 Okay, can you guys hear a sound now? And I'll run by everything that they just said. I need a sound check. Can you guys hear? Yes. Okay. So Erica and Whitney, Whitney has taken Rhonda's class before about a year ago, and she has her own business, which is. So my own beach finish that we're about to do for me, it hits home because it's very similar to the water that I just, for me, sells like people how to do it. And this is one of the finishes that's most popular for art, and a lot of times we're countercops. She does floors with oceans, not touching a floor, but. Just because you guys didn't hear before, we're over at Rhonda's, Rhonda Da Coolis's place at RK3 Designs. I have to always push that out to make sure I say it right. Da Coolis. The coolest, yes. And she's in the middle of teaching her epoxy pro class, and we're on day two of the marathon class, which check it out if you are taking the resin really serious and about to bring it into your business. It is a, it is must. So, do oceans because water's transparent, and keep it really easily, and it gives awesome depth. It's not mine for real. Up on the stairs. That one wasn't mine. I think you can't do that. I think you try it after I left, who's like, I really like a deep color. Excuse me. But, you know, it all depends on what you're going for. So Erica has, you know, hers is a little more transparent than mine, or lighter color, so she put less dye, put less drops. You just play with it until you get to the point where, you know, the color that you want. The colors are buildable. There are tints from color session. You can add as little or as much as you want. It's not going to change the chemistry of the resin, and it will never be opaque. You're just deepening the color. I use a couple drops for my like shoreline, and then I'll add a couple more into this as we get deeper, because it'll change the color. On this piece, we're using turquoise seas for the, I call this a shoreline color because it's kind of more green as it rolls up onto the beach. They're tints. They're tints. They're not water games. I don't know what science is in them. I know that they will eat a fish. You know, I put some blue dye on the beach, but hey, you can put a turtle there. That is true. And a red. I know that she's going to these instead of the old school droppers. I mean, I like them. It's easier for me to ship. I have a little water. I'm going to put a turtle here and just pretend it didn't happen. What happened? I don't know what you're talking about. It's just a shadow. Shadow. It's a shadow of the water that used to be. Can somebody hand us some more paper towels? Somebody spilled their Gatorade there on the beach. Someone was going to put a turtle on the beach. I don't know what you're talking about. I don't know what you're talking about. I don't know what you're talking about. There, on the beach. Someone was digging for sand. It's a paste. I don't know if Rhonda's gone over the difference in paste, tints, dyes, micas, all of that. Loosely, but not specifically yet. So paste is a pigment that's made for resin. It's got a binder in it. That is also some kind of science that I don't know. But it makes it into resin really easily. A lot of people like to use acrylics to color their resin in the art world. I don't recommend that, but it's possible. Because you shouldn't use ink in water days because it's going to break down the durability of your resin. And just as a side note, that 10% thing is very, very critical if you do decide to go into acrylic paints because you get the wrong percentage, it sets up real fast. And you'll get that marshmallow fluff thing in no time. And the colors aren't nearly as rich. Nearly. So this is super opaque. It's kind of like the aluminum light guys, but it's heavier. So it'll be better at getting the cells out. Whitney's going to use color session. You may have to get that one to keep going to open it. Never mind. She's got games. I secretly tried to open it earlier. It was really tough, so I loosened it earlier. Peter. Whitney, you're not supposed to say that. You know, you go with the bang there. I'm honest, I can't help it. So you guys didn't hear, oops, sorry. Y'all didn't hear before we're using just resin, diamond coat resin. Yeah. There's a lot of resin in that. Go ahead. Yeah. And so if you only use a little bit, it gives just an elegant, slight sparkle. Yeah. It's like, it's opal. I don't have like some keyless or what. It's not my favorite. So while she's doing that, I'm going to get started on this. I'm going to let you guys try it out. So Whitney, prep this board for me. Thanks. Do you want to talk about the board since we have like, it was actually a board that was poured by Rhonda's, I think class last time. And so what we did was I took a sand color and I sprayed the beach and then I, right over top of it, while it was even still wet, I took the stone. What is it called with the brand of the stone spray? Rustling and stone spray. Rustling and stone spray. I like the lightest color that you can get with that. We have variations of colors. But I like to go right over top of that because it gives you a really cool beach sand finish. For this one, I used a different brand. So you can see the black in that. And then what I did was I just faded my ocean colors from light to dark. You can pick whatever variation of colors that you like. Every time you do that, it gives you a completely different beach look. So very mine. There's no wrong combination because everybody's beach looks different depending on the minerals and deposits and such. Exactly. So clear right here to figure out my shoreline. And this is also going to separate my whites from my blues so I don't end up with a light blue way. So white will stay white. Now Erica can I ask you something? Sure. When I do this, I do them for tables, countertops, things that you're doing all over. Yeah. So normally... But I learned something yesterday from Cornhubboards, I guess. You guys do it this way and then you do the flood coat. It's leveled up. So you don't have to do a flood coat. You do. So that's what gives you this flat surface. Okay. So does anybody have questions about that? Because what I'm going to do here is I'm going to pour like I'm pouring a table for a restaurant. So I'm going to clear this whole stand and then I might wave in. I think you're going to... So she's going to end her wave here and have stands exposed. Yeah. And then again later you can do a flood coat if you want to make it into a flat surface. What I would do is do the matte top coat where the stand is because the reason as an artist I don't... I do counter tops in Google's but my bread and butter is artwork. Right. And mine is table tops and everything else. So I'm going to do it that way and then that way you guys can see the differences. But I believe you can do it this way and still flood a little bit. Yeah. I would just tape up the sides so that... Because if you just do a flood without taking the sides you'll see that ridge because it'll self level you. Not pretty. Put any glitter in this layer because I usually add glitter into my... Or whatever you use. Glitter, abalone, halo. I love halo. I would put it in my flood coat or if I'm going to do a second color coat I'll put it in that. So I'm not too worried about it. This coat is really just about getting your design and color done. So but if I wanted to do this for a table I would probably open a top coat here. To keep the sand matte. I use real sand in my work from... Well in Dallas we don't have... Well you do when you go to Michael's and you go get the jar of sand you know. Sorry. If I did use just because the color is not going to change all the sand that I've ever used I would use a synthetic sand because this is going to be that color. True. Alright. Erica you need to speak up apparently. Having trouble... Oh apparently in Whitney too. Yes we are live. Hey guys. Yeah look who's in the house. If you speak up I'm going to put you on. You know that. So Whitney when you do... Oops sorry. When you do your sand how do you add sand to your board? Everybody kind of does it a little bit different. Do you have it like be a real thick paste or fairly thin? Okay so we can actually add just a little bit of resin to it enough to give it... it would be more textured. I see it for you. I'm sorry. No no that's... But I mean is it like a peanut butter? Is it loose or like a honey kind of thing? It's like a thick cold honey. Okay. Yeah that helps. So if I do this that means go louder. Add a little bit of pigment every once in a while to give a little bit of variation in my color. But I'm still only using the same three colors. Right so I pretty much only use two colors as well and then I use the base coat of the spray paint as my like first layer of depth. So I'll use... sometimes I'll even use five different blues to get my fade from like to dark then using the two colors of resin you still get variations of shading because of the undercoat of spray paint. How about us working the color together? I do from dark to light so I can bring up some of the deep shade. Officer. I bring the dark into the light color. Yeah I try to blend the two together. I mean when do you guys see the ocean and it's not you know it's all the blue right here and it's all the blue here. Light blue here? No it's all different variations right? You want it to be... I only can't see nothing. I want alien beach. I think you're using the wrong colors though. I've done alien beach. I've done all colors. You've done the unicorn beach. Are you gonna do high heat and runoff? Do we need coasters? I'm not gonna do full runoff because I'm not doing... I'm not using tape again. Okay. Very much. No, we're gonna use different attachments to kind of show the differences in what they do. I'm gonna use what I call plastic attachment I think it's called a diffuser. Mine's a tape and grown-up term and I think that one's called a concentrator and grown-up term. Is it? Yeah. Marcy they're calling you out and they're asking if you're gonna do an ocean on your channel. We got a maybe on that one. That was a nice night. That was so much fun. Okay. So I'm applying my white where it touches because I want it to be underneath of this book. But Whitney is going to be resin on resin. Yes. So you'll see the difference. I guess for a smooth white you don't have to work with something else. So... I'll show you guys something. So I did not mix my deep blue or whatever deep turquoise in there enough. You can actually see the streaks of the dye in my eyes. I did that too, but... I like it. I do that on purpose sometimes. Same. I liked how it came out because it gives it... There's little... I don't know if you can see the little streaks. But usually I do try to mix because I can always pick some of the steep blue up and run it through my lighter turquoise and mix them like that. But it looks kind of... It looks kind of cool. I also sprinkle a little bit like diamond dust and then move it around with my hands. Yeah. Yeah. Can't blame it on Bowie this time. And it's an extra $200. Okay, the reason why it's so important to make sure there's no floaters before you do this is because I'm going to stretch this wave and if it catches on something it's going to split your wave and finally do it. I said nobody likes a floater. So... I'm going to put... Y'all know how many with degrees. I don't know how many degrees this is, but that's the degrees I'm going to do. Two. Two degrees. Also that... Oh no! Uh-oh. Floater. Oh! He's a floater. He's a stucker. He's stuck. He's a goner. Oh, he did. He can't. Oh, he did. He can't come back from that. He did. He's a turtle. Keep him? He's been pre-bugged. That's his torture. Let him die with you. You're not going to take him out. I was going to eat him. I'm going to pre-heat a section and then push the wave and then move on. Okay. I'm going to have quarts run because I don't have time to wait around for like this piece then... Thing? It says Miss Muscles that open the jar easily. Guys, it's a super long table. I can only get so close. You need a selfie stick next. You're so out of time. Do you want to explain it? How the cells form. How do you... What makes the cells form? Oh, if you want to get science, you can go for it. Oh. Because that's grown up. I'm not 100% sure. Sorry, I was just saying that. I do have top cell and base cell payment. I wouldn't do this design. See all that mess up? Both of these face they're using are considered top cell, where you want them to be on top of all the colors to have reactions. You just whispered in Rhonda's ear and she's like, yeah. Now go for it. I'm just edging out my wave. Okay. We have a full coat of resin on our board, even over our sand. You guys have seen Erica do this a thousand times, but I haven't seen Whitney do it. So I'm just going to focus in on Whitney. Oh, God, not too close. No, I'm on the board. Okay. Start with my beach wave first. And then I... Depending on how big your piece is or what you're working on, sometimes I do tiny posters that I get my substrates from Erica. They're awesome. They're plexiglass. And what's great about it is that they come with this peel back on them or top of hand back. And when you're done pouring you have the drip. You can just rip that back off and you don't have to worry about sanding or anything. Once it's cured. When I'm working on a small substrate like that, I will go ahead and pour just one wave because it's the white wave. You don't want it to be overpowering on something so small. Something bigger like this, I'll pour my one beach wave like that, and then I'll probably do one more thin wave through my blues and then blow them out. Yeah. So that's what we're going to do. I start thinner, because you can always, I like to go back sometimes and I don't want to even blow again, but you don't want to, it's all about learning what resin you're working with and your pigments and things because if you blow your white too much you'll get clouds. You notice we always start pouring our lines off the substrate so we don't get that initial blow off. Right. You want to start off and pour all the way off. So I'm going to just go back and add a little bit of a thicker. Because to me, a thicker foamier wave by the beach is more natural. It makes sense with it hitting all the resistance too. Yeah. I don't even know. Is it? Yeah, it makes me it's heavier than, no. You may want to put that one in. Which one? Oh, I just did just resin. This line was just resin. You put your foot here and then you pick up this one. So this one was just resin. Uh-oh. So this line, you can tell the whites are a little bit different. Cool. Let's see what happens. What's happening? So I like to hit my area that I'm blowing my resin. Apparently she was trying to dry Erica's hair. I don't know. I was trying to dye her hair. So you're almost at a 45-degree angle, aren't you? Yeah. It'll throw white droplets across your teeth. See how he crippled that? But you can always just take it out with your finger or blend it in. That is the cake attachment that she's got on there. It's also one of the highlights that heat in the air flow. Erica has them on her website. If you want to order those. That sounds like experience. So my colored epoxy into my second wave a little bit because it tends to look like it's a wave that's an undertow wave. But if you ever search, you know what an undertow is. First on the internet, that's probably a good point. I'll get in close so you guys can see details when they're done. There's so many people around here are being tricky. Nothing else just telling them I'll get in closer later. From her regularly these are her no louder. A lot of different ones. Hammerhead, nurse sharks, giant mantas are new. Turtles, there's all kind of dolphins. I think she has porpoises. So her name's Mermaid Trash and I think she's in Boca. So I get them on her website. They're really great. You just cut them out and you sink them in your resin. Kind of just place them in your tacky resin and then my next coat that I'm going to do because I usually do a second color coat like this. Just like this to give it one more layer of depth. It makes it look really real. And then a final flood coat I'll do that especially if it's I always do a flood coat just to give it extra protection. It also adds extra depth too I think especially with an art piece something really nice high-end gives it a little extra depth. Exactly. So it gives it that it looks like you're on the boat looking down at the bottom of the ocean. It's really cool. So I'm just going to sink this little guy in kind of right here because I want him and I want him under the wave. Okay. Are you worried about tapping resin on top of him or just making sure it I will just to feel more comfortable if you want to if you have extra resin you can just pour some over it but you want to be careful because if you're going to pour more resin on your piece it's going to you're going to get movement. It'll move your waves around and make it look not so good. I'm going to leave him because tomorrow I'm going to do another coat and also just cut sticky ones on it and prick it and just put them under your first layer. Okay. Like just black or gray? What are you going to do? Well usually just get your airbrush in. Well not all of us have a Jeff. Everyone needs you. Have a shark. Make it sharky. On a table you don't use the YouTube thing. I just was trying this but no one was starting. Sorry. Chop chop. The ultimate top coat? Always. I don't even give my customers an option for flood for not a top coat anymore. Okay. Yeah. So you do this conversation yesterday? Yeah you do a flood coat and then the UTC. Yeah. Yeah. And depending on what you see your customer chooses now that we have the option they turn out great. I'm going to give them I'm going to go back and talk to them and give them the option I bring a sample board and give them the option to upgrade or to change to the gloss because the gloss to me I feel it's more natural for the ocean. Right? Is it just shiny? Yes. Yeah. I would just take off your wave be the match where the sand is and then gloss where the question is can it be more efficient? Yeah. I would be able to talk about that. So then what you're saying is like right here if I did this for the customer this area take off do not finish for the sand and then do the gloss for the ocean and then that line right there isn't it going to be compromised ever? Um, no. I'm going to have to have to have to have to have to have to have to have to have to have to have to have to have to have to have to have to have to have to actually have to have to have to be physically able and specifically will That was easy, I was all my questions. And the top coat's fairly clear. It's not gonna interrupt a plate sliding. Tara, the mermaid bond will be in your one, in your piece. Yeah, but what about her? She's got a shark. Oh, I want to be with her, there's no printer. There's no such thing, right? Erica, you wanna wrap this up real quick?