 Hi everyone. Happy Wednesday, middle of the week. We made it this far through this week. Thanks for coming out to hang out in the studio. Again, me personally, I find it makes me very happy. And I find that I feel really good after doing these sessions. So if you have some stuff you can create, I highly suggest you make stuff. What are we going to do today on this live video? Let me go around and show some stuff. So I'll flip this around. This is, hey, good morning, free spirit. Nice to have you again. Hey, John. So cool. Nice to see you. So I painted the bottom of this. Hello, Keisha. And look how nice it turned out. So this was we just poured some. Good afternoon. Yes. Look how nice sharp that is. So I'm gonna make some resin and some kale oil together. Hey, Francis. Hey, Beth. Memphis, welcome. I'm gonna make some kale oil with art resin and then finish this off. Just rub it on. So there's that. There's also Hi, Sandy. Butterfly wings through the laminator. So we had, we figured out what we need to do is Howdy, Dave. Jeff's off. I'm using a coaster I made with art resin. Oh good. We have coasters. So this is a butterfly butterfly body and what we're gonna do is laminate these and then glue them back onto the body because we can't get this body through the laminator. It just explodes. All the guts come out. Grimsby, hello again. I was just there for Thanksgiving. Grimsby's a lovely place. Okay, so what else? We'll keep going around. This is the guitar. New Zealand. Yeah, solo gain belt. Look at Look at this mess. So I gotta sand that off. I'll put it by the sander. I don't think I'll do that today, but I love this. This is perfect And I left the new guitar strings at home, but look how we got that nice burnt edge like you get Isn't that cool? So I'll leave this here in the sanding pile So what else are we doing today? This is arid extra dry deodorant And oh pickering. Hi. I was just an eight in Whitby for uh Thanksgiving. Happy Thanksgiving Canadians out there so What I learned is that when you're on a film set If you have something that's too reflective Like look at this you're trying to film something and then you can see all the people in the reflection You spray it with arid extra dry So watch this Where am I here? See it dulled it That is the really shiny shiny part and here's the arid extra dry Isn't that neat? Hey good evening. He had so but the problem with this is it never actually dries Watch You can just wipe it off. Did you see that? I got shiny again And there you can do that and it never dries even the next day No, I already tested it on something. So here's the idea. Here's the idea Because I always want to find an easy way to get your epoxy resin a nice matte finish besides sanding and re-varnishing or Our sanding and polishing. So I'm gonna pour resin I'm gonna pour resin on this and then while it's wet spray it with arid extra dry And see if that does anything we tested out these So a couple two different brands. Oh, hi laura. I'm still collecting feathers I ordered a whole bunch of feathers and I'm gonna order a whole bunch more so we can just play with feathers Okay So that's another thing we're doing Then we're gonna completely saturate this wood block and resin so that we can do some cool casting with it What else are we doing? Resin that Okay Can't wait to see the feathers. Yeah, thanks pal. So this is a pressure pot. This part is the pressure pot And this part is the air compressor So this machine compresses the air and forces it into here And we're gonna be just making some big blocks just some props that we need for something New to resin Yeah, we actually in one of the live videos we did some glass and resin and You just want to be careful because you can pick off the Pick it off some glass, but mostly it sticks very well Okay so Doyleys. Oh, yes, there's so many Doyleys. Thank you for saying that Doyleys Who knew Doyleys could be so great So here's some things that we made out of Doyleys. First we made a little test To see what if you soaked Doyleyn resin? See hello there And then now it's waterproof. It looks cool. And then what we did is we we mixed the resin with some resin tint And made this hard Doyleys so you can put a plant on it. It'll get dirty and then you can just wash it off Pretty neat, hey So there's those ideas And then we said well, couldn't you make some coasters? That was Joyner. That's a great idea So we did that oyster and this one I took the saw to finish the edges and then If you're going to This is really cheap crappy paint I should use better stuff, but uh This is how you can finish it off so that you have a product Like this is something you could sell Doyley coasters set of four for what 36 bucks Maybe 25 bucks And material this dollar store wood some old Doyleys that you find I went to a second hand short store and got Doyleys Boy was that exciting Okay, look that's starting to look really tidy, you know, it's a tidy finished product What do you think? Huh? something anyways Then then we made a bowl so we're going to do one of those today That's going to make a bigger coaster This is a block of the casting resin put in the compression chamber So see how clear you can get it pretty good and this is super super hard You could never really break this Exciting so today we're going to make some blue stuff I'm going to do another bowl. It was suggested last week use a plastic bowl. Then you can just pick it off so I got a plastic bowl instead of a metal one Because resin sticks to metal very well, so we're going to soak this in blue resin cover that up What else are we going to do? So anyone if you're new here, we're in Canada Here it also dry lace bowls fabric laminate winds pressure pot wood stump. I'm going to mix up some of our resin Oh, Jeff's so much better than this bowl New to resin a resin vase great idea Okay, where am I pointing a resin vase? Great idea So here's what I'm going to do. I'm going to write down resin vase And yeah, you could definitely do that out of fabric So this will be a new ideas section. So this is an I'll put new here So resin vase or vase I'd figure how to do that. You have a couple other things that we're figuring out right now too But keep your questions coming. We appreciate it And I'm going to mix up some resin So that was a failure Walk of wood So everything's about to get really sticky in here. So I'll put on some gloves Oh Jeff, please come back Jeff Jeff, okay, let's see Two cups. So I'm going to do four cups. That'll be plenty So this is the resin that I'm going to use for the wood I'm going to stop talking. Okay, two cups of resin I said two cups of hardener two cups of resin. It doesn't matter what order you do it in four cups Perfect This thing's a bit small. So I'm going to transfer it into here Great Now three minutes of stirring Three minutes of stirring is 10 20 Okay Um, oh is Jeff on here? Hi Jeff Jeff, are you on? Jeff, are you on? Okay, well, what can we talk about? Hmm. It's october here in canada the uh, hey Jeff The, uh, hey season of the witch Um, in canada the trees are changing color. It's beautiful. Um, so Halloween stuff What can you do with the resin for Halloween? Oh, Jeff, we have those. We have done Halloween videos. Why don't we like Jeff, let's do a Halloween recap. We'll just cut all of our old Halloween stuff That's a great idea Halloween Maybe we can make puddles of blood That you can put on the ground puddles of blood fake puddle of blood Maybe we'll do that today Dave you're doing a fine job Yes, Jeff is fantastic on the camera It's the one thing he can do he can barbecue too Like our april fold video Okay, so we're stirring up This art resin remember we started at 10 to three minutes. That's so long So what else is good in the world? Blood puddles. Yeah, I'll make a blood puddle. Oh the dueling brush Halloween theme Make resin masks Hmm. Is there something there? Resin masks. I mean you can't breathe through plastic at all. So no My name is not Jeff. My name is Dave. Yes, and gloria if you want to learn how to mess around with, uh Resin you came to the right place. That's what we're doing every wednesday at this time We just mess around with resin. Come on. That's been long enough. We don't have to do three minutes. Oh resin fall leaves Jeff that's another great one Yeah, we have uh, we have videos of that resin fall leaves. You should watch that Fall leaves We've done some beautiful videos with fall leaves Um three minutes. No cheating fine Christmas ornaments Oh resin Christmas ornaments Have we done that before? resin Christmas ornaments um part three Of dave's leaf art. It was a a sega Like s a g a Hey from the netherlands has anyone seen my mom on andrea and edwardsack if their name? I haven't seen them. Okay Ready Okay, that's been three minutes. Yeah, this is dave. My name's dave. Jeff is the usual camera guy Okay, so first thing I'm gonna do is pour on here Just to cover it. I have it up on stands these plastic stands See these and I have a spreader a jagged epoxy spreader So when you drag along like this Does that look cool? When you drag along some of the resin stays behind, right? Isn't that great? Okay, so here's what we're doing we're pushing epoxy around And you basically just want it to touch everywhere so there's no dry spots and then it'll just level out nicely by itself Oh, the sun was out now went away. It was such a nice sunny day Okay, we're moving fast here moving fast So this bottom thing I think it's like alcohol ink or acrylic. It just this is the background for something This will become a finished piece of art one day. I'll build a frame for it But this is a beautiful just backdrop and now first coat of resin But here again, if you missed it the reason why I'm doing this a baker's rack. Yeah See this baker's rack in the back here in the back This is a fantastic thing to have in the beauty of a bunch of these trees And then you put whatever you're curing or resining on a tray and slide it in here And some wheels too Great art studio stuff. All right. Now. Here's what we're doing. This is air again This episode is brought to you by arid extra dry Get it ultra fresh scent for maximum strength protection Uh antiperspirant and deodorant so There you go Why did I do that? So here's what we're doing. We're spraying it all over here. I'm going to take you nice and close Um, the baker's rack is level enough. It's level enough But nothing's level Find me something that's level. I dare you Okay, here we go So again, see how shiny it is. You know what? I'm going to torch it first Then I'm going to air it extra dry it I don't recommend doing this But maybe we do Okay ready Okay, and look at this torch head Okay, oh it got pretty nasty, eh? Well, that's what happens when you put fire on metal Jeff's level. Yeah, Jeff is the most level guy. I know All right time for arid extra dry Um ultra fresh Okay, here we go So look how shiny it is now And it's still pretty shiny, but it's more it's matted Okay, um, you know, you don't need to prep the wood first. Oh that smells so nice Arid extra dry. No, you know what it sounds like smells like smells like axe deodorant You know that smell that jeff smell that jeff kind of smell Okay, so now what we're going to do is this piece of wood Do it over here jeff. Did you use axe deodorant? Please jeff if you can comment okay Jeff definitely uses axe I remember that the airport with jeff and he got his axe deodorant confiscated He was devastated. So here we go So i'm just soaking this so that when I cast it in clear epoxy No bubbles will come out of the wood I mean when Even if wood seems really dry it can still have some moisture in it And when you start getting mixing water and epoxy and wood You start getting bubbles so So again, I'm just Prepping this for a really deep cast And this one can fit in and this this thing can fit in the pressure pot too, which was the main reason to be honest I don't know what I'll do with it, but It's so weird not having someone here to talk to i'm just in a big open space talking To myself It's quite weird It's quite weird. You know what's even weirder We went out rebecca and I had to go to the lawyer Because we sold a house our house finally sold That we put on when covet before covet we put it on But we're walking down the street and there is a beauty salon for teens for teenagers It was called like a teenager beauty salon And I couldn't believe it how spoiled we are holy smokes Spoiled okay. How's this? Great you say good So I'm gonna take these off Thanks, tanya for responding to stuff. I think tanya is under Dave's act right now Okay, we just finished a couple things. I'm gonna check them off the list We're organized. Hey from India Is it the middle of the night in India? I hope you're doing well um Olly from texas said I have to be nice to you to all the viewers So I'm sorry if I wasn't nice um So this one's done Cross it off preco wood block done lace bull and dialies fabric test. Let's do this okay Christmas doilies Okay, we'll do Christmas doilies. Oh that arid extra dry is so strong I found this one Maybe we'll make like popcorn bowl out of this A nice big popcorn bowl Maybe Okay, I'm gonna set the camera over here for the doilies It's doily time Hey there Hey memory heart um Yes, it's doily time. Can you believe it? It's that time again ladies and gentlemen I was going to buy some doilies from your $10 each That's crazy. No one will buy don't buy doilies for $10 each Don't do it All right Look at this great setup Jeff are you seeing this? We need some baby powder in the studio So that this doesn't happen. Okay ready like this ASMR Okay Let's go So first things first I don't need Too much. Oh, that's too much resin. What I'm gonna do is make this a nice cyan blue a nice Bright Blue I'm gonna add some white just keeping this light. I'm gonna stir again with the back of this paintbrush. No bad idea Bad idea I hope you guys are learning something and maybe getting some ideas and selfishly. This is so fun Just to problem solve through art stuff. That's a very light blue. I'm gonna add a bit more a lot more cyan Okay, it's gonna be very opaque So I'm gonna move these doilies out of the way And quickly talk about so last week what we did was uh Last week We tested on different fabrics. How do I do this? This is like a furry carpet. Look how dark it made everything. See how much darker that is I don't know if we can see or not leather turned out great This one actually became brighter. This was like, uh, I don't know just the normal cloth Turned to actually brighter um Okay, there we go So be careful with your fabric, right? I think that's really really dark Put that resin out of the way Well, that's a nice baby blue a bit lighter than I had hoped But first I'm gonna do this coaster. It's like a big trivet actually it's from the dollar store Just taking this dunking it This can be very messy Which makes it very fun This is a lot of fun That's like a baby blue. Hey Oh, what is what would you call that color? It's almost uh Aqua that looks good So once this cures, I'm gonna flip it over and trim And probably paint the edge But even that's just kind of cool. I don't know looks great. So I'm gonna do this big one and just make, uh Bigger trivet just a plain old trivet And then I'm gonna do a bowl and see if it actually peels off the plastic bowl nicely Or if we need to use a mold release or cover it and spray and wrap or something Look at this nice mess I'm gonna show you this close So I can't read your comments. There might be some great ideas in there Tonya and Jeff Can you if there's any great ideas? Can you write them down and let me know? I think I saw one of them Coffee grounds someone said resin coffee grounds We can try that and it look awesome Okay So again, once we just set this down. This is just a plastic sheet that's on top of this table And it'll just peel right off of the plastic sheet Okay Here we go and there's a spot right here doilies Doilies tell your friends To find some doilies Rob a lobby of an old folks home Just go slip the doily out from under the plant They won't notice Here's this Look at that doily. So this is going to become hard and be waterproof Which I don't know if that's neat or not. Is that neat? Okay, ready Here we go Want to get this completely covered. It's not really uh getting it totally covered So I need some more resin Oh, this is so much easier with two people or three people We'll get there. Okay This This is a dark blue actually pure cyan. I should do it Okay And this one is going on this plastic bowl And I'm hoping that once it cures it'll just pop right off. It may or may not Some fuzzing here There you go Again tell all your friends Little doilies, okay Oh, let's leave another nice bottom But one idea Jessica had is you just put a glass bowl inside this And and then put some chips in there or something Okay, there let's call that a day for that one Um, okay, I'm gonna take these off Then we'll check out the to-do list Okay, thanks for hanging around if you're still here Let's turn this around. So we did the uh Coffee art is on the list. Okay Oh the pyramid. Yeah, you're right. I should So new will be um coffee art I'll put an exclamation mark So we did the fabric test we did the lace bowl and doilies What else laminating Okay, we'll go laminate some butterfly wings and talk about butterflies Pressure pot. Oh, I want to do this. I'm gonna do the wood stump right now Okay, that's what we do right now So this is almost the final step for This beauty What's that nice it turned out? It's just a perfect part of it. So this is just a little stool to put a plant on And just rub resin into the whole thing I'm actually gonna mix the resin with some kale oil And that's very important to do Let me grab the resin Putting gloves on again This feels really long. Is this a long one? Um, I have no one to just chit chat with I guess I can talk to you, but then I can't hear you and like So it's not the same Okay, stir this up. So and this is going to be a different type of resin coat. I'm not trying to have a thick Coat I'm just trying to have it finished So I'm just rubbing it in Here's this that might be enough for the whole thing I'm just gonna be a very thin coat And all the sides too That's all covered I'm not gonna worry too much about the bottom. I painted the bottom black. I think it just looks really sharp Actually, I'm gonna just Put a bit of resin in the bottom Why not? It'll just Be totally finished Top the bottom I like how some like cabinet makers will finish the back of the cabinets, you know, you know, bed maker or just the backs like Is a true Art's been to create like a full complete piece So you finish all the parts that even the people don't see It's a nice thought Okay And now I'm just gonna take some of this off Stands again Beauty. Oh, I love it So tomorrow they'll be uh Finished Put the legs on Call it a day Okay That Glows off Next thing is Here, okay So we did this paint the bottom of the wood stump And resin oil so I didn't bring I lost the strings for the guitar So we did the art test wood block doilies So laminate wings and pressure pot. Those are the last two things. Okay laminate wings and pressure pot So we've been on a journey over the past Wednesdays to try and figure out how to Resin a butterfly and suspend it in the middle of a block of resin And we've done so many tests. I'll show you a couple of them But we think we have the process down Which includes a laminator and a pressure pot Um gourd head 22. Why oil? um I don't know I don't know I don't know why Okay So these are butterfly tests as you can Look a lot the butt. We tried to put it between tape Didn't work This one, um What was wrong with this one? Oh, that one's actually oh no, this one was done in two layers. See you can see the line in the middle So we want to avoid that Look at all the bubbles on this one for example so bubbles But we're getting closer and closer We tried laminating with the body on and it just got all squished up and crappy What's cardable mean michael? Okay, let's go laminate some wings This is hard work I'm covering pretty much stuff all at once Why did you add oil to resin? I I just did that kind of as a joke Because kale oil is another um business i've i'm working on So Oh india we've so we've shipped art resin to india. There is there is someone who's called art resin In india who's just copying everything we do so buy from them Okay, yeah, just experiment all day for some reason feel stressed out About this So Laminator he's got so again our plan is to laminate the wings And then glue it back on this body and then to spend it in resin in the pressure pot. That's the project So Yeah, they were cool with the butterflies, but they're not perfect yet. We're trying to figure out how to do it perfectly So I bought this laminating amazon i'll get you close up for the exit This video is also brought to you by scotch brand laminators Okay See So when you laminate it keeps its color And it doesn't off gas so you don't get all the bubbles against it And this is what someone at a craft fair told me was the secret to laminate them So that's what We did So this will be a step by small step by small step by small step process that will just work on every wednesday Hopefully soon we'll have joanna and jeff back as a helpful studio hands I missed that comment Little 40 years ago this company had blah blah blah So here's the idea is right at the base of the wing here I'm gonna leave a little tab like right here and leave a little tab so that I can glue super glue it back on so Oh, yes, good. I'm glad you got butterflies. I'm gonna we need to primer butterflies me all we've perfected We've perfected flowers too. I'm not gonna do all this right now because it's very tedious We'll continue to cut this later, but the point is There's a Tiny wing with A little bit of plastic on the end and we can super glue that on I'll play with this later. Yes. We miss hannah. I know hannah She went back to school She went back to school in her own house, which doesn't count Okay, last thing we're gonna do is Talk about a pressure pot. This is a pressure pot Um the pressure pot is for doing really thick pores And not having any bubbles So that's good for this is an air compressor compressor. So I'm gonna set up the camera and we'll set this up Uh pressure pots to cut out your butterflies get s circuit machine to cut. I don't know what that means Okay, get this set up last thing for the day We're just gonna talk about pressure pots again Because people are asking a lot of questions about People asking a lot of questions about pressure pots. So Let's do it So first this is Um pressure pot guarantees that you won't get bubbles and it helps It's very few and far between where you don't use a pressure pot and you get it perfect You can have a really warm space helps But I've had to come out or there's small stuff. It's good for but once you start going over Um, well, we did a river table that was three inches and it was warm and that one came out perfect So the pressure pot definitely helps but it's not 100 necessary We're trying to make a resin where you don't need a pressure pot It's very complicated Okay, how much are you gonna mix up uh 16 ounces We'll do 32 ounces of resin Thirsty, I hate having to use a pressure pot. I hate it But if you want perfect like we're feeling that this is four inches by four inches cube And it's good. I know I have a single bubble in it only because we're using the pressure pot Um, we've done lots of tests if it's sitting out and they'll just be tiny bubbles But not perfect if you're adding color into it it's a whole different ball game You don't have to worry about there being a lot of bubbles because you end up not seeing them Okay, we're almost done here Thanks for watching. You've been hanging in there. I hope you're all having a good day Okay, something is too fit in there and they do Good good enough scrape the sides scrape the bottom stirred Okay So I'm just gonna fill up one up with just clear all the way These are just some props that we're making for something Now this one we were gonna make it uh metallic blue metallic by adding some silver and some white too And I don't want to stir this in too too much If I can keep some swirls maybe or something see silver and white There you go and some blue Whoa, beautiful Oh, I wish Jeff was here showing you the shot. That's so pretty Okay, and pour this In here this in there too. That was just helpful. That's fine So we're done with resin. We're done with resin. I'll walk you through this pressure pot So here's how we do the pressure pot We got our resin in here That one's just a full clear block. This one has blue and white I put a piece of plastic on the bottom. Here's your lid Oh, wow. You started the day with this in New Zealand New Zealand looks so beautiful Okay, I can't hold this and do it I can't hold this and do it Okay, so this is actually very safe. You know, it looks terrifying There's a release air release valve on here emergency air safety valve is called So if the pressure gets too high this thing pops first or anything else pops So you can be safe by knowing that because it is a very intimidating machine very intimidating machine. You'll be very careful with this Okay, that's all in there tight tight tight Tight So You attach your hose from your air compressor to your pressure pot flip this on So first thing I'll turn on the pressure here So now the air is traveling in here So just see this thing slowly rising All right I think we did everything that we want So laminating wings. We just got to cut out the wings. We'll do that later pressure pot done Okay Good let's end it here. Thank you for watching um I appreciate and all the uh nice things that you guys are saying Have a good rest of the week and if you have any other cool ideas put them in uh comments Something like that Goodbye Goodbye Thank you Oh, you guys are so nice So nice All right. Take care