 Hope you guys can hear me okay. So today I'm going to attempt to show you how to create extra depth with using transparent translucent And Clear Resin I was like doing this with my artwork and also when I do like countertop finishes. It just makes them more realistic. And more like depth. I don't know the word. It's not depthy because I always Always get feedback from you all when I make up words. But anyways, it'd be more a depthy, but that's not the proper term any ways. See if I can get you guys in Better shot better angle. What's up Susan. How are you doing. So I did this This brown and copper finish on the channel a while back. Some of you may remember it. But I already have a few like sample pieces like this. And so I don't really need I don't really need any more brown and copper finishes. Tiffany. How are you doing. Thank you guys for watching and coming in and see what I'm up to today. I really, really appreciate it. If you could leave me your thumbs that'd be awesome. It just really helps my channel. So the first color I'm going to mix up I thought was going to be a magenta, but I'm apparently out of it. Oh, there's a little bit These are the tints from color obsession. They are translucent transparent colors and you can add as much of the color and as you like. And it will never be opaque. So you can put just a little bit of it in and get a lighter shade or put more of it and get a darker shade, but it'll never be opaque. So if you wanted to use like a paste to make something translucent, you could put just a little bit of it in, but it would have like a very Quote watered down color. And so for a better color payoff, you may want to try to add more of the paste or Micah in but that's the more you add the more it's going to be Closer to opaque or you can't see through it. And so if you just use a tent made for resin like these And color obsession tents, then You don't have to worry about your colors going opaque. So this is magenta from color obsession. I'll do another one of these. Not today, but it's some juncture with The dyes. So you can see what that would look like as well. This one is emerald added a few drops. So it's very Very dark, but hopefully you can see there on the tip here. The light shade that it will be You'll be able to see the shades more, more better. That's not a word. More accurately, once I get all the color Onto the surface because once the color goes over something that's white or just a bright color gold, maybe Then you'll be able to see the color better. This one is aqua with blue lagoon in it. It's also a tent from Color obsession, you can get all of these colors on my website artists till death.com if you haven't And you didn't know that now you know So Tiffany didn't get to work today Oh, thanks. Well, I'm sorry you had transmission issues. That's never fun, but I'm glad to see you here though The next one I'm using is old gold from Color passion. This is a floating gold It's very vibrant very bright very beautiful It can take over a piece very easily so you have to be very careful And not manipulate it too much. I'm going to put this under My clear translucent resins So I'm hoping that it doesn't float all the way to the surface and if it does it's not too much But I'm going to do the test so you guys don't have to How beautiful and bright that is it's very much like color obsessions 007 it's a little bit more of a deeper color Almost antique Gold but not quite. It's kind of a hybrid Gold And then also I'm going to do some top cell white And this is going to bring out all the colors since everything in the background is so dark And this is a paste. I love working with pace pace or my jam. I don't have to worry about I don't have to worry about Micah getting into the air it comes in both metallic and flat or matte like not shiny like this white There's no shimmer to it whatsoever. It's just a solid matte flat color But it's not really matte because it's in resin so it's going to be shiny But I don't have another more appropriate way to call it as you know not shiny So we're going with Matt because I just for lack of a better term So this is a 16 by 20 cradle board a cradle board means that it is Solid is not canvas so it's not going to dip in the middle When I put all of this heavy resin on it I mixed up about nine ounces and I saved about an ounce of resin That's just clear in case I want to mix up some more of any one of the colors that I just Put together So what I'm going to do first is take this painting that I've already done It was a sample for countertop And I'm just going to turn it into a piece of artwork something that I could sell to someone that they would want to hang on their wall And so first things first is I'm going to add Some white in a few of the areas I'm just going to make it kind of go along with what is already here because I like the flow General flow of the the design that I have in here But the colors are meh because it's It was made to be a Countertop sample so I'm just Creating these bands of white I kind of like how that's feathering out And I'm pretty sure I'll be able to see that under The other resin that we're going to add so I'm just going to continue to feather that out. I'm just Kind of smearing it But I'm going to leave this Not smeared However, I don't want it to be equal like this. So I'm just going to Fill this out to the corner For me and my artwork. I don't do anything that's perfectly symmetrical because that just doesn't sit In people's eyes quite right A little asymmetry is always Easier for People's eyes to take in People's eyes to take in at least in my opinion. I have no idea I do have an art degree, but I'm by no means like the end all be all Artist I think on this one. I want to Blend it out But like evenly blended out like this just feather it down Probably if we apply the Clear resin soon enough you'll be able to see These kind of finger brushstrokes. So that's something you want to see then just Add this Sweeping texture with your hands Right before you apply the clear or tinted resin over it Otherwise, it's probably going to fill in because it's I've got a lot more resin up here and not so much here and resin as you guys may know Is again a self level Is just the nature of the beast and I think I'm going to add a little bit more right here Typically my artwork follows a lot of thirds and if you guys want me to do any videos on Like why I lay out colors the way I do or color theory. I know I've had a lot of requests for that I'm happy to Not be to do videos for whatever it is that you guys want to hear me Blather about So you let me know and I'll make it happen. So this is all going to be underpainting I'm liking it. I'm liking it I bet it's beautiful and Adelaide after bad weather What's up Martin in the UK tg Donna Shelley. Thank you guys all for coming in Okay, now we're going to underpaint with some gold This I'm going to hope doesn't Float to the top But I am going to thin it out in some areas like this I don't know if that's going to aid in it not floating up, but in my head it's going to but we'll find out You're new to my channel. Thank you. Hi. Hello. How are you? I'm Erica I'm Erica, and this is artist till death. If you've never been with us. We do art Most every day at 6 p.m. Central except for on Tuesdays is that 2 p.m. Central? It's not always resin, but it's always a good time and we are so excited to see you here with us today Maybe I'll just feather this one off Like that feel like I like that little gold smear Maybe I'll just put my finger a little bit into the resin Just add a few shmeas Nothing wrong with finger painting And I don't want it to be exactly even with this thing. Boop. Boop. Boop. So I'm just going to add Little one up here Just because I want to see what it's going to look like. All right, and I'm not gonna be able to go back and add it after we Pour all this other resin out. So We'll just see. I kind of like it just like this if I'm honest with you guys like I want to do a Piece fully like this and just believe it because I'm digging how it looks right now in this moment. Hey Clara How are you feeling? But I brought you guys here to talk to you about Transparent and translucent so we're gonna do that so That magenta is just oh nice I love that color You may have to make some more of that And put the green right here I'm not sure what this green is gonna look like mixed with that magenta. So I'm gonna try to keep them Separated as possible So we're gonna put blue in between because if you do a secondary color with Blue and magenta you're gonna get something probably in my opinion. I would assume a lot more attractive than What you're gonna get with the green and the pink Typically colors opposite on the color wheel don't make very attractive secondary colors. So just be advised So I'm just gonna put this green in this dark area This dark void That if the colors really makes a lot you're not gonna be able to see Really what color ended up happening because it's so dark at least in my head. That's what's happening We have a lot of kind of rules Like it's just e-science Okay So I Have a little bit of resin left over. So I'm gonna mix up some more magenta and then some More no, I'm not not mix up any more magenta because I used it all So I'm going to pour all of this into the magenta cup and then put the blue lagoon aqua mix into this There's not a lot enough magenta left in here to Really alter the color in a noticeable way and even if it does it's just gonna give it a purpley hue to it. So We're just gonna go with that I'm working with resin. I think it's important to have a go with the flow kind of mindset because Honestly, you can only control resin so much and it's gonna do what it wants to do. So I just Kind of see what it's gonna do and then Help it along and Manipulate it as it's going in certain directions and then I call that my finish artwork just because it's easier that way So it's got a little bit of a purpley hue to it compared to the last one we mixed But that's okay, and I put a little bit extra drips in there. So It's coming off a little bit darker than what the first Blue that we put on you can see the difference here And that's kind of what I was talking about in the beginning of this video when I said that you can add as much of the pigment as you Want and it'll just deepen The tone, but it won't make it opaque. Oh righty Now come some of the fun part where you just make sure you have no No Open resin left no raw spots. I don't know if you guys can see like right here. It's straight to the board Right here right here right here and we don't want that. So I'm just gonna push the resin to fill in Those areas. I'm not putting that much pressure Down I'm just skimming the top of it because I don't want to pick up any of the color that I under painted with I mean, I will it's inevitable inevitable. I think that's the right word But I don't want to that much if I do any of the Purposeful pickup of the under painting that I do it will be at the end. So right now we're just filling in the voids They're then in the void. I'm trying my best not to mix colors by just wiping my hands off Just crudely on some paper that I have I'm not obsessing about The colors mixing because it is such a darker piece. It was a lighter piece. I would Be a lot more anal about The colors staying true, but not so much a concern on this one yet, right, I think I got everything filled In And most of my under painting has stayed Under there are some areas that it's floating up and I'm going to take you down and give you a closer look show you what I'm talking about Let me pop some bubbles first and then I will do Just that Popping bubbles definitely shows me where my low spots still are and if I have any Hair or dust bunnies or whatever floating in my surface Let me grab you guys So you can see here where this old gold is starting to float up and travel some But you can see where it's still under the blue because it's got that sheen to it But it's popping up in these areas which I really like because now it it's something that I couldn't Plan these floating bits You know what I mean like if you were to Try to do this. It's not gonna look Like this like you couldn't just sprinkle the old gold on you have to put it under the other colors and let it float up But it's super neat to see and so here we have the white under The pink and the blue that are mixing together slightly. Oh, we got some cells and we didn't even try today I am using stone coat art coats and The white is a top-cell white So As long as it is on top you will get cells See where it's over. We have the cells and where it's under like here. There are no cells Up here. It's over so some cells are popping up But over here it's under so there's no cells. I wish you guys could see the depth That's created in this piece Like in real life For some reason my whole life. I've always thought that they should invent smell a vision and now I'm like, can you guys just have like Depthi vision You're making so cool and so much easier for resin artists Yes, there are a couple dry spots They're always more evident after you heat the piece After you pop bubbles, it's always more clear Where the little dry bits are they're easily addressed All right now Tilt it swipe it leave it. What do you guys think? While I get your answers I'm just gonna hit it with a little bit more heat because I did see a couple hairs You don't want to do too much heat. We don't want to thin this out because then it's gonna run That's not a good look for anybody Also pro tip if you don't have any tweezers handy and you don't have exclusively my Reusable stir sticks. You only have popsicle sticks Then you can take a popsicle stick twist it until it pops and it'll typically break in a point And then you can use those points to pull out hairs like of us That's the only selling point. I'm gonna give you guys about using popsicle sticks You cannot twist my sticks that way Make hair picker outers. No, there's a hair right here. It's gonna mess up my design. That's not I Truly love the color payoff in this. There's so much you can do with translucent and transparent colors I don't think they get enough air time Additionally these tints are transparent and they're not alcohol based these are made for use in resin So they're not gonna fade over time like alcohol in swill when you drop them into Resin I wonder if the pigment manufacturers know the effects the product will be who knows E engineering Leave it or just go crazy. Why not? It's Monday after all. I just Hate the thought of I Should have left it that's like my biggest fear as an artist is Loving it so much and nitpicking areas and then getting to a point where it's like, what did I even do here? Why am I here instead of where I was when I loved it? You know what I mean? jelly beans so it looks like the smear look that we really we we me look I liked in the beginning it stayed Whereas where I had it thicker this white here floated up to the surface Same with the gold. This is a smear that we had on the bottom and it is still on the bottom of the piece and Down here. Oh, I know Tiffany the blue and pink together are such cotton candy vibes It almost makes me wish I just didn't do the green at all, but Never because who doesn't like cotton candy vibes. Let me turn this light off see if it helps Because there's quite a glare The colors aren't quite as vibrant with that light off, but I think it's still fine though All right, so most everybody said leave it. So I think I am I think I'm gonna leave it with a slight Tilt so that while it's Tearing and drying There's a whole Ross bar right here whoops It's always good to look at your work from multiple angles to make sure That everything is Covered Seeing if I could force more cells to come up, but it may still be too hot from the last time we heated it Zooming in and it looks absolutely amazing. Well, thank you Yeah, I think I think I'm gonna call it better safe than sorry and leave it because Artist regret I think is maybe worse than buyers remorse Trying to get you guys down to show you. Oh, we'll just do this smarter not harder Still JK. I think I have resin This thing together, but anyways Prefer your earlier work find this a bit erratic and busy This is definitely more erratic and busy even then for my own taste But in order to show off kind of what these translucent pigments Can do when you put them over something dark This is a piece that just is Gonna be more erratic you can make it more calm by putting less of the thicker lines Nope, less of the thinner lines. We put more thin lines. It's gonna be more busy if you put more thick lines It's gonna be less busy Careful not to get resin on your toes. I I'm surprised my toes aren't just resin together at this point Northern lights. I see that This painting will forever be named better safe than sorry northern lights edition Anyways, I love the piece these little floating specks. Oh even my y'all Even my old gold is selling and that is a Micah a floating Micah that so it usually well It's a metal flag. Not really Micah usually doesn't do that Martin Green you're welcome to purchase this piece. I would love for you to purchase this piece I am into selling artwork as much as I am creating it. So shoot me an email And we can absolutely talk about it. I love it. I'm gonna leave it and And under painting with the old gold and putting translucent over it gave me this floating fleck beautiful Look that you see Throughout the piece. You can't get that from just sprinkling it on because then it's going to be full coverage. It gets crazy. But if you under paint with it, then it'll just fleck up fleck wave It's all about the fleck waves that's how you get that look and You guys saw me figure it out right here on this channel live because I do the test so you don't have to All right, you guys. I'm gonna go make dinner And I'm so so happy. Hi, Michelle. How have you been? We've missed you MTD and Barbie vibes are some of the best vibes All right, you guys. I hope you have an amazing evening. I hope you enjoy this tutorial. I hope you Learn something we're entertained or otherwise educated about something And I hope you love it like I do if not totally cool Leave me your thoughts and suggestions down in the description box under this video and Let me know what you think what you want me to try anything you want me to test out And yeah, I'll see you guys tomorrow live at 2 p.m. Central for 2 o'clock Tuesdays till then Thank you for watching Please subscribe if you haven't leave me a comment on what you want me to do or try or see or something next and Yeah, I'll see you guys next time be kind of one another because you never know But someone may be going through and I always remember that we do the test so you don't have to leave me your thumbs I'll see you guys tomorrow. Bye