 line. What's up every one. Joey is wanting in as director chair. I will help him think of you guys set up. So today Jeff and I are going to work on a piece together. I'm going to do some alcohol inks and he's going to do some airbrush. We're going to use some stencils and it's going to be amazing. You guys just let me know and hear me. Okay. I'm pulling up my chat right now so I can see if you guys can hear me. Okay. Looks like I can zoom you guys in just a little bit. Kim, it's a total win. We used to have a giveaway for the first person in the room. We should probably start doing that again. That was a lot of fun. Sound is great. Sweet. Kim, Kimberly Arlene, Sylvia, how are things where you guys are today? I hope it's amazing. Maxi. What's up? So I'm going to be using a simple palette today. I'm going to be using a pink, a teal, and a yellow. It's my go to alcohol ink palette. These specific colors are Copic, refill number RV09, Fuchsia, Copic refill BG49, Duck Blue, and Spectrum Noir Ly1. I got all these from blik.com. I'm not sponsored by them, but if you're watching blik, what's up? It's cloudy here too as well. You're watching from Spain. I want to go to Spain. Did you say something to me, B? Okay. We had tornadoes in Dallas earlier today, but it seems like the weather has moved on. Did you just say Chuck Norris lives here so tornadoes don't really come here? They go around Dallas because they want to go around Chuck Norris. I didn't even know that. Learned something new every day. You broke a rib. Joe says he hopes that if you broke a rib that it was from laughing. As do I. Frosty in England. That's another place we have been wanting to go to. The hexagon panel. I've been debating on putting them on the website. This is one of our ready for alcohol ink panels. I have them in like squares and rectangles. I don't have the hexagon ones up. I didn't know if that is something that you guys would be interested in, but if you are comment and I'll talk to my builder about getting these on the website. Kim says Chuck Norris is my hero. Okay. So I'm going to be using 91% isopropyl alcohol. I have gone ahead and put it in this like ketchupy squeeze bottle just for ease of use. What's that melody? And we're going to get started. My best advice. Hi, Joy. How are you? Snow in Colorado. My sister's in Colorado. I want to play in the snow in Colorado. Hopefully we'll make it up there to go snowboarding again this year. My best advice for doing alcohol inks is to have a surface prepped. I like to pour on boards like this. I don't have to prep them. This is straight off the shelf. And I don't have to worry about it warping it all because of adding heat to it like Yupo papers and things like that. And I didn't even get to tell you my best tip is use a lot of alcohol and not that many inks because the more ink you use, the darker it's going to be. And that's fine. But for what we're trying to do today with doing airbrush on top of it, having it be super dark is not really conducive to having airbrush on it. Just because when it's too dark, you can't really see what the airbrush is doing. So we're going to keep it really light. First step, drench with alcohol. Make sure you don't have any open flames about when you do this because you don't want to catch anything on fire. And open flame and rubbing alcohol is a great formula for fire. So I'm going to start with my yellow because it tends to be diluted the fastest because it's just a lighter color. And I'm going to try not to cross over my pink and my blue and my yellow all in one area. So pink and blue can make a secondary color yellow for what? So they all make great colors mixed one-on-one together, but all three together makes not fun color. Is the pupil the same size on the other one? Oh, okay. Yes, no, the iris is the color, not bad. So they make great colors mixed one-on-one together, but all three together makes a very disgusting yellowy-browny color. So I'm going to do my best to not let all three of them mix. We'll see how well that goes. Kim says, don't forget to hit the like button. Thank you for that reminder. Sandy Sanders, what are you doing? I'm hoping you're having a great lunch break. We were just talking about going to Colorado hopefully soon. And I was thinking I should message Sandy and here you are. It's like fate. Okay, then I just put a little bit more alcohol on top of it to help it to flow a little bit better. This is the dangerous part when you start to swirl everything around. That's when things can get muddy and colors will start mixing together that shouldn't. So I'm going to still be careful, but proceed and fill in any parts that are void. I put the most yellow down and it seems to be still the most faint. That's just the nature of the color, unfortunately. I'm trying my best not to add too much color because we want to keep it light. This is kind of like when you have resin that's too thin or acrylics that are too thin. When they're really thin and they start mixing together, they don't make pretty colors. So be advised not to do too much mixing around. We just got to find a place to go Sandy. Don't do too much mixing around so that you don't have to worry about all three colors mixing together. Just give it a swirl for coverage and then let it live. I'm using a this an embossing gun. I forgot what it's called for a really quick second, but I'm good. We're good. To help evaporate my alcohol so that my inks will kind of dry in the place that it is when the alcohol evaporates. I hope that makes sense. In my head it makes sense when I say things sometimes and then when I say it out loud it doesn't really make sense. So you guys let me know if I say something that's on the confusing side. That sound in the background is Jeff's air compressor. Also a tip for doing alcohol inks is the less heat and manipulating that you do with a heat source, the softer your blends will be. So for example over here I'll do a little bit extra manipulating and moving around with the embossing gun. And you'll be able to see the darker lines that happen because of drying it and moving it around. So it's already started to give those areas. I don't want to do that too much. I want it to be a softer piece so essentially I'm just very far away and swirling my embossing heat gun to help everything dry a little bit faster. If I wasn't doing this on a live and it was just a piece I was doing at home, I would put all the inks down and then walk away and let it just do what it's going to do. Because in my opinion that's the best looking alcohol ink is that the natural blend that it does on its own. It's gray and misting in Georgia. Georgia usually has beautiful weather. So you guys can see over here the darker lines from the extra manipulating as opposed to everything else being a lot softer. I'm going to try to avoid getting too much of this but I'll have to do a little bit more just to balance it in some areas. I'm going to try to do that mostly on the outskirts. The edge really because the chances of Jeff doing airbrush on the edge as opposed to in the middle are less. And the darker lines may interfere with the airbrush disumbing. Hey, how are you doing my Judy? Obviously the more alcohol you have on here the longer it takes to dry out but I think it's not a hefty price to pay in order to keep your inks flowing and keeping them from staining your board or your UFO. Everything I talk about here, everything Jeff mentions is all our opinion is what works for us. And it's by no means the end all be all of how you should do any of the things that we're doing. It's just the way that we do them. We always say that we're not teachers. We can just instruct on how we do things. There in my list. And then there's much I can do about that spot. It's just going to have to be there. Essentially what I'm going to do is fully dry this and then we're going to spray it with an archival spray. I like to use UV archival in mats because in my opinion it preserves your inks the best and dries pretty quickly. Do you get the mat instead of the gloss or the satin because the gloss and satin all have like alcohol properties in it that will kind of wake up your inks. And it'll look kind of like you spritzed alcohol over your piece. So just be advised. I'm getting a little bit of coagulation in some areas probably because of the moisture in the air. Haven't seen you in forever. Hope things are well. Yeah it's been rainy here for a good week for sure. Since we got back from Mexico it's been raining and I think it started right after we left. There's definitely a lot of condensation. You can tell that it's been raining a lot and the air is dewy because of how long it's taking for this alcohol to evaporate and because of the bit of coagulation that's happening. But we're almost done with this part. You think you must be putting too much ink down because the color is never this soft? That's exactly what it is. If you put too much color down and not enough alcohol then everything gets really dark. And your colors seem to mix together more quickly in my opinion. And if you just like the softer look then definitely just explore using less color and more rubbing alcohol. That's so great Amy. I hope you get set up in your new studio soon and it's better than even your last one. You turned out some great art ma'am. It's 19 degrees in Colorado. Amy are you in Colorado Springs area? That's where Sandy and my sister are. It was so close to being done. Just this like little Mercedes area. And an area over here is really all that's left to dry out. You really want to make sure it's fully dry before you add your archival spray. I'm not sure that it makes a whole lot of difference ultimately. But it could make it take longer for the archival spray to dry. Something I love about doing anything fluid like resin or alcoholics or even acrylics when someone mixes acrylics for me. It doesn't work when I do it myself. Is that you can never predict how it's going to turn out. I put the color down knowing what colors they were and that was all that I knew for sure is what color they would end up being. But the flow of the piece is always random for me with my application style. It's like Christmas morning as it were or a birthday. You know it's a present but you never really know what it's going to be and that's kind of something I love about. This kind of artwork. There's ways to control it a little bit. But I have a lot more success when I just help it along to do what it already wants to do. All right. I'm going to do another just quick pass over to make sure we got all the edges. Jeff has already prepped his airbrush area over there. Another reason your inks could be not this soft is from manipulating it too much as it's drying. So here's what we look like right now. You are not hugely excited about these two little bits but with alcohol inks you really have to pick your battles a lot like with resin. If I were to go in and try to do something with these it's going to affect everything that's touching it. And so knowing that just going to do airbrush and we'll probably use a couple stencil backgrounds. I'm not that concerned with it because if it's very bothersome Jeff can hide it with really anything. So vamps always lurking in the shadows. A joy year in Colorado Springs as well. We should set up another class in Colorado Springs. We have a lot of people watching from there. This is multiple arts in one day for sure for sure. I got you Kim. All right. I haven't used this in a while so I'm shaking it a little bit extra. As with anything that we do use aerosols, resin, sanding, alcohol inks. Anything but regular air wear respirator. It cannot be responsible for anyone's health but my own. And so listen to your own body and take whatever precautions that you need. So now the disclaimer is gone. I'm going to open a window. You guys find me a place to teach in Colorado and I'll be there. I need room for at least six. Well, I need to make sure I have a space. Yeah, we do need the people for sure. So we need minimum of 10, max of 20 students and a space that can hold that many people. If you, excuse me, touch your board and it's still warm, then your this is going to drive faster than normal. At least spray paint not laying down just in case there's big drips that come out. My husband taught me that. One really good coat of this archival spray should be good. You don't want to drench it and make it drip. You don't want that much, but you do want a full coverage spray. Also, since this is matte, you can see right now it's shiny, but when the spray is dry, it will go back to the matte that it looked like before. It'll look frosted, which is actually a really cool effect. And then if you add resin onto it, it'll brighten it all the way back up. Don't hold your heat on your archival spray for too long because it'll kind of bubble up if you kind of scorch it. Heck yeah. Heidi, let me know if you find me a space, then you get a free seat in the class. What's up, Jen? My bracelet. Do you love it? We would love to teach another class in Colorado. We had so much fun last time. I don't sell any alcohol links on my website, but I have them linked. The ones that I use down in the description box below this video is an Amazon shop link. And that's just a link to all the things that we use that we don't sell. If you touch your surface and it's sticky at all, then it's not ready, but ours is ready. Now I just got to make sure my husband's ready. You ready to be? So should I just turn this around or should I put them up there? Okay, so my question was should I turn this around or put them up there? Set you guys up. Come here, big boy. Come here. So if we do airbrush hats on the channel, that's something you guys would be interested in. Slash, would you want to purchase one? I like all the ideas. Arlene Bowie says hello. So Jeff is using some of our eye stencils. We have them on our website. What's up, Robin? Well, you are in luck because Jeff's about to airbrush on this piece. Do you need a spray adhesive or anything? Good call, Vant. So with an airbrush, nope, an alcoholic background like that, you could really put anything on it. Or you could leave it as a finish all on its own. Stonka recently did a video highlighting Jeff's airbrush use skills. Do you have to have an airbrush to use as stencils or something else to use? You could totally just use spray paint. Take it off though. You can't really, I don't know how much spray paint will get in there. I mean, we could try it, but try it. Or you can just trace it. You could probably even trace the big parts because a lot of these smaller parts are not necessary. I just put them on there just for reference of where. But a lot of this you can just trace. I bet you could like sponge on some acrylic too. I haven't tried that, but I don't see why that wouldn't work. Just make sure you have your stencil all the way down so that your paint doesn't get under the stencil. What Jeff's doing now, what he's using the stencil for really is just to map out where the eye is and then he paints over it. Voila, eye. Like if you do that with spray paint and you can just take like a Posca pen, fill in all your little gaps in your eyelashes. Jen says, that's so dope and I agree. What color airbrush are you using for a paint? This is transparent black. This is a very, this is a really good paint for portraits called transparent black by Comart. I prefer it over golden. A little bit different black. Like they're golden black is like a funky almost grayish blue. This is more true to. It is very forgiving, very, very light. So if you just spray, you always want to start out light because you can always add more. It's basically like resin. And just start light. Just get your light, light lines, kind of where other lines will be. Because if you don't like it, this is so light that when you start to darken it, that other paint will just kind of blend in and disappear. I wonder if this is from Tracedit. I'm thinking out loud of how I made these. I really want to remake them. Jen says her makeup already looks better than hers does on a good day. See, same. It's not makeup, it's shadow. This is not makeup. Erica keeps telling me that I need to do makeup and this is not makeup. This is just the shadow of a facial structure. Yeah, he does tell me that all the time. And then I remind him that women wear makeup to create shadows, to create depth and contouring. Color is a whole different thing too, because that's a whole big part of it, right? You have to have the right color to do that. This is one color. That right eye, the one in the pink, almost looks like a cat eye on camera. Joyce says that looks so cool. I'll email you for more info on space for class. Super excited. Thank you so much, Joyce. Looking forward to it. What's up, Cynthia? Heidi was thinking for the lip stencil. I think I'll try the spray paint idea. Yeah, try spray paint first. It should work well. And then Jeff also has this like blob splatter type. There's a blob in the stencil pack. Any plans on painting a Wednesday? Yeah, he's going to need a reference for Wednesday. What is the tonal difference between the smoke and the... It would be really tough to see it. You'd still be able to see it, but it'd be... I love those stencils, because you can just turn them any number of ways and get the straight edge that you need to create a nice line. Would you consider doing a portrait on a big alcohol ink background? I think it's too smooth bay wet, or it will spider in where it's kind of... If you get too close to it, because it's super smooth. I think I have a 24 by 36 over there. That's been just staring at me. The background almost looks like it's one of those... Lumie or Avatar portrait things that's in that app that everybody's using right now. From here it almost looks like she should have a mask on. Jeanette says it looks amazing. Thank you. Thank you. Have you guys ever airbrushed before? This paint is very thin, too. So you're not going to get a solid like, especially if there's already paint down. It's not going to look that solid, because it's so transparent that it just kind of blends in. It'll make what you've painted darker, but as far as doing a solid line, it's not. I wouldn't... So you would switch out to... What I'll probably end up doing is adding like a transparent, or I'm sorry, a carbon black to this. Just a teeny bit just to make it a little darker. How do you keep from adding too much shadow? Barely putting it down. You could see where you've put it, and that's why the transparent is good for that. Because if this was just black or like, you know, the shading gray of golden, it's really dark. So if you put a little bit too much, then you're committed to that area. There's no erasing airbrush really, right? You're actually below the line. I'm just going to get a little bit. When Jeff teaches me to airbrush, he says that it may not look like you've done that much, but you have. I probably shouldn't have came up on Key, dude. That's the actual stencil. Another reason when you do the stencil, don't blast it, like with a hardcore black or dark color, because you don't want to be committed to these lines, like how funky that is. I mean, that is what I referenced from... Can you guys hear everybody okay when he's talking? Just trying to test where the mic is. What's up, Clara? Cynthia wants to know, I have not tried airbrush yet, but would like to learn what airbrush would you recommend for a beginner? Do you have one on your website, or where can I order? Do you have an affiliate? I would use the IWATI Eclipse. Basically, it's what this is, but this is a gravity feed. Can you see that? Yeah, so this is an HPCS, and this is HPBCS. Yeah, I would get that, the HPBCS. Okay, so he says that IWATI Eclipse HPBCS. We have a less expensive one as well on our Amazon link. It's a master's... That master one is decent, like if you just wanted to learn, maybe get that. You definitely want to get a decent compressor, or airbrush compressor, a small one. You want a good amount of air, a good regulation of air, and a cheap compressor is not a good compressor. Trying to do these eyelashes, it's just like a shadow. This looks like... They were just saying Jeff has great eyelash control. Jimmy, turn it down. What do you recommend having your compressor set up? If it's that one that I told you guys to get, I mean normally you would want it at probably around 30 or 40 psi, because it's going to have to...it's a siphon, so it sucks the paint up through and out. This one, it just kind of falls down into it, air pushes it out. Very frustrating, you all, so just know that. Not that easy at the first, so you're going to have to realize that. It's not something really simple that you pick up endless. You're like Erica, and she really picked it up fast. You flatters. What is Jeff using right now? Is it an eraser? This is an X-Acto blade. Just scraping away the paint. It just gives you a highlight, because you kind of lose it when you're painting the others. When you're painting like the lashes and the shadows and stuff. This right here will give you a line so that you can kind of see where your eyelashes are when you put them down with your darker color. It just finds stuff. Did Jeff mention a moisture trap? Yeah, you definitely want a moisture trap, especially for a day like today. Like I'm sure that what I have is probably going to be a little full. You always want to put, don't put your moisture trap on your compressor, but put it more towards the end of... Some people put your moisture trap on your compressor. They attach it to it. And then just think about all that air that's going through and then out your hose. So what I normally do is attach a hose to the compressor and then another. This is the moisture trap here. This attached to all my other brushes over here. There's a lot of hose going here. All the hose in the house. You're basically catching more moisture. I would assume because there's so much... I have so many hoses. If you're catching it at the compressor, then you're not going to catch it all. That's what I assume. That's what works for him. Yeah. Remember the rest of your eyebrow? You can use... You can use an eraser for this stuff too. Eraser is good for the eyes right here. We can get a kind of a softer... A softer, where you're just not scraping the paint completely off. You're just barely... The eye dibs. This is basically a pan eraser for the eyes. Holly said she found a Steers & Robux Pro airbrush that unused from the 70s that in the States stale for like $2 in the original box and everything. It was pretty cool. Next time you see one, I'll buy it off of you. Erasing and doing the X-Acto blade is just knowing where those little... I feel like I would mess up and do too much erasing. Well, you just kind of softly do it. You just go ham like when I add paint to resin. See, he even highlights a brow bone. He knows what he's doing. He could do makeup. What kind of pen is he using? Oh, it's a Fine Point Posca pen. I went to a little too heavy. But the good thing about using this Posca pen or the actual eyelashes, whatever lines you did with the airbrush just looked like shadows. Love a good shadow. I have Purple Sapphire on order. I expect it like by Monday-ish. I may have one in there. Hold on, let me go see. You can also use these guys. A little electric eraser. But this will definitely take the paint off really fast. So unless you're just doing like really true highlights. I always like to put a little highlight right here. The first shadow for the eyelashes. So, Kim, I actually did an audit of my inventory yesterday, the day before. I think it was yesterday actually. And I found two Purple Sapphire and a whole bunch of paints that set out of stock when I really had a couple in stock. So there are right now two Purple Sapphires currently. Thank you, Clara. Clara knew that before I did. That's a great highlight maker. So are you going to keep the eyes... They're a lot safer. Are you going to keep the eyes pink and blue since you dotted in the blue one? I can still keep that. Especially with airbrush. Be careful already with Posca's, because if you add too much pressure, you could blur. I'm just doing the eyelashes. Sounds good. If you guys are subscribed to our newsletter, then you got an email today with discount codes and restock information. I'm not putting a subscribe button. It's TikTok. YouTube has a membership. They're basically the same. They are. It's just another way to support your favorite artists or channels on either platform. And then going over with the Backo, and then airbrushing it really gives it layers. So it's just like with fluid art. You want to do layers. What a baby. But we just kissed the mic. So you can airbrush over the pen. Well, Amy didn't do the scratchy, highlighty part from the Exacto blade. Trying to do too much. Well, Amy didn't scratch it yet. What's up, Amy? Amy Johnson said those eyebrows are actually awesome. Can you do mine? Sure. Right after he does mine, you're next. Does this count as microblading? Oh, that's kind of how it works. You're not alone. Be any woman out there that's ever done her eyeliner will tell you that one eye is always so much harder than the other eye. Okay. Well, I'm just saying we get it. It's hard to make both eyes perfect. Hey, do you know if you sent my order out yet? Was it from the fire sale or like an order order? What's up, Jaymeeks? How you doing? Sherry says, Erica, have you started to airbrush yet? I've airbrushed like two or three things. I did okay. I actually was notified the payment came in when we were in Mexico. And Vamp just told me about it the other day after we got back. So she'll go out today or tomorrow. She's already cleaned and ready to go. I just got to make sure I have the proper size box and package her up. Jaymeeks says, what's up, ATD fam? This is gorgeous. I agree. I think we should do a side by side bead one day and you'll do like a portrait, like just eyes and then I'll do my like eye makeup and see which one's done first, done better. It's kind of a who did it better even though I know that you're going to be better. No, you're just going to do essentially what we're doing right now. No. Just judging from looking at those eyes right now. No, no. If you guys haven't subscribed yet, please do so. Claire said I was thinking that just now. Who does the eyebrows faster? Erica or Jeff? Well, I feel like Jeff could probably out eyebrow me. He's using a Posca pen. I don't know what size though. I think a medium nib. It was a large nib. Oh, the light blue is large and the black outline that he just did was, I mean... You're adding dark black now? He has switched. Nobody has any complaints. Kim says I'm actually getting my eyebrows microbladed on Thursdays because I'm tired of having two different eyebrows. I understand the struggle. Can you put the highlight back in the eye before we're done? Jeff does blue eyes almost all the time. He's done green, I think, and he's done honey. I think it's just because the... Jeff usually doesn't do color portraits. It's almost always black and white or sepia tone. And so dark, light eyes like blue or like a light green or a light honey color always just stands out the best on the particular color portraits that he does. But if you were commissioned to do a different color, he would certainly do it. But you know how it is when you paint just because you want to paint, then you just paint what you... what you see. What about us brown-eyed girls or hazel? I'm going to just say it's because I'm its muse. But he's not against painting hazel or brown. Do you ever paint that part of the eye white or do you just erase? If you paint it white, it'll look cartoony. So, Jeff is his own worst critic. What was that last tool and eraser? Yeah, it was a pen eraser. And now he's using an exacto blade to highlight the lashes and kind of take out some of the stark black that... That was the eraser that you could use. A pen eraser, which is a very abrasive eraser. This is a electric eraser, which sometimes they don't work because the eraser is so soft. So I've cut one of these up, an old one, and just fit it to this size so I can just really get a good That's what's in there? Yeah. If you're working on canvas and a smoother surface, these work good for getting a really good... Like where the puffy of the eyes are this dip right here, this right here is a really good to shape this without making a harsh line because that's not a line, it's just it's a curve. So I erase certain areas so that you can make that. How are you going to finish the piece? Um... Well, probably, I don't know, would definitely need to do something in the bottom half. I don't think Jeff's up for it today. He's frustrated with the piece, so you just have to walk away from it for a little bit, you know? And so... I think this is where this piece ends for today. But I think she looks good. I think it'd be cool to have a cloth coming over her face because it kind of looks like that right here. But, um... Who knows? Who knows what we'll end up doing with her? It's crazy how this just looks like a forehead and he didn't even do anything up there. It just fits. Adding too much, like you guys are saying, how do you know? Towards the end, you know. Because you can't do any more black. A lace drape, maybe. Jeff hasn't painted lace in a while, so maybe. But we'll see if he wants to pick up with it tomorrow. He has to walk away from it. I get too frustrated, and then I'll end up being over it. I think it's healthy for people to do that. If you're just at a point where you're just frustrated with a piece, just walk away from it. Because next time you look at it, you may see it with different eyes. That may not make sense. Kind of like when you go smell perfumes in the mall, and you have to smell coffee beans in between to like refresh your nose. Sometimes you just have to just let it live for a minute. I think I just did too much detail at one time. And it just kind of got away from me. What's up, Sam? Is it lit in or light in arts consulting? They get it totally. Anyways, you guys. This is the finished piece for today. But we'll come back in and do something different with her later. Maybe tomorrow. Maybe it would be resin tomorrow. Who knows? Definitely Sherry. I think it's awesome. Same. Lit in. Lit in arts consulting. That sounds so fancy. All right, you guys. It's finally stopped raining, so I'm going to take Bowie out. I hope you've had an amazing day. Don't forget that we are having a sale on the website. Use code E-S-T-O-C-K for 10% off through weekend and please subscribe if you haven't already. Leave us a thumbs up and comment in the description box down below if you have any questions or suggestions on what you would like us to paint next time. Be kind to one another because you never know what someone's going through. And I think Jeff went to check the mail or something, but I always remember that we do the test so you don't have to love your work. Thank you so much, Lit In. So, yeah. You guys have an awesome day. We'll see you guys tomorrow. Bye. Bubba, did you say bye? Did you say bye? You did. Thanks, my boy. See you guys next time. Bye. I said bye.