#40. Resin Feathering With Mica Powders. Non Fading Technique. A Tutorial by Daniel Cooper
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- Опубліковано 28 чер 2022
- Hi all,
This is a video on how I created feathering with Mica powders, I will test more but I do think for now, the results are so much better with the sinker white added. If you try this, please tag me so I can see your results, it helps us all by sharing our results and methods.
White alcohol ink will not fade in the sun, neither will mica powders, however, as for any resin art, I still recommend treating it with the best aftercare which includes keeping any resin out of direct sunlight.
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I'd love some longer videos. I've spent the last few days watching and listening to your videos as it eases my anxiety. Your videos are therapeutic 😌
Thank you 😊 🙏
I have been doing this technique for years, both with mica and alcohol inks... What I have learned is that no matter what medium, white as a pigment is Always the heaviest pigment. So you have the right idea, but may I suggest not adding the alcohol to your colors mica , unless you are trying to extend your work time, and try I stead of the paste, a pearl white mich powder and adding the alcohol to that one.. but just a touch.... Drop your color pigments then white ,then color then white... The white will push down the color pigments because it is heavier ..... Repeat that process untill you are satisfied... Let it cure up a little .... Maybe an hour or so... Then come back and swirl.. I think you will find this to work better for your desired feathered look...
Great tip, thanks Zeke :)
Hi I was watching this video can I use a silver white Mica powder? I have a lot of mica powders and the chameleon powders. Could i use the opaque resin pigments (liquid) then use the pearl white Mica powder? Just wondering. Thank you
It's crazy how the 2 test pieces were best! Let me know which version you would like to see me work on more! 🥰🥰
Show us more like the test pieces, maybe compare different ones and different dropping times.
@@TAKEASHORTBREAK1 I'm thinking along the same lines, I can cram so much more colour into my pieces now as they do not spread like inks 🥰
Nice
Oh, Daniel! Those first few cabochons you showed looked SO opal-y! Top coat with the mica powder and UV like you did in the previous video and you will have some real gems!
Learning so much from you I’m gonna trot off to the next video since i have those supplies and give it a whirl tonight
You are a true treasure, Daniel.❤️ I am in the middle of a personal issue ( which will be resolved by autumn) so seeing a video from you is always a mood lifter. These are lovely.
Thank Pam, always a mood lifter to read your comments too, I hope all is well.x
Send me your mess ups so I can wire wrap them. 😊
Thank you Daniel!
This is great!
I prefer mica powder over alcohol inks because you can’t really fail in making beautiful designs with mica but can fail miserably while using alcohol inks, I think inks are more challenging and you really need to know what you’re doing. I think inks provide more polish and glossy look but it’s just easier to mess up if you don’t know what you’re doing. Great video BTW! Love your designs ❤
Thanks for an awesome tutorial video. ❤
Great video. Thanks 🙏🏾
Always fresh ideas, never boring! Love your videos x
Really pretty colours..love the wave in the last one.. great job ❤
Love love love the wave at the end. Thanks for another great video.
Thank you, always very welcome 🥰
Enjoy your videos. Great job
Absolutely beautiful ❤️
Thank you so much!
Beautiful 🤩
Thank you Mary 😊
Excellent tutorials, always a pleasure. ♥️
Thanks 🥰
Very pretty
Love love love your videos! I learn alot and really love your no nonsense attitude. Lol you're amazing! Thank you
I love the square ones ❤
Daniel, love how these turned out. Thank you so much for your videos.
Thanks Tina 😊
Thanks!
Thank you so much Colleen, I really appreciate it :) Dan x
🔝 amazing
I'm so glad that you cured your nerves as your my favourite crafts channel by far 😊
They still look great thank you for sharing that experience
I’m in DR. Your art is beautiful. Thank you very much for shared
Que hermoso arte. Gracias por compartir estas bellezas. Muchas gracias
Great video 👍 thanks for sharing 👏
Thank you Michelle 😊 Very welcome 😊
Wow!! Just found this channel and NEVER KNEW ABOUT THIS TECHNIQUE ❤️😊
Thanks, I made it 😊😊😊
They are all lovely, but the last two are beautiful.
Thanks Lorraine, I totally agree 🥰
Very pretty! I love the pastel colors in those mica powders.
Thanks Lisa 🥰
Super
Hi Daniel, very interesting and pretty. I agree the last 2 worked the best, especially the last one. They are all pretty and cool looking. Thank you!
Thanks Ellis, yes, I'm working on both but totally agree that the testers were the best from the bunch! 🥰
Thanks for trying a technique with the white pigment, I'm anxious to give it a try!
Love to see all sorts of different ways to get very similar results.
Thanks Susan, I'm loving the results 😀
These r cool 😎
I've just found you ! How did I not know you existed!! This I feel is just what I needed, I love learning new techniques so thank you 😊
Yay! 😊😊😊😊
thank you so much
You're welcome! 😊
Oh, and I bought your resin from Let's Resin. Can't wait to try it!
Yay, thanks Debbie
Easter colors
Oi, mate. I have not been looking at any resin videos in the past few months. This is totally a great watch going back in.
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Thank you 😊
I just love all of your videos. I've been watching your videos since you started out. I remember how shaky your hands were, but with every video it got better and better. I love you experiments. Unfortunately, in South Africa it's difficult to get the Let's Resin resins. Julie from pouring your heart out has done the same experiments, just with pigment pastes. It took het quite a couple of times, but she mastered it. It helps us if you do these experiments because we don't need to waste a lot of time and resin trying to figure things out. It also helps if it's not always perfect because we learn from your mistakes. Keep up with your excellent work. We all love it💜
Yes, I also did a collab with Luna Designs, she created the pigment feathering before anyone else 🥰
And thank you so much 🥰
Hello, new to your channel but been working with resin for years. I added alcohol to a sculpture of mine over 2yrs ago and it’s in my room (out of sunlight) and it’s still going strong. It’s the quality of the pigment, resin and out of sunlight that is key IMO. Looking forward to watching your videos. Your making me want to play with Resin again.
Thanks 😊 I have a video coming later today on my 3 week sun test 😊
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Some nice results but the test pieces are the best ones. This is well known to me, everytime I do resin one or two pieces are for testing some things I did not try yet. If they dont work I will have at least learned what not to do, but sometimes I also get stunning and completly unexpected results. I tried what you show in the video some weeks ago but without any white pigment or sinker inks, just the mica and alcohol in resin. I will try to combine this with my homebrew sinker white that I accidentally created and currently experiment with. TYVM for the gread video and detailled explanations. Already looking forward to the test of the alc ink brands.😁👍
Thank you 😊, have fun experimenting 😊
Can you do a video on making eyes using this process. Please
Wow, these are all very pretty, Daniel...I like them! What a brilliant idea to use mica powders! I so seldom use them, and I do have quite a few just being ignored. But, no longer. That's astonishing what a difference the C-deeper made!
I'm really eager to see if you can do something to make alcohol inks more light-stable. What a boon to the resin world that would be! Good luck, Daniel!
Oh, before I forget...! You'd issued a bit of a challenge way back when to see if Petri and/or cloud effects could be obtained in UV resin. Well...I've been working on that and had some success with petri using drops of transparent resin DYE and C-deeper; my first attempts with alcohol ink being a total failure/mess. 😁 So far, I've discovered the C-deeper makes an unholy mess on the backside (of course it does-ugh!) but after I cured the pieces, I just wiped the mess off, domed with more resin, and it looked pretty good considering it was my first attempt. My grandkids are the recipients of all my messes, and they are young enough to think they're all wonderful. 😅
Will let you know if I can get better results than I have so far (but they're not too bad!). I haven't a phone or camera, but my kids do, so I'll make them indulge their mama. I'm using the same mold you're using, too, as that helps me to judge results better (I think).
Thank you, yes, I have had some success with UV and Petri but it sure can be messy! 😂
Black backgrounds always make the colors pop!
Daniel I am kinda a newer subscriber and I want to know what you are calling the C. It is what you put on top of the 2 test pieces. It did make the difference. I want to get some but I need to know what it is!
C deeper is a sinker alcohol ink by Let's Resin which contains a small amount of pigment which pushes the colors down
Another great experiment!! Thanks Daniel 👌 ~~I’ve been making resin dye - alcohol inks with almost the same effects as regular alcohol inks. I started with an Alumilite dye kit. It’s a limited basic color kit but they can be mixed. Example: I wanted turquoise so I mixed blue & green plus white till it was the turquoise I wanted.. added 99% alcohol. I keep them in needle nose tip bottles. Any colors can be made and they are colorfast. Now I’m venturing out to other dyes like cheapo sets off of Amazon bc I wanted flashy colors like magenta & neons ..and they are working too. I have lots of mica alcohols mixed up but the micas seem to float up instead of down. Thanks for sharing 🌹. It’s all good fun to try and most turn out pretty nice no matter. Have a great day or night 😊
Thank you, yes, I have been experimenting with dyes too, I just wasn't sure on their light fastness, good to know they also will not fade 🥰
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Daniel, I don’t think anyone had done a video on mica alcohol with pigment paste either. I’ve been periodically looking for one via UA-cam and hadn’t found any even looking at various times. I had thought about it after a few videos I’d been watching from Julie at pouring your heart out. She mentioned mica but I’ve never seen her do it or anyone else. Great
video, really liked seeing someone trying to do it with mica. Another thing I’ve noticed be careful with gold, sometimes it is as heavy as white and sinking. Just something I’ve seen happen. Again great thanks for the video and until next time, be safe make great choices! ❤️❤️❤️
Thank you, yes, it has been done but only with pigment pastes 😊
I switched caps the other week, the resin started thickening in the bottleas well as gluing the lids on lol...... also I've heard of coasters melting in the sun
Hola felicitaciones mil,👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻🤩🤩🤩🤩 de verdad eres un genio con la resina y los proyectos con alcohol ink, vendes la resina y las alcohol ink? Nunca he podido hacer ningún trabajo bonito con esta técnica. Gracias por compartir.
Gracias, lamentablemente no vendo, lo siento.
Thanks for sharing another great experiment! Even though it wasn’t what you were hoping for, they still turned out beautiful! I’m always happy to see you’ve posted a new video. I’ve seen all of your videos but, I can’t remember if you’ve ever mixed just the C deeper instead of paste in a similar experiment? I’m interested to see your alcohol ink experiment. Even though I knew they faded in sunlight, I was still surprised at how fast it happened in Steve McDonalds recent video. I’m really curious as to why alcohol inks are prone to do that? Especially since I love working with them!😆 If you have a favorite pendant, chances are it’s going to get UV exposure.
Thank you, that will be my next experiment without the pigment paste 😊😊😊.
I thought the purpose of the test pieces was to determine the process going forward in this experiment..but then you never looked at them before doing the others😢😢 they turned out so well.
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Hi Dan 🤗 nice tutorial as always. I am making my own tints with micas. Try just adding micas to only part A and add white pigment and alcohol 🤓
Hey Luna Designs 😊, hope all is well. Haha, great minds think alike, I started testing yesterday with this 😊😊😊
@@daniel..cooper thank you Dan 🤗 hope everything is well with you too. Yeah thats for sure that we like to experiment 😂
@@damla0606 all good thanks 😊. Still no UA-cam comeback yet?
@@daniel..cooper haha hope I will 🙈
Very pretty 🤗. Another great technique!! I’m still gonna use the alcohol ink. As I stated in a previous post I’m not too worried about cabochans being in direct sunlight for extended time. I sent you a couple of messages about the piece that you made with rainbow candy colors. It was awesome 🌈. You said that you showed it on your “live”. I bought the new resin and have been wanting to try it. How can I view your live?
Hi Deb, that was probably one of my TikTok lives, I will be starting those again as soon as I can 😊
You may have not got the desired design you wished for. but honestly they are all gorgeous, the colours are beautiful, will definitely be trying this method out, off to Amazon i gooooo 🤣
Thank you 😊, sorry 😂
@@daniel..cooper haha don't be sorry, i have learned so much from you, i only needed the mica powders, (i already have plenty but i like those colours and i dig the shakers they are in) 😁
They are great and packed with so much to choose from 😂
I just wanted to say Hi. Bevan is my maiden name and where I’m from it’s a really rare name. There’s only one other unrelated family in our entire State with the same last name. I’ve heard it’s a much more common name in Wales, which is where our ancestors are from. Anyway, I just had to say hi, have a wonderful day!😊
@@funo6581 Hi funo, yes my dads side have welsh ancestry my mums father was Italian lol, so im bit of a lovely mix. 😊
I love all of them!!!! For another test try acetone (nail polish remover). I’m thinking this because when I was doing my nails the other day I had some polish that was thick. I knew I couldn’t use alcohol to thin it so I tried acetone because when I use it to remove gel, when it evaporates the gel hardens back up. So maybe it will do the same thing with regular resin. I’m curious.
It could work! Worth a test! 😊
I use acetone to thin my nail polish too. 😃
If u try it in resin, let us know! 💙
Another fantastic video!! What is the tool called that you stir with, it does a great job and you use it a lot.
Thanks, I'm not 100% sure 😂 Sorry
Loving your videos! Thank you for sharing your tips and tricks. Do you have a link for the little plastic cups you are using? I looked for them under your Amazon link and then trying to find them on a Google search with no luck. Thx!
I will try to source the links on another video for you 😊
Hi Daniel! Love your videos!! How can I get the same effects without the pigment paste?
Video coming tomorrow 😊😊😊
I need to try this again now that I'm using different resins. You make such beautiful pieces! Makes me want to try again. 🥰
Did you swirl the last 2 again after you added the sinker to the back?
Thanks Cathii, yes, I swirled after waiting for the resin to thicken as usual, I'm also going to try this with blooms, mixing in the mica with the base white should give some nice pastel colours.
@@daniel..cooper That's exactly what I was thinking! I've tried this technique with flowers before. I got interesting results, but not quite feathering.
Love this. Is that white pigment a glue for resin?
Thanks, it can help bind things, in the next video, I got better results without it 😀
@daniel..cooper can you use acrylic paint instead of white pigment paste?
Neat idea but I don't like the cloudiness on so many of them.
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Good evening Daniel! 😁
Must get a box of those! I have the let’s resin chunky glitters but these look great 👍
Please could you tell me what tool you are using to mix and drop the colours in the resin? Looks a bit like you are using the handle of a type of burring tool. It’s just the job for the drops. ☺️
Loving the pastel colours ❤️
Hi Sue, there's such a great variety of colours 😊
@@daniel..cooper I’ve never been disappointed with Let’s resin products to date. Crafting put on hold at the moment though. 😔
Me neither, hope you can get back to it soon Sue.x
It's a cuticle pusher fingernail tool 😄 great way to use already owned tools from around your home
@@lucindagardener6100 haha, I use it to trim and sharp bits from my resin or moulds, I bought them just for that reason, they work great! A TikToker taught me 🥰
Is there a uv stabilizer that can be added to the colored mica mixture?
so can you do this in bigger molds, like coasters?
Sure can 😊😊😊
As always love your videos. But found it funny you try not to watch utube videos 🤣😂🤣😂 as like you there are some great people in there doing similar art work because that's what it is . Like let's pour ❤️👌
Yes, There are so many great artists, I mean, I do watch some if I know that particular technique but I do prefer to push myself and see an image and try to work out how it's done :)
Daniel is white casting craft the same as white pigment paste? Ty
I believe so but don't quote me on that 😂
@@daniel..cooper Thanks
Pretty, but the white mutes the colors.
Why are you using a white paste instead of a liquid; does if have to do with the resin you’re using or the effects you’re going for? Do you spray or use a mold release? Enjoyed seeing another technique
You could try with a liquid, i think i did in the next video :) yes, I use spray when I remember lol
@@daniel..cooper TY for replying
@@daniel..cooper As always thanks sharing!
Daniel, thank you. What is "CD"?
C Deeper by Let's Resin is a sinker white alcohol ink 😊
@@daniel..cooper thank you!!
Have you ever created an paint pour using mica or alcohol inks ?
Not Yet ;)
What did you spray your with.
What what do you spray your molds with to keep them shiny?
A mould release spray, it helps keep the mould shiny 😊
Oh nvm you show it in the next one lol 😂
What did you spray your mold with?
Hi Robin, it's a mould release spray, it helps the moulds stay shinier for longer 😊
Algorithm Smalgorithm.
I'm trying to get one to bloom I'm doing something wrong! I use pigment paste white it stillborn no petals I'm almost giving up
What temp are you getting your resin to?
I'll be honest I don't use thermometer what kind do I need to buy? tu for answering me
Is that just plain white ink,,if so after youve mixed it with color,, how does it seperate from the color & it turns out into spotty??? just trying to learn new stuff & wanna have a go at it
I use a white pigment with the mica then use Let's Resin Sinker on the tester piece 😊
@@daniel..cooper WHATS THAT ALCOHOL YOUR DRIPPING IN THE COLOR???
How do you avoid getting the blobs while using both inks and mica powder? I get those a lot and also I get a lot of muddling with the colors as well 😢
Maybe wait 30/40mins before adding :)
@@daniel..cooper thank you !
Daniel, is there a way to liquefy the Armour liquid / gel? I have lost my black, blu and green. It hardened in the bottles!
HELP! PLEASE ANYONE??!?
Yes Diane! Cathii LaPierre told me you can heat the bottles in hot water, I did this with my white before the video and it works perfectly 🥰
@@daniel..cooperTHANK YOU SO MUCH DANIEL. Love the way these came out! Just beautiful!!!
My black went rock hard; it was too far gone to save it. They are less than a year old, and I make sure my lids are on even before I stir it into the resin. Too expensive to waste!
@@dianeh2420 my white was the same, some may not be recoverable as I didn't wipe my stick before the double dip 😂, but hot water did work for the rest 🥰
I’m in U.S. that sinker white isn’t available so what do I search for in u.s.?
Honest, I would wait and keep checking, it will be back in stock soon.
@@daniel..cooper well I have my mold like yours, I have alcohol inks and Micah powder. Just waiting on the sinker white now.
what is c deeper?
It's a sinker white alcohol ink from Let's Resin 😊😊
i do not understand when or where you added alcohol ?
never mind got the cart before the horse. :)
Lol 😆
Holy cow, be careful doing this. I used 3 drops of 99.9% alcohol in about 20ml of alumilite clear cast with Let's Resin mica powder into a piping bag (doing something different) and my resin got SUPER hot, so hot I couldn't touch the piping bag and hardened half of the bag in less than 15 minutes (normally has a work time of about 45 minutes), even though towards the tip was water thin. I did everything else I would normally do, the alcohol is the only thing different and I never had that happen before.
Oh no! I haven't had that yet, maybe the piping bags were full? Resin heats fast if too deep.