Hey what is up ! Welcome back DM Paints fam . In today's DIY, we're going to be creating a geode
piece together. So the first thing you're going to need is crushed glass and I use this to imitate
the look of crystals . This is the gold tinted one from Michaels and i'll link that down in the
description bar below, and what I'm doing here is i'm just simply shaping it on the canvas with my
hands freestyle trying to make it look a little natural. And we're gonna be setting this later
on to the canvas with resin, so we don't need any glue or anything like that for the meantime.
Now these are some powdered pigments and you're going to need these to mix them with your resin to
create some beautiful tints that you're going to be laying down a little bit later on. You want to
have some popsicle sticks handy. You can have the jumbo ones. These ones work just fine for me. And
i'm putting a little bit of the dye into the solo cup. You can use whatever colour combo you want,
these are just the colours that I chose to use along with some glitter. So the glitter is going
to be a little bit different because you want to use a lot. You want to use a lot and you're
gonna see why. This is also from Michael's this glitter's insane it's so reflective, like like
look at it! Look at it! Oh my god, but yeah, it's so pretty. I chose the gold, I chose this
rich gold to go with the gold tint on the glass, so all my colours are kind of warmer purposely.
We're also going to be going in with some metallic alcohol ink and glitter and you'll see why.
So here i've mixed my resin. I'm using Art Resin for this project because it has a longer working
time and you kind of need that when you're doing geodes because you don't really want
to rush on this project and then be worried halfway through that your resin is setting.
So Art Resin is probably the way to go for a project like this. And i'm just mixing a little
bit in with each of my colours and you want to make sure to leave some clear resin on the side
just in case, like you just want to have a little bit extra in case you need to mix
with any other colours or you just want to lay some clear resin on top. So these pigments are
from Amazon and they're so budget friendly. There's a variety that comes in this pack of
I think it's like 20 or 24. And they have a lot of metallic colours they have iridescents, it's
honestly a really cool pack especially if you're starting out and you just want to experiment.
Okay so here i am securing my crushed glass. This step is very important and you want to
make sure that you take your clear resin and make sure it's properly mixed so that you
don't have any curing problems later, and you just want to drizzle all over your crystals.
You don't want to drown your crystals in the resin because it's going to take away
from the reflective qualities of the glass, but you do want to make sure that each piece
is secured. So I'm going in with my alcohol ink here this is the one I use for almost every single
project that I have. This is the brass and I'm just using it to accent the gold even further.
You're gonna see how fast the resin moves, like you can move it a little bit with a popsicle
stick as well just to kind of get the process going. But honestly if you rewind this next
30 seconds you're actually going to notice how fast the resin moved.
It's insane like it'll expand on its own but i just go in with a popsicle stick to kind of make
my own adjustments there . There's not really any particular order that I'm placing down my colours,
I just want to have some contrast in between my colours and I also want to make sure that
my lines aren't super super straight to kind of give it that natural feeling flow,
that kind of geode look. You're imitating nature right, so you don't want to have any rigid lines
you kind of want to make it flow and make it a little bit more curvy if that makes sense.
So I'm using my heat gun that I use for my alcohol ink projects in this piece as well and I have it
on the high heat and high air setting. You can use any heat gun that you want or that
you have available, this is just the one that I have on hand. You can also use a blow dryer if
you have that available to you although I don't think a blow dryer has an extremely hot setting,
so you might want to look into something that provides you a little bit more heat, but this is
simply to warm up the resin to be able to move it around. So initially you might think okay i
don't have enough resin for this project even if you've calculated it, and i'd highly recommend
checking the Art Resin calculator online because it tells you exactly how much resin you need
depending on the size of your project, so that's an awesome resource to use for a project like
this, but don't worry you probably have enough, you just need to be able to move it around
and I'd suggest don't move it around too much to the point where your colours just mush together,
like have them a little separated so you can see the blend of the colorus...
you know what i mean ? Yeah. And this is where you want to come in with your resin glitter.
So the ratio for the resin glitter.. I can't give you an exact amount but I'd say you just
want it really really thick and goopy, so if your glitter looks super super thick in the cup, you're
doing it right. The reason that you don't want a super runny is that your lines just will not
stay in place. As I mentioned before , the resin is going to expand. So if your lines aren't thick,
they will not set in place and they are bound to move a little bit, so the thicker the better
and leave it till the end so that you've actually let it settle a bit and it's easier to work with.
So before we actually go to the final step, now this is so extremely important. After your resin
has dried for 24 hours, you want to go in with a gold metallic OIL based pen okay OIL OIL OIL.
All right , so you can do this anywhere just to accent your piece . I usually tend to do it
around the glitter lines to clean it up a little bit. So after you've done your initial lines,
what you want to do is you want to go in with another layer of resin. I know it might seem
extreme and you might think: " Okay why do I need two layers, that's a waste of resin"
blah blah blah. But honestly, and especially if you're doing this for a commission, adding
another layer of resin and then going over your lines again is gonna give you such a nice depth!
Honestly it's the attention to detail that people really appreciate and it's just going to take
your artwork to another level. So I overlapped the lines that I've already done, but I don't
do it exactly exactly over because you kind of want to see that there's some dimension there,
you want to see those lines slightly overlap and then when you look at the painting from different
angles you're gonna notice like "daaaamn" like there's some there's something going on
there. I don't know what it is, but why is my artwork you know popping out at me? And
it's that extra little bit that's really gonna make your piece noticeable. So the lines are okay
to leave on top without sealing it again because they are oil based and they're not going to wipe
off because it's not water based it's fine. But if you do want to add that extra protection that's
totally okay you can flood coat it again, you can go on again with an extra top coat,
but it might erase a little bit of that dimension. The other thing that I really like about doing a
second line is that if you have any imperfections, you're just completely covering it with the
second line and just makes things smoother and cleaner and it's like a second chance, you know?
And this is the final piece my resin geode look at those freaking lines! That's what i'm telling
you , that depth that is the difference of the second coat ( don't mind a few of
my fingerprints sorry about that) but yeah! I hope you enjoyed this DIY, I hope it helped you,
I know that was me talking a lot in this video and there was honestly so much more I could have
covered and I just didn't have enough time within the video. So if you have any other questions
about this process, I would honestly love to answer your questions, comment that down in the
comments below or you can send me a DM @_dmpaints on Instagram and I'll see you next time!
Byeee.