 Hi everyone, welcome to Tuesday at one o'clock. Thanks for joining us. Sound check. Sound check, mic check, mic check. I have a microphone on. Jeff has a microphone on. Hello. And then Hannah doesn't. But she does speak. Maybe we'll get our microphone one day. Anyways, if someone can give us a thumbs up that the audio is working, then we'll keep going. But we have so much to do today. We are going to do like we do every week. We'll go over what we did last Wednesday at one o'clock. And then we will do a whole bunch of new stuff and then answer your questions and just kind of go with the flow. This is going to be a bit chaotic. I can feel it. There's going to be a lot of scrambling around. But hang in there and it'll be great. I promise. Hi Gabrielle and Mimi and Jules. Jules says audio seems good. Okay. Thanks for letting us know. Let's keep going then. Why don't we start? Hi Debbie. Hi. Hey Debbie. Let's just kind of walk around and we'll look at some stuff from last week and we'll look at some stuff we're going to do this week. What do you want to start with? Miss Hadesh, Alexis, a lot of returners. Hi everyone. Shelly. We're just starting to go through this stuff from last week and then we have lots of new stuff and we're doing some experiments too. Michael. So this was the chess board that we did, a glass chess board. And this packing tape is just amazing for getting the drips off the bottom. Look at that. This is like two weeks old I think. Hey Cindy, you made it. The problem was when we put resin over top of frosted glass, it got rid of the frosting and made it perfectly clear. So you can't actually see the chess board anymore. So we did this just for doing experiments on glass. We also poured just little bits of resin to see if we could pop it off and it sticks to glass. Like art resin sticks to glass very well. I couldn't get my finger under there to get it off. It's not coming off very easily. Like it's on there for good. So experiment done. Success. You can put it on glass. Boom. Glass. Okay. So that's done. That was a little experiment. We can put that to the side. Here was the mirror one showing it can be done on mirrors or mosaics. Do we show this last week? I can't remember. I think so. I mean we're just playing around with materials and all of this has been coated in art resin and yeah. The mosaic looks good. It looks great. So it works on glass. What else? We went over different blues. How to mix different blues if you want like a tropical water or a sky blue or a deep ocean blue. And again that's at art resin dot com slash mixing. And you can get all the colors there. All this free PDF. No email needed. Lally Gal from Detroit. Carol. Hi guys. Hi everyone. And Rebecca Zach. Hello. Hi. So again we're just going over everything from last week and we're going to talk about what we're doing this week. So we're done with these blues are done. Texas. Now here we have these pieces. These are we were just experimenting with this like water beach effect. Then we did another layer because it had a bunch of dimples because we used silicone oil. And we added this pink and I'm just going to sand it down and I'm going to use a paint marker to put some nice text on here. I don't know what way to do it. The blues in the PDF. Good question. Yeah. The blues are in the PDF. Yeah. The PDF has been updated to include the PDF blue page. And if you want any others, let us know. So again, yeah, I'm just going to be sanding these down using a black paint marker. And can you find me a black paint marker somewhere? Okay. So I'm not going to do this all now, but just you can see I'm just ruining the finish. That's going to be fine. It'll all come back nicely. So that's one thing we're going to do. We'll keep adding to our experimental pyramid again, just an Amazon purchase. We're just pouring all sorts of things each layer. I will add something else to that. Now this one, this is a mold made out of a very dense plastic. This white plastic here is called before I forget. I did my mom. Come on. I haven't seen mom yet. Okay. Well, I said it. So, John, hopefully Rebecca is there to answer your question about the calculator. Yeah. So see this? We're going to fill all of this part up with a clear resin, all in one pour. And then we're going to make a nice little screw board out of it. So this is this HDPE plastic. You can just unscrew and pop the mold off. So we're going to be testing this mold out. We'll show you how we do that. Then we have so much to do today. I don't know if we're going to be able to do it all. So this is another type of mold. It's made out of, I forget what this wood is called. I don't know. Anyways, what we have to do is we're going to silicone the edges so no resin can leak out. And we're going to be making a lamp out of resin and wood. So this will be a mold over the coming weeks we'll be working on this together. So we're going to cut this to size. Particle board. Particle board, okay. Thank you. We're going to cut this to size and we're going to fill up this mold with clear resin and then put some lights on the bottom and do a lamp. So we'll go through that process. This is a beautiful old just four by four that was sitting outside for a decade or something. Isn't that nice? Maximum thickness before resin at one time. That's the question? Yep. Well, it depends on the type of resin that you have. There's surface coatings. Art resin is a surface coating and depending on the temperature of your room, if it's a hotter room, you can get away with thicker pores, maybe like a quarter inch. If it's room temperature, like an eighth of an inch for those coatings. So you can do lots of multiple layers or if you have a casting resin, then you can go up to two or three inches. So we'll be learning a lot more about those. This is our spare resin mold that Jasmine made with us. So basically, every time you add extra resin, you just pour it inside this mold. And look at that. Isn't that fun? So it's finished. So we'll be sanding this down and then polishing it back. Maybe do some turning on it or something. I don't know, but it's just neat to have a place to pour all your extra bits of resin. This was made from a ball from the dollar store in a bucket and then a two-part silicone around it. A resin bowling ball. A resin bowling ball. It's heavy like a bowling ball. I almost wonder if real bowling balls are made of resin anyways, like resin mixed with something. Like they have to be. I bet it's just made out of a resin and something. Now this is another mold for doing our lamp. This lamp we're working on today is like our experiment lamp and then we'll work out all the problems and then we'll use this one to make our final lamp. So we're not going to do prep work on this. I'm just going to move it out of the way. That's going to be beautiful. And then the lamp will stand this way. This will all be clear. So yeah, if you get a piece of wood like that, everybody at home like that has these different things too where the resin can just get within the mix of grannies, so good. Cool. This is a little river table security board. Boom. We can do one of those. I agree, Lily. Everything present is pretty. Okay, I'm getting overwhelmed. You know what else we're going to do? Look in here. We're going to try and duplicate this pair. So today we were just going to make a mold. Yeah. We have so much to do today. Banana. We're going to do banana, strawberry. Why don't we have a talk about mold making? Oh, listen to this. From Google, from Nicole, thank you. Bowling balls are made of four main different types of colors. There was resin in there though. There was some sort of resin in there. In the bowling ball, there's resin? Yeah. Yeah, there's four different. It has to be. Why don't we make this a bowling ball and we'll drill some holes in it too. This will be our bowling ball. Look at that bottom. Can you see the top again? That looks great. Yeah, fun. Nice. Let's talk about mold making basics. Okay. This is a whole another art form, but something that we've been getting into lately. So there's two main types of molds. And this is for if you want to duplicate something. There's two main types of molds. There's a one part mold and a two part mold. This is a one part mold and I'll show you why. I'm just going to break this open if I can. Okay, there we go. I'll show you why this is a one part mold. So this was a diamond was put in here in the silicone and this should just pull away. And we'll report this to see, but that's a big diamond. Wow. That's the big one. So see that? So a one part mold is you just have one part. You just fill it up. That's your top. So inside there you'd be able to get. So this shape will come. You'll get this full diamond. Yeah. Within there if you pour it. And this will essentially act as your top of your. Top of your. Yeah. Very cool. Now a two part mold is something where you have to have the mold in two parts. We'll start making one today, but it should be pretty. So what you'll do is you'll, there's an object inside this. There's not actually, but you have to just cut it with an exacto knife. And you can tear it. The silicone. I mean you really want to just cut it instead of tear it. And you just cut as little as possible until you can pop your object out. And then, you know, it'll be two parts. And you have to put it back together, tape it and then fill it. But does it, does that make sense? The difference between one part and two part objects? I don't know. Let us know if you got that everybody. Otherwise. Yeah. So what should we mix up first? Well, do you want to mix up like a whole bunch of this? Yeah, it's mixed up a bunch of it. And I'll mix up some silicone to fill up these molds. So was it hard to balance this pair? Yeah, it keeps falling over. I'm not sure if it's seen right now. Okay. I want to show people what we're doing here. So this is a pair. And on the bottom is a bit of plasticine. And, and so the idea is when we fill this up with silicone, that plasticine will leave, once we de-mold it, the plasticine will leave the hole that we'll pour our resin into to refill this thing. And this is going to be a two part mold, because we're going to have to cut the mold to get this out. Does that make sense? That's the main difference between a one part mold and a two part mold. A one part mold, you can just pop it out. A two part mold, you have to cut your silicone and you have to have some type of pipe or a space to pour your resin into. So what makes it one part mold is the fact that there's a flat side to it? Yeah, there's a flat side to it. Perfect. Exactly. And one part molds are much easier, but then when you want to start doing more complex objects. So you're trying to put the mold around here because you want to get the shape of the pair. So Dave's got this bed at the bottom. So yeah, when you think of it, you pour it, you're going to pour the mold making material in here. Oh, it's falling over. And then when it hardens and you pull the pair out, when you turn it over onto the other side, I want to fill this thing up. On top, right? Yeah. Why don't you do like 32 of resin and 16 of hardener? Resin to make your next bigger bucket. That's it. So right now we'll pour on top, but then when you're going to actually make a duplicate, you turn it over and you're going to pour it through this where the plasticine is and make your pair duplicate. Makes sense, right? I think so. I don't know if we're saying it right, but it sounds good. Okay. Oh no, I'm not miked very well. I am miked. Oh, geez. More problems. Sorry, everybody. Is silicone expensive? Silicone is just like anything else. You get what you pay for. So if you pay more for your silicone, then your mold will be able to be used more times. So if you buy a cheap silicone, then after a couple of times using it, it'll just rip or it'll get stuck to your resin or whatever you're using. Debbie's mad at us. Why? Because she's addicted to resin. Oh, I know. I am too. Sorry, Jules. Try and fix it to my mic next time. So I'm doing about 12 ounces of the one part. So equal parts, one to one? Yeah, equal parts, one to one for the silicone. And so silicone takes about two to three hours to cure, which is so much faster, which is nice. Silicone itself is very, very safe. It's very, it's very safe silicone. There's a lot. That's really nice to actually, you know, essentially do your project in a day. Yeah. Yeah. You don't have to wait overnight. Like with some of these other resins, you have to let them sit for a very long time. Okay. Let's turn this lid off. What to do, what to do? Yeah. Oh, there we go. Okay. So this is the audiences. Is there a name to each part? No. I don't know them. They just, you know, it's A and B. For A, for B. Yeah. And it's easy to know when you've mixed enough because the colors, you have colors to these so you can just see that it's a really consistent color, right? Excuse me. Okay. There's that. Now, let's stir. Boom. Okay. So we got Hannah mixing up resin over there. We're going to do, okay, and then we got the strawberry in here. Oh yeah, that. We did this, what, two hours ago. Yeah, it's still a bit soft. Is it? Yeah. Okay. So I'm going to get this bowling ball out of here, but it's going to get polished and drill holes put into it, I guess. We can move that out of the way. What else do we need to do to prepare? Why don't we cut this wood and we got to clean this out and then we can seal this. Okay, to the garage. To the garage. To the garage. I hope the internet works out here. It is. Yeah, it's so much fun stuff. So welcome to Canada. This is the weather right now. It's very humid. Yeah, we're doing pretty good here, I think, in Canada, considering. Okay, so I'm just going to visualize this, cut it. I'm just going to cut it right above here, this hole. Hey Dan, here. Hey Dan, from the Danocracy. Oh, hi Dan. Dan, he's a local guy, too. Yeah, he does awesome. He's done some great resin experimental work. Thanks for all your great videos, Danocracy, with art resin. That really is awesome. Absolutely. Okay, we're doing a bunch of experiments here today, too. So I'm just cutting. And there we go. So, again, we're just experimenting with making a wood and clear resin lamp. So we have that mold, right? So this is all going to get filled in. Today's mostly just prep work, because it is kind of a process. See, this is where you store big paintings. I always like showing people this, like this rack. It's so nice. You got lots of David and Rebecca originals around the house. Racks. Okay. Thanks for coming to the garage. Okay, so that's getting clean. So I think for this wood, we just want to kind of pre-seal it. Before we just fill the whole thing up, yeah, we're going to pre-seal this wood so that we don't get any air bubbles. We want it to be completely sealed and soak in all the resin before we do our big pour. And then also, we have to run a silicone bead along the inside of this mold. Block it in so that the resin doesn't leak out. Okay. I have the silicone. I don't have a silicone gun, so we can't do this today. But we can pre-resin this thing. That's one project. Someone named Andrea Zach said hi, everyone. Oh, hi, Mom. I already said hi to you earlier. The things you do. We're just talking. We're doing a lot of mold-making material stuff. And, yeah. So where do we start? Okay, I'm going to sand these quickly. It'll be noisy, but that's what I'm going to do. Oh, yeah, that'd be fun. Finish off our previous... Yeah, and then these will just be finished. I kind of had an idea for them, so we'll just finish it off today. There. So we're just making sure we have a bit of grit so the next layer can go onto it. Okay. Yeah. Okay. Dust is good enough. So here's a paint marker. I'll test it on here. Okay, it's working great. And I was thinking, what do you think you write on here? I was seeing, like, love, you know? Something like that. Okay, no. Or is that nice? No, I think it's good. Is it? Anyways. Talk to the masses. What do you guys think? Can you get rid of that? Or is it on there now? I could wipe it off. No, I'm just going to leave it. I like it. Do something different for the other one. I should have thought about it. Surely one's a larger. Larger? The love larger? The love. I'm going to make it thicker. What else would you say on something like this? Okay, he likes it. Okay. So what else would you do on this? No, my dog's roll wonky. We'll start working on our videos after watching our videos. Oh, cool. Nice. We got done. We got someone. We locked her in. Yeah. Andrea Zach likes it, Dave. Oh, thank God. Badaboom. We're good. Okay. Look at that love. Nice. I like that actually. Are you thinking of that? Yeah. I mean, I would like to, you know. But all you need is. All you need is. It's just too much. It looks nice. It needs like a little heart here with like a smiley face or something. Anyways, you get what I'm going on. Just trying to give ideas for projects. I hear you, Dan. We need Dan wants us to do our like a video Wednesday with. No, no, no. Dave won't do it. I'm not going to get into singing. Okay. Singing? Well, not today anyways. I'm not in the mood today. Look at that love heart. Maybe this can be my anniversary present to my wife. Yeah. I'm still stuck. 10 year anniversary and I don't know what to do. But was it again? We decided it's the. 10 and aluminum. Yeah. So I mean, Rebecca is a random person here says it's a man. As far as an anniversary. Well, it's good to know live feedback from your wife. Yeah. Lydia likes it. Caroline is addicted. Addiction. Look at that. That's nice to say. Look at that. Look at that. Well, yeah, it's just the end of that down to do that. And I'm going to leave that one for now till I get an actual idea. Like maybe I'll put like a nice Bible verse on it and give it to my mom for, give it to Andrea Zach for a mother's day. Next, next was a March April. Yeah. Okay. So we're going to resin this. We're going to put something in here. How's that looking? Okay. That's just silicone. Okay. Well, why don't we do something? Okay. Nice. Okay. Well, any leakage? So why don't we pour some silicone in this banana and this pear? Yeah. Okay. So we got the mold mixed up. And I'm just going to fill it up halfway. Is that correct? Till it sets? I guess. Okay. So one of them is going to be completely covered. And the other one's going to be filled halfway. I don't know if we have enough. We don't have enough for probably both the banana and the pear. We probably have the strawberry and one of these guys. So whichever one. I do that one halfway. Okay. So that pear's standing up in there. Let's see if we can. You want one? Let's see you get in there. Okay. Here we go. And this is just cardboard and packing tape. Cardboard and packing tape. And a Bartlett pear, I would say. If I know my pears. Huh? Bartlett? I don't know. You don't know? A Bartlett pear? That's what I'm thinking, looking at it. I need pears. We'll have to ask. Oh no. It's tipping. You know what? As it starts to thicken, we'll just come and make sure that's standing up nicely. But this is great. Oh, there it is. It looks good. Look at that. Fantastic. And the goal is to get a perfectly clear pear and banana. Yes. And strawberry. Yes. So this is a banana hanging from a wire. And I used a hot glue gun on the bottom to create a seam and to attach this mold. So we're going to do this. I'm just going to pour. You know what? I probably, I don't know, should I mix it more for the strawberry? We have more. Yeah, let's do it. He's there. I mean, up to you. We can do the strawberry whatever you want. I'm just going to leave that like this pouring. Look at that. See. And. Okay. So we're thinking of doing like, we want to have a clear bowl of fruit. All the different things just thick and clear. But then also in the future, we could also do some fruit with the resonance and stuff. You know, we need a Dan Ocracy to come in here because Dan would be Dan so engaging with the camera. Dan come in and you can, you can be like the hype guy. All right. Okay. Okay. So here's what we're going to do. We're going to seal this with art resin. We're going to fill this up with a casting resin and we're going to pre seal this whole thing with art resin. Is that a plan or is that a plan? So can you mix up some art resin? Please. And also this is our one part part mold of a diamond. So we can fill that up too. We got a lot of things to do again. Just like that. This is a brick. And I'm going to put it on top of this wood because this wood will float in the resin. So let's do it. Janine, are you asking what kind of casting resin we're using? I can't answer that question. Okay. And Janine and Janine always ask that Janine. I know Janine is being very patient with us. Janine, hang on to that. I think Janine might be a competitor. Okay, so here's what we do. Look at this. So casting resins are a lot thinner. So that the bubbles can escape. And casting resins have a very slow cure time. So that it doesn't overheat because it's too thick. Make sense? Yep. That's why you can do thicker pores. There's a nice side shot here, Jeff. So we only pour it. We're going to mix up a bunch more of this stuff. So I'm just getting a bunch of the stuff up here. Do we have the air compressor? Okay. So I'm going to mix up a bunch more stuff too. So Art Resin, how much do we need of Art Resin? Not too much. Is it just for that? It's for this and to coat the wood light lamp. Do you like to do one in one? One cup and one cup? Sure. That's plenty. I'm wearing these cotton gloves, but I forgot to put the sticky ones over top. Okay, I'm mixing up more resin here. That's what I'm doing. I just want to fill this thing up completely. That's the goal. Yeah, just want to do it. Okay, how much should we do? So this is the one cup. Yes, there may be a casting resin coming soon. There's two cups. Okay, there's two cups of the hard. And look how thin this is, eh? That is like water. Yeah. Wow, that's so different. That's what it has to be. So different than working with Art Resin. But then this is the resin side. It's still very similar base ingredients. I mean, you're just formulating for... You don't want it to overheat when it's thick and you want all the bubbles to escape. So to do that, you have a thinner resin and you have a much slower cure time, chemical reaction, right? Right. So that stays really clear. It's the key, but worth the wait. Yeah, I guess so. Yeah, you just have to be patient. Okay. Good. There's that. Okay, so we pour it all over the silicone. Should I make some more silicone? 72 hours is that how long it takes for casting resin? Yeah, 72 hours is a fair way. Oh, look at the banana fell. But at least it's not leaking. This pair looks great. Good. Let's just leave it with that for now. We'll see how this all works. Okay. Casting resin, yes. This is a 2 to 1 ratio. Who's... John? John. Do you treat your wood before you put it in resin? It's probably best practice, but if you can get away with not doing it, then it's one less step. So you want it to be dry. I mean, if there's like soft wood, soft bits of wood, you might want to treat those to make them harden, to soak them. Oh, this is leaking. We have a little silicone leak. That's okay. It'll harden up before it falls. So yeah, I mean, some people like to treat it beforehand, but usually that's... I'm not treating this one because it's a solid, smooth piece of wood. But this one I'm going to treat because it's so soft, the resin's going to soak into it. And there's just so many more variables now. If bubbles get created and you're going to lose a whole bunch. So it all depends on the hardness of the wood, really, or if it's bark. Does that make sense? Totally. But no need to treat it if you don't have to. One less thing that you have to do. I mean, you're basically treating it with the resin, right? Someone was asking about from decomposing in the resin, or in the mold, I guess, but because it's in there for such a short amount of time. Yeah, it's a short amount of time. I'm not worried about that. But if you were to leave it for a long period of time, that would be a concern. So it won't oxidize easily. Yeah, true. You're kind of blocking it from oxygen in a way, right? Okay. I'm second-guessing myself. I am going to mix up some more of this. Yeah? Yeah, I want to fill up that banana more. We're doing real experiments, you know? What did I use last time? Scissors. See this wood, like, just already, I wish I had a comparison picture just to show how different the wood... It really picked up the dark lines, eh? Yeah. Wow. Okay, so this is the last of this one. Well, in these colors, this is all we have. Okay. There we go. Oh, yeah. Do you want to do that? This is thick cast. I think it's stirred. Actually, maybe stir this a bit more and then fill up that diamond and then fill up the rest of this. Yeah. I'll show you that next week. That's cool. Okay, then we'll coat that in our resin. We're going to seal this the best we can. I'm good. Oh, I hope I have enough of this side. Okay. What do you think? Not very much. Oh, I got enough. Might work. Okay. There's a lot going on. We're trying to pack in as much as we can. Yeah. One session for everybody. But it's just fun to experiment, too. It's just fun to let this for a while. Oh, and do we have that butterfly, too? Are we not going to do it today? So, we've been doing some butterfly if you want to encase a butterfly and we have our method so we can do a bit of prep work for that. The thing about when butterfly wings get soaked in resin, they darken. So, I'll show you the... It seems to be the best technique that anyone's come up with. It's not a super fancy technique. I asked someone at a trade show and they told me. And then it seems to be the best way. All right, sweet. Yeah, just pour it in there. Just fill it up. Excuse me. Okay, so our pair is at the halfway mark. Our banana needs some more. And I'm just going to hold off on the strawberry to make sure that this even works. So, I'm just going to fill it up. So, I guess this will be a two-part mold, too. I was almost wanting to completely cover the banana and cut it lengthwise, peel out the banana, seal it up and pour it from the top here. Anyways, anyways, that's a good start. And how's this strawberry in here doing? How much more jelly, okay? Yeah. That's at two hours. It's pretty thick. Honestly, that... Okay, so this is our resin mixed? Yeah. Thank you, Anna. Is it helpful? Yeah, just use it all. So much just asking the basic question of the difference between just a casting resin and a normal resin or, I guess, a surface coating cast. The difference is, there's two main differences. A casting resin is thinner, more watery so that bubbles can escape really easy because you're doing really thick pours. Okay, so it's more watery. And a casting resin takes a longer time to dry because if you were to pour a surface coating in a big coat, it would get really hot and it would discolor. So if you have a big thing of resin and it's very slow then it'll stay clear. So those are the two differences. Slower curing and more viscous, more watery for casting resins. Boom. Okay. Okay, so Oh, here we go. Yeah, this is just the final coat. Then this project will be done. I'm just going to finish the edges afterwards. But just to take a project to completion. There we go. And then the other thing, I'll just put some in this pyramid and then we'll think if we want to add anything. So this is almost ready to the top. Thanks. Okay, great. Where's the box for this? I'm just going to do it in the box. I want to see us pop it out of this box too. Mm-hmm. So this is a bit of art resin. I'm just pre-sealing this wood. Just want to cover it all up. Okay. Have we done everything? Well, because yeah, because this is so spongy and I'm just concerned that if you resin it without sealing bubbles will start to come up. So this is to block out all the bubbles. Is that all the resin we used all of it? Mm-hmm. Okay. I don't think I have enough. Anyways, is that everything we want to do? Oh, there was one other thing that we didn't do last week. I'm still wearing the cotton gloves and I'm covered in resin. So we want, when you pop out these, well, when you pop something out of a mold, it takes the finish of the mold. So these are kind of a slightly matte finish that's just because of the texture of the original object that the mold was made from. But the idea was to just paint on a bit of art resin. I'm going to put some gloves on one second. Okay. My hands are covered in resin right now. So bad. It's nice actually. Yeah, but it's frosted. And I want it to be completely transparent. So I'm just going to take a bit of the resin from here. Okay. And you can already see how, when you put resin on it, all of a sudden it becomes a lot more transparent. Great. Wow. Yeah, and I'm just going to leave it like that and then, you know, I'll probably have to just put it off the little bottom. But that worked. It was frosted before and now it's clear and shiny. Okay, now this one, I'll just be spreading it out over everything. And I'll do a quick torch. And then we'll just say this is done. And we'll put it in the closet and never think about it again. Hmm. Okay. Your 20th anniversary. Torch. This looks great. Look how clear that is. Okay, here it goes. Do what you love. Okay, are we done? Do you want those to pop out of mold there? Okay. Yeah, we were playing around with alcohol ink and ink sinker last week. So let's see how this turned out. Fluorescent. Looks good. And this one tried to keep more of it clear. And it turned out really well. And then there's yellow. Just yellow. Really good job. Done. Alright, thanks for watching everyone. And we'll be back next Wednesday at one. If you have any other questions, leave them and we'll address them next week. Cool. But for now, have a great rest of the week. Bye-bye.