 to do the actual Audubon tray from the orange and golden teal test piece that we did. So this is that video. To start we sanded this wooden dial down. It was $10 from... what's that place? Home Depot? Home Depot for the homes. And we sanded it down with 180 fine grit sandpaper. It says fine on it so I just read it. It's regular. Comes in a package, looks like this. And after you do that you'll need to seal it because we all saw the shenanigans when we didn't seal it properly. But it's an easy fix so that you don't get that funky bubbling that we did on that one video. It just finds, the stuff finds every little nook and cranny. Crevices. I should say the resin does. So this stuff will get in all those little holes and pin holes and sealed. Since what is porous air will get in and come through it. And if you don't seal it properly and you just put resin on it, it'll bubble up and it's just a mess. Refer to this video here to see that shenanigans. So now to seal it. We're using polycrylic. Polycrylic was like $10 for this amount. $6. And then the foam roller is like $5 for just the roller and one foam roll. It'll be stingy. You can never have too much of this stuff. Like make sure it gets everywhere. We're even going to do the bottom. The bottom and the sides. Something worse than ugly sides of an ottoman tray. This process goes for if you're doing a large table as well that isn't sealed in. You can even get wild and crazy and do more than one coat. Who knows. Just have a party. Do you want a regular foam brush for the sides? The more you put on, the better. Don't put any pressure down. Just basically drag it across the surface. The idea is not to take stuff off just to smooth out the surface. It'll make sanding it in between the polyco is easier. So now what are we doing? I'm taping the bottom of this off so that we don't have to sand it. What are the arrows about? If you start taping it in one direction, just try to follow it to where each tape is underneath the next one so that you can just pull it. Clean break. It just comes right off. You're not picking that tape. You have to make another start thing here. You can put the last one underneath the first one so that it all comes off at once. So basically you just taped it off and then used an X-Acto blade to cut around it. So we sealed it and painted the top orange. Hopefully we won't have the bubble up issue that we had on the large one. I swear it's because it can come through it. Honestly, I don't think anybody's even seen that one. It's on the tail. It's on there. Nobody's seen it. I'm sure of it. I'm pretty positive. Maybe I didn't post it yet. I don't know. I'll look. But you keep saying it's going to be right here and then it's never right there. Watch it be right here. Yeah, we'll see. We will see. Taping off makes it a lot cleaner. And the great orange pumpkin. Orange. All right. You know what time it is. Time for fun with resin. Just kidding. It's just art time. All right, guys. We're going to be doing some odd colors. We did a sample. It came out really nice. We got some orange, which is already the base. I didn't want to mix this teal, this orange color. I didn't think it would go very well. So we just baste it in the darker orange and then we're going to put the teal and white marble effect over it. And then some gold accents with the petroleum gold metallic. Always a good one. This is what color it started as. The base. Montana. Focus. Focus. All right, there we go. It's red, orange. Montana brand gold series. And even a marker. Mark it. Mix and match the wrong ones. As usual, we're using our favorite Rust-Oleum metallic gold spray paint. You can use any gold you like, but if you want to get the same results, this stuff right here is the poo. Oh, let's leave this over here. Very consistent. It is consistent. It's the most consistent thing we work with in terms of resin life. So Client liked the test piece that we posted yesterday. However, she wanted less white, so therefore we're going to do more aqua and gold. We would incorporate the orange in the top layer, but as you all know, some colors just don't go good together. When they're mixed, they turn into a muddy mess. And if you mix any version of green with any version of orange, you're going to get some version of brown grossness. So to avoid that, we incorporated the orange as the base and we're going to do all the other stuff on top. To start, we're using 7 ounces each of resin and hardener. I'm pretty sure it's 7. Could be 8. But it's even, which is the important thing. And you can never have too much. Resin. As long as it's in equal parts, doesn't matter how much it is. Unless it's not enough, then there's a problem. We're using our favorite up to this point. I guess you can't read that. Resin, which is by Envirotex Light. We like using it because it's simple 1 to 1 ratio. It has a good working time and it doesn't stink. The hardener is clear and it's FDA approved. So for example, this Ottoman tray may have food come in contact with it. So if you lick it up, you're not going to die. Worst case. I wish we were sponsored by a resin company. That would be super awesome. If you're out there, hit us up. Or spray paint company. The white we're using is Art District. It's acrylic. I'm sure you went over this, but life. The teal is, there we go. The teal or aqua is a paint marker. But we took the dauber out so that we have direct access to paint. It's called Volatile Organic Compound. They could have just said aqua. Anyways, that's what this is. It's an acrylic based paint. You can use any kind of paint or ink. I would strongly discourage anything oil based for all the reasons we've listed before. Just don't, just don't do it. You're going to want to mix your resin fully and completely. Roughly three minutes for this amount. I've listed the reasons a million zillion times. But basically, if you don't, you'll end up with weak spots. You'll have to sand your piece and start over. You'll end up with sticky spots and you'll ruin forever. It doesn't dry. One of the first ones I did, I held out hope that it would set up, but it didn't. It was like a sticky mouse pad thing. Mouse trap, the sticky thing. I don't know what I'm saying. But you know, a fly trap kind of for two weeks. I was like, it's going to set up. It's where it will. I didn't have to throw it away. I was sad. We use a wide variety of materials for our resin. And the interest of not making a complete mess. If you use spray paints, don't spray them into a styrofoam or plastic cup because it will melt it. It's exciting, but it's messy if it melts through your cup. So when we use spray paint, we use paper. Also, it's better for the environment. Also, if you're going to use spray paint or a respirator and being a well ventilated space. Hey Kujo, what are you doing? You just want to be in the video right now. Don't mind the sound of the airbrush. When you're applying your colors, it doesn't really matter what pattern or whatever you want to put them in. It's completely up to you. Also, this is what the gold looks like. It's always nice to have a rag with alcohol on it to wipe off your gloves if you get the sticky stuff on it. So you don't touch everything and get it all sticky watering. Pro tip. When working with a resin, you really want to have a heat gun or a torch around in order to pop the bubbles that you mix into your resin. And to make the resin more liquid and easier to manipulate. I had a question today about if you could just use a blow dryer and we often use a blow dryer. However, most of them don't get hot enough to give you the same lacing or cell look that we like to look for when we work with resin. So our heat gun is like $25 from Home Depot. I recommend getting one. Also have parental supervision or an adult present if you use a heat gun or fire. I have to say it. What if there's an impressionable child out there? Whenever you say that it makes me think like we're just doing this for the kids. There's a lot of kids on YouTube. It doesn't take much with acrylics to make them opaque in the resin. You can always add more obviously, but you can't take it out also obviously. So just add it in a little bit at a time till you get the opacity that you're looking for. This was one drop. Well, that paint is very, it has a lot of pigment in it. I think that's why it was so expensive and then it wasn't selling, I believe. They're from Hazel Art Supply. I don't think that's... When they put it on sale for like a dollar or two, it wasn't selling. People don't use markers to make murals. Also, I'm pretty sure we've decided that we are going to do giveaways. I think we'll probably start that at 2000 subscribers. Yeah. We're not far from it. Feel free to like, share, and all those other fun things. Get your friends involved. Are there artists in your community? Everyone's doing it. You want to be like one of the cool kids, whatever. Let's get some of this guy going. Who wants some teal? This blowing thing you could do with your face, like Jeff was doing, or you could use a blow dryer, which is a good option so you don't pass out in the middle of blowing resin around. You can also use an airbrush, but the thing with an airbrush is it depends on how high it's turned up. I don't know the proper words for airbrushing, but it could blow too hard and you'll just blow the resin off your piece. It's like using a straw only better. Use a heat gun or a torch. Be careful not to leave it in one place too long because if you boil your resin... It's no bueno. It's no bueno. It's already selling up in areas. It's time you put new resin down. Any more resin? Always heat it. There's always going to be bubbles. Every time now, you definitely get some naughty little bubbles. I'll come back this way. Put a tab of gold right here. Kind of a big one. There you go. And then kind of run it over here maybe. In that dark spot. Like a little island of gold. It's so even. I love it. I think we need to sacrifice... This is our high-tech, desperate area. Very high-end. Very state-of-the-art paper plastic table. You guys can copy if you want. As you guys know, we have a puppy. Therefore, we have puppy hair everywhere. On top of having taped the bottom, it's pretty... Always a good idea to scrape now because it's a lot easier. Even later. It's a lot easier to get your tape off. There's not so much excess underneath. This is the fun part. You ready for the fun part? Nobody's ready for the fun part. There's the fun part. It's done now. It's super level. Super tiny. If all goes well, we won't have to do a top coat. We'll know in 12 hours whether we need to do a top coat or not. That's the thing. If we didn't mix too much, it always leaves lines where the gold goes. It leaves dips. If you get a good amount of resin in there, it all uses it out. It's still evolving. With resin, it'll do that until it dries. Dry as it sets. Here's how she turned out. Some great selling and lacing. The gold turned out as expected. Very shiny. Very reflective. You can't see it in the camera because that's awesome. She wanted more teals, more orange, more gold, and less white. We did that. Gold did what we wanted it to do. That's cool. We're also going to add handles to this piece. We don't have time today because we have to go finish some countertops. The handles are going to look like... Do you have the handles? They don't look like this. They're changing the color. I'm not using our normal spray paint for these. I'm using Montana Black brand and series in the color gold. It's also metallic. Very shiny, but it doesn't work in resin the same way our other kind does. We reserve that kind for just using in resin. If you have any comments, questions, concerns, let us know in the comments below or shoot us an email. We will always respond as soon as possible. Thank you for watching.