 You're live. Welcome to live chat. Remember to guard your privacy. Okay. Hey everyone, it's a strange time with this virus. I hope you're all doing okay. It's tough for everyone and some of us are way more fortunate than others. I feel so much more fortunate than others. Just have the kids at home. We're in Southern Ontario, Canada, and it's just been on lockdown. So that's what's happening. And I'm just in the studio. I escaped my two young children who are five and three and just lovely. And I'm going to resin a big piece of art because I'm just in the mood to finish a lot of pieces of art. And I was kind of inspired. I was watching something or listening to something and someone basically said that they kind of encouraged me like the time to make art is now. The time to make art is now. Hello. I'm just walking around pacing in circles. This live thing is very uncomfortable for me, but I just wanted to try it because I feel lonely. I want to see people. I want to talk to people. Anyways, here I am in water down Ontario. Sorry about my fingers. So sorry. Hi, Sarah. Here's just some neat things. Look at that. Isn't that neat? Hello. Look at this is one way to make art. Some marbling and some of that. Look at these are skittles. You can do this. Hi from Belgium. Hey, everyone. Oh, you got it on. Thank you so much. I hope you like it. I love it. I use it all the time. And I'm just going to show you what I do with art today because there's so much other stuff like people are mixing it with colors. People are putting in molds. People are bending it. People are making like, look at all this stuff like this. You can do everything with resin, but I really only do one thing with resin and that's what I'm going to do. Hi from SA. Is that South Africa? Okay. So what I'm going to do is this painting right here. It's a big painting and it's just some, it's just a kind of paint, what you feel type thing. It's on canvas. So what I did is I put some cardboard underneath of it, underneath it to support the middle. So it doesn't say, hey from Alberta. Hope you're doing, oh Saudi Arabia. Cool. Another Canadian hang in there. Hang in there. This is tough. And it's going to be a while still, I think. So anyways, I'll try not to talk about the coronavirus too much. I know it's so freaking bored. No. Yeah, if you can get boring, I don't like that word though. Oh, I know. I just, I know what you mean. I mean life. It's so frustrating. I just want to go to a restaurant. So bad. And what else do I want to do? I want to have a big party. If anyone wants to come, we'll be hosting a big party. Can you go out? Can you go out? You can go to grocery stores, but then there's lineups and there are people that are like six feet apart in the lineups. It's pretty well stocked. This is Southern Ontario, Canada, just outside of Toronto. And everyone's on lockdown. Businesses are closed unless you can work from home. And luckily weekend. I want to go to the gym. Yeah, go into the gym. I know. Rebecca, my wife just got one of those pelotons and there's a screen and someone like yells at you to go faster. So he's doing that. Okay, so this is what I do with art resin. And I've done this a million times and I keep doing it. I don't play around with the, all I do is coat paintings with it. That's all I do. So I have some math first. The worst part about art resin is the math that you have to do. Look at this. Oh my God. So this painting is three feet by four feet. That's 12 square feet. I just know that a 32 ounce kit, a 32 ounce kit of art resin does eight square feet. But I need 12 square feet. So here I added another half of a 32 ounce kit. That's an extra four square feet to get 12. So 48 ounces. Yeah, 24 of resin 20. It's so confusing. But once you, you know what? We have an online calculator. One thing that we're doing is we're trying to, once a week, we're giving art resin away to people who use the art resin hashtag. So it's a way for us to help artists, but then also for artists to help us, if that helps. So if you want, once a week. All right, where was that math? I wish you could play music when you do these live videos, but then you get flagged for content, copyright I guess. But I'd be listening to Run the Jewels right now. So I'm trying to do 24 ounces of resin, 24 ounces of hardener. I'll do the resin first. Do some ASMR stuff. Maybe it'll make like a farting sound. So that's 16 ounces. 24 ounces. And how this big, it's an ice cream bucket. Just pour that 24 ounces. Stir stick. Just like that. Good. And I'm not wearing a respirator because there's no solvents in it. That means there's nothing that you can evaporate. Or something like that. Now the hardener. Soluble in water. Solvents are soluble in water. So there's no solvents in this. This is hardener. I'm doing the same thing. 24 ounces. Perfect. Now I'm just going to stir the heck out of this. Before I do that, I want to show you a couple other little tools that I like. Flipping up screen. I really like having a torch head with one of these on it. See? And then it makes the flame. No copyright sounds free music. Okay, interesting. Yeah, I need some music playing. That's one tool that I really like. What was the other tool that I really like? Oh, look it. We got these made. These are just different painters' pyramids in the corner. So we got a whole bunch of these now. And that's all I wanted to say. I'll flip this around. Okay, sorry about that. I hit the wrong button. So I'm going to stir for three minutes and then we'll just chat. Okay, I got my bucket here and I'm just stirring it. What do you want to talk about? Talk about... I can't open my hashtag right where it isn't parcel yet. It's waiting for any coronavirus... Are people really doing that? You get a package and you don't touch it for a long time in case it has virus on it? Is that a thing too? Well, we all do our best to be safe. Yep, oh wow. In the US it's a thing, hey? They don't really talk about that up here in Canada. It seems like the big problems are at old folks' homes. Anyways, we just got to hang in there. There's going to be a lot of weeks of doing this. Oh, thanks. I have so many big paintings and I want to just resin them all. I'll just turn it on live video and resin a whole bunch of paintings. So, we'll see if I stick to that. It's kind of like saying you're going to go to the gym and then you go once. Where did you get the torch? Beautiful work. Hello from Washington State. Thanks. It's looking like fine. That's so nice. Where did I get the torch? You can get them on Amazon or on art resin.com and actually, I worked with the torch manufacturer to come up with the design because it's exactly the torch that I wanted back like 10 years ago when I started using resin. I had this awesome torch that had one of these clips which needed, it didn't have the automatic start like this one. And this is, I know it's just a torch, but it's perfect. It's the perfect torch. Yes. And we have them on Amazon. We haven't sold very many of them and I got in trouble because it cost $4,000 $4,000 to get the machine that will bend the metal to do this, to make this top thing. Yeah, it spreads the flame and it makes it flat. So, and we barely sold any of them so it makes me look bad and then they don't like other ideas, you know? But, I think a good product eventually catches on and sells and it's the perfect torch. What else? Watching stuff, I mean getting Disney Plus for the kids was really good, I guess. We have a deer feeder and there's been some deer out there which is nice. Oh and seeing like frogs come out of the mud. Oh, you're gonna get the torch. Okay, good, thank you, thank you, thank you. If I can sell some of those torches we just have to put the work into selling it. Making a product is making a product is the fun, exciting part but then it's doing all the other work to get it out there and that's when you just got to stick on it and be consistent, be consistent. It's so much fun. I think that this coronavirus is terrible but what an amazing opportunity for so many things. Like if you can just hustle, just keep hustling. Who freaking knows? I'm getting chickens. All right, that's been three minutes. Usually when I do a stir for three minutes then I say just do it a bit longer and then I do it maybe 30 more seconds. That's the technical way of doing it. I can't read all these comments, I'm so sorry. I like the torch. Sweet. In your face, Ollie. Ollie's the CFO. Love your hairstyle. Rural Australia. Wow, I can't even imagine what that's like. Is that desert? Like just cactuses. Here we go. So the trick when spreading resin is very simple. I mean we have these spreaders. Oh yay, 14 left. Close to the bush fires. Are those still going on? Oh my God. What a crazy world. Space to do my art. You can't afford space to do your art. There's this one lady I see her at art shows all the time. She does these huge collages. And you can buy that torch on Amazon. And on art resin.com. Thanks for asking. But she just works out of her kitchen table. And it's messy but you come up with your little organization systems. Most of the times when I paint, it's not really in the studio. It's like at the kitchen table. I think. Okay, so basically the goal here is just to get resin to touch everywhere. And then once it's touched every bit of the surface, it'll just level itself out and you'll be cool. I taped the bottom for drips. That's only useful if you take that tape off the next day. After like even two or three days, it just becomes even more work because the tape gets resin on there. So I'm going to come back tomorrow and take off the tape. I'm also going to just rub the resin into the sides. Let's go. The next piece I'm excited to do is of two, it was in a kid's book about birds. And there are these hummingbirds with really, really long tails. And my son was really excited about that. So I painted these two hummingbirds. And it's a really big piece. And it's going to look amazing on resin. But that one's on wood, which I prefer, because then you don't have to worry about the sage in the middle. And I don't like painting on canvas. This was a really... Of course, covering the piece is the best thing you can do, so you don't get dust in it. It's a pain in the ass. But just do it. I feel like I'm really rushing. But I have so much time, like I have nothing to do. There's lots to do, but you know what I mean. Weird. Alright, looks like I covered every last bit of it. Just rubbing into the sides. Getting all the edges. Okay, that'll do it. There's no better time to make art than right now. Right now. I just have a feeling like I didn't do enough. Do you clean your containers so you can use them again? I leave them upside down like that. And then you peel it out once it cures. And then you ever use them as many times as you can. Absolutely. Okay, do you have more resin? Because it's canvas, it's kind of sagging right here and sagging here. I have the middle supported, but that's why I don't use canvas. The trick you should never do is eyeball it. But my eyeballs are perfectly tuned. So I'm just going to put a mark where I poured the hardwood to and then just double it where the resin goes to. Now, that was very close to 50-50 mix. Let's say if you're 45% resin and 55% hardener, that's probably not what you're going to have a softer cure. The hardest cure is getting the perfect 50-50. But this works for me. I mean, I've done this five million times. I've been listening to the Joe Rogan podcast a lot. That's probably number one than the Jordan Peterson podcast. I haven't been watching very much. I watched the cartoons with the kids. Right now, a big hit is Bluey, B-L-U-E-Y from Australia, I believe, on Disney+. It's a good one. Okay, almost done stirring this extra resin. I'm going to have more than enough, but I just want to do this once. I only want to do this once. I don't want to have to come back and sand into the second coat. I'm just not going to. So even if this isn't perfect, it's going to be good enough. And good enough is still great. Teach their own. Some people need it to be completely flawless. Okay, it's pretty darn close. You know what? I'm going to stare for 30 more seconds. No more bushfires, but wildlife still suffering. Yeah, I can't imagine. My God. Perfect. Okay, I'm just going to torch it one more time and then cover it. And then done. So leave this here to dry. Look at the spreading. Okay, so same thing to reuse even like a spreader. I just, this tabletop is covered with plastic. We get big rolls of plastic in the canvas or sorry. I missed what you said. Okay, torch one more time. Cover that. So this cover was made with like a one by three and a one by three and a big huge sheet of plastic. That's the whole show. Yes. Can you please explain the artwork to us, please? Oh. Well, hmm, you can't really see it anymore. No, I can't. I can't really. I can't. Okay, bye everyone. I have to go. My wife gave me time. She said, you can go do this. I'll watch the kids. So now I have to go. I'll take them on a little lawn. You know, the riding lawnmowers. I spend a lot of time just driving around with the kids on my lap. Bye everyone. Thanks for watching. Thanks for coming out. That was actually really fun.