 We are alive. Sorry about all the movement. We're gonna make sure feed doesn't die while live-streaming. So we're all plugged in. Anyways, what's up you guys? I'm Erica. Jeff is here. What's up Kim? We just got back into town. So I wanted to go ahead and go live for y'all. I need that. This over here. You guys hear me okay? I know this thing didn't just go kaput, but I think it did. Yep. Alright. Plan B. Drive in the struggle bus today. We'll be able to see what you're seeing. There we go. Sweet. Alright. How are y'all doing? We've missed you guys. Anything new since we were out of town? Alright. I can see what y'all can see. Humidity? That's no good. So Karen, how have you been? Long time no see. Okay. So I did this piece forever ago, roughly forever-ish ago. And I've been trying to think of things that I can add to it. Change it up a little bit to make it more unique. And I think I've decided that I want to create some dimensional waves, I think. So what I'm going to do is find some gloves. Gloves are important. Nope. Nope. Can't go this way. I'm going to go around this way. Well, I guess I can use some of Jeff's big hand gloves. So the idea is that I'm going to take cellophane and hot glue and create some waves that kind of stick up a little bit and look awesome. But that's in theory. So what I did with these, you can probably see there's a little strip of hot glue up here and I rounded the cellophane over so that it is kind of a little bit more malleable, rigid. All those good fun words. I did those ones, but I wanted to do one with you guys so you can see what I'm doing. So I just have this irregularly shaped. I want to see those Kim. What's up, Kim? Sherry, Melissa Annette. So excited to see all you guys. So I'm going to do this one so you guys can see what I did to do those. You're in the hospital, fell by the pool, severed all of the tendons and ligaments in my right forearm this past Friday. I've been watching all the videos of yours and Rhonda's like crazy persons keeping me sane. Well, tropical epoxy, I'm so sorry that you have quite a substantial injury, but we're happy to have you. We have more YouTube time. I hope you feel better soon. That sounds awful. I'm trying to kind of get these waves to play together but not be one solid wave. Maybe I'll underlap it. Is that a word? I don't think that's a word. Maybe I'll just have it back set a little bit. The static with this stuff is unreal right now. So this is just holographic cellophane. I got it off Amazon. It's just got all that really pretty. Yeah, this is not as easy as I thought it would be to just line up these waves that they look like they're supposed to. Nope. That's definitely not it. Give up me and the cellophane. I've been arguing. Maybe the problem's this. I like how that one looks together. Anyways, we'll line it up. So I'm just going to put some hot glue a little bit down the way on my cellophane and I'm making it into a curved line so that I can really shape how this wave looks. Also, now it's on my thumb. So it looks like this. That doesn't look cute to cut that off. Anyways, I think I may just proceed with this so you guys get the idea and we can move on. So I'm trying to pinch it upwards just slightly so that there's like an undertow just slightly. Now I have my V's. The next thing I'm going to do is take some thing, this. I'm going to take my 3M spray adhesive and spray just the area where I'm going to have it actually in contact with my board. So that's going to be probably from here down. Nope. That just got my hand. So that's fun. So you can see, I don't know if you can see. Maybe you can see where it's cloudy. That's where the spray adhesive is. We're going to just pinch it around a little bit so that it creates this little bit of a lip here. Make sure that's as flat as possible because that's going to be under-rethined. Then you're jacked up. I'm working and super excited about the cellophane. Well, I'm glad you have something that makes you feel better and really, really hope you have a super speedy recovery because that sounds not fun at all. What's that, Nancy? Right, at least I have you on some good stuff. Did you? You just got moved, right? Oh my goodness. This stuff is sticking to everything. I may spray this little bit so that I can tack down this part. That's a little bit flappy. I'm just going to hold it with my handy dandy these. I'm spraying it over the trash can. Sorry, you guys can't see it, but I don't want it to get anywhere other than where I want this stuff because it is not a joke. It makes everything super sticky. There we go. Now that part's down. We got it all down. Can you show the adhesive spray? Oh, sorry. So it is 3M Super 77 Multipurpose Adhesive. That's awesome, Nancy. Okay, so now I'm going to take this one and spray the bottom part as well. Not this top part. Just that part. Overlap it slightly. Make a little bend in the middle or wherever, whatever part you want to have a lifted area. Get this part as flat as possible because we're going to have resin to hide that seam right here. So I'm kind of offsetting these a little bit so they don't look like all one wave. I think I'm going to put this one here and then make another one that just comes this way. At least in my head, that's what's about to happen. Wait, I could probably use this one because it's a little longer. I'm trying to bend my hot glue so that it does what I want it to before I get it. Always try to plan out what you're going to do before you add your spray adhesive. Just trust me. Once things are sticky, there's no going back. That's a life lesson. You have a love-hate relationship with spray adhesive. Same. Very much same. So I'm just cutting another bit off for this area. Maybe not that one. I don't know why I'm being particular about how the front edge looks because I'm about to just curl it all under anyways. So also remember it doesn't have to be perfect. This is an ocean wave and anything in nature has a certain degree of flaw or imperfection. The nature of nature. So don't beat yourself up if it doesn't look exactly like what you have in mind because wave's going to wave. I hardly ever beat myself up over things that don't look like how I have in my mind. Let's make this sticky and we'll put it right about here-ish. Sweet. Looks like various waves rolling in. Jelica. What a fun name. Okay, we're going to do one more wave. Just right here. Now we're going to get to resonant. Resonating? Resonating? Words are hard. You know what I mean. Every time I fold one of these over, I'm like, I'm not going to put my finger in the hot glue. I'm not going to put my finger- Every time it gets me. I'm going to stagger this back just slightly. So how many of you guys have worked with cellophane before? Do you enjoy it? Is it horrible for you? What are your thoughts? Have another little edge sticking up. So I'm going to do the same thing we did before and get just one of these scrap pieces. Cover it and spray adhesive and use it to just put this little corner down. Nice to see Stonefoot online, huh? Right? I wish they got online more often, but those guys are always super busy. I feel like if I put one here, I have to put one here. But I also feel like one isn't enough right there. What do you guys think? Get baskets. Ooh, I like to get basket idea. Also, I crinkle it before I start working with it so that it has all that awesome ocean-watery texture. I'm just using cheap hot glue. Cheap hot glue gun because you're not going to be able to see it anyways. You have to worry about if it's going to yellow or whatever. It's all wrapped up in cellophane, so no one will ever know. Okay, I guess for real. I stuck every finger, I think, into the hot glue that time. Luckily, the cheap hot glue guns don't turn into lava. What that dance is? We're going to do this, and then we're going to do that, and then we're going to mix resin. Capiche? Capiche. We will just roll that one under. How about that? How about thin apples? Okay, to do that, I'm just going to put a dot of hot glue. Just on this, just on the tip. Sounds good. That is what he said. What's that mic read? Hey, JJ. You guys having an awesome day? I hope so. If I put my finger in the other hot glue guns that I have, the more pricey ones, I don't know if I'd be able to not say every bad word I've ever encountered because those shoot lava. Alright, I like it. So you can, like, pinch the sides in a little bit to make your wave area kind of curl up some. Just don't let it get too high of a wave because that won't look too natural. Now, I'm torn. Should I put cellophane on the rest of it, or just tint it a little bit more to hide my cellophane lines? What do you guys think? Just tint it, tint it, hide the lines. Skinny strips that are horizontal. That's not a bad idea. Just to bring in the look a little bit. Let's just cut out some streamers. Nothing too crazy. Nothing too fancy. Nothing too similar. I want to keep that look really random. That should be good, right? I swear I cut more than this many, but also maybe not a couple more. This spray adhesive dries pretty fast, so by the time we get our resin mixed up, everything will be set. I am again going to use these tweezers because I don't want my fingers stuck together forever. I'm pretty sure what would happen. Other than Whitney breaking her everything, have you guys had a semi-awesome weekend? I hope so. Sorry that I'm doing this spray adhesive off-camera, but once you guys use it one time, you'll be like, I'm going to spray mine over the trash can too. Just trust me. Not bad, Swapper. Good. Good. Not bad is better than bad always. Really hard not to kind of stagger them too evenly because nature, that bolded a little bit. Hopefully it won't interfere with anything. I think I've been thinking of that video of Rhonda all night and laughing, poor thing. I'm not kidding when I tell you that Jeff woke up in the middle of the night laughing at that video. The thought of that video. He didn't like wake up watching it. He just was in his brain. If you guys haven't seen the video in question, I think Jeff posted it to ATV's poor people. It was a hoot. A riot even. All right, let's move all the stuff we're not going to use. There, there. Unplug the hot glue or else it'll be plugged in for the rest of the eternity. So forget. Okay, let's get ocean-y. I'm going to be honest with you guys. I'm not exactly what I'm going to do for a lot of this. I'm not sure exactly how I'm going to blend some of this in, but we're going to find out together, right? Rhonda was a good sport about it. She was, but I think I'm pretty sure Kenny scares her like that, like once a month. So not that she's used to it, but she might be a little bit used to it. I'm on the other side of the table mixing some resin real quick. I think for this, I'm going to use eight ounces. Even though six will probably work. I'm using just resin diamond coats because it is a solution and it just works out better personally for my waves. I kind of abuse them while I'm designing the piece. And so it just, stone coats is more durable after curing, but for some reason it doesn't do so hot at this point in the process. I don't even know if that makes sense, but Clara can translate my Wi-Fi off on this. What's up Arlene? So I'm going to mix this resin real quick and hope my internet connects again. So did you guys like that? The alcohol ink geo pieces that I've been doing recently. Are you interested in seeing one of those live or do you prefer them in time-lapse? Tell me where your thoughts are. Need to know. You want to try alcohol ink? Do geos live? Prefer live? This way we can ask questions. Good point. Live. Cool. Cool, cool, cool. I will do it for you guys. Absolutely. I forgot to say that we're artists till death. We go live every day. Usually it's at 6 p.m. except for on Tuesdays. It's at 2 p.m. But that's only usually. Most of the time on the weekends it's irregular. So make sure when you subscribe you hit the little bell icon so that YouTube will usually let you know when we're live. Give you a notification and you can join us. I think I'm going to go back to doing giveaways on the channel too. What do y'all think? Multi-Geodes class like your huge one. A class class? Okay, thank you so much. You want to do it with me? If you want to do it along with me then maybe we'll like plan a day. So maybe a week from now so you guys can get all the materials you need together. We can just plan an ink with me. You're building today, Arlene. Yeah, it's hit or miss. Kitty Fantastic, we're happy to have you here. Welcome. Don't care for time-lapse, I'm dyslexic and ADHD. Understood, understood, understood. I have to sprinkle in some time lapses because people get all butt hurt if I don't do time lapses because I think the lives are too long. But anyways, cool. Let's plan maybe for a Friday evening. Will that work for everyone? Love your works so beautiful. Are you out of focus or is it my eyes? I'm not sure. Maybe that'll be better. It looks kind of clear on mine so I'm not sure. It could be the internet catching up with the live feed so maybe like it's not buffering but it's working on it. Thank you Arlene. So the majority of our color is going to be blue. I need a little white from the waves. That's probably too much. Yeah, I made too much resin most likely. So the white I'm going to use is titanium from just resin. You don't need a whole lot of stuff super pigmented. You just want it to be opaque. Lisa, you understand Thornton better? Sorry about that movement. I just ran into the camera with my face. So, yeah. Speaking of face, I got this funky like, almost looks like hives that came up on my cheek. I think it's from probably stress from shenanigans over the week. And yeah, hopefully it's going away. I've had to take Benadryl to get it to be under control so I'm a little groggy. And that's why mostly I'm early today. Because I don't want to leave you guys without a live again. What's up Mommy Eunice? How are you today? You guys, that's my future mother-in-law. Did I tell you that I'm engaged? It's true. I'm trying to keep it a secret. That's Eunice Sandoval, Jeff's amazing mama. Okay, so the blue I just used is Bondi blue from Colour Possession. It's a tint. I'm going to put a little bit of this, oh I guess it's violet, bring it in here. It's powder. I just want to create a tea tiny bit of sparkle. This will also help to hide the seams. I think you have it in. Let's take the camera with my face again. Sandy is a little bit more sparkle. You don't want to use too much because it will go opaque. So just build up the amount of sparkle that you want in it. See that little bit of purple interference sometimes. It's true Tim. I know, it's true. This is layer two. So I think I'm going to do, I don't know, I have another one of these. Where's mine? I'm just going to make this sticky real quick. We just put it right. So I'm going to do a wave and let it roll back and catch and do whatever it wants to do. And then I'll do probably another one here. I know Lisa, I've been keeping it very much on the low low. Okay. So I'm going to use the clear to decide where my wave will be. Good. Let's bring you guys in a little bit more. It does look like mermaid or fish scales. I'm just going to set this under my piece to keep everything flowing backwards because this is a little bit too close and I don't want it to roll over and break this plane. So I'm going to use this to drop Bondi right here. I have no idea how this is going to go. But in my head, it's going to be awesome. Oh, we're going to take the rest of my clear resin and put about five drops. And this is going to be the deeper part of the ocean. So that's why I'm using more drops, but it's still the same Bondi. We're just adding more drops that will make it opaque. You can get all of this stuff, except for the cellophane on my website, artisttilldeff.com. Exactly, Clara. Let me see the purple interference in there now. See how it shines kind of purpley blue. That's the bling it. It's still a little bit light. So I'm going to add three more drops in there. I'm glad you're having an easy day, Clara. So if you guys wouldn't mind, please subscribe to our channel. Leave us a thumb or two and something else, sorry. Doing too many things at one time. I can't think. Share our videos with the people you like, or if you don't like our videos and share them with people you don't like. Hey, Kim, thank you so much. All right. So now the next part is going to be trying to make sure there's no raw spots. Because when I start to manipulate this design, I want the resin to flow evenly. And it'll kind of part ways where it hasn't been yet. So you want everything to be coated, even if it's just a thin skim coat of resin. Got it pretty much. I'm just pushing some of this Bondi blue up onto the wave so it's not just cellophane. It's a little bit of blue tinted cellophane, but I'm lifting it back up after I do that so it's not stuck down. Now we're going to add our white. I'm just going to add this where part of it touches the dry bit of the first layer of resin and part of it touches the clear. Typically, I don't do too thick of a line because I don't want it to cover up what's already there. And I guess I should go ahead and add any other lines that I might do because I kind of only have one go with this, you know. Make sure everything's coated. Super important. Maybe right here. Okay. Hopefully this looks awesome. We're going to find out together though. I guess I need a heat gun, but I took it just again, so let me get this one from over here. Let go. Give up. Heat gun check. Now, heat guns and cellophane, you want to try not to hit your cellophane with too much heat because it'll kind of start to shrinkwrap it a little bit. So, I'm doing full heat though and all the way air. Right now, I'm just popping bubbles and making sure I have no floaters and make sure that everything is coated with resin. All right. I'm going to lift it just a little bit. It's not pushing my waves back. That's interesting. So, because the air is getting caught under the cellophane, it was pushing my waves back at me. I didn't anticipate, but should have. All right. It's looking good, but I want to do another wave here. Right now, I'm just trying to get the waves flowing backwards. I'm not like aiming to get them to flow off the piece, but also I'm letting them flow off the piece. The hair is a very, not angry ocean, but active. Let me say active. Cool. Ideally, it wouldn't be like a white wave, these things, and then more white wave. It would be not. It'd be more intermingled, but as a test run, not really mad at it. Maybe I can bring a couple more of these in here. It was way too much, but that's okay. It's down cut very different from the other brands. I'm just getting started with epoxy, and I am mainly a traditional artist, oil paint, egg tempera, pastels, and so on. So it's my opinion that it is far and above a lot of brands. It just works better for my application, which is traditional, usually. But I think when you choose a resin, it comes down to preference a lot of times. You may want it to do things that I don't, and vice versa. Kitty, if you want, if you order anything from me on my website, artistildepth.com, let me know that you're a fan, and we talked about this, and you want to try Stone Coat, and I can send you a little eight-ounce kit to give it a shot. You guys, I am not mad at this whatsoever. Let me give you a better view of what we've got going on. And I'm probably going to come in with a paintbrush and stipple the edges of my cellophane waves to make them white, or a little bit more white. You know what I mean? So I can show off the break, the cap of the waves. You can really see the depth of the piece, the bottom layer of wave, and the top layer, because I'm using a transparent tint so it gives so much more depth and dimension. You can see those strips of the cellophane. Very angry ocean. Well, Melissa, have an awesome day. Give Gabriela a hug for me. You can really see the sparkle of that bling it in this little pocket right here. All right, so our waves. I didn't want them very high. I just wanted them to be able to cast a bit of a shadow. And I think it worked. Let's get a side angle. I'm definitely very happy with how this piece turned out. I'm going to give it another go. I typically don't do 3D art, but pumped about the possibilities for this for sure. I'm nervous about this right here. I don't want it to break this barrier, so I'm probably going to leave this. Words are hard, but I'm going to leave this under it while it's setting up to keep everything rolling backwards. We'll see how it sets up. More than likely, I'm going to maybe do a final wave right here. Just to further hide some of it, but right now, my seams are fairly well hidden. As a resin levels, will it smash the cellophane and cover it? It will not. It will stay mostly just like this. Any high peaks? You can see some right here and right here. We'll stay high peaks unless I go in and push them down as the resin setting. I love how cellophane changes colors. Thank you guys. Thank you very much. I'm going to take this to the dust-free zone. I'm going to take a nap. I hope you enjoyed this test piece. I hope you decide to give it a shot. That looks fairly real to me. As a mermaid, that's what my ocean looks like. Very colorful, very active. Of course, I will show you guys what the piece turns out like as a quick recap. The products that I used are titanium white from just resin, Bondi blue from Colored Session. You're probably not going to be able to see the name. Oh yeah, a little bit. And then buoyant violet sparkle. Whoops. A roll of cellophane, some hot glue, some super 77 adhesive, a 16 by 20 cradle board and just resin diamond coat epoxy. Everything except for the hot glue, the spray adhesive, and the cellophane can be found on my website, artistilldebt.com. And yeah, if you decide to give it a shot, then post your results in our Facebook group, ATD's Poor People, so that we can all see it. Arlene, this was Diamond Coat from just resin. Anyways, I hope you guys have an awesome rest of your weekend and we'll see you guys back live tomorrow. Have an awesome night. Be kind to one another. You never know what someone may be going through and always remember, we do the tests. Uh huh. So you don't have to. Oh, I forgot to tell you guys, it's my baby moves birthday. Let's go say hi, baby man. Let's go say hi, baby man. It's his baby move birthday. Hi, baby man. Hi, baby man. Is it your big boy birthday? Is it his big boy birthday? It is. You know it. Are you a big boy? Oh, he's also a big boy. You know it. My babies. My babies. You guys didn't know I had this built for them so that they could see out the window. So three story. Let me find the entrance. Right there. And then it goes around that way. Around that way. So that they can just see out and then they have their little fans. All right, you guys have an amazing day and we'll see you guys tomorrow. Bye.