 what what's up everyone how are you today let me know if you can hear me or if you can not hear me because they don't have a mic on I'm just hope you can hear me. I have a vamp, Amy and Susan just getting situated. Our dear fam Tressa D came in. Not a little Tressa, the other Tressa. So here's how this looks. Hello from New Waverly. Still sounds like a fun place and I know it is if you guys are there. So after we wrapped the live yesterday I went through and kind of fluffed out some things. I took a lot of the ink off that's in between a lot of GG thank you so much I took a lot of the ink off in between the tentacles so I'm just gonna show you guys how I did that like what my process was I'm gonna go through this area here. Paint pen highlights to the little frillies on the outside of the tentacles all of these and then either gold paint pen the frillies and gold paint pen that way it kind of stands out because right now it looks kind of two-dimensional. It's kind of flat looking. Well thanks you guys. Y'all are amazing. Thanks for coming in and watching me today. If you're new here hi hello what's up I'm Erica. We're artists till death. We go live every weekend at 6 p.m. Central except for Tuesdays it's at a different time. Tuesdays at 2. 2 o'clock that's the number I was looking for. So all the colors that I'm using. It was listed yesterday. I'm using the same ones and 91% isopropyl alcohol. And I'm using a something Princeton art brush. This is a super cheap little synthetic fiber machine. And so what I'm doing in this part is essentially making the color that we put down relief so it's getting pushed back into itself and that's what's creating the awesome dark lining that you see. It's kind of what catches my eye with alcohol in it. But like I said yesterday I'm having a hard time keeping track of what's the inside of my tentacle and what is the outside of my tentacles. So I'm not even using any color. Thanks you guys. I'm not even using any color right now. I'm just using clear 91% alcohol to push my existing color around. You can just put like drops of color drops of alcohol and let it push your existing back or you can do kind of what I'm doing right now and physically move the lines and pull up the color. I'm wiping my brush on a rag after most every pull because you probably can't even see it. The color is soaking up into the brush which is why it's kind of disappearing from my board. So I'm just going to finish this one line and then we're going to move on to using some stonk coat countertop art coat to seal this bad boy. Stonk coat? What's up? How are you doing? We'll be seeing you guys soon. If you guys don't know, stonk coat art coat is best in the biz and we use it to coat our artwork to seal it in to protect it and to really brighten the colors and to bring more depth to the leaves. That's what we use. It's kind of a secret ingredient that's not really that secret because we tell everybody because it's so awesome. It's always cute. That was CG wants a chip floor. I'm hoping that she'll be helping me do my mom's floor coming up. I need to put us all in a book chat. Yeah, that bathroom floor, my dad's old bathroom. I didn't have to like remake that whole thing. Well, they put another just floor like wood down and then you can just pour on it and then it's a floor and that's how science happens. Full disclosure, I'm not a furniture or anything similar. So I thought about dotting some yellow into this. Okay, that's not yours. Come here. So with our art, how have you been? Judy's here. Okay, so now I have my color down. Pretty happy with how it looks. I'm going to add some more of my pen lines because they kind of adjusted when I was refining my lines after the life was over. So I'm going to use another Posca pen, but this is a fine point Posca pen. I'm just going to add my sketchy lines back because did I even paint it if there's not sketchy lines everywhere? Probably not. The lines aren't for everybody. Totally get it, but they're for me, not for you. That sounds horrible. For you guys, it's for you guys, but if like a regular person was a regular person, if a not fan was looking at this and was like, I don't like it, that's what I would tell them. It's not for you. So now we have our jellyfish. I feel like I should do something more up here actually. I researched a little bit today, jellyfishes. Not a lot, not enough to say I know jellyfish, but I feel like I want to put a little bit of design. I'm just going to put some dots of just alcohol, just using the alcohol, not using any color. Just letting the alcohol push back the color that we already have down. This is one of the magical parts that I think in alcohol ink is how you can paint with clear, and it's going to do something awesome. I guess I could zoom in on this top bit. Air bubble outline possibly. These aren't going to be exact circles because alcohol doesn't like to move evenly. At least it doesn't for me. Maybe you have better luck with using 91% alcohol. RK3 and ATD are going to Australia at some point soon. Tim with color passion wants to know if you're going to be there too. And he said, I don't know. Let me ask some questions. So you don't have to come up with an answer now, just noodle it. I can't tell you what month we're supposed to be discussing it on Friday. Also, I keep getting asked where we're going to be when we're on Australia. I don't know. But as soon as I do know, I'll let you guys know because pretty sure we're going to be teaching some classes in resin, not alcohol ink. Sue has been fam from close to the beginning. We have gotten to meet her before and you would love to meet her. Very talented. I know I said before I'm almost done with the alcohol and we're going to move on to detail. But I'm mean at this time. And I said, where is everyone watching from? Okay. I like that a lot better than before we added these little dots. Diggin' it. So Jeff already started adding these dots down here. B, if you get bored, you can come help me put these dots on just because they amount of coverage. For one, so we never use a paint pen before you have to kind of charge it. So you have to push this little nib in and shake it up. Under that. Under that. So I just did it where, yeah, not, not what I'm doing. That's very, so what I did is I noticed like either like right here, here. It's like in a dot. Why don't I just do a couple dots next to each other? Okay. It's like in one of the dots so that it looks like that part is glowing just in that little spot. Okay. Yeah. I'm glad you can work on that. I'm not trying to, I'm not trying to like cover it. You're just doing it where there's a dot. I fixed my mistake here. I give it enough. It just makes it look like those parts are glowing. Put a black light on this. You can see how that's kind of a lot. So I'm just going to tap it out. Yeah. I tried to use some over here in the pink to see if it would turn orange. So we're just creating the illusion of glow by putting these dots in the center of loops of color. I also say that we're giving it a highlight. You see that? Nice ring, Jeff. Oh, yeah. You're just supposed to be coming to visit more but life. This is going to be one of those like mythical, so many done. You just go up the line and look because you're just looking for that dot. You're just looking for a dot that's like, you can see. It's just needed a little some extra. And so that's what's on some extra. Someone were to ask me, what is a good piece of advice on how to be a successful artist? I would say, get you a partner that also artists. Then when you get in a bind and you're like, I don't know what I'm doing and where to take this now. So you should say a seasoned artist. One with flavor. One that's been around the block a couple times. Just one that knows what they're talking about. But then there's I'm sure new artists are like, what about this? Have you thought like they'll come up with ideas and you're like, I would never think of that. That's actually one of my favorite parts about teaching classes is there's always students that put color together that I'm like, what is in your brain that makes you think that's okay? I don't say that out loud. I'm just like, I wouldn't put this color together. And then they make it into something fully magical. I love I love those moments and I feel less than in those moments where I'm like, I didn't call him old. When you read that, I was like, who's that? Yeah, shut that when I was using a flamethrower aka the torch. I don't know, that's Mitch. I wonder if it's like a so Mitch this little torch. It's brand new. I don't know if you guys use these. I know you use them. But when you when you tip it and you're doing the torch, it goes out constantly. It throws a ball of fire and then I know you're not supposed to go real close. So you back off and it just it just keeps going out. Do you know what might be causing that? When it fireballed on Tressa, she said that it's because of the nozzle that's on it, maybe. I think it's a different nozzle than they usually use. I don't know. I mean, that's a nozzle for that. So why? I don't know. I don't know. If you do, then it might like, either take over, you might have to put a lot and then it'll and if you put a lot, then obviously it'll take over. If you put a little, you would have to really do a lot. I don't know. I honestly, I don't know. Maybe if you did, like if you, maybe if you did, like some very thin. Thank you, Jane. Yeah, there. So I'm currently out of Stone Coat Art Coat in my shop, but you can get it from StoneCoatCounterTops.com using the code YAL, Y-A-L-L, all caps, no punctuation for 15% off at StoneCoatCounterTops.com, not on my website. I'm out. What does, when you put resin over this, doesn't like make it go like a really weird, or does it keep it? It was fine last time, but when we did it and then put UTC over it, it dulled it. Well, we call it, well, thank you. Give me a shot. If it doesn't, then it doesn't. We'll put a dot of another color on it. J.J., when you said you liked his ring, I thought you were talking about his wedding ring, not that beautiful looking turquoise one. That worked really well, because they have those extra, like, you know what I mean? These are the stairs. These are the stairs. We sell these on our website now, right? Like these guys. That looks so fun. I assume you don't need a reference. I'm going back to the, you guys come down. Hey, Tim. I'm going to bring you guys on a ride for one of Jeff's tentacles. And see, that's what I mean. Like if you do it thin, then it's not overpowering. But it's still gold throughout the whole thing. Yeah, it will get coated. Love it. I was going to say, I need a couple that comes out of, yeah, even if they don't go all the way down, so it just doesn't get too busy. Give us a motion. And it's very subtle. Maybe bring one, like, out from behind here, or do we want to keep some empty? Just glad you're here, Tim. Oh, thank you, Gina. Do you think we should add a something gold in the top of it? Because it has all this awesome reflectiveness. If no, then no. Do extra dots, smaller dots, bigger dots? I wish I had just mixed into my, maybe I'll put just, like, the tiniest bit of oak lawn in my resin way. It's hard to see it. They can see it. Thanks, my love. What happened to your mic? I'm charging my phone. That's sweet. It's starting to look like a hot mess success. Now, typically at this point, I would splatter a whole bunch of color on it. However, there's so much going on that I'm going to not do that because it's not over. So I'm going to start mixing some resin and then we can discuss, I guess. Then we can discuss what else we want to do. Switch out these buckets. But like I mentioned before, the resin that we use is stone coat countertop, art coat, super long working time. It's heat resistant up to 500 degrees Fahrenheit. It has no smell and has a great viscosity. And it's very shiny. Super glassy finish. It doesn't leave a ripples like I've had with some brands. You know, some brands, it just doesn't work out as well. Good change. Largely successes with stone coat countertop. What time is your bike ride? Eric, will I have something to be there? Sorry guys, I'm trying to un-stuck my button. Even though it's un-stuck, it's still not turning on. What's wrong? I can't get my this to work. The thing that you always touch with resin and... Yeah, but even when I get the button out... Is it? What's up, Julie? Hey, Jerry. Thank you, Sharon. I do love the piece as well. It is going to be available. We are interested in this piece or any other piece that we've done on the channel. Shoot me an email. Or if you want a commission piece, shoot me an email. So I haven't hand-mixed my resin in a while because I've had my stand mixer. Thank you, Jerry. I've been wanting to do a squid for a long time. I'm going to do a squid and I want to do a frame mantis for some reason. I'm going to do an owl. I want to do a lily. TG says Eric, be careful with that torch. The fuel tank can link from the nozzle you have. That's not dangerous. Some glow-in-the-dark mica. I thought about that by putting it down and then taking some and adding some glow-in-the-dark and then just painting it with it like torching it all out and then painting the mica in it like the glow-in-the-dark and then barely hitting that baby in it. So that doesn't... You're not heating it up a lot. Have you want to mix it in this resin that I have from earlier? It is at a very deeply consistency. Eric, is this on board or on case? No, I don't think that it's... It will. I just have to push the button a million hundred times. This is actually a melamine board. And I have my builder drill out hangable holes in the back of it. It did decide if it wants to work. So I'm just not going to worry about my stand mixer right now. I'm just going to do it. Be advice says hi. I really like this color combination as well. Aqua and pink and of course the purple that it makes. It's always a great color combination. 60 seconds to go. Sweet. The next stir too. I'm a really understandable board so that's no good. Thanks for letting me know. There is a heart in the way and I can't... What brand of ink did you use? Jerry, I used some piñata, some Blick marker refills, and some Copic marker refills. And I think I even used a Spectrum Dwarf Yellow. Time's up. Love it. So now we've mixed for three minutes. Thank you so much JJ. I have the best mods. Now that I have it mixed, I'm going to make sure I have no swirls of color. Excuse me, I have no swirls of resin. That would indicate that it's not completely mixed. We're good. Let me grab some oak lawn. Then I'm sure I have somewhere over here. Let me get it from my shop. I got some oak lawn. Let's do this a little bit at a time. Oak lawn will take over. Did you actually just add a glitter right now? I'm using some oak lawn, which is a glitter powder. It's a really, really fine glitter. I guess I can show it to you in my master jar. I love oak lawn. And crazy thing about it is that the particles kind of lay in such a way that it always looks like it's in a rainbow when it's on the piece. Too much so that it makes everything look gaudy or cloudy. But I want to put enough in that it's noticeable that it's there. Thank you so much, Shane Carpenter. If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to ask. We're always happy to help. So it has just a little bit of that amazing disco ball. Thanks yesterday. I did manipulate them a little bit more today. But honestly, I don't see a little bit that I pushed them around. I don't see that it's going to change down enough to really worry about it. I'm going to get my paintbrush in the other way. I'm graceful as well. What a good amount of pizzazz. The colors already looked super awesome and vibrant as they were. But now with the addition of the Stone Coat Art Coat resin, the depth of tone is going to stand out more and the colors are going to look more vibrant. Because essentially I'm making the inks look wet and glossy again. And great thing about resin is they will forever be glossy now that we have resin on it. I just use my hands to push my resin around if you prefer to use a trowel, a silicone spatula, a stir stick. You can do all of those things. But I like the feel of the resin and maybe that's just me. And if it is just me, that's me. I don't think it is just me, but I don't think it's just me. I was talking to Tressa when she was over here earlier about how relaxing it is to put your hands in resin. What do you guys think? Do you find it stressful or relaxing to work with resin? Comment in the chat or down in the description box. Nope, the chat box. Nope, comment box under the video. One day I'll learn what the words are. Okay, so now I'm pretty sure we have everything covered. I'm going through and kind of making sure it, and resin is going to self-level. I don't know, but I'm going to, it's a little bit heavy down here at the foot. Try to redistribute. All right, let's put some fire on her. Him? Her. Bit. I should have put some glowy stuff in there. So I don't want this too thin. I only pushed the resin to the edge. I wanted to dome. And if you get the resin too hot, then it'll be too thin and it's going to thin out and run over the edge and it's just not going to look as nice. So I'm only adding enough heat to pop the bubbles that are on the surface. More bubbles will come up, but I'll be back in the gossipy of the resin that you use. You really don't want to use heat beyond an hour, because then you can end up putting ripples in your surface that wordy in there to begin with. Can we give them a flyover before we say adieu? What everybody thinks? Sorry for the movement, y'all. You have, I was going to say, you got a bunch of bubbles at the very end. Yeah, I don't want to get it too hot. Yeah, the gold stayed really well. It did. It didn't brown or dull really. It's fun. Oh, you put a little sparkle in it? Did. Very nice. And these are great. That is like so fun. So here's what I think I'm going to do for my next jelly blob. I'm going to do the head of it, right? I'm going to do the mushroom. And then I'm just going to use my, what is that? A paintbrush and pull color down with just clear alcohol. Nope. Yep. Just the 91% alcohol. Because that's what I did with this one. I just used clear alcohol to like a wake up. The alcohol inks are right here. So I just put clear, regular, 91% alcohol and like just brought it down. Yeah, that's fun. That's great. Okay. They kind of can like, it's a purple light over it. You'll see it in a second. Like you can, you can kind of see it. Aquarium people buy this for your venue. Agreed. They can't see it. Okay, I feel better. So you guys, I like to see Jeff do his take on this type of picture. So you'd like to see Jeff do a squid or you'd like to see Jeff do alcoholic? Or you want to see him do his version of what I did exactly? I think I would overthink it is what I would probably do. Sorry for the look, y'all. All right, you're ready for your, well, you did have a close-up. Yeah, so sorry. A beautiful homeless person. Pick stuff during the days. I wake up, orders and art and today we had a whole bunch of other stuff. Anyway, thanks for watching what we're doing today. I hope you enjoyed it. And that was short, well, I guess it wasn't, it was, it's an hour. I really like working with alcohol inks on top of doing resin and all the other stuff that we do. I need to work with inks more. But that's all for today. Tomorrow I have to drive down to Rana's to check on my big ol' yellow table. Yellow. My dad got a yellow table. I'm just doing honing in color, doing some color correction on that piece. So if you guys want to see that process, I guess in the chat key. Thanks, Donna. Cheers. I'm going to bust a line and turn my brain off from today. Thanks, JJ. You guys are amazing. I hope you enjoyed it. Hope you try it. If you do, tag us at our Facebook group, ATVs, four people. We love to see what you guys are creating. It's a great place to get ideas and share ideas and help other artists as well as get help for your own artwork. And yeah. I have a class coming out May 13th. Dallas, Texas. And Dallas. We're working on Australia. So if you have a place that you want us to come in Australia, also comment down in the bottom or send me an email. And yeah, be kind to one another because you never know what's going through. And always remember we do the tests. Look at him as a little fan. He had a rough day at Puppy Daycare. He did. All right. You guys have an awesome day. We will see you tomorrow. Bye.