 Welcome back to the art studio. If you're new, my name is Dave and behind the camera is Jeff. What's up everybody? And what we do is we walk around this art studio space here. We have lots of different materials and we always experiment with resin and so we have and then you know give us your feedback and the comments and what else we should use. So that's what we're doing today. We're doing coffee beans and feathers because of your suggestions so thank you for that. Hey John. Hi John. So Jeff do you want to just get going? Let's do it. Let's just do it. I'm so excited. Jeff is so excited because it's been a while. Now let's just start with this poster so yep well no let's do a walk around what we're going to do today. Yeah okay. So we're going to be mounting a poster onto this wooden candle and resin again. We're going to be experimenting with feathers. Hey Belle. Hey Lauren. Hey everyone. We're just doing our table of contents. Yep. So we see we have two of each feather. We'll have one resin one not resin and we'll see what happens to them. We're also going to put the feathers inside a casting resin so I'll just put it in the casting resin and put it in the pressure pot here to see what happens. Thanks for all the welcome backs everybody and Dave did you say hi to... Is my mom on you? She is. Hi mom. Nice to have you. Sorry I didn't wear a clean shirt. A coffee bean. A coffee bean. Oh my mom thanks for texting me ideas for this Wednesday live. She texted me some ideas. Is this one inspired by her? No this one isn't. Okay. This was people the viewers said do coffee beans, do coffee beans. So we're going to make like a hot coaster plate. This is just a baking mold from Amazon. Nice. We're going to make some coasters. Nice. We're going to make some artwork. Nice. Using some alcohol ink and beans and then we have these little jewelry molds so you can put just a coffee bean in there and have you know some art too. So okay. Belle is all over this. She wants to know are we doing ground coffee or just coffee beans? We're doing just coffee beans today. Okay. Oh Belle is saying please maybe next time. Oh all right there we go. Coffee beans so oh also we have a new segment called fan mail. Hey look at this. So we'll reach in here and do the one fan mail and then the last thing is so are you familiar with restoration hardware? Um it's a store. No okay it's a it's my favorite furniture store. It's expensive but they just have great design but we I ordered their catalogs all these catalogs for free just to get um kind of inspiration on art because they seem to always have like the most you know trending art and all of the art in restoration hardware's catalog is black and white. Tell me if you see any color black and white. Boom. Black and white. Boom. Black and white. Wow. All of it. Black and white. Why modern? This is the modern way right now. Black and white. People want black and white. Oh look there's a bit of like a little goldy yellow. So I thought what we would do is we would make some black and white resin art just you know inspired by restoration hardware. So that's a lot of stuff to do. I'm already stressing out how should we do it first? Uh what do you got? Feathers? Let's do the poster. Poster? Oh yes okay. I'll start with the poster. John has a question on the one gallon jugs of resin the red caps that are on top once you open and start using the jug should you keep using and replacing the cap? No it's only for shipping. Perfect. Good question good answer. Okay so here's what we're going to do. I got this printed at Walmart and the story behind this is Tracy Tracy Pierce is our like queen I guess you called her? Nancy's with your mom? Sorry. Oh hi Nancy. Says hi. Thanks for watching. Sorry. Okay so Queen yeah Tracy's our queen be here at the office and when she gets stressed out we had someone who worked with us who would say it's okay we're not launching rockets and so Tracy tells that to herself she gets stressed out because someone's like resin you know spilled or something you can say it's okay we're not launching rockets so so uh there you go Tracy. Yes. Yes. Yes I don't want to put it out of the question. Please. Yeah here with launching rockets is the way of the future. All right so what are you doing now? All right so this is just a glue stick it's just a regular glue stick and you can do the spray adhesives but those are actually very dangerous because you're misting glue into the air. Also it's just like health concerns wise the the spray is yeah you know the spray might get on here and then on your actual poster by accident and then the resin doesn't the resin doesn't has little divots in it. Yes. And then the spray appeals away after a while too. Oh okay yes the team is back Tonya art resin can be used as a glue just remember it does take 24 hours to cure that's correct Tonya. What's up Sarah and the gang everybody else who said hi you guys are being awesome it's good to have everybody. We have Tonya on YouTube answering your questions and typing really fast so Tonya will hold your hand through it well we're not allowed to hold hands right now it's so sad. I know Jeff oh I just want to hug you Jeff. I know maybe in 2022. Yeah for lucky right that's great. I think we're gonna show last week's results in a little bit right Dave you got some stuff. Oh what did we do last week. Kimmerbell's asking about last week results. I don't know what we did last week. I have no clue what we did last week. But if you want to see any things let me know. All right. Well also we got the new shipment of butterflies. Yes it took a long time to get butterfly shipped. Did you look at them. Yeah they're not hunters they look more like moths I would say. Oh really. I think we got ripped off. Oh no are they all the same. No but they're very brown you know they're very brown. Oh boo. So I think if we want to break a lot of butterflies we're gonna have to go kill them ourselves. Done. All right we're pretty exact. We're exactly what you find one. Thank you. Do you have any other funny things to say. Well my son came up with a joke he literally made one up the other day. You ready for this. He's five everybody just so you know. What did one two say to the other two. Hey me too. I know I was like dude well done. Yeah you praised him. I did of course. Well even if it was a terrible joke I'd praise him right. Yeah keep going. Just don't. Right yeah like it's got double meaning it's got the whole double entendre right thanks bell thanks switch thanks Shannon good. So this is a Breyer. Oh John in that circle resin calculator I feel bad John. Oh man. We can just figure out how to do that. So you've braired that and put that straight down so it's nice and flat. Yeah. So last step is trim with an exact knife. Okay try to get it as exact as you can. Yep. Sorry just retreading a joke there. Very thick Walmart paper. Oh nice. Just Walmart. I think it cost me nine dollars to print this. You got a good printer upstairs actually. Oh no look I got a freed edge. So Nancy who's watching with my mom is a I think a lifelong friend of my family. Thanks Bell. Oh is she really? Yeah Nancy and I would say she's crafty. Is she? Yeah. Oh can we have her in or something? No. Not allowed. Alright. I got in trouble for inviting people. Oh live video. Oh okay. Yeah Nancy can come. The biggest collection of tender egg toys. Oh get out. Yeah this is great. Yeah I do too under my couch. Yeah tender egg I don't know I feel like they kind of dropped the ball. It's not as exciting as when I was a kid do you think so? I don't I never had them actually when I was a kid I whatever but every toy I see honestly is garbage that night. Yeah okay so we already taped the bottom so that the drips won't get stuck to the bottom. That's right. As long as you take off the tape tomorrow and not wait a week then we won't have any problems. Laura is saying we should black marker that white edge. Yeah you're right. Good call. Thank you Laura. Have you ever tried to drip melted candle wax or crayons into resin into resin? Oh interesting. We do actually have our top 10 video has a crayon art on it so you can check that on like the top 10 quick and easy resin tips but as far as crayon art goes or melting wax that's a great one put on the list. I'd love to see how that looks. That's a good one. Black marker. This is for Joana. Joana will be back Joana will be back. Joana come get a marker this. Then she just blew it. The shelf is still in her basement Nancy says. Oh nice. For the kinder art. Dave's doing the black see this is why interactive with with our our friends is so good. Everybody obviously it's on the stands to help prevent from the drips as well or sticking to the table even though it's going on a plastic cover. It just helps to keep things clean and tidy drips will fall down. Yeah this isn't actually like two minutes of time but yeah I'll be happy to do this. Yep oh yeah it's it's worth it. We'll see that twinkle in her eye. When she gets that twinkle. Oh no oh no what's going on? Take your time no problem we can talk to our our friends. D's got over 10,000 pieces of smurfs. Get it out. Wow. What do you do with all that? Holy cow that's just what you just collect man I think that's what you do. That's fantastic. Dave. If I had I wish I had transformers I wish I had that. Smurfs. Yep. You know what I give up. It looks so much better though already looks better. That's all I'm doing. Two parts. All right well everybody else don't give up. Okay so now we're going to put poor resin on it we actually pre-mix the resin so let's just do that right now. Okay. Yep pre-mixed resin ready to go here. Jeff. Talk to me. Wondering if we can do a sports update, a sports segment. What's the name of sports? Well we are in the World Series of Baseball and they just had game one last night so Dodgers won so it's looking like um Dodgers. The Dodgers could take it it's Dodgers versus the Rays, Tampa versus LA, Battle of Sunshine. So I'm kind of hoping the Dodgers win it. There are actually but a neutral site they're in Houston or somewhere I think they're in Texas somewhere and yeah so that's happening and I'm sure game two is tonight and NFL football is into week seven I believe with there's been multiple cases and stuff but they keep pushing forward. Hockey's done, basketball's done, that's it. Lakers won. Yeah there you go. Lightning won. That's it. LeBron James right? Yeah LeBron James won it again. Yeah. What do you think? How do you feel about that? Um I have no feeling about that. Oh D's nuts you think that Tampa's going to take it for over the Dodgers? I don't know. I don't know. Tampa, Florida over LA. Yes I think Bell did you not mention the silhouettes before? I think someone mentioned that the silhouettes of the coffee beans remember that? We talked about that a couple weeks ago. Silhouettes? And yes season in which I did miss everyone actually it was so nice to be back in here. Um but yes so I think uh yeah like if we do like kind of like that was the whole thing I think I was the inspiration it's pretty cool. Silhouette? Like a silhouette so you take the ground coffee beans and you create a silhouette of something so you know what I mean? Yeah interesting. Okay so this is good. Okay so the last thing that I'm going to do is just rub all the resin that dripped over into the sides. Nice. What's that? And then I'll just give it a tiny edge. Hopefully Tracy's not watching and she can be surprised. Yeah I haven't been to do this for a long time. Muhammad had poured some resin and it has not cured well. Muhammad that is terrible news. Definitely there could have been some process or something wrong in the process as far as not mixing properly or um measurements um that were off. Hate to put it on you but yeah I mean Yeah so kind of just it's yeah it could definitely be part of the process so sorry to hear that. Temperature there is 35 to 40 that's nice that's a very warm room that's nice. Yeah that's good. You want to have it warm to to be able to pour it. Okay there that's that. I got some resin. Okay so next we're going to put these uh feathers to our first feather experiment. All right feathers. So I'm putting the resin this bottom half and what we're looking for is that when the feathers get when the feathers get wet with resin do they get darker that's what we're worried about. Okay so we got uh okay so we're I'm just gonna try and stay on one side here and these are uh chicken and pheasant feathers. They're from Amazon they're not very exotic. It's hard to buy uh like you know really colorful like you can get peacock feathers you can do a bunch of those. So first look. So here's these two. They're all holding well. Look like there's like no difference except now it's going to be beautifully encased in a glass like substance called art resin. There you go Donna do it up get those feathers encased. They're looking really good. I'm going to put them in I think it's going to look really cool inside the blocks of resin too. Oh yes Dave's going to do that later we're going to come back over y'all. Dave's got these blocks here and we're going to put some feathers in there as well. You're going to try and suspend them? Yeah cool. This white one became very transparent. Yeah yeah yeah. So which is kind of really cool that you can see through it. Boom sorry I missed the commentary. Muhammad I hope I hope maybe Tanya's looking after you. I think you're still talking about your issue. Hopefully someone can help you. Sorry I'm just trying to stay on camera here. I have a bird sleeve. Lots of feathers. We'll surely try this. Yeah that's the only thing is I would love to see it also too on colors. Yeah that'd be cool but this looks great. Look at that. There's like no difference here if I come over top. Same thing you made it more saturated. Yeah yeah exactly. Okay good. That is great. So next let's go to the coffee. Thanks free spirit awesome to be back. Boom where are we? Here's the plan. Oh we're going right at it. Boom here it is. So this one I'm going to pour in let's settle for a bit and then these ones. Oh you're going to do a base of it. I'm going to start with clear resin then I'll add in some colors and some coffee beans. Oh cool. So we're making a diptych here which is a matching. What's your language? Diptych. Hey Sandy. I'll do one of these. Nice. And then I want to go this. Oh you're going to tint it up? Yeah. Sweet. Oh I know I'm going to do the I won't do the jewelry. Well here I'll do the jewelry. Thanks. The jewelry? Yeah yeah yeah. Oh yeah big buckets of resin that's actually really satisfying. How you do? When you're when you're mixing with like just working with big buckets of resin just kind of going everywhere. So next I'm going to add a bunch of cyan blue. This one. No you can turn the bucket over and reuse it. Just put it on the plastic sheet like we've got here. Yeah Dave does that too yeah he'll empty it but you can also then put the bucket upside down onto plastic and then when it cures after 24 hours even before you can lift it up and pull the plastic or the resin right out of it because it's hardened and reuse the bucket. Usually you can just pull it right out or you could use alcohol. Add cyan. Okay. Oh yeah that's just sinking right in there. You could keep it kind of textured hey if you just leave it like that. You know because you'll feel it as opposed to it being flat. Yeah that's what you do. Oh nice that's great. That looks cool. Okay. What you're creating? I'm going to make a poster here so I'm pouring it right into that resin and then for this art, same thing. Bread. How would bread work with resin? That is the best question we've ever heard. I think bread and bread would work great. I think there's sarcasm in that voice yeah. How would bread work with resin? I never thought about that. Maybe put a whole loaf of bread in a block of resin? Well I guess if Hansel and Gretel had like if their breadcrumbs were solid maybe they would I don't know I forget the story. Jeff that was one of your poorer jokes I'd say. No that wasn't even a joke unfortunately that's just how my mind works and that's what's really scary yeah so. Well give us one of your zingers. My zingers? No. This is looking good. I like to see the brown and the blue looks really good actually. Oh no. Oh no you didn't mix. See what happens when you don't have Joanna helping you. So now you're just going to keep going. Fair enough. Now it looks like clouds that's amazing. A beautiful oops. Yep and that's that. There you go. And then now we're going to mix a bit of this white with the blue. Okay you're going to bring the color down a little bit. And just make light and medium blue. Dude honestly this is looking really good. Oh yeah and you can even write like text on there like breathe you know put it up in your coffee shop. For all those who've got a coffee shop. Yep. Nice. Okay. There it is diptych coffee coasters we have coaster plate art and now jewelry. I don't know if we'll be able to see those in there or not. Do you have any more clear? No. Okay so let's work on some gray scale. All right that would be great. Great. Okay so the dad humor is in full effect today. I'm mixing this so this is resin tint. This is just acrylic paint. It's great acrylic paint. You can do that don't worry. Great acrylic paint right into the resin. This is some alcohol based ink for our whites. Pamela this is how Dave works all the many projects at once. He loves it. Yep. This is Dave's favorite day except for doing doing paint brushes today. Yeah because you just get you know you think about everything for a week and you just get them all done. Okay. Oh what's going on? Oh I'm cleaning the brush. Nice. That's called cleaning the brush. That's called cleaning the brush. Grays. Oh yeah. And they are black. So actually I don't want to use white at all. Everything is really grays or blacks even. There's that one there. There's that one there. Boom. And then here we're going to put some black and like what did you do? How did you in this board here? You've already pre-painted it and kind of resin did as well. This was already. Yeah that was from maybe last week or a week before. Oh okay. And so there's no plan here whatsoever. I'm going to clue what we're going to do. Just giving her. Okay here we go guys. Art live. Creating art live with Dave. Well we're again we're trying to match that we're trying to match that restoration hardware look. Like this is way too light. So you're trying to get more of the black and white scale? Well right now I'm trying to cover the whole thing. Sorry guys here if I spin around here you can see things better. The lighting's better this way. Play with it. Were you doing some sort of a matte finish with the spray last week Dave? Oh yeah matte finish spray. It didn't work at all. Okay. You're trying to air it extra dry. It says spray deodorant that they use on film sets. No go. So I mean I need a lot more resin right here. Oh man I can mix them up for you. Do you mind? Not at all. Or should I just use the casting resin? Uh you could. Yeah. You just gotta still gotta mix that a bit. I can start stirring that while I'm kind of watching you work. Sure. Yeah yeah of course um because if you I can use this. Cool. Sorry I'm going to get you on the camera there. Just keep talking. We're creating and I'll film it. These ones have a weighty amount of more resin. The coffee beans are done. I'm going to try to set up a list. Okay. I want to make them over here with you. Beauty. Now we're talking. List review time. We're shooting. We need like jingle music for all this. It's list review time. Yeah. And it's fan mail time. Ding ding ding. Boing ding boom. Set it up. All right done. So I've got this thing. I'm going to torch this one first and then I'm going to cover it. D loves your hair. My hair? Yeah. Thank you. I'm going I'm going a very self conscious about my hair my receiving hair. Oh your hairline? Oh god mine was gone five years ten years ago. Really? Oh yeah. That's why you wear nice hats. We're hats all the time. No that's just because I have actually terrible hair. The Tracy poster start. Pressure pots. We still have to do all this. Oh boy. Feather test we did. Coffee beans we did. Done. Great scale. We're almost done. On it. Fan mail should do that. Yeah give her. Okay. COVID here. Yeah. So this is the fan mail box. Let's see what we have. Oh look at this. Whoa. So I don't have a name for this but they had a couple questions and they were very nice. Okay. So one of them were talking about using alcohol and someone suggested spraying the service and then pouring resin on top of the alcohol and that gets rid of all the bubbles. It probably works. My only fear is that alcohol is a solvent which means when the resin heats up the alcohol will evaporate into the air and I don't know if that will cause some sort of respiratory thing because you're mixing a solvent in with our resin which has no solvents so you don't burn masks. So but they do use they spray alcohol over big epoxy floors because it forces bubbles to come up. Oh interesting. But I don't know if it's safe or not. So mold release was the other question. I find if you can get away with never using mold release then you don't have to worry about the epoxy reacting with it. So just buy really good quality silicone. Sorry Mike. Expensive silicone molds or make your molds with expensive silicone then you don't need mold release and last for a long time. Mold release will affect the surface of your resin. And then cleaning up you can see lots of our stuff we just wipe off the paper towel and let dry on the surface. We always are putting in this plastic sheet and we buy big rolls of plastic sheet. Can you show them underneath Jeff? Yep hold on I think I'm done stirring that too. Okay good stirring by the way. Thank you. Really nice. Art resin.com by the way Mohammed I think you're asking our website. Yeah so look at all this sheet look at all this rolls of plastic. So we just put that down a lot and you can leave it there for a couple weeks and then throw it out. I'm gonna put my gloves on. All right. Are you leaving? Gotcha. Say hi. Hi. Bye. See you. Bye. Talk to you later. Thank you for making that ready. My pleasure. Okay so we got something going here. Oh yeah. Oh yeah because now we can't do it. All right get your get your create on. How's summer John's asking? Oh summer's good. I hope you don't come in right now. Oh yeah. She's probably sleeping. Yeah she's right at the door. Oh there she is. Hi. Oh there you go. Can you see her guys? Can you see her in the top corner there? Right there. Oh you feel like the art is too busy? Yeah. Yeah. What's your favorite canvas tonic work on? You like working on a wood board? You're like. Yeah wood. What is it gesso too? Is that what it's called? Gessoing or gesso? Well you gesso a, you gesso a material. Uh-huh. You know and that's just so it kind of soaks into the, soaks into your canvas and creates a nice surface for you to actually paint on. Oh so it's more like soaking into the material to. Yeah it's making the material nice and smooth. So you don't waste all of your colors on that. Yeah primary yeah. Hey that looks like a city, if I look that looks like a skyline if I'm going to turn around here almost at the top here. Check my Facebook. All right season of wood she got it. Gesso is a primer. Yeah city in the fog. Yeah exactly Laura. City in the fog. Well okay we're just going for a restoration here right up. Gone. There it is. Mm-hmm. Very gothic Gotham city at night. And this one you want like super black at the base? A post forest fire. Apocalyptic skyline. Restoration hardware. Restoration hardware. Dun dun dun. See you Sandy. Okay all right let's open up this pressure box. So what do we got in there? So in here we have a big block of resin. I don't think anything's in it and then a block of colored resin. Okay. So I'll release the air. So this is just that air release valve. So you literally haven't tested this since last week. And I'm going to close the air release valve. I'm going to do it with all of these. You can do the Mickey nose ears. What is that then? No bubbles though. I'll fit with this later. Very bad. Okay. Sorry for my finger there guys. So let's see. Oh Laura you're asking great questions about the butterflies. We're actually going to be releasing a video soon but yeah layering doesn't usually work with casting because you can't actually see a line if you do do it in multiple layers. That's what we found. So we're trying to do it in one pour but we're trying to find the best way of protecting the butterfly which Dave I think is discovered with the laminating. However he's kind of pulling the wings apart kind of right now. We're playing with it. We're still playing with it. I'm just going to put this in the pressure box. I was going to do all these in here but we used all the resin. That makes it more. Okay. It's been how long has this been? What's that? How long have you been on? Oh 34 minutes. Oh okay. I felt longer. We got a lot done. We got so much done. We did actually. We got our lid. Listen if this is such a scary looking machine man. Now it's it's intimidating but yes candle wax is on our oh yeah we have to put it on our list right. I can't forget. I think the black marker was just a sharpie that Dave used. Yeah. So plug it into the side. This is our air compressor. Turn this on. Open this. Starfish endo when it was sticky. Okay. So we did a great scale. How much was your pressure box Dave? Do you remember Amazon right? No. I couldn't find it on eBay. Oh. We're looking at some pressure box. We're looking at pressure box? Yeah we'll be able to follow you if it's a suggestion. Oh good. Less intimidating. Exactly yeah. Just boom. That's it for today. That's it for today. Yeah. All right. Anything well I guess next week we'll find out next week right? We'll find out next week. What what? What we're doing. Yeah next week we will. Sayonara. Sayonara. Bye everybody.