I found the blackest black acrylic paint
in the world, and the goldest gold, the mirrorist mirror,
the pearlescientest pearlescent top coat, the brightest glowing pigment,
plus some other goodies from the artiest art shop online, Culture Hustle.
And when deciding what to customize
with these amazing paints, I decided it was finally time to fix up
a few of my old Rubick's Cubes that was starting to lose their stickers.
And were a little worse for wear.
I know I'm not the first person to customize a Rubik's Cube,
in fact, I'll link to the amazing
Rubik's Cube that Moriah Elizabeth created in the description below.
So I had to make this customization a little different.
First, customizing a cube with the artiest
art supplies in the world was a great place to start.
These paints and pigments are all
the amazing creations of Stewart Semple who has made it his mission to create
the artist art supplies in the world accessible for everyone.
I've had my eye on them ever since I saw
them on Chloe Rose Art, Super Rae Dizzle's channels
that i'll link to below. Second, instead of just customizing one Rubik's Cube,
I decided we should customize a bunch of cubes.
And third, it doesn't feel right customizing a bunch of Rubik's Cubes unless
I know how to actually solve a Rubik's Cube.
So I've spent the past two weeks re-learning how to solve a Rubik's Cube
with the help of YouTube and a lot of practice.
(Shane: Alright, you've got two minutes to solve this.)
(Shane: Ready?)
(Shane: Go.)
So while the other me does that,
let's have a closer look at these art supplies, because you probably don't
actually need to watch me and my serious concentration face for the next two minutes.
Black 3.0 is the world's blackest black acrylic paint.
It has an ultra matte finish and absorbs up to 99 percent of visible light.
I'm painting a ping pong ball first to see
how this looks, and I'm instantly impressed.
So you can still see the light reflecting
at the moment, but it will be very interesting once this
dries to see just how much light actually bounces off this.
For my Rubik's Cube,
I'll be removing the stickers and painting on the actual black plastic,
so it's time to prepare that while we check back to see how my solving is going.
Done! A minute-46.
It's going to be really easy to solve after this.
Of course, if you're not ready to learn how to solve the original Rubik's Cube
just yet, then my new stickerless cube might be perfect for you.
I'm using some rubbing alcohol to remove the excess goo from the stickers,
and I've decided to try some sandpaper to prepare the surface for the paint.
I hope that was the right thing to do.
It's what everyone else does.
Not because I have any clue what I'm
doing, but because it's what I've seen other people do.
It doesn't look pretty anymore!
Oh look at all that black.
Should I be wearning a mask for this?
An alternative would be a paint primer spray, but we'll see how this goes on our first cube.
This new sanded cube has a really nice feel
if you're a tactile person like me and I'm actually loving the new rustic look I've
created, even though I've destroyed a brand new cube in the process.
Now for our ultra black 3.0 paint and wow, this paint is matte.
That's pretty black, like
you can see it on the camera
more so, the difference
between the sides and look at that ball, that's like disappearing now.
OK, my plan was to not do the bits
that I'm holding, but I didn't think about where I can put this down
I'm going to have to hold this until it dries! Whoops
i'm going to leave this to dry and see if we need another coat later.
For now, let's move on to our next cube.
This is the world's mirroriest mirror chrome
paint, and you only need a very small amount to cover a huge area.
Whoa,
OK, that's really cool.
You definitely need a ventilated room.
This is quite strong.
The pigment itself is less than half the size of a red blood cell,
so it flows incredibly well and is really easy to apply.
What else can I paint with that?
Thank you for your sacrifice, SpongeBob.
Twelve seconds later.
Oh, we should do this to all our old like McDonald's toys, paint them all like a mirror!
They actually look cool! Oh they stink though.
I love it!
It's funny! While SpongeBob dries, it's time to paint our cube.
I didn't sand this cube because I really wanted it to be as smooth as possible.
And wow, it was.
It literally just looks like a metal
Rubik's Cube, instantly. How crazy is that? You do have to be careful
with the fumes of this one because it is a solvent based paint.
And in hindsight, I definitely should have worn a mask this.
Unicorn milk is an acrylic pearlescent top
coat, you apply it over any color to create a shimmery finish
and a sparkling magical color over your artwork.
No unicorns were harmed in the making of this paint.
Good to know.
It's my understanding, this should, Whoa.
What's that smell?
I can't work out...
What does it smell like? The website says it smells like pink sugar, although
i kind of thought it smelt a bit more like onions.
This cube doesn't have stickers,
it has tiles, so I was hoping the top coat would bring out the colors underneath,
but unfortunately, the plastic doesn't really want to absorb the paint at all.
So we're not going to use this on a cube today.
But I still have done a ping pong ball to show you what it looks like.
And we'll use this for a future project to show you just how amazing this stuff is.
So next up, we have Shift.
Now this is a color changing rainbow paint, and it's perfect timing because there is
a daily rainbow that comes through my corner window and it's actually
on my desk today and it's right on the top of Mosko.
So what a perfect time to color something in rainbow paint! This shift color changing
rainbow paint changes from black through the color spectrum when the temperature is
between twenty four to twenty nine degrees Celsius.
So on a warm, sunny day or with warm
hands, this cube will change color like a mood ring.
Applying it involves a layer of black 2.0
first, which is the first version of black before 3.0 was created.
Once that's dry, we apply the special coating of rainbow liquid.
While that's drawing let's try out the next color changing product,
Technicolor. And this is a holographic pigment,
so this is another two step process.
We have Stick, which we're going to apply
first, and then we have our powder pigment, which is the holographic pigment.
So we're going to start on that now.
So I'm going to do this one on the colored
cube with the tiles so we might still see the colors underneath.
I thought that might be fun. I actually don't know.
We might not see the colors underneath,
so it's a little bit of a mystery,
let's find out!
Stick is a special adhesive.
It looks milky when you apply it,
but once it dries, it turns completely transparent.
It stays sticky forever or until you coat it with the powder.
So once I applied the stick to my cube,
I used a foam brush to then apply the holographic powder.
Gee that's unique.
That is not what I was expecting.
So see how this works,
it's soft of like if you add if you add less
in some areas, you can sort of see the color coming through underneath.
Like, the more you rub it, you start to get a bit of that orange
underneath, which is quite cool when you really load it up.
If you move the light, you actually get
that like rainbow holographic, silver sort of thing come through.
I'm not sure how well you can see that on the camera.
I actually wasn't expecting, I don't know
what I was expecting from this, but that's really cool.
After doing this, I realized my mistake in trying to do the whole cube at once.
The sticky surface picked up extra particles, dust and dirt.
So this cube didn't turn out as well as it could have if I did one side at a time.
So I've decided to come back with a second
layer later to fix up some of these areas that I missed or that would dirty from all
those extra things that the Stick picked up.
Now it's time to break out our glow in the dark powder
Look at that! He he he he
It doesn't glow as much underneath,
it's really but that's so cool.
Let's just turn the lights on and we'll just turn them off again in a minute.
All right,
so let's let's do it and then we'll turn the lights off.
So when I bought this,
I actually bought the super base to go with this, which was what was recommended.
But I've been watching some more videos
and the stick that comes with the Technicolor is actually also
recommended to be used with the glow powder.
And apparently it glows even better than when you mix it with the super base.
So that's why I've decided to do it this
way as a powder coat instead of mixing it as a paint.
So the world's glowiest glow pigment. It can be recharged and unlimited number
of times with light or heat and can keep a dull after glow for a few hours.
Charge little one, charge!
OK It is glowing, but I do think that
it's not glowing as much as it should, I think because it's a black cube.
Oh, I feel like
maybe we need to paint it white first? Shane gave my cube a quick coat of white
spray paint, so I was able to try this again.
And it worked so much better with the white underneath.
I also learned my lesson from the holographic powder coating
and decided to do just two sides at a time instead of the whole cube at once.
So just to interrupt quickly to give you an update on the blacks,
so this is a black cube that has had the stickers removed,
no paint.
And this is the black cube that we have painted with the blackest acrylic paint.
Can you see the difference?
Like this one is quite reflective,
but this one is so matte that it pretty much disappears on my shirt.
And if we have a look at the ping pong ball that we painted earlier,
it's like holding a tiny black hole in my hand.
It just looks like a circle.
It's a little bit weird, but that is a ping pong ball fully round.
Very, very cool.
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So it's time for the goldest gold.
This is a soft body acrylic gold paint.
So it's quite different to the mirror
paint and doesn't have quite the same instant wow!
But with a few layers, it produces a realistic metallic gold
that is very impressive for an acrylic paint. Because some of these cubes are
proving to be a little bit difficult with the paint
so far, I've decided to do a quick base
coat first and then lots of thin lines of the gold paint.
I think I did about six to eight layers
on the final cube in the end, but the ping pong ball only needed three
to four layers to get that really realistic look.
Coming back to our heat activated
Rainbow Cube and my cold hands are doing nothing.
So let's see how all this works when I add some heat from a heat pack.
All right.
So we'll try the ball first in case it like does something horribly wrong.
Whoa, that was really quick.
OK, so let's just give it a second.
Oh, look at that, can you see on the side?
So I got it actually so warm that we went
through the entire color spectrum. And while we're on the topic of color
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This is one of the faster ones, Oh look at that! Look how blue that is!
Whoa, that is so blue and look at the side, you can see where the heat changes.
You can actually see the full spectrum
right there, goes right from the red, right through to the blue there.
And in fact, on each corner as it's
starting to cool down, there's this really cool color change
happening where the yellow is starting to come through now and the green
Like, give it a second.
It's now starting to cool down.
That is so cool!
Oh, and while I'm doing that, I'm accidentally heating up the other side.
OK, let's try and create some patterns.
Mood ring Rubik's Zen Cube with a splash
of gold plating where I accidentally pressed my gold finger prints,
but that's pretty cool, I think when the weather warms up here,
because we are heading into winter here in Australia.
I think when the weather warms up, that would actually be really cool because
it would stay those colors for much longer.
So we have ended up with six very unique cubes.
And yes, I know that when it comes to custom painting, usually I get a little
bit more creative than just painting something a single color.
But when it comes to these paints, honestly, they are so arty on their own.
I just felt like we didn't need to do anything more.
I think the mirror cube is my personal favorite, honestly
this just looks and even feels like it's made out of metal, not plastic.
I can't believe we painted this with a brush.
I would love to hear which one was your
favorite and what else you would like to see me do with these in a future video
or a feature project, because I have a lot to play with and
I'm sure there is something else that we can do with these.
OK,
I really should have practiced this first.