 It's not working. What's up you guys? Pardon my wobbliness. I'm trying to get you guys a good vantage point while not falling all the way over. So hopefully y'all won't fall over. Can you let me know how it's looking? Is it glitchy? Can you hear me okay? Hey everyone, perfect, perfect. Today I'm going to do a collaboration with Jeff who is kind of practicing what we're gonna do today. Essentially, I'm gonna try to do an octopus leg like the cover photo had. Thanks Ramona, I'm sorry I haven't seen it but I will check it right after the live feed. Mom left this morning. She's headed down to her cruise. I'm glad she's getting to live the retired life now. So her piece turned out gorgeous. Check it out. Her sand looks super awesome. Then her ocean has gorgeous texture in it. Little bit of sparkle, stunning piece. Not too shabby for her first time, I must say. It is Taco Tuesday. Hey Dawn, hey everyone. So, whoops, it was way too zoomed in. It's found so touchy. Okay, undo it all. Good enough. So I was originally gonna do pinks but since Jeff said he could do this thing I have in mind, I'm gonna switch it up and do golds and blacks and teals. And then he's going to paint an octopus tentacle through the piece and I think it's gonna be super beautiful, but we'll see. So, I hope you all enjoyed visiting with my mom. Thanks Dawn. Yeah, my mom is basically everything. She's always been the most supportive and just all around awesome person my whole life. So, I want to have black in here but this black has kind of like a brownish tone to it so I'm gonna add some blue to kind of combat against that brownie color. Ramona wins my ocean beach show. So I don't wanna add so much that it turns blue but I do wanna add enough that it balances out that brown tone that it'll have. Now I just need my pipettes to sort. Just gonna do a test off to the side. Almost lost y'all. So that looks like dark, super dark gray or kind of blue so I'm happy with it. JJ, I'm sure I can find a few pictures of her ceramics from back in the day. So before I went live, I went ahead and prepped one of our super awesome patent pending rounds. I painted it with a flat white interior house paint and then did a 220 and a 400 grit sandpaper, sand it down, get it real smooth. Spray Gesso, sanded it with 400. Spray Gesso, sanded it with 400 and here we are ready to go with alcoholing. A beach art show. Ramona, it's possible that I was invited to a beach art show and it's just slipped my mind. That happens a lot to me. We're doing a class in Florida, if that's what you're talking about. Alcohol I'm using today is Mountain Falls, 91% isopropyl and I'm just putting it into like a ketchupy squeeze bottle just to make it more easy to control. Now I know with whites and gold you have to be careful of what like blending solutions you use. And I have no real knowledge about how blacks are gonna behave. So this is gonna be a test for me as well, y'all. We'll see if I can figure it out. And then some gold, when you use gold make sure you shake it up really, really well. I'm gonna blend those out so don't stress out why am I doing this without gloves on? Yeah, you're a bee. We're actually thinking about adding, I think there's like one space left, maybe two in the Florida class. It's gonna be in Bradenton Beach. And we're thinking about opening up another slot for that class because it did fill up so quickly. Goodness, that was like a dirty pour. Lisa, you'll have to shoot Amanda an email on that. She's running the class stuff. Basically JJ, apparently. All right, so for this I'm going to use my Wagner heat gun. I like using the Wagner heat gun for my alcohol inks because it doesn't blow as much air. I don't like it for my resin but it's perfect for alcohol ink because I can really control the temperature. Okay, that's a little bit not black but dark enough and I'm digging it. So I'm gonna work with that. I have it on 650 right now. And I really like this dark cloudy fade that's in the middle. Hi, Saskab. So I'm gonna try to keep that really soft while I add some more of this teal color. I'm not gonna manipulate this center area too much because I really like this situation that's happening. As I say that and blow color through the middle part. Like a winner. That's awesome Ricky, shoot me an email and let me know if that last spot is taken or not. I can't, I would look it up for you right now. My hands are a little bit dizzy. Just check it out and let me know. And if the spot is taken, we can work on getting that second class set up. I think it's gonna be just the same day but like earlier in the day. Cause we've had a couple of people ask about a different time and I don't want, I don't want to go all the way down there and leave people out, you know. I'm not digging that area. So let's just roll this alcohol ink over it. And doing that reminds me of those old like etch-a-sketches fan of that part either. So let's roll that out. So the class in Florida is September 20th and 21st, I believe. I'm just gonna work these colors towards the center. I have a rag handy in case I need to pick up any color cause it is getting really dark, which is fine because I wanted it to be like really deep sea. You know, I tend to dab from the center because I can push the color back through those areas. The awesome Debbie, we went down to Tampa to try to find a spot for this class and it was, not Tampa, sorry, Jacksonville. Twas a fail. So we moved over to Bradenton and I think it's gonna work out. It was such a good time painting with my mom yesterday. When I was little, I would paint with her in her ceramic studio. She still has ornaments that I did when I was like two. Y'all, they are not cute. You can definitely tell two year old did them. I was putting some fun colors together. So this is neither as teal nor as black as I wanted it to be. However, I'm not mad at it either. Are you almost ready? I love how easy this heat gun is to control the flow of my ink. So I just wanna make sure everything is really dry before I add my spray varnish. So I'm just gonna let this cool off. I can get you a link to the classroom quick plus the setting. Thank you JJ, you beat me to it. So here we go is the base of the piece. What do y'all think? I think I could see an octopus tail. Tail, oh y'all. That's what I was thinking Heather, but I'm not sure. Are you talking about the teal color? Let's see how I can add more teal without adjusting too much. Okay, so whenever I have to add a color to an alcohol ink piece that's basically done, I figure out where I can add to it, where it's lacking. And then I also have to find an exit strategy for the leftover alcohol. So I feel like I wanna add it into this area and I like this area better than this one. I like the deep of this area and this would be too close to here. So that's why I've deduced that this is gonna be where I add the extra aqua. Angela, did you spray seal them and cover in resin? So as I'm working this part in, I'm pushing the overflow of alcohol off. So Gail, my favorite AIs are, I really have been using a lot of the zigs cause they're affordable in comparison to a lot of them. Copics are really good, super high pigmented, but they can be a little bit pricey. And Ranger can be pricey. Jakard is awesome and you can buy them in larger size bottles like these, which saves you money for those colors that are staples in your artwork. Angela, what resin did you use and what spray sealant did you use? Cause I haven't really had any issues with fading. I mean, this one over here has been in the sun. As you can see, my windows stay open. And all I have it sealed in right now is with a spray varnish. And it's as vibrant as the day I did it so far anyways. I'm not a fan of Brie Reese inks and I think the reason is they seem kind of diluted, I guess would be a good way to put it. You can JJ. It's gonna pull the ink up just a little bit, but you can do art over the archival spray. Yeah, I'm not a fan of the Brie Reese ones. She has one that's like a glitter, just clear, pearlescent, glittery. And I like that one, okay, but that's about it. Agreed, Sandra? If you look over through the kitchen, I can show you what it looks like and you can decide. It's too dark to do a black and gold one probably. It's like right here. Do you want me to just bring the phone over there so you can work in your space? All right, I'm gonna go ahead and seal it. Make sure when you're using anything aerosol to be in a well-ventilated area, away from all open flames. Wear a respirator if you feel you need to. I refuse to take responsibility for someone else's health because of how I do my artwork. Now, Jeff is about to draw on this. It's not Malboo inks, but I keep meaning to try those. What up, random? Agreed, Sandra. Dawn, I like that matte thunderstorm because I was going for like angry deep water almost, you know, where you would see an octopus. Even just this matte spray really brings out the color. So I always put a really generous coat down. I'm gonna be putting resin on it as well, but I just want to seal in and protect the ink from the resin. Also, make sure you use the matte spray because if you use literally anything else, the satin's okay, but everything else has some kind of alcohol component and it'll eat up your this. I should do a video on that, just comparing different kind of seal sprays. I know, Tina, but I like calling you random. It's just fun. Also, this matte spray dries really quickly. It's already set up. So I need to show you guys the piece that gave me the idea to put an alcohol ink painting under one of Jeff's octopus tentacles, BRB. So Jeff did this piece and I absolutely love it. It's already been purchased. So I can't have it, but did this octopus tentacle in it. And I was like, oh my goodness, I want one of those on one of my paintings. So he's graciously decided to do one for me on here. Also, I'm trying to talk them into having some of these available for our fire sale. That will be this Friday at our regularly scheduled 8 p.m. Central Standard, Dallas, Texas, United States of America time slot. I'm gonna go put this up before I ruin it. Which AIs? B, how do you seal the knockouts? Yeah, the, your clutches. How do you seal the paint in? He uses a spray, a matte spray. So I wanna show you guys, this is the pink ocean that I did, or pink sand beach that I did. And my mom came over, never having touched resin or alcohol ink ever and did this one. A year of working, first time. Me, trying really hard, mom just having good time. Ridiculous, right? Like she's even got like textured sand. Insane, mine doesn't have that much texture. So, that size will probably be just fine. I almost called you mom. B, right Kim? Moms are just like that. She's just running the show. You sure you don't need to bring this over there? Such a clean area. Yeah, I've been working on it. You're all. Just you guys, so that you can, I know he's gonna get his hat in there a little bit. Just spray paint, I don't know. He used to have issues with alcohol inks too, but have since figured it out a little bit. It's just honestly trial and error. You just have to trial it and trial it and trial it and really go through all of the errors. That's awesome, Rusty. What are you making with your clay? So, because that area is a little bit dark. It's just really busy. It's such a bigger area than I thought it was gonna be. I offered to take it over there. So why is it that you spray paint at an angle? Because the paint's gonna come out a little easier. You spray it like this, the paint is... Doesn't it spider a little bit? It just doesn't wanna come out. If you have to paint, the can is laying down. Oh, that's so sweet, Kim. I know you were that into clay, Rusty. Claire says, Jeff, love the lips with the tentacle. Y'all, this is called can control. Control. And Jeff is naturally amazing at it. He woke up like this. Jeff's on the spot. This way you make it look so easy. Do you have any tools that you can do it with people watching? I basically taught myself how to airbrush with people watching. Which nozzle is he using? The clous thin. Did you think the clous thin, which comes in our packs? It is the larger yellow cap. Yeah, my mom's super southern, Clara. Right, Debbie? Hi, Rusty. Moving over to play in your ceramic spot. That's funny, Heather. Saundra says, random fun facts, octopuses. Shouldn't it be octopi, miss fun fact? Have arms, not tentacles. I just learned that a while ago. Anyway, this concludes our episode of random facts that you won't ever need. I think it's not random, Saundra. I didn't know that. Larry says, Jeff is doing his mastery, I see. He is. Saundra, I really didn't know that, and I really like octopuses. Basically anything of the ocean, I'm down. So as you can see, Jeff has a reference photo next to him. He's a very big proponent, no advocate, maybe. He's really into paint what you see. I can't do it, I've tried. I idealize. Angie, I didn't know that either. I am just getting all of the fun facts today. Apologies, Saundra. Thank you for the clarification, y'all. And they have three hearts, I didn't know that either. Everybody's getting all the facts today. Just facts, ma'am. Hi, Judith. That is a very good thing to do, Ramona. Learning one new thing a day keeps your brain blixed. JJ says, y'all, I love watching Jeff do his thing. Ooh, since we're doing fun facts, I used to fall asleep to Jeff drawing. Like, we would FaceTime while I was out of state, and this is back when we were just friends, and he would be working on a piece and I would watch him for hours until I just couldn't hold my eyes open anymore. Who wouldn't even be talking? I would just love to watch him draw and paint and airbrush. Okay, are you guys Googling random facts about octopus, this is? I love how you could see it, but I wish I had a thicker, I mean, I have this smaller, shiny black, but that's way too small. I wish I would have kind of. What brand of pink bin are you using? These are the new Pascas I got. These are the real ones. Well, I think it's just regular. I don't think that that's just their, I guess they're out of Japan, but they don't have a Japan version. They just have English on it. I bought a whole chute ton of the ones with the Asian riding on them, which apparently are knockoffs. So, I'm just gonna outline this in gold. So you guys can see the detail. I don't know if you're able to, yeah, you can kind of see it. It was really cool that way. It's kind of how I pictured it. Like I want to be able to see like a flat with a shiny and. Ramona says I would have already messed that up. Have to have a pencil. That's the fun part about doing freehand stuff is you learn to do stuff. You learn to more sketch it, then draw it so that you can work it. Like you're not doing a, obviously a final piece when you're drawing like that. You're just kind of getting the outline of something and then you go in and do more detail, then more detail, then more detail. Like, this is just a shape. It's not like anything. It's so cute. It's not like a car. It's super cute that it's such a simple shape to you. Yet to me, it would take, I wouldn't have the outline done yet. You know what's funny is that if this was just like a circle with a box inside, it would be super difficult for me. Like I couldn't just do just that. Like I don't, it would be way difficult. You remember what happened last time I tried to draw an octopus? I got lost. And it turned out amazing. After you helped. With spray paint. I didn't do anything to that. We'll post a video of my first octopus in a group when I find it. Don says, where does he go when he art? I think he just gets hyper focused in his head. Yeah, I don't go really anywhere. I don't, it's not like I'm, oh, I go to a beach or I go to England or it's just, I just kind of think about what I'm doing and what I have to do, I guess. Everyone's throwing out fun facts about octopus. And then Debbie was like, Calamari are delicious. And everyone else was like, octopus had three hearts. Octopus had arms. Not tentacles. And. They are tasty. Yeah, she was like, they're also delicious. What up, baby cakes? Ness dressed. Hi, Mallory. Mallory says, Jeff, you mentioned something about Posca pens having knock-offs on the market. Where did you find that out? On Amazon? What up, Scarlett? So we ordered some and they didn't work as well. We noticed that they had Japanese writing on them so we emailed Posca Direct. And Posca says all of their actual Posca pens have English writing on them. None of them will have Japanese lettering. Hi, Petra. Hi, Dorian. Yeah, just check your pens. If you have ones with English writing on them, odds are they're probably not knock-offs, but the ones with Asian writing on them is not accurate. And they really, they're not the worst pens, the knock-offs, but they're definitely not as opaque and you need a few passes. And it's not as easy to do clean passes over what you've already drawn. So, Scarlett said this is super dope. Hi, Mixmedia London. Thank you for joining. She says, lovely art. Would you please tell me what kind of gold pen he is using? Natalia from London. First of all, love London accents. Second of all, that is a pen-touch pen, which he can show you guys on the camera when he gets a second. Here you go, please. I don't know, I can see right here. The one he's using is a, that's a large nib, right? Yeah. It's a large nib, metallic paint pen. Are you talking about Posca, Mallory? These are really great paint pens. We use these to sign our artwork. Clara wants to know what you're selling the Lips Octopus Fletch for. That one's actually, well, he hasn't sent the money yet. Well, he said he wanted to buy it, so I'm not gonna. No. He dealt with that before, and we're not gonna do that again. No, so Bronson actually wants to purchase it, but I see him making more, because it got a really great response. I mean, they won't be exactly alike, so. No. That was literally just kind of a freehand thing. Patch, getting on with that skull pick. Think you like the change. Can octopus are really scary when you see them while you're diving? They can pull your respirator right up your mouth. That's awesome, baby cakes. Make sure you steal them in really, really well. Bronson is, he's funny to be around for sure. You have to know how to take his humor, because at first we're like, this dude is not an ATD fan, but he's just a little bit of a Bulbuster, and it's, we just weren't aware. Keep your under toes. For sure. Thank you, Clara. We're going to sort of put class out there, I think in late November or early November? Yeah, we're trying to work out a class out there right now. What up, sweet sour cream? So we're thinking about doing class in Vegas and also be, there's a lot of people that want to also do the class in Florida, but it's like sold out. So what are your thoughts on adding another class time? I mean, we've got a month, two months to fill it. At this point, I'm just going to like, not doing too much detail. Do you want to find point one? No. I like using this because it's really cohesive with the other. Some people's voices don't translate well over the internet. I'm loving this angle of your p-step. It looks 3D gold to me. So very cool. Leslie, what about my read? At work, just want to pop in say hello to everyone, have a great day. I'm doing my, I want all the pictures of puppy. Very cartoony. I didn't want like an actual photo of an octopus tentacle. I know you could do one, but I wasn't going for that. You're using the puppy pads. That's awesome. Will you do some trick to me? No, mom's not here anymore. She is already on her cruise ship actually. She's awesome. Love her. Now you can issue me a picture or a video of where you're at so I can accurately give you some pointers that would, that make it easier. I don't want to give you the wrong advice because I'm seeing it differently than you're describing it. So that would be awesome. Thank you, Trudy says love, love, love it. Your mom is so cute and loves her face. She is precious. I'm trying to get both her and my sister out here for a video. I hope you guys will be in stitches. If all three of us are in the same room. Man says, what up, what up? Damn, that's amazing. Doris isn't as new or maybe adorable. He's like the most adorable corgi but not corgi I've ever seen. He's got this dumpiest little, I'm pretty sure his feet are bigger than his legs are long. He's adorable. Send me a video and we'll figure out where we can take it Mallory. Well, fix it, no stress. Aw, thanks, baby cakes. My pleasure. You can get your wood canvases from us, Heather. Vance is just making me want to get an octopus tattoo. Thank you, Larry. Hi, Michelle. So I thought I might resin over this but I don't want to take the sparkle and the sheen off of the gold. If we were to resin over it, it'll dull that gold up. So I'm probably going to leave it as is. I went ahead and did a really good spray sealant on the appalling part, so it's not going to go anywhere. Tim says, I love Jeff's technical professionalism. Totally awesome work. Very one dimensional. I wish I would have done more of a solid and then left some of this in there, kind of like see through almost. What about airbrushing it? I really like it, Bea. What do you think, y'all? Peter North here, old porn star, awesome art. Well, hi, Peter North, old porn star. I would laugh if that was really him. Well, the photo looks like in Elizabethan. What's saying? That's bad arse. What up cats, no stress? Prove it? No, don't. Can we say prove it? Ha, ha, ha, ha. Totally looks 3D, love it. Just wow, amazing. Bye, Scarlett. Impressive. Clarice says, Jeff, I agree. Highlights with airbrush wouldn't take much. Heather says, you know who he is? No. I'm 49 years old. If that's really him, kudos to that guy. So he said, let's just say I can still shoot a bird off a tree-branched, nude. Thanks, Peter. Well, all right, Peter North, what's up? Things are stopping by. I think he's getting another color of pink pin. That'll look really good. Heather says I'm 49 also. What color is this one? Aqua, aqua green. This is aqua green also by Posca. 48 for another week anyways. Jeff's turning 49 in, like a month. Cause I'm taking him on a surprise trip. A surprise trip. Well, it's supposed to be, and then you decide. How is it supposed to be? Cause you already figured out the surprise and it was supposed to be surprise. No, didn't I suggest it though? No, I let you think that you suggested it so that you didn't have to have a big discussion about it. No, the room surprise. I would have expected it anyway, so. You would have expected that. I would have been like, what? We weren't gonna have a nice room. That looks awesome, the gold is great. I am 34 Michelle. The Kraken Rises, great work Jeff. Thanks Kelly. So Karen, I am working on putting together a video on how to do a table like my Gia table, actually. My mom doesn't have birthdays anymore either. She has anniversaries of her 40th birthday. So she just celebrated her 25th anniversary of her 40th birthday. Awesome Mallory, thank you so much. Spring chicken, I accept. Me, I think that Aqua Outline really pops it off the back 2034, that'll work. I will say, I can't find two of my videos on how I did the actual mold part but I have a video of me doing a mold. So I feel like it's done the same way, just built up taller, you know? Angie says, I just turned 47 but I choose to be 39 with eight years of experience. That's cute, I'm gonna use that one too. Mallory, that is what I'm here to do is help people to grow as artists. That's our entire point of having a channel. That's why we don't charge for our advice. That's why we don't care about repeating ourselves however many times. All we wanna do is help artists become the best versions of themselves. Now what do y'all think? Having a cracking up, watching me take a fireball shot. Y'all have the worst fireball face but you know what, it's part of the game I guess. I'm so glad, Heather. Great graphic, Jeff. This is really a statement piece. It looks like this pin is like levitating over that. Oh my goodness, it does. Like it looks like you can put your- Like, look at it. Oh I know, that's what I just... I'm agreeing with you. Yeah. Look like that. Because of the shadow of that octopus. And there's, it's such a stark white underneath it. I'm gonna be able to sell this piece. It may just hang it up in my bathroom. Also, I'm a bit mesmerized by that pin. Anyways y'all, that concludes our show for today unless we're gonna do something else to it. Thanks y'all. Thanks Peter North for stopping in. Then women, they were like this. They were never sitting back and not saying anything. No, the feed went real still. They knew like, wait a second. Why does that name sound? They go back to their BCR tapes. I knew it. It's him. Right Tim? Oh whatever Clara. Doris, that's me to a T. I can't, it's my favorite one. To whom should I send the invoice? Check out those colors y'all. That gold is super shiny. Let me know how you like those Marabu inks. Make prints, maybe. Might do it. I'm sure he would wanna do another one for that if we were gonna do prints. Loving it. Imagine that on a purse. Ricky, you need the invoice? Same Debbie. All right you guys, if you're interested in the piece shoot me an email. If you're interested in the class also shoot me an email. I have to take the boys out before they pee on the floor. Bowie is being adorable. Hi my little bo-bo beans. Hi little beans. My precious baby. Such a cutie-tootie. Let's go check on Moose. Yeah you can do the same thing on top of resin. Hi Moose. Pretty boy, know it. It is Thornton at ArtistTillDeath.com. I don't know how to type on here. Anyways, I'm gonna take the boys out. Thanks for tuning in, seeing what we're up to today. I love you guys so, so much and appreciate everything you guys do for us here at ATD Studios. Bowie stop braiding your brother. Check us out on Facebook in our Poor People's class and we'll see you guys tomorrow. Be kind to one another. You never know what someone's going through. Easy Cujo, easy. We'll see y'all tomorrow. Bye.