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I know do you just want to get down okay but I promise there's no one here I think he is talking back just then I feel like so everyone how's your Friday going it's Friday I will the blue one so how's everyone Friday going where are you watching from hope all the answers to all the things is amazing a little bit high up there aren't we we're getting a new like line to plug our computer back into the internet so that we won't be filling from phone anymore so we don't have that yet so still on the phone hope that's okay from your couch thank you Melissa for reminding everyone to hit the like button if you're new here hi I'm Erica Jeff is working on a portrait Bowie is checking out the perimeter apparently and we're artists till death we go live every day usually at 6 p.m. except for on Tuesdays at 2 p.m. always central and usually resin sometimes it's other things like yesterday it was alcohol ink and resin but it's always art and it's always a good time so we're happy to have you guys if you're not subscribed please do so if you're already subscribed double check make sure you still are cuz YouTube's gonna YouTube and sometimes they unsub people so that would be awesome your husband love the pieces from the fire sale I'm so glad hold on Bowie's back boy all good all right cool what's up Diana Susan TG Elizabeth Melissa Megan Michelle Shane would fine and trippin I don't even know if I said that right but hello NSW friends Tim Cheryl and Karmacat what's up Cheryl you got the painting and Jimmy loves it too I'm so glad thank you guys for supporting us through our YouTube videos and our online shop where you can get everything I'm using today and for participating in our fire sales it really helps us more than you guys know hello Tina exclusive pyro exclusive pyro you do the fireworks love Daytona Beach so today I'm gonna be doing a deep red and gold and white geode I'm going to be using a stone coat art coat epoxy I am two minutes into mixing it I'm just gonna mix it up for another couple minutes because I don't want to get any weak spots in my resin when you make your epoxy make sure you scrape the sides and your stir stick and the bottom of your mixing vessel really well let Nancy and poor from the heart happy resin day I accept that definition of today are you guys dressing up for Halloween where do you gonna go as Evelyn love some more Lando Jeff and I have been discussing making a trip to somewhere sometime beginning of next year how did the resin test you did work out it really well I don't have a name for it yet however unless you have a wet piece right now that you're gonna post in poor people as soon as I have a name for that resin I will let you guys know hello Sue TG Florida or believes would be amazing for sure for sure hi Julie we got two Orlando people's is in here my daddy a biker I can see that you're from the Netherlands we have a few viewers from the Netherlands we're gonna go visit there one day promise swear please some SWAT officers burglar awesome I was gonna see if I could put another coat on it and let it cure then do alcohol ink on it so it's not it's not what right now okay so I will check it out after the live feed kind of Pennsylvania that will have to be a not during the winter for it because Jeff doesn't do the colds he will do cold as long as he has warm clothes my bad so now that our resin is mixed I will let you guys know the colors I chose tink still lobbying for a TD Orlando find me a place find me a place to paint and I will be there I swear he don't get this party started the first color I'm gonna mix up is going to be you can host 10 to 15 people sounds good Melissa hey Joe the first color I'm gonna do is black cherry this says primary elements on it and I'm hoping it's yeah it's a resin art they just don't have the right label on it I suppose I'm gonna test it before I mix a big batch typically color art needs to be mixed into like a pouring medium and then mixed into resin because you essentially have to take it from a powder to an acrylic paint and then turn that into fail why did it make the bunch of this up so you have to mix it into a an acrylic paint and then into a resin or else it'll look like this the particles will just sit in the resin they weren't they won't melt into it and that's for the most part with using a primary element don't let me forget to message them cuz that gunnet resin art and color art are the same parent company but not the same well at least I have one big one sorry about that but at least now you'll see the difference so this is a resin art as opposed to a color art and so disappointing because I have a lot of stock now that I can't use anyways let's make some resin this is black cherry and I always overload my powders even if it's just a dry paste that's just how I do can you dissolve it first you can dissolve it first but you have to have the medium to dissolve it into and I don't really do that much in the way of acrylic so I don't have the acrylic medium to dissolve it into I can't just put it into like alcohol and predissolve it it just won't break down that way so just to give you a different like a side-by-side this is the black cherry primary element which is an acrylic based pigment still very nice get this out of the way cuz it's just not gonna focus you see it better in the cup yeah and then this is the resin version mixed into resin hello Jessica in London love some London so yeah love this color very bummed that all the stock that I have right now is for me essentially worth worthless so anyways that's gonna be like our main color so then I also have a sangria as a matter of fact I'm gonna try to mix a little bit of this as well because a lot of times the galaxy this is not sangria is pomegranate the galaxy ones that have the larger flakes like this need a little bit of help to dissolve as well so you can mix that into a little bit of alcohol stunning color does not need alcohol but a lot of times it does yeah but so vivid art fluid is an acrylic medium so this is a pomegranate and it's a lot like black cherry but it has it's a little bit warmer actually I wish I had mixed I don't know if I want to use both of these cuz they're so similar yeah bling it will mix with resin I do I carry bling it's as well and I'm gonna mix a bling it I think I'm gonna just try to mix some of this into here because I'm combining I'm going to mix it into alcohol first because I want to make sure it is there's way too much well dissolved first hi Judy so I'm just going to pre-dissolve I'm gonna pre-dissolve my pomegranate I'm just an alcohol it also dissolves my kinder of them well yeah I understand that vivid dissolves mica into resin but it that's what I was saying you have to have an acrylic medium to mix color art colors into resin or it will do what I just did so we've got that into a little bit of a slurry I'm gonna add that right into this and make it a brighter color with some more sparkle in it Joe they told you top would mix with resin what is top not a family power acrylics react with resin I completely agree I don't do acrylics with resin but a lot of people do and it works for them and that's awesome but this the pigments made for resin just work better for me so we're gonna go with this combination sorry about the false start earlier in the video with the black cherry that was sent to me an error that's made for acrylics and not resin next color is going to be cherry from color obsession I have a question for you Erica you've always poured on wood boards mirrors canvases etc but can you pour resin on foam board I thought I saw a snippet of one of your geodes on form board yes I do pour on foam board my latest large geode is on foam and I have the centerpiece that I cut out of that but I'm gonna make into just a smaller geo that I'm just gonna do live on the channel with you guys so you can see that whole process of how to use a foam board put it up for sale I will buy some are you talking about the primary elements black cherry because if that's the case it's currently on my website under resin art because I was sent the wrong kind of pigment it's supposed to be resin art but I was sent color art so I'm gonna go through all my inventory and double check that after the live fun so this is cherry it's slightly translucent it's by color obsession it's a bright red a lot of depth Judy I got the thick foam board from Rhonda at RK3 I'll find out where she gets it Jeff said you can get it at homey Depot yeah yeah just as they have it at home Depot and it's used as a saw base which that's Kenny has it set that way yeah to protect your table from saw blades so the white I'm using is Angel white from the res discount price for what Susan it's a big I'll show you guys at the end of this what it looks like it's like a 4 feet by 8 foot 1 inch thick pink very thick foam but I'll show you guys the end of the video and now I'm going to mix up yeah it's the same stuff that Kenny and Mike use the black cherry I'll sell it to you for the price that resin art has theirs listed or color it has theirs listed I don't know I don't I doubt it's the same as what she sells the resin art for so I'll have to adjust the price I'll look into it as soon as I'm off the live feed so now I'm mixing up bling it red sparkle it's like insulated foam boards for sure I was cuz TLP is a mica not an acrylic paint system so it's awesome that that can mix directly into resin red sparkle bling it and of course we have to have a nice gold so I'm going to use color obsessions rich gold shimmer currently my favorite gold insulation foam sounds about right I'm pretty sure that's what it is they put it they use it and to make showers now and to do apparently some artwork because that's what I used it for I love this particular gold because it is a liquid floating gold it is an oil slick in a jar I'll show it to you at the end of the video Jessica hi Debbie that's creepy oh people would be welcome if they brought a bottle of wine okay so I love how it's just a few quick swirls and resin pigments are just already mixed into the resin it's like it starts mixing it soon as it touches okay meow I can have all my colors make some spares unless it I'm still mixing colors so you did not miss anything really I have brown paint all over my hands from my filthy jars so I'm just gonna switch gloves real quick so first thing I do when I'm about to apply all of my things to my board for a geode is to put the glass down first because that will be a nice clean easy way for me to dictate the shape without really risking ruining my glass with a whole bunch of resin on it because once you put resin down and it gets on your glass it's just there it's there for life stonecoats art coat I work it for at least two hours it says 45 minutes but I have yet to have it well unless you're in so that says an hour hour and 30 unless I'm working in a really hot really really hot space I haven't had it any less than two hours I have worked it up to three hours so I'll put clear over this glass and a bit once I know that it's where I want it to be and that will seal the glass onto the surface but until then I don't want to do that I like my geodes to have kind of a side entrance but obviously you can start your geode wherever you like it's your party all right I think I'm good with that I was looked on color website it listed on there as a resin art luster pigment I'm telling you guys that what I first mixed up is a color art color and not made for resin there is a black cherry wine for resin but the first one that I mixed up was not I was sent those in error apparently and I'll have to return them I guess she has a black cherry that's for color art and a black cherry that is for resin Judy can clarify the one that I mixed up that I'm going to use is for resin but apparently there's one for acrylics I'm gonna add another line of glass out here somewhere but I don't know where yet so I'm gonna reserve that I would like to put gold next to my glass I know a lot of people like to pre-draw their lines and whatnot but never works out for me doing that I always end up resigning over the line because resin's gonna resin so this is how I do the next color I think I'm gonna put down is the red bling it sparkle and I typically don't lay the lines down exactly right on where my first line was because it'll overlap kind of like what's happening here which is also okay but when you pour out resin it's gonna lay higher than an eighth inch and that's kind of the point where it's at least where this resin will break surface tension and roll off your substrate so try to keep it an eighth inch or under if you're using stone coat and so I'm just gonna use my finger to kind of fill in the areas and thin out the thick line that I just poured I think I'm gonna use this pomegranate hi Desiree I'm gonna use this pomegranate black cherry wine mixture next and I always pour thick lines of resin that's just my preference obviously your painting is your parade and you can use kind of whatever thicknesses that you prefer it's my humble opinion that my artwork gets busy if I apply thinner lines it's my humble opinion about my artwork that it just doesn't work if I pour lines too thick so I mean too thin so I pour thinner lines and it's busy I prefer thicker lines I know isn't this the best color ever so this was pomegranate and black cherry wine resin art not color art now I'm gonna do some whites so you can see that I'm pouring a line that separated from the previous line and then I'm just gonna use apparently a dirty finger should have used not that one use a clean finger to just scoot that resin up to where your previous line was and your resin is it's gonna self-level a little fill in any low spots you create from pushing your resin around I think once you know how resin is gonna behave you can use it to your advantage like this for example can you pour art coat molds that are not too deep yes yes you can they say not to pour art coat more than eighth inch but I've done it up to a fourth inch it will be softer for a short period of time till it's fully cured just keep that in mind hello Ellie the wit I hope you had a good time at PT wasn't too painful so now I'm gonna add the cherry color you don't want to make all the line thicknesses the same because that's not natural which finger was my red finger I don't know we'll use this one you want to vary your line thicknesses just a little bit hello Hannah thank you so much JL guys is that right thank you way better that you get to chat live well I'm so glad you're here and that you can chat live you're having an awesome day hope you are as well so I'm trying to follow my pattern my shape every time I go around the piece just makes a design look a little bit more cohesive those low spots that I just put in they'll fill in probably by the time I get to the next color actually I'm not gonna go with like an exact repetition of the colors I just cuz I don't wanna what is the best resin to use and a half to an inch for I'm making coasters with crayons embedded so I would recommend using a casting epoxy stone coat has a casting epoxy that's really great and if you want to go to plus inches they have supercast just be advised that no casting epoxy to my knowledge has UV resistance so it's gonna yellow if you make it just clear that's not just stone coats that's any casting epoxy I could be proven wrong I'm not something could have been invented since the last time I looked it up but when you use the casting epoxy just be advised of that double check do a test I've tested a few casting epoxies and none of them were UV resistant yeah ask him if he wants us to come over there thank you Judy loving your choice of colors I'm always the worst when it comes to reds and cherries with geodes it inspires me to pour those pallets I love a deep red or a deep teal or even a deep green color but a lot of times bolder colors are more intimidating so you're not alone in that by any means no Andrea is there anything to combat the yellowing I don't think that I don't think it'll I don't to my knowledge there's nothing you can do to combat the yellowing best practice would be to use a not casting epoxy and pour layers to make sure you pour them sorry I'll finish that sentence give me two seconds pour them in layers where they're still a little bit tacky from the previous layer so that they can bond and you won't be able to see the seam and or use a pressure pot or vacuum chamber some say UV spray exactly a lend jewel tones make the best geodes you could use UTC but that wouldn't completely stop it it would protect it it would help it definitely but I don't think it would 100% combat it it would definitely make it more durable and it couldn't hurt I just don't want you to invest a lot of time and resources and all that into something that's not gonna last for forever so when you're casting something in a coaster even I suggest doing it in layers anyways because you want to put a thumb resin down and stick your whatever you're casting in there after it gets a little tacky that way it holds down whatever for example crayons that you're putting in there and it won't float or move before it's fully cured so maybe it's not completely a bad idea to to use something like an art coat because that has the highest UV resistance so Judy that's a good point some resins are blue tint stone coats now a blue tinted resin I don't know if you can tell on this camera but it has a blue hue to it I put just a very small drop of like a blue lagoon like you can barely tell it's in there into a casted piece my piece is shifting so that's what I'm trying to put something under that side to bring it back you can drop just a little bit of a blue tint into your piece to try to pre offset it I've seen that happen I've seen that be successful as just a thought so this resin's on here fairly thick it's probably gonna push a lot of this red off so that's why I'm not really worried about how it really looks all the way to the edge and it'll self level and fill in any of the low spots because it is translucent and it also yeah it depends on what kind of sun exposure you're using using you're exposing it to no problem Clara yeah try tachylers as well so you don't have to worry about the lines that you may get in there I think I'm gonna add the other glass line to this I'm gonna actually do it too I'm gonna do it to this area I need a cup I'm using the fourth inch fireglass that we have on our website I also have a one inch that's pretty awesome if I do say some myself I'm just following this line between the white and the cherry the best I can anyways some bits are flowing out past it but that's okay because geode is a natural thing it's not perfect and I you guys have heard me say it a million times I feel like there's so much beauty and imperfections kind of like the piece yesterday I probably wouldn't have done a lot of stuff that we ended up doing to that alcohol ink piece had it have gone how I had it playing in my head so we ended up with a great piece that may sell before the fire sale so you guys think so far if there anything you would have changed let me know in the comments below oh we got to put some clear on here I'm just going to lightly I guess ice my glass right here you don't want to put too much because it's gonna push anytime you put resin down it's going to disperse and push every bit of resin you already have down outward so I just want to make sure that we get a little bit of coverage on this glass so that it doesn't fall off and so that my glitter glass when I apply it stays and looks awesome so I'm actually gonna run a thin white line through the berry band and I'm probably gonna put some liquid gold on this glass here debating how if I want to create some movements I'm gonna well first I'm gonna look for my heat gun attachment I think I saw on the ground over here then I'm going to create some movement with a heat gun somewhere out here see if we like it if we don't we'll just scrape it off and then add that color back because I made a little bit extra thanks you guys right nope cool you make me break a nail heat gun you're going out the window I never get to have nails so don't ruin it for me by the heat gun since we lived in our last place it's time time for anyone let's blow some of this the white over our pomegranate mixture actually I'm not gonna use my face all the way down that way I'm gonna do just bits at a time and use my something gonna use my feet you know where the blower is never mind found it gonna use my this my handy dandy duster I have control about the blower string I have this linked on my Amazon link down in the description box if you're interested in one of those Joe I reshipped today thanks Clara if you guys don't know that Rhonda doesn't use her face well when she arts it goes like this that's an exact impersonation of Rhonda trying to blow resin it's kind of like before a toddler no before a newborn I just I think we have a live feed on our Facebook with her trying to use her face it's quite entertaining highly recommend checking out her channel in general but for sure that one that's fair point 10 thanks for sure for sure for sure for sure all right now I don't know I feel like I want to do something with the there's so much action happening between this pomegranate mix and the white right here I'm gonna bring you guys down see how it looks like it would do some fun things were to let it this where it's like mixing up to get oops sorry about that action this where it's like kind of marbling on its own looks super fun should I do another round of that or kind of let this design live and just add to it can seen it super funny you do need to add a line of resin just over our glass or the glitter glass we're gonna add it's already gonna stay but when I put the glitter glass on I need something to adhere to so we're gonna put some resin on top of this just like that bless her heart that's what she would say about herself I know Tim I love the current gun that we have but it's dying after a hundred million years that we've had it except LRB so I was already gonna add a white line here maybe going ahead and adding it will give you guys a better visual of how the options now this resin's still pretty fluid so it's gonna sink a bit which is fine almost made it so that line will sink as well so now that that line is broken up do you still feel I should do some movement like this or we cool with it there's a hair on my this now I have dirty white section but you know what it's nature it's allowed to be imperfect sending ATD some love thank you tg so much every donation that comes through the channel really helps us out to do a live every day for you guys so we appreciate everything ever and forever thank you so much where those white lines are gold so this top one is a white and this second one is a gold I'll give you guys a close-up shot in just a moment so I think I'm fairly good with how it looks right now do you guys think it needs anything of course other than the obvious glitter glass which I will still be adding I don't know if that line will stay there while we're thinking about that I'm gonna go ahead and start adding some glass some glitter glass to be exact okay Billy hold on all right so if you guys have never heard of glitter glass before if you're new to the channel or if I just haven't used it in a while this stuff is elegance personified it is literally just very fine very small bits of glass and I had to be careful with it because it will cut you very Angela Johnson style but it's so perfect for geodes I use it in every geode I do to give that little extra pizzazz a sparkle without it looking like glitter nothing wrong with glitter I happen to love glitter however sometimes you want stuff that looks like glitter that doesn't look like glitter let me rephrase you want something that gives the sparkle glitter but doesn't read as glitter and that would be this so I also have this red I was about to just put red glitter glass all in the piece I have red glitter glass now as well do you think I should add red glitter glass on this bit or stick with the clear my favorite glitter is 100% hands-down oak lawn red glitter glass okay so I'm going to be very careful with this because it'll kind of spread out which it's already doing I might go through and pick those bits that kind of traveled because while imperfection is beautiful I don't want this look like candy cane I'll probably still put some clear glitter glass on top of this so everyone that voted clear don't fret there's always room for glitter glass a minute I'm gonna bring you guys down for a close-up of the piece I love it and I'm sure you will as well that's no candy cane I for sure it is a crimson tide geode very much roll tides so now I'm gonna put just a little bit of floating gold so I'm going to put some of our liquid gold by Montana you can find it on our website as well I'm just gonna drop a little bit on to our glass over here to kind of brighten up the gold sometimes when the gold gets put under other resonance it kind of dulls it a little bit but this floating gold is quite simply very bees me easy coin that ease me easy how are you hanging it since your substrate is glass it's actually a cradleboard and so it'll be quite easy to put on a wall I think I'm gonna run a line of the floating gold as well oh it is almost an a please the banister is not even in here today she is also an album fan I think they're red and just a small circle spot over the big clear spot right in the middle would look good the clear right here I'll let some of the dispersion Bowie isn't there yelling I mean so it's some of this dispersion fluid kind of soak into the paper we've got so I can get just the gold paint if you guys don't know liquid gold from Montana is essentially just gold spray paint without the aerospall it's that attachment but in order to make it fluid and not dry up in a can there has to be a dispersion agent which is awesome except for it's not awesome when you don't want the gold to bloom out so I just let a little bit of that soak up it is all still rolling off the back but it's art you know what you're gonna do so I think I'm gonna put a gold line maybe through the white that's the only place I feel like it can be really like to have gold around any glass sections that I put into my geodes I don't know why really I don't know if it's something I saw done and just decided that that is what makes a geode but it's been part of my geodes ever since I started doing geodes oh no it's not glass alright I think we love it so I'm gonna bring you guys down show you up close of what we got get all that pizzazz and sparkle that's from the glitter glass laying on top of the fire glass so it gives it a whole bunch of different facets this very bright gold that's on top here is the floating gold in comparison to the you can see both versions right here and it's exactly what I didn't want to happen it's happening right here so see that kind of starboard that floral look right here that is from the dispersion that's in the liquid gold or floating gold so I'm just going to run the stir stick through that bloomed look to kind of just get it to calm back down okay we've got it got all those alright and actually I make this come up just a little bit because everything else is kind of peaked so I want that floating gold to peak just a little bit as well then we have the red sparkle bling it from resin art the color obsession rich gold shimmer through the pomegranate black cherry wine mix angel white here and here floating gold through here you can tell it's floating gold because it has that bright gold line through the center of it that's what makes it float well that's what gives it the classification of floating gold the reason why it's bright on the top is because it's on top of the resin once it's mixed with the resin it will dull so you can kind of see a dull area here where it's kind of under the white and then we have cherry on this side the red fire glass nope red glitter glass on top of clear fire glass cherries kind of translucent so you can kind of see the gold under that bit rich gold shimmer angel white with some pomegranate black cherry through it pomegranate black cherry over here and then we blew this area out more bling it red sparkle here rich gold shimmer line and the color obsession cherry on the back end so there you have it a red and gold geode I hope you guys enjoyed it hope you're inspired to try one of your very own as usual this piece is available and yeah you guys are amazing for coming in and watching our live feed if you enjoyed it please leave me your thumbs up share the video with people so that we can grow our subscribers are almost 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