 Art Resident and I'm here today with Sarah Walker. Hey Rebecca, I'm so excited to be here with you and Dave and to be working on this really amazing piece. We are working on the feature piece to hang by my fireplace for my one room challenge space for the fall 2015 edition. Got this gorgeous piece from a new wall and I wanted to show how it's possible to take a piece of art that is maybe more of a production piece and customize it so that you've got something that's completely unique for your space. Dramatic, beautiful, with a high glass finish that only Art Resident can So one of the things I'm most excited about and the reason that I reached out to you guys is because Art Resident is really unique for two significant reasons to me anyway which are it's totally VOC free which is a big deal to me and then it also is very unique in the space of Resident in that it doesn't yellow. Yes. So tell me a little bit about your story and then we'll dive in. Dave and I started using resin because we liked the look of it and then once we were using it we found that the hard way that most of the residents at least at the time had a lot of problems not only were they really highly toxic but they also would basically just ruin the artwork over time. So that set us on a three-year adventure of trying to pair up with the chemist that could do what we wanted to do make a resin that was non-toxic and that would be yellow and so that is what we have now. Incredible. I think we should dive in. Let's do it. A lot of my readers are going to be wanting to follow along and do this themselves so why don't you talk us through what the steps are for us to get this absolutely perfect. Sure well it's really easy. First of all all we've done here is we have taped off underneath this piece with some painter's tape that is so that when the resin drips down the sides the drips will collect on the tape and then you can just easily pull the tape right off. We've also cracked this up in this case on some baby blocks. Make sure that the piece is level because when we go and pour the resin on top the resin is going to be level no matter what so you want your piece to also be level. Now we need to figure out how much product we're actually going to use so to do that we're going to use the calculator on our resin.com. We've determined that for this piece that is 29 inches by 54 inches we need three-eighths of a gallon so we have our one gallon kit right resin and hardener. When it says three to the gallon it means combined right okay we're going to do half of that in the hardener half of that in the resin it's just an easy one-to-one ratio. I'm not wearing a mask and I'm very sensitive to smells. You smell anything? I smell nothing right like this is amazing so how's that is that next one on it? Nope okay keep going. It's funny that you just did this if people are going to mess up with their art resin at all yep the number one thing they do is they do not stir for long enough okay so we always say stir three minutes solid and we mean if you don't stir it long enough you run the risk of parts of your mixture not being catalyst properly in which case it will never ever ever cure. So you want to put your gloves on and let's talk about why Rebecca? Oh well just it's really sticky yeah it's a mess I mean our proxy resin is classified as an adhesive even though this is no vsees no fumes all that stuff yeah it still is a chemical can use your um using it on the sense yeah you're fine let's see you do get on your skin it happens to me quite often I just want to get up yeah okay we're gonna pour it okay so go just give her see they are jagged it makes it so that you can pull your resin evenly and still leave some behind. Exactly so it doesn't push it all the way but it pushes just enough away so that you can nice even go. So with my gloved hand I'm just smoothing out the edges and wiping up any germs. Now we come to the very very fun part of getting rid of all these bubbles. We're gonna use these little kitchen flambe torches we're just gonna kind of run it along the top and you will see how awesome it is to get rid of all the bubbles because it works so well yeah check that out wow it's amazing hey yeah I mean you just kind of run it out so how far away do you want to be you'll be able to tell if you're too far away you'll see that the bubbles it doesn't touch the bubbles okay yeah but if you are sort of a couple inches away yeah you'll see that those bubbles start to just snow hole poof yeah our resin is non-flammable so you don't have to worry about that so there you go Sarah we're almost done what do you think um it's amazing even though saturation is a term we use brown color but there's still there's so much more depth and life to the piece I think it looks amazing I'm super excited to see what's inside I do too so all we're gonna do now is um we're just gonna cover it with a box so that no dust can really settle into this we're gonna leave it overnight and tomorrow we'll be alive for the piece ready can't wait let's do it yay so we're all done what do you think Sarah oh my gosh I totally love it it looks incredible and I love the drama that it's bringing to the room I do sure resin has really upped the ante on the contrast in the piece it's more expensive looking it totally is I'm thrilled to fan resolve well we're thrilled you're thrilled yay it's been such a pleasure working with you guys at art resin it's one week left until my one room challenge is complete and revealed so be sure to check the Curated House dot com to see the whole room in all of its glory also make sure to follow art resin on instagram and youtube for some great inspiration on creating your own customized art with art resin