little bit of shine and a little bit of glitter and all of that. So basically we're ready to drizzle now. Good. I am just going to watch what you do and I'm going to follow your lead. Okay. Awesome. So she's going to start in this corner. Okay. So we'll just drizzle very lightly and you just want to drizzle it to the point that every crystal has a little bit of resin touching it. So you don't want to flood again, like we said, just a little bit so that, you know, each little stone has a little bit of resin. You literally are drizzling it. Yeah. Yeah. And one of the things that you want to make sure is that the stones that are more near the edge, you want to put a little bit more, just slightly a little bit more because if there are any cracks, if you start off with like a deeper color over here, it will bleed under. I see. Okay. And you don't want that. So you're kind of creating like a barrier? Yeah. A little bit of a barrier. Just going to do that. Same thing on this end. When you said that we only needed like a little bit of resin to do this, I couldn't understand how, you know, that would work. But now I see. You really don't need very much at all. Yeah. As long as like a very little bit of resin touches each and every crystal, like you will stay glued on. Here we go. Perfect. Right before you get to this point, I do want to point out if you're going to incorporate any real crystals or, for example, this beautiful quartz that you have going on, you don't want to drizzle on top. Because if you drizzle the resin on top, yes, it will still act as a glue, but now it's going to kind of like, you know, ruin the shape, natural shape of the crystal. Okay. So what we want to do is I'm just going to have to move this up to the side. Okay. And just remember where this is going. Like we know that it's going here. So you're going to put a little bit more resin in that area. And then we're just going to take this and stick it on top. So it's almost like I'm gluing it down. Exactly. Okay. So just a little bit, but just to cover that space where the crystal was. The space where the crystal was. Yeah. Okay. Put this guy back where he belongs. Yep. Perfect. And that's it. It's secured. Yeah. I did notice, even mine and in yours, if you do drizzle a lot, you'll have a little bit of a clear. Right? Do you see what's going on right here? Yeah. If you do, you could just use your glove or a tissue or something and wipe it off. So I'm going to do that because I don't want it there. Okay. Like I mentioned, I do like having a gold outline. So I don't want this clear to kind of take over the gold. Right. Okay. And now, since we do have leftover resin, we're going to use that for our first shade. And typically our first shade is going to be the one that's the closest to the stones. Over here, I have two. Okay. Like I have one going here. I also have one going here. Over here, I don't like having like another gold just because these are clear. So if the gold seeps through, you'll see it. So I like going in with the white, but I'm going to go in with the gold. So I'm going to add some gold on this end and right over here. Okay. So you're just going to follow the gold basically. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. So we'll do that. So I'm going to use resin tint and you're going to use I'm using meek powder. Yeah. It's pretty much the same concept. You just need to put in not more than, I guess, 7% I would say of whatever, however much resin you have. It's always better when you're tinting resin to start with less than more because you can always add more if you need to, right? Resin tint is really highly pigmented. So you don't need a lot. You don't need a lot. Yeah. So now we're ready. This is all mixed and we're just going to pour very slightly along the edge. Okay. Do you want me to do it first or do you want to do it together? Yeah. You're awesome. So I like to work really slow and precisely because you can't really go back after this. So we're going to pour really lightly. I like doing a thin layer, but by all means if you want your gold to be a lot thicker, we could do like a thicker layer as well. It just means pouring more. So is your goal to hit the rocks and hit the board? Like the panel? I think it's more so like it's the first, like it's going to be the first color that transitions into my stones and the rest of the piece, right? So I like having it kind of touch the rocks a little bit just so I can cover in any areas that are not perfect maybe. Like for example here, you'll see that it kind of ate up. Oh my God. Right. So then I'll go back and I'll just put a little bit more. Same thing on this side. And I'll just see. Now if we didn't wipe down the resin that was already there from before, this color would become diluted. Like it wouldn't have been as pigmented. Oh, what a good point. It would have just kind of spread. I think I do want to mention is sometimes since we didn't tape off these sides, I usually do, but if you haven't the little leftover that you have, make sure you go in and get the edges as well. Because you want the pattern to be kind of similar. Okay, so we're going to take the pattern down on the sides as well. Yeah. Okay. So this is a completely optional step by all means. You do not need to do this. Like if you prefer your sides to be completely white, you don't need to, you know, pick up the excess and kind of have it run down the sides. You would just tape it off and peel it off when you're all done. I personally like having it kind of roll off the edge just because I feel like it gives it a complete look. But yeah, it just brings a whole piece all together at the end. It's really nice. Okay, so now we're ready to mix the rest of our resin for the body of our geode. Today Joanne has decided to go with peachy pink tones and I'm going to go more on the blue side with darker navy colors with a little bit of gold and a little bit of white. So after you've mixed up the colors that you like and you're happy with the shades you've got, we're ready to pour. Okay, awesome. So we have both our colors mixed. You're happy with the shades you have? I am. I'm excited now. This is the fun part. Yeah, this is the fun part. Okay. So I think that we have generally two techniques that I personally like to use. So we'll go over that. The first one is just where I pour the colors right next to each other, which is what you typically do see in agates if you know what that is where their colors are literally just like this. So we have a more of a modern spin on it like we have in this piece right here, which is what Joanne is interested in doing. I'll show you how I also achieve that kind of look. So it's like a symmetrical versus kind of an abstract. Yeah, kind of like an abstract versus a symmetrical type of look. So let's go ahead and we're going to do my piece first. Okay. So I'm just going to go over again with the gold because I kind of noticed that some of the gold has faded a little bit in this area, but it's not soft leveling, right? Yeah, it's soft leveling. Maybe last time, you know, like it was a little too transparent, adding a little bit more powder or a little bit more pigment that always helps enrich the color as well. So I'm just going to quickly go over. You want to make sure you start from one end and kind of drag it out all the way to the end. Okay. Like you don't want to stop and then be like, okay, where do I go now? And let's go again. Like you want to try to do one swift motion. Okay. So you have this in one motion. You can go slower or you can go faster. I typically like to go a little bit faster. There, here. I'll get rid of that. Yeah, that looks good. Same thing here. And now you'll just see that it looks a little bit more pigmented, right? It does. Yeah, what a difference. Yeah. So typically now I like to go in with my whites before my actual color. So I go in with this beautiful little, like shimmery white. Yeah. So pretty. And I do like a very thin line of it. I don't like doing like too much of this because I do have a different weight that I go in with. So I'm going to literally pour it right up against this gold and they'll pretty much be right next to each other. Okay. Again, a thin line. If it goes on top, it's okay. It does not need to be, you know, the best pour. I guess just take your time. Pour it slowly. And you'll see it set. Oh, that's perfect. See? Yeah. Like over here, I did go a little bit faster, which is why you see those mini waves. Mm-hmm. Whereas over here. It's got a scalloped effect. Yeah. Over here, you'll see that I went a little bit slower. Mm-hmm. So it kind of is like more kind of up against that gold. So same thing on this end. Again, if you have it doing that, it's going to create that effect that we talked about earlier. But you want to try to keep it as straight as you can. And you can go back. I know I said don't do this, but we had a little gap that we need to fill in. So there you go. Now I kind of have this envision where I like to keep like my pieces to have a lot more white. Mm-hmm. So we're going to go in with this shimmery, like sparkly white. Okay. And I kind of want it to be on this side first. So I'm going to go in with my shimmery white. Again, just a thin line. Hold thing. Okay. It looks really nice. I noticed that there's a little bit of a gap here. Mm-hmm. Like it doesn't go all the way. So I just kind of go in and fill in those gaps that I may have missed. So again, try to make me it as like linear and continuous as I can. I love the colors you've just matched. Yeah. It's like a very like nice shimmery shade. So this again, I want to do more of this like against this white. So I'm going to do the same thing. It's harder on these edges when you have like nothing over there. But you would just have to come back to it. So pouring sometimes if you don't pour like right against the color, that's okay. As long as you're pouring enough so that it can self level and come a little bit closer. It'll fill that gap. Yeah. And if it doesn't fill it, it's okay. You have a lot more in your cup. You just go back ever so slightly just a little bit and you pour it and get it to fill in those gaps. Same thing on this side. So you'll have it go across and there you go. Do you see how all these colors are kind of merging in together? They are. They're not like exactly like separate I guess. So if there's like a little little space, I go in and I just push like very little. What happens is that you could add more resin but I've noticed that if you add more resin more often than not you pour a little too much and then what will happen is it will eat away on this other wing white that we have going. Oh I see. Okay. Yeah. We also have an opaque white today. So I like using different shades of white. I feel like that also creates dimension. So again we're going to do super thin line. This is a lot more running than I thought. Try to keep it controlled. Okay. So at this point I like looking at the ratio that I have of white with my gold. Sometimes when you add too much white it will push the gold more into it. Okay. So you kind of see right here it's eating up a little bit of the gold. Right? So I personally don't really like that. So again I will go back this time I'll just go with my stick and just add a little bit more in that area that it's eating up. Oh yeah. Yeah. So like this area right here for example it was eating it up and now we want it to come back. So typically with all my art pieces I like doing a lot of white, a lot of neutral and then having one pop of color. So the color we chose today was navy blue. So I think that looking at the white right now this area right here seems like it doesn't have much white going on. So I feel like it could use a little bit more. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to add a little bit of base and maybe cut it off till here. Okay. Not go all the way because if I go all the way this is going to end up getting filled with white and then we'll have that much base with color right? Gotcha. So we're just going to kind of eyeball it see the gloss color I used was this opaque white. So we're going to go in put a little bit more just till this point I think and then fill it maybe a little bit more. The thing with geodart is it's okay if one shade is you know a lot more thicker than the other one because when you add the final touches to it you can always make little fine lines whether you want to add glitter lines that's okay too more stones we can do all of that so you can always tweak right? Yeah. So right here we have a little bit of a plain thing going on so I'm going to use the pearly white that we had going to add this slightly awesome. You want me to do that? Okay. Oh it's beautiful but it'll take a while. Yeah. Like you'll be able to notice like I feel like in the cups it's hard to tell but when we have it against each other like notice it a lot more. Okay. So now we're ready to go in with the colors I think we want to go in with this darker shade again with this color since it is a blue and we're going against the white we don't want to pour it on top of the white because what will happen is that it'll like push it push the white over and maybe the blue will be a little bit more dark so little is always more so you're going to pour a little farther away like maybe like like half centimeter away I would say you're going to leave a little gap leave a little gap because it will fill it in eventually and see how it looks see if you actually like the shade or not so have it going like this is my accent color and at this point you can make different patterns so if you didn't want to do this and let's say we have this and we wanted to leave it like that if I wanted to create another line going this way I could do that at this time and have it kind of split off so what do you think you want? should I do that? I think that might be nice okay so then we'll have this exact shade kind of split off onto this end as well so we would have like let's say it starts here your line then you would just go and maybe have it spread like that I love it so it looks like you have it seems like you've got a lot more control about how the colors are blending when you leave that gap there yeah so you see how like now they're just kind of sitting on top of each other sometimes what happens is it will create maybe cells where like white is typically a heavier color so what will happen is it will sink and you'll have the pops of the other like lighter shades on top so that's what creates like little bubble effects so if you're right but that's not really our goal today so we're not going to do that with this shade it's I know it looks very similar it's not so we're going to try to see how it is now we can't really follow this pattern right now we kind of have to comply with this so we're going to pour in this direction so starting right here again leave a little bit of space it always helps you can push it up against but leave a tiny little wow that is do you see like it looks like she-cock blue at this point when you leave the space you can kind of test for yourself hey do I like this white space or do I want to fill it if for example if right now you're thinking hey I love this white that's going on take your white and put a little bit of white and if you're thinking no I don't really love that okay go in with the shade that you want to add more of and let's cover it up you would just go back in with this green I think now on this side and we got to do it soon before this color ends up bleeding in so we're going to literally kiss up against the white I love this contrast it created between the whites and this really really darkened fence yeah it definitely really helps it pop out like I think if someone's going to pick one accent color typically I say yeah like choose one work with neutrals and it'll really make it pop so add a little bit of the green perfect and I'm thinking there should also be to match this green that's kind of sitting up against this blue there should also be a little bit of withering on this side okay so I'm thinking we'll add a little bit just a little bit you don't want it too much because it is kind of bleeding in over there oops I always recommend you put other cuts away haha it's alright it's not a huge deal just push this color out because it kind of blend do you find it easier to work with the resin when it's kind of sad a little bit and it's had a chance to kind of thicken up but it's not quite as fluid honestly not because I feel like if it's not as fluid it'll first of all it'll cure super fast that if you want to change anything like at this moment if I wanted to change this I could easily wipe it off if it's already cured try to do that it'll leave a little bit of a residue behind and that's not always like the best so now we're just gonna go in and quickly finish it off because I noticed it's starting to cure it so we're gonna add a little bit of a shimmer maybe add a little bit more there it's okay if you mess up like for example this fell in here it's alright when you add your finishing touches you will cover it up or you don't even cover it up if you end up liking it some crystals even have like a mini circle if you've noticed like sometimes they'll have a little spot so go in with a little bit more white and just build this pattern it's really beautiful coming along sometimes I like to cheat if I feel that my colors are kinda going apart I'll just add a little bit more so I don't have to come back to it and then I'll fill it in like let's say I want this okay let's keep it here it's fine and then go in with whatever shade it is like let's say yeah it's time for me to go in with the sparkle go in with the sparkle and I think that there needs to be a little bit more color going so this is the green but this is the first little navy blue that we had I'm just gonna go in and try to fill in any spaces I think that would need it the thing with these base layers is that it's gonna be nicer if your colors cover more area and there's not too much detail because the second layers that you do will have all the detailing in it so this is just the base layer this is the base layer yeah we're gonna build up on top of it right so even if you I mean this is gorgeous but even if you're not happy with something that you see you have a chance to kind of crept it or embellish exactly what do you think about like what's happening here where the white is covered so that's actually what I was talking about when the white does kind of overpower it'll create some kind of things if you see the little like cells forming it's because the white is heavier so it's sinking to the bottom now and now the green is popping back up it doesn't happen all the time if it does happen we hate it so you don't like it when we draw in our details we'll cover it up like that's okay perfect so it's not a huge deal we'll cover to cover typically I just go in with whatever color I have lots of right now I have a lot of this white shimmer so I'm just gonna cover it cover any bald spots I guess or any empty space yeah I'm kind of thinking maybe we'll just go in with the white or actually let's do the green and then remember we want it to go around so go around okay and I need it to kind of continue going on to the side as well so see like this is starting to like cure now in the cup so it's becoming harder and harder to pour okay so I think this looks good we're just gonna quickly torch it and we'll be on to yours it looks gorgeous thank you so well done so now we're just gonna torch out any of the bubbles that we have whoa I think it's okay yeah it looks good alright so I'm ready to start mine with your help of course so I'm gonna do the same thing that you did and my gold has kind of spread and it's a little translucent so I'm just gonna buffer it up okay so I'm ready for I feel nervous don't be nervous okay so the technique with this is that we want the colors to be a little bit more faded so what you want to do is you want to pour the colors first and then go with your whites oh yeah you do straight off the bat your dark color and then we're gonna go in with your whites okay so your shades are the pinks yes so wherever you think you want to keep the line so if you want to like let's say a pattern to go around this way that's cool if you want to split it that's cool too whatever whatever you like alright you want to move fast a little bit but not too fast either because if this starts to sit it won't give you a nice gradient effect okay like we want the whites to blend in with that okay now I know I said I was going abstract but I'm kind of still following the lines a little bit that looks good so if you wanted that to like kind of cut over this you could do that oh so I could do like yeah like you could interrupt the color if you wanted to let's interrupt the color and then I would probably add maybe one more line a little bit of color like maybe on this end or on that end or something basically flood the entire canvas with with white okay with different shades of white but yeah that's pretty much the idea what would I do in these edges up here oops if you like to add colors you can do that so you could maybe put like a little bit of whatever shade you like you could go in with the gold or you could even go in with the white as well and what happens if I drip on my rock you might just have to wipe it off alright we'll just flip it over nobody needs to know except LV maybe I'll do like just a little just a little vein of it just to kind of break up that white I do notice it's getting a little tacky so it may not work out okay so we just need to work fast okay that's the only thing maybe I'll do one more yeah just a little I'm not even going to connect it I'm just going to leave it free floating here yeah and then honestly after we do the lines and everything like it'll all come together okay alright so I'm ready for my white so you have a little beautiful pearl white going mm-hmm so now with this you want to literally pour on top of the color okay but not completely on top more like you want to cover it just so close like you're flooding it okay so we're not drizzling anymore we're actually pouring and I'm kind of filling in the entire thing yeah so you could do two things you could just follow this line all the way through or you could just do like this little area okay start this way here am I going to connect it? yeah no no that's perfect and you're doing such a good job do you see like after go ahead and finish that line do you see right here mm-hmm you see how it blended mm-hmm and it gave you that effect that's what you want to do if you leave the space you're going to get the same effect that I got going here oh right like the you're going to speed next to each other we want like and I think what you're going for is more of a soft organic kind of yeah so what would you do? okay so we have more resin mm-hmm and now you didn't mention that you don't like this peach right mm-hmm so what I would recommend maybe take the popsicle stick and kind of pour over the peach ever so slightly not in the center more on the side okay so cover the entire side okay just try I would test it out right here just so to see if you even like it there you go a little bit more on top there you go okay and then try covering like this area as well and it'll give you a little bit of a less such an opaque peach type of shade yeah I think that's what I don't like because it is very opaque yeah awesome so now you're going to pretty much if you do like that in fact maybe continue it on here okay magic so can I do the same in this little center gap so I would recommend before you do that these colors are bleeding right next to each other okay so you want to quickly go in with whatever it is the white to kind of interfere that so do it in line right across and follow it all the way through so all the way through okay because they're all bleeding in together and the longer you wait it's going to be harder to cover that you don't need to use the popsicle stick you can actually just pour it straight out of the cup okay yeah if you're comfortable with it you know I started with the stick so I'm I'm just going to continue with it and just in this little bit and then a little bit over here there you go do you see how it's pushing the shade out that's what we want okay so this pattern like the white kind of just stops there now it's totally up to you if you want it to continue this way or if you want it to go down you can even how it want to do both like that's okay as well I think it looks very busy to me oh the piece the whole piece looks very busy if you like what parts do you think look too busy I think it's so busy here I don't mind like this happening I don't I'm not fond of all this but I guess we can cover that with gold tomorrow no so then it's going to get more busy so then well what I would recommend if you know that hate I don't I'm not digging this at all take like a scraper scrape this off and cover it in white because that way like you won't have to deal with it I think you're talking about this peach right like even like this I think it's I said abstract but I think I actually prefer the symmetrical okay it's this line here okay I wish this continued it's like this right there oh I see so if you want you could take a brush popsicle stick push it maybe and let's have it like let's put more white here so I'll show you how to do that okay so soon as you you would just like put your popsicle stick here and shift it so just this whole thing yep the part that you don't like yep shift shift and then I would probably just clean this up a little bit more so let's say you really don't like this let me thin it out pick it up and let's get rid of it so I can make this all in line yeah that's what I would like to and then if you think it's too thick that's fine let's pick it up and now go in right as soon as we pick this up you want to go in directly with that and cover it up and if you think that like try to get as much of the color as you can off the board because we are with white but I think we did a pretty decent job and then now you can just go in with your white I would go in with the opaque if I'm being honest okay because it is a little bit more like it's opaque so maybe it will do a better job so maybe continue this over like no do you see how there is this white yeah so have it kind of go over that yeah there you go go in doing the job and then have it follow around this way yep and then follow look at that you like it is it better I think it's better okay and now that the white is spreading I would go over I would go over like on top of the white with the like gold white that you have okay in what way and just create like right here if you want to you don't even need to if you like it the way it is leave it and then maybe or could I take this line and follow it that's what you're going for right? like following I think so okay the biggest tip I have is that if you are thinking hey I don't like this at all like like this is not one going for we still have the other stones that we should add right and I feel like the stones do a much better job of hiding any like little imperfections don't worry too much okay awesome I think it looks good I don't think we want to add any more details just fill in all the gaps that you have on your board with whites okay and then you're pretty much going to be done okay it's beautiful I think here I don't know it just looks like I actually like that a lot do you really? yeah I love how it's like you know like not linear but it looks more natural I could keep working on this all night but I think I'm done what's happening here but no honestly I really like it I love it it's a totally different vibe I know you're not exactly happy but it's our first land no I am if you guys ever feel discouraged you know that hey this is not turning out the way I wanted the way I pictured it do not stress and don't worry about it because you can come in the next day like we will and we'll add some finishing touches and a trick is to cover up any spots that you don't like we'll cover it up okay I thought I was an abstract girl apparently I'm linear so that's okay but I do have to torch this before the resin starts getting too thick so I can grab my torch here and torch out the bubbles there we go thank you so much Shilpi we're gonna put our dust covers on leave these guys to cook overnight and we'll see you tomorrow see you tomorrow when we're back and you may have noticed that we switched sides today just to get a different perspective on the new side so our pieces have dried and Shilpi what are we gonna get up to today yeah so today's all about detail work this is pretty much my second day process whenever I'm making my pieces I just do want to mention that it is completely optional so if you love your piece the way it's secured you don't even want to change anything sign it off and you know put it on a wall display it wherever you want to and if you are looking at your piece and you're thinking like certain areas I know me and Joanne kind of have our own feelings about our pieces so we're just gonna use detail work to basically cover up our mistakes or cover up areas which we don't love and basically turn it into something that we do really like great, what materials are we gonna be using for our detail work yeah so you guys can use anything that you want to use today we're using some paint pens to draw some lines and do some fine work and we have some glitter going on for glitter glitter lines and some stones as well to cover up some spots amazing yeah and I love Shilpi shared a fantastic tip with me today do you want to tell everyone about the run off what you did yeah so with our like pieces that do drip I like to save these some people do throw them out but I save them and I actually like using my pens on these pieces first just to see like okay do I actually like the shade of gold or do I need a different shade of gold will it match the colors that are actually got my piece because what happens is if you go in with a pen on your piece and you realize okay this gold is not complimenting any of my tones it becomes a lot harder for you to change it right so it's just a little tip that I like to use it's amazing I love that before we start we do want to make sure that all of our stones have actually stuck on properly if you guys remember our first step was to drizzle a little bit of resin right and use it as a glue so what happens is if you didn't drizzle every single piece there will be pieces which have not glued on properly so what we're going to do is we're going to lift these canvases we're going to flip it over and smack it a little shake it do whatever you want to do make sure there's no loose pieces alright so let's do it that's amazing so you just want to shake it really good and it's not a big deal like if you notice that for example if there was a huge patch that was missing like we are going to be working with resin today so what you could do is put a little bit more resin on and then put the stones back in the places that it belongs yeah so great there's so many opportunities to like adjust, tweak yes of course as you go so that's great awesome I just want to make sure this is proper pieces are all good to go resin is cured stones are in place what's first yep so what I like to do is I like going in with the color that I have the majority of so I love having my artwork so you'll see a lot of white so what I'm going to do first is I'm going to go in with my white pen and just add a little bit of detail in the spaces where I see there's a lot of white okay so let's test out this pen first make sure it's good and flowy perfect so it's ready to go and then I just basically go in and draw lines where I feel like it okay so yeah so I always like to go slow I feel like these pens are really really good but if you stop it'll leave a little drop so try to follow all the way through you have to take a break it's okay it's very subtle it's very hard to even see sometimes but if someone's going to come really close and look at your piece I feel like they'll pick up on the very slight slight detail I was just going to say it is really subtle but it actually makes a difference it does, yeah and you want to make sure with these lines that we are following it through because we did have these edges painted so just to show you guys let me show you the side so definitely we want any lines that you can draw whether it be gold, blue, pink you want to trace it down and make sure it follows through so it really depends on you and what you prefer I feel like if you like having these lines and you want to add make it a lot more busier you could do that too with this piece I do want there to be big chunks of colors like I don't want it to be more of a ribbon or striated appearance okay so I'm going to kind of leave it because I do like that one line and I'm pretty much going to go around here now and any other places that I see where, okay I could use a little bit of a touch up I like that we have this if you can see like there's a little bit of a memory and then there's a little bit of white so but right here it kind of blends in and I do like that so I don't want to cover it up with a marker like or anything but I'm going to still do another line to kind of make it seem like it's all together okay I love that white sparkly line that make it powdery it looks so nice right it's beautiful and honestly I feel like that's the benefit of using white like you don't just have to use paint or a tint or even like meek of powders if you use a combination of all three you could totally skip the stuff and you know you don't even need to add all these lines and I think I'm going to probably do two more right here so have it rotate it so I actually didn't notice this before I just noticed it now there's a very tiny like circle do you see that it may have just been a mistake on my end when I was pouring maybe a little drop bell and I forgot there's even this little ripple effect kind of going here and even here so we even have a couple like pretty much all over my piece actually so what I'm going to do is instead of drawing a line I think I'm going to draw a little circle around it just to kind of draw your attention to that so you're going to highlight it so highlight it a little bit so we have one right here so maybe draw a little circle kind of like that we have another one right here again you can totally cover this up like if you don't like these circles or these cells that are appearing in your piece and you're thinking hey like I don't want to do these circles put a little bit of glitter or you know we have like more stones that you can add in that place or worst case scenario you could just do a totally different layer like replace this entire piece and do a complete new layer and start over and then one right here as Bob Ross would say so I think that's more than enough with the white thank you it's very subtle you know like you don't want I feel like I didn't want the attention to be on my lines I wanted the attention to be more on this kind of action that's going on right with the different shades that we see even the little cells that are kind of happening in my like darker tones so the next step now would be to go in with my gold so I'm not actually not actually going to have lines of gold in my final piece this is just a little tip slash trick I use we have this gold glitter so we are going to be making gold glitter lines so I use this more as a like a sketch I guess you would say like I would just kind of draw where I want the lines to be so like a guideline yeah like a guideline and then you just trace it with a resin and it again takes off the pressure it takes off like you know any chance of you making a mistake with the resin so you can use that so we'll test this marker okay I think it's good again this is a very thick tip marker like it's pretty thick so making like fine lines with this like I mentioned is going to be a lot harder you can do it if you're very good and have like good precision I guess but it becomes a lot harder to do that whereas you know it's typically supposed to be about thick it's got a chisel tip yeah so we want to make sure it's flowy and good now this part it can be a little intimidating because it's such a bold color with the white you know it's a little forgiving it's then blended into the background it's not going to catch your eye necessarily this will catch your eye so you want to put it in a spot where you really desperately need a cover-up because it will do an amazing job at covering up any mistakes or you can put it in areas where you're using it as more of a highlight which is what I'm going to do in this piece I love like absolutely love these shapes I love that how dark it is so I don't want to put too much gold where you know your attention kind of just goes to the gold and it doesn't go to the navy blue and the greens that we have going on so what I'm going to do is I'm going to outline these with a little bit of a gold and remember it's not going to actually be this tip or like sorry this pen it's going to be the glitter right so we'll flip this oops sorry thank you you're welcome sometimes you have to think a little bit right like there's a lot of stuff I love about this and there's also things that I don't like about it so for example these cells I feel like it kind of gives it a little bit of a natural finish like when you look at geodes not everything is perfect right like we discussed so I feel like I don't necessarily want to cover it up but at the same time if I put like a gold down here and cut into the white we're going to have a line of white between that which if you think about the whole picture you're going to have a lot of detail it's going to look like I painted a white line but that's not what I want so even though I love it unfortunately I'm going to cover it up so we're going to do that so it's going to give you kind of a crisper edge I guess it's going to be a little bit more defined so we're going to go along this edge and it's okay if this shade breaks apart like you'll see right here it's not you know maybe not perfect but this is just our guideline for where our gold is going to go like our glitter gold is going to go and it doesn't need to be straight if you want to add more waves you can do that too so I'm going to do that add a little bit of a wave and this one does not need to be perfect so it's alright so this is where I'm thinking my gold glitter is going to go again if you guys notice this is not the best line but it is a guideline so it's okay I'm not too worried about that just rotate it again and I think we're going to have my last glitter line probably going across here and I think this is good it is gorgeous I love it I love the gold with the glitter it looks so nice so after your glitter lines it doesn't need to end there okay like that's obviously not the last step if you do the glitter lines and you realize okay this looks good but let me add a little bit more by all means add a little bit more but I would always say start with less and build up on it because once you have too much you can't really go back good deal okay so I think I'm good with mine lets move on to yours so what are you thinking of doing with yours well I love the white line so I think I'm going to follow your lead again and put some white maybe in this area here maybe down here a little bit okay and then I'm going to ask you what I'm going to do next alright okay so so that's done so I'm thinking that this area here might be kind of really busy okay I see do you think would you do both of these or just like one or the other well what's your game plan here do you want to still cover this or are you not thinking like that I think we're going to use these tinted glass crystals in this area here okay so maybe I should put it in this area so maybe let's say that for the end okay like let's see where you want to place the glass and then maybe draw your line according to that okay that way you can like kind of mimic the shape of the like where you're placing your glass as well good idea there you go okay so we're going to put these stones now here okay so what we did Shilpi taught me you can actually tint maybe you should explain it you can tint your crystals yeah so with any crushed glass like this we just bought um you could even like if you have like other glass pieces at home and you want finer ones take a hammer put it in a bag smash it into like a size that you like so basically the whole idea is that if it's clear or these are silver in our case for Joanne's piece she wanted like a pinkish orange like a coral-y colored glass and if you can't get your hands on those if you have alcohol inks and you like the shape of um the of the alcohol ink you could put this in a little cup add a few drops of alcohol ink and it'll just basically stain in so which is what she's done right here and she's going to show you yeah I have to do a little bit more so let's do that I'm just going to I'm just going to add to what I have here yeah literally you need a drop that was all I did so I've got pink orange and this is copper and I guess the alcohol ink works best because it's so fast fast drying yeah it's fast drying so you won't even have to wait too long and this color is absolutely like it's perfect it's like a perfect match exactly and I love it if you do think that's a little wet another tip that we have is pour it down on paper towel and just kind of sandwich it a little bit see if the color is bleeding onto the paper towel okay so okay I think we were going to try I know you like this area but it's like it's close it's close so beautifully and then it just kind of interrupts here so I think I want to try and like cover it okay cover it yeah okay my heart no no honestly it's your piece you do what you love so I know for sure I'm going to put them here there you go yeah and I know for sure I'm going to put some up here around my crystal okay I'm going to rotate it back so again we're kind of using the same technique that we did yesterday like and then we drizzled some resin on top so we're going to do the same thing today okay I think that's good awesome the last thing I wanted to do was I just like I made this crystal piece with mold making material I also made some little stones so I used the larger glass shards and made a mold yep and made these guys so not sure if I'll use these ones I'll just get lost in here but I'm thinking maybe I would add some of the gold colored ones as well one side is kind of matte and the other side is glossy so I'm just going to again maybe I'll do like five something like that I can adjust it but yeah okay good so what's our next step then in both our cases we're going to have a different situation Joanne's going to be using the resin to basically glue down any pieces that she put on so that includes the orange glass shards going and even these bigger chunks I'm going to be using the resin today to make my glitter lines because I've already decided so we'll make a batch of resin and we'll be right back okay we're back so we've got our art resin already mixed and ready to go so the first step now is I'm going to adhere my little gold stones and then I'm going to drizzle to secure these kind of coral glass pieces awesome so what I'm going to do is use one of these pipettes here so because I don't want to the resin to spread too much I'm not going to drizzle it from the cup like we did before first I'm going to adhere these guys you could use a hot glue gun too if you wanted to for this alright any type of like industrial glue yeah anything like that so I've got the coral pieces here I've got a little bit here I'm going to just spread out any bits where the resin started to kind of spread and I think I'm happy with this so Shilpi we're on to your piece yeah so for my piece I'm actually going to do glitter lines Joanne decided to opt out of it that's okay you don't have to do that so I'm working with gold glitter here it's just plain gold glitter you can get it anywhere and what I'm going to do is I'm going to mix a little bit of resin you don't need a lot because again we're only making lines right we're not flooding this entire canvas so even this is roughly four ounces you would probably only need two maybe I would say for this size roughly an 18 by 18 so let's go ahead and mix our glitter in okay I like using mini glasses I feel like it's easier and then you want to put a lot of glitter in now if you were thinking that I can put like let's say this much and it'll be okay it'll be fine but your glitter won't be as pigmented right because you have so much of the resin that it'll be more clear you want it to be strict glitter so I put a lot and I think that helps to create some texture as well because I'm having a lot of glitter yeah so then we're just going to mix this and it does get thick and that's what you want you want it to be this kind of consistency it's like a slurry almost yeah like it's more I don't know like gooier that's the other thing too is that we made the resin ahead of time and let it sit for a little bit right exactly yeah so I find that when you're making glitter lines you want to let it sit with art resin you do have a working time of correct me for about 40 minutes 40 minutes yeah so we have let this sit for about 20 minutes now so it's nice and thick it's not fully cured but it's kind of getting there and that's what we want yeah we don't want it to start self leveling exactly if it's too runny what's going to happen is you're going to be beautiful it's a nice like diameter like shape but then as it spreads it'll get thicker and thicker and maybe that's not what you want right so so you've got a ziplock bag you've got a ziplock bag I just like using like any cup to kind of create a little space for it you could even use like cake bags if you guys are into decorating cakes and things like that sandwich bags so I just put almost all of it why not we have to use it anyways so as you can see it's a little runny this is a little bit more runny than I would like it to be so we'll maybe let it sit for another few more minutes and maybe come back to it the resin is getting warm so once it starts getting warm it's going to thicken very quickly zip it up and basically it's going to be ready to use again we have our lines so I'm just going to be tracing it so we're going to cut a very small hole like a very very tiny hole that's really small it's so small so this is just a piece of runoff resin that we have from yesterday and I'm just going to see super thin you see that oh gosh yeah that's really thin so I like mine to be thin because it's still runny it will self level so it will get thicker okay if you wanted to go with a thicker line if I all means do it again with this you guys can practice a little bit if I think then let me add one more go run it over put a little bit more and now it's thicker and these right you can always go from thinner to thicker but it's hard for you to go from thick to thin okay so now I'm just going to trace over these lines okay and we are going to let it run over the edge not purposely it will like gravity will do its thing so do not stress okay let's go and we want to move fast it's alright if your line is not directly on where it goes do you see how there's a little bit that I kind of got it's a little wet I can wipe it and do you see like I made it thin but it's still spreading so it's getting thicker and thicker now if I had started off with a hole that was the size it would have been a lot more thicker and that's okay if you guys want thicker lines make a bigger hole right so let's do that and now we're going to pretty much do the rest of it we have I think one more line left honestly not loving this little point that's okay it might happen to you guys too if you guys make a line and you look at it later and you're like it's not really going with what I wanted initially it's okay you this is why you do it right so you can make your line alter it a little here there's like a point I think instead of a point I kind of want it to curve off so I'll just make the change now the bag is starting to get warmer so definitely it's like at the end curve so at this point I like I'm a little short I have to go I have to be chosen I like looking at it from a little bit of a board's eye view trying to see okay where do I think that there's not enough balance right so I'm looking at this I like it I think it's good I feel like I could use something going on here maybe a little bit I'm just going to freestyle it how to kind of go around so I think if you guys remember I added these little white circles so I'm thinking that maybe we can add a gold circle somewhere what do you think like I see there's like a little spatch of like white glitter there do you see it so I'm thinking maybe like we'll draw a shape there so let's see like you would put a little tiny circle with that honestly you could even leave it like that like if you want it just kind of draw some attention and then make like a little oops it's starting to get harder don't have it do that I think it looks a little bit more balanced now so now it's time to perfect your edges do you remember this first line that we did do you see how it's thickening yes right it's no longer it's done anymore and that's one of the last ones that we did what I like to do is if you have access run it off the edge because in this particular piece we did decide to do the edges so what I'm going to do is literally just drip and if not drip follow it through you know good and gravity will do its thing I think these sides are actually looking pretty decent I think this is good okay so if I'm being honest looking at this right now I'm really liking it but again with G.O.D.R. pieces the orientation always changes the look of your piece so now the view that you guys probably have where you're seeing this on the top and then this on the bottom your attention probably will go to this empty space here right and then I'm looking at it from my point of view this is all balanced it's beautiful it looks good this looks like it's missing a little something so I'm thinking maybe we'll replicate or mimic this little dot we got going on maybe someone over here so good idea it's so important to change your perspective yeah see it from all angles especially if it's like a commission piece or if you're making it for someone as a gift you never know what orientation they want to hang it in so you want to make sure it looks good from every possible every possible way you know maybe like just a little dot somewhere here fantastic yeah so I think we're ready and we're done good job Shopee love it good job I love yours too and I love that you fix it you know like so you guys learn from her I think it just goes to show you know how forgiving this process is exactly how many options you have yeah in every stage of the process you know you can make adjustments exactly yeah I guess we're going to leave these overnight yep and we'll come back and show you your final pieces yeah see you tomorrow see you so we're back and our pieces have cured and they look amazing in fact they look so good that we've already hung them up on the wall take a look Shopee your piece looks fantastic I love the blue and the gold together it came together so beautifully oh my god thank you I love yours so much I love what you did I love the peaches I love the pink and you did an amazing job of making into something that you love you know so what did you guys think I hope this tutorial inspires you to try making geode art of your own and Shopee thank you so much for coming in to teach us and to share so many of your tips and tricks you are an amazing teacher oh my god no she's an amazing student right guys come on like you watched her learn from the experience thank you so much to you and to the rest of the art resident team for reaching out to me and allowing me to be here to film this I hope that you guys have learned something from this and if you guys do end up making your own geodes and art please feel free to send me a picture or leave a picture down below leave a comment below and let us know what you think alright so thanks for tuning in