Resin Tutorial - Ocean Art for Beginners with Lacing

today we are going to make of ocean painting hi guys Joanne from art resin here and today I have artist Rebecca brianza with me Rebecca creates the most beautiful ocean abstract landscapes and Rebecca what are you going to be showing us today today we are going to make little micro versions of this large piece behind us and I have a canvas that is reminiscent of a porthole in a boat and then I have this square canvas for you it's a bit raised on the sides it might be a bit challenging but as far as I know you're up for the challenge I am I can't hate to learn from you great good so we have all our materials laid out here do you want to walk us through them yes so here I have the wooden canvases and we have primed them out with gesso and we've done about three coats at this point just so we get the grains out of the perspective you don't want to see the wood grains and you just want like a nice clean backdrop so that the resin pigment can really pick up and stand out perfect now can you use acrylic paint if you don't have Joseph yeah absolutely you can you can also use white house paint wall paints as long as it's matte as long as it covers up your cream okay awesome and then we're using wooden panels here but if you didn't have a wood panel can you use the stretch canvas or a canvas board you can use a canvas I wouldn't I would say up to this size maximum I believe this is a twelve by twelve and I personally mostly all my canvases are wood even if it's small okay I like its backbone and its strength to marry with art residents you have the weight of our business yeah I've heard it right okay so we have our art resin already measured and mixed so it's a one-to-one ratio so equal amounts of resin and hardener by volume and we mixed it up and we poured it into separate cups one for each color yeah exactly and then we have our pigments we've already mixed out our sand color and we've mixed out our white for the waves and as well we have under here a little surprise this is our little feet that we're using to hold up my canvas because I enjoy paintings when the yard is ruled over the side and everyone has their own preference some people like a complete solid color on this side like white or black but I just love seeing the water kind of flow over to the sides and then drip and as well we have our trusty blowtorch and I did want to note we are using clear plastic cups and the reason for the clear is because we want to see the richness of our colors it's really important to see what we're working with and then what we're going to be pouring we have toothpicks and to get the Impossibles out and we all know that that means if you're working with resin and we have our level to make sure that our canvases are nice and level because as much as we want the ocean to flow we don't want it to flow right off the canvas great good shoe and as well we have a blow dryer and what the blow dryer will do is just basically take our beautiful white pigment and it will break it out and make it look like a wave and it will add some magical sea foam and some crashing effect so really looking forward to this I am too last but not least our work surface is covered with vinyl just to catch any of those drips right and then once they clear the next day you can just peel them right off yeah and you can reuse the drips and to other art pieces it's just really up to your creativity the possibilities are endless amazing well let's get started okay so we're gonna move these out of our way so we can focus on the water so you can use several different colorings to take your resin we're using resin tin today which is our resins tint but no matter which color you use it's important to remember not to add more than six percent of the total volume of resin and hardener yeah because if you add more than your resin it cures yeah exactly and you'll see a lot of a lot more imperfections so less is more I would like to try to see what this will look like I'll start this one and this is going to be the lighter version of that yeah absolutely he's standing about four yeah I'm just gonna add more drops so the resin just to get that real deep rich color and that's a really good point to Rebekah that you brought up it's always best to start with less because you can add more if you need it if you put too much in you can't take it away right exactly do you think I need more blue for the this lighter actually that looks really pretty I might keep it all happy to keep it there for the moment okay I'm just trying to make mine really dark and rich because also I don't like seeing too much of the white so a good way to test out the color too if you're working with these cups it's just to nudge a little bit up the side of the cup and then you can really see the true color right yeah because when it's in volume in the cup sometimes it looks darker than it really is yeah exactly alright so all our colors are mixed and ready to go so it's first okay so we are collaborating on both pieces I'm going to start over here and just make a little sand face on yours we're gonna do a nice art similar to the piece behind us and then we're going to then go with a deep turquoise light turquoise and we're gonna end it off with the white which will then turn into the with a break and some beautiful sea foam that sounds fantastic yes so let's start with the sand alright so I'm going to start pouring the sand out since we're filming the resin thickened up a bit which is great so right now we just have a bit of a thicker pour happening right here I'm basically spreading it around with a knife just to help even it out and Joanne I'll pass it over to you so you can do it's just like a nice little corner edge okay it this is a little bit thicker because we've been filming but yeah it's still working you're still going to work with this it's easy to manipulate that's for sure oh yeah it's great you might have noticed that this piece is taped off and the reason being because it does have that lip I've taped it off just to help protect it the edges from getting resin on it okay now we're gonna move on to the deep turquoise which is a really nice consistency right now I'm just gonna start pouring the dark part you always want to see the darker part at the top just visually if you look at any type of photography are you even when you're flying over the ocean yourself you can always see the different colors that work throughout and again I like mine to part over the side so even though it looks a bit messy on camera it will look great in the finished product so I'm pouring some darker turquoise over the lighter turquoise just because I wanted to give this more depth the good thing is is we're working in sunlight so I can see all of the colors in the moment and you can always add to it which is great and Joanne I'm going to have to pass you over this turquoise so you can start working on your side right basically with the water I'm going to have you stay on this circular type of a pours so you're gonna fill out the edge maybe take it just about a quarter of the way and just keep it on this nice curve because you want to keep the same story lines okay and the good thing about the knives is that they're very strong and sturdy and they can spread out the work quite well once you've poured oh this color is so pretty all right so I'm gonna add a bit of white to the turquoise that you mix down I just want it to be a richer color I'm just a bit lighter and so I'm just gonna mix this up I'll just start pouring I always keep the knight close to me just because I like to be able to spread it in different areas I space out the resin as well even though resin is really magical itself levels at the end of the day so I don't have much concern I just didn't eat me to make sure that I leave enough for you okay so I'm just gonna start spreading this around and then you can just kind of copy what I'm doing but also find your own techniques okay yeah so this is step two so you're not leaving any like negative space you're covering up although I find your white fun okay there is a negative space that I keep right here closer to where I want the wave to break I leave a tiny bit of negative space just because I don't want the bleeds of the pigments to marry too too much so I like to keep a little bit of white space but eventually we'll cover that up with white right I'm just going to getting that right yeah exactly okay yeah and then I'm going to move back to the darker turquoise which is up here and I just want to add a bit more of a story you know with the lines and so this this on top of the lighter turquoise just really makes it pop it makes the water look a lot more realistic they start bleeding out into each other which is just the magic of the ocean you know and much like resin you know the water is very fluid and all moves together and including the color so here I've got some drops but you can easily just make all of this it really gives you that feeling of motion oh yeah at a difference it's amazing yeah and about it okay okay so Joanne why don't you take your lighter turquoise and start pouring just make sure the sands that you don't interfere with this over here okay so you just kind of want to keep that clean line over top but you don't want any of that to drop into the sand ChaCha okay here we go great job beautiful thank you bring this bring a lot of that over actually so you only have so much control with this type of technique mhm and so even when the clients asked for a custom piece I can never replicate that's how one-of-a-kind nice pieces are right and that's how special they are you know you kind of have to surrender it yeah you do gravity and exactly so right now the way the art is looking it's just kind of I'm starting to go upwards where we want it to be a bit more shaped like this we want it to go on that angle similar to the sand that kind of rounded so you can start to manipulate out the resin onto this angle and so with the finished product you'll see it flows all into the same motion and you've got this nice white space which we can also just tidy up a little bit we want it really close to the sand but we also want to bring the white in Psalm problems yeah I mean a lot of artists touch and that's you know we're all individual we all have our process but I just like because it's white I want a bit of I want to benefit from that what as well and so if I put it over the sand or over the blue you'll see it become like a lighter blue or a lighter sand color so and you can keep manipulating it in my Avenue and then if you feel inspired you can add those little little tiny strips egg the darker turquoise if I don't like these big blobs are they gonna sort themselves out or you can actually even if you'd like a toothpick so because this is such a small scale version you go toothpick that and just so yeah exactly so if you don't like the blobs they will go away if you blow try them as well but if you want to manipulate them on your own and you can toothpick all the way through your piece cool okay okay so we are 90% done and the 10% is where the magic happens and so we've got this crispy white mix and we're going to pour it down on the shoreline as if the wave was crashing and then we're gonna add it anywhere else we see fit throughout the ocean amazing so we're gonna lightly drop a thin coat of this white throughout the sand and the water where they combined and I do a little bit of movement in the white just again to give it that wave effect okay so I'm happy with the white and now I'm going to have you mirror what I just did but on a bit of a different angle and again staying within your flow so you're gonna go a bit thinner okay all the way through perfect these colors are so great yeah and then you're gonna go right to the edges and you can also move it around with a knife so you don't have to be so glued to the white all right doesn't matter I got some in the sand that's okay we can clean that up so we're just gonna use the sand just sand colored nice to just quickly clean that up there we go and then I can do a really long one you as you wish [Music] so as you can see this tape came in really handy right because I already just a nice second it's great okay is that enough or do you think it's up to you look for one more little tiny one on the edge there okay great alright so now we're going to get the blow dryer and let's make these waves crash alright so I'm going to start on a low level just to see how much motion we got okay from the way [Applause] we're getting a lot of great movement Rebecca that's amazing [Applause] [Applause] okay so let's move on to the next week I'm using a low setting and I'm gonna take it up a notch and you just move it up and down and however you feel fit as you can see it's really bleeding out into the blue and so a lot of the time the white can get lost so that's why I mix the white and let it sit for longer because the thicker I can get it the more sticks around and it doesn't have too much movement because again it's the ocean I want to see seafoam I want to see a wave break and if you make it too thin it will just disappear into the water and not even exist right it will just make like a light blue effect so you really want that break to happen throughout and this is just super magical things other cool cells and lesen you're getting it's beautiful so I'm really happy with the results there's a little bit more manipulation we can do but I'd like to pass you over the Glo dryer your first step is to aim the blow dryer where you want to start okay so usually you want to start in this middle ground between the ocean and the sand okay so you want to stay really close to the white and then you want to turn it on low because you always want to have complete control over where this wave is gonna go I think as much control as possible but white is nice and thick so it shouldn't bleed out too far okay but you just want to get an idea of where you're gonna break it and then it's it's up to you I completely trust you [Laughter] [Applause] you might want to pull back a day okay and then just keep going over the rest of it and again it's up to you how far you want the wave to break out like if you want it to be otherwise last worthless and you can [Applause] so it's a real science trying to figure out this wave break [Applause] and again you know you have to understand that it's art so it's never going to be perfect yet so if I want to break up this big blob of white and I push more what do you think there's more blue on it though I would push blue okay so go back so you aim it here and bring it back a bit bring it back a bit but you have to be pretty fast with it as well you don't want to hold too much time on it okay [Applause] okay yeah that's up to you I mean I kind of like that break to be honest because it's realistic right of foam pushing up on the sand yeah all they cut to one more so good enough yeah [Applause] whoa great job yeah yeah it's really mysterious I like it it's good controlling and because mine is in a panel because this is in a panel I'm only gonna keep on lowering yeah such a small yeah and your fix your very fixed into your space well I'm I'm allowed to move and drip over yeah if I want to break up this peanut blog here turn it up higher and then completely control it like bring it yep exactly there you go okay last one I really actually like without the yeah you just have to give it time to like develop the sea foam AKA cells it's so pretty mmm my first time that one kind of has a mind of its own [Applause] maybe we can fix that okay so I'm just gonna come in and what I'm going to do is just pull some back pull some in this is a tricky this is a very tricky one so go low and just kind of stay far back because it this is such a little tiny temperamental corner so you don't actually want to do too much here the way you were with the other areas yeah it's a science okay so small tip to make the wave a bit bigger and exaggerate it a bit more is to go in with a toothpick and just lift out the white throughout the seafoam and the art is slowly curing so it's a good time to start working and breaking out the wave a bit more and when we say sharing in the art world it means that it's starting to dry for all of you beginners just wanna fix a couple more things here it looks beautiful I think it's a pea Esther is it done yeah it's really good yeah yeah you're a jarful - i'm really happy with the outcome so now we're just gonna move on with torching out the little bubbles even though it's seeing water I'm okay with a little bubble but you know it's good to get them out and that will be it making her look beautiful amazing but it's okay if there's bubbles in ocean water just a quick bite pass rate a job yep alright that's good so last step is to cover it yeah so I've got a couple covers under here a bola so this is the final step and we will see the big unveil tomorrow perfect can't wait alright we're back it's been 24 hours our pieces are dry and ready to reveal now Rebecca I may or may not have peeked at my piece this morning oh that's cheeky I wasn't actually cheeping because I had to remove the tape from my piece but I can't wait to show you guys because they are beautiful now before we do that Rekha I'd love to hear a little bit more about what inspired you to start painting ocean art and like a little bit about your journey yeah sure so I went to Brazil on a trip with marine biologists in San Paolo along the coast and we did some fieldwork over two days and during the fieldwork we were pulling all these different pieces of garbage out of the ocean and on the shoreline and we were researching them and taking photos and weighing them and in our log we captured that some of the garbage was from China and Poland and all over the world so it was quite devastating and since I'm a visual storyteller and an artist I thought I'd tell my story through that and also I mean in Toronto we have the same bad behavior on our beach size LLC microplastics there so again I'm just trying to educate people about better behavior and treating our nature with respect and so that was where the inspiration came from amazing very bad and you know your passion and your love and your respect for the ocean ends for your art is so visible so thank you very much you're welcome great now speaking of your art dry my other reveal it's like the ocean Rebecca Spears is gorgeous grazie Ortiz oh wow yeah the rich the rich turquoise really took well here and then it flowed nicely into the lighter color and yours is gorgeous thank you you have nailed the colors like it's perfect I wanted to make sure that was simple enough and it just makes people feel really good it's very therapeutic it's great Rebecca thank you so much for coming on to show us how to make your beautiful artwork we'd love to have you back sometime great thank you I'd love to show you more great if you enjoyed this video we have lots more on our YouTube page everything from featured artists profiles to lots of how-to and project videos showing you how to get started with art resin so don't forget to hit subscribe to see more [Music] you

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Length: 26min 17sec (1577 seconds)

Published: Thu Feb 20 2020