I'm just gonna come out and say it, this should be a mini-series where you just find random things, and go "hmm, I wonder what this would look like mixed into resin" and we all watch it and see how it turns out. I've already discovered a couple cost effective alternatives to commercial dyes! Edit: Also, as a suggestion, I wonder what chili powder looks like...
+rasmis I looked it up, and they all seemed to basically be the same: textured soy flour, partially hydrogenated soybean oil, salt, dried yeast, natural and artificial flavors, caramel color, autolyzed yeast, and DF&C red 3.
They're called imitation bacon bits... as in, they're imitating bacon bits. The yeast makes them savoury, and the salt makes them salty. Savoury and salty are the key flavours of bacon. They're inferior, but they're absolutely... imitation bacon bits.
Color ideas: -Google “eyeshadow polymer clay” for info on using makeup. -Google “Kool-Aid dyeing wool” for food color recipes. -Gel food colors like Wilton have less water in them. -If you can get it, Big Red soda. It’s so heavily pigmented, it stains Formica. -Celestial Seasoning teas, especially the fruit Zingers. -Check the clearance at Ulta for cheap eyeshadows. Daiso is also good. -Budget drugstore makeup brands like Wet n’ Wild are good. -Ask someone you know who uses makeup if they have old eyeshadow they can’t bear to throw away but don’t use any more.
Could you try ground up dried out flower petals? I know when I ground up my rose petals (I added some salt to help grind) I ended up with a very fine pigment that I used for painting.
You need a lot of powdered flower petals, then boil them to extract the pigment, dry it off to get the dried pigment extract, and then use that. It still tends to be pretty weak colour unless you use a really strong dye, like indigo.
Me too. I used pink flower petals and they turned to a dirty white color almost immediately after entering the resin, I think the proteins/molecules which make the flowers turn pink might have been denatured by the heat the resin produced or possibly by the pH change it might've caused. Still looked pretty neat, but it couldn't have been farther from pink
Heres a challenge, make a resin crystal ball, with some mystical colors swirling maybe, then mold your hand as a holder for it in the quick set mold. Drill out the middle of the hand and put some LED lights in it so it lights up the crystal ball! This would be absolutely amazing!
YES!! That would be excellent! Let's up the ante too - it looks like a freaking landscape, right? Peter, what if you made a 3D landscape river table with dark wood and highlighters? You could make something like a lava or volcano table!
Today I finally smelled Epoxy Resin for the first time. My respect for this man (which was already pretty high) has gone through the roof. (Love your channel, seriously)
FYI, toner from a color laser printer works awesome, as does sidewalk chalk. (I've used both.) Ink from a pen is weird - some brands make the epoxy a different color than the ink like the nail polish in your experiment while other brands of ink are more true to the color of the ink itself. (Actually exploited this to my benefit... several years ago, an elderly gentleman from my parents church broke the head off his cane, which was intricately hand-carved in poland. I bored a hole in each piece, epoxied in an oak dowel, and then filled the gaps with resin dyed with pen ink - gaps because the surfaces were damaged when I got it & pieces were missing. When cured, it was almost the exact color as the cane, so I just had to carve it to match the existing pattern. You literally could not tell it had been broken when I was done. =) It lasted until he passed & he was buried with his cane because he liked it so much; I was glad I was able to extend the life of something he loved so much for him.)
Jessica Rochester Indeed but you don't actually get much. I mean if you buy one and don't like it its a viable use so it doesn't go to waste, but I wouldn't buy it for resin unless its the only way to get that colour.
Ground pencil lead (such as a mechanical pencil refill) should get you a nice gun metal gray. What about the gooey ink from a normal pen? Black and blue....
I really enjoy these "will it resin" videos, would love to see another! If you do, maybe try mascara or liquid foundation? (Though, I love everything you do and am happy with anything ☺)
It would be interesting to see what the cheese dust from kraft dinner would look like as a dye! Though it probably would have a similar result to the cheetos. It could also be cool to see what flour, brown sugar, cinnamon and other baking goods or spices could look like as dyes.
Holy woodworking and resin gods, my comment from the video was shown 😂😂😂 I WAS infact, up at 2:30 am when i commented that, lmfao Edit: 105 likes and a heart from Peter, damn, maybe i SHOULD write more sleep deprived comments :0 Edit 2: *Try ramen flavor packets, multichrome powder, or a different type of nail polish, cilantro (?), maybe graphite shavings/powder from like pencils, or pumpkin spice powder, they sound interesting*
If you do a third edition you should try using hair dye. A semi permanent one like Manic Panic or L'oreal Colorista because they're a premixed cream/liquid and they come in so many different colors.
yes do a third. i am guessing all dry spices will be safe. what about pepto bismol? or cough syrup? what happens with a glow stick? shaving the crayon and smooshing it up won't do much?
I really like how you experiment and how you explain to us "mortals" process of making things. One of my favorite things are that you show your failures. Just keep to do what you do
Colored pencil lead is fairly waxy so trying to get it ground down could be hard. It might clump up. Graphite should be able to be crushed up into powder and give an interesting look.
Some colored pencil leads are more oily than waxy, but those tend to be the more expensive ones so it's really not worth it over just using proper pigments.
+Sebastian Mustermann depends how much you use from the other pigment. If the ratio is more pigment then the fluorescent then it could cover the glow effekt and the opposite the fluorescent would glow if there isn't much pignent an it would tend to the yellow. But if you want green you could mix blue and the fluorescent and still have a good glow without covering it with much pigment.
Try a holographic nail polish in resin too. Just make sure not to use a glitter polish that just has sparkly bits, but actual holographic flakey pieces. The nail polish community cares a lot about what's real holo and what's not it seems.
Sean Rea Of course we do! You wouldn't try and pass off an opal as a diamond, so why do some companies insist on labelling iridescent things as holographic (although I have seen the reverse happen)? Both are beautiful in their own ways, but they're not the same.
Based on the mustard and hot sauce, I think these ideas will get a similar result. Soft resin because all those ideas are water-based *except the charcoal, I think that might work
I don't remember if you've done it before, but what if you did something with color shifting properties? Something that changes color based on the angle of the light?
Billie Kathlynn the turmeric isn’t really gonna change much considering it’s encased in resin- the same wouldn’t be true for color-shifting pigments, so...
I dyed my hair bright yellow with turmeric. It stains EVERYTHING. Edit: if you used resin that cures white with the turmeric, you might get a good yellow.
I'm just getting started in resin casting (I'm so new the stuff I've ordered hasn't even arrived yet!) and these videos are GREAT! Loads of really cool, and importantly cheap, ideas for me to try. I'd already picked up some watercolour paints, but I would never have thought to try makeup, nail polish or highlighters!
You should do a bunch of different color highlighters! They make them in such a rainbow of colors now-days. I'd love to see something done with a bunch of the pink/purple ish colors to see if I could do something for my daughters room as a sort of magical Unicorn/nightlight/surprise thing.
You would have issues with water-based markers, but alcohol-based markers could probably have their pigment extracted by letting the alcohol evaporate.
Thank you!! I need to do small repairs to chipped red glass from a radio tower beacon. I need a small amount of translucent red resin to do the job and didn't want to pay for commercial dyes. I was thinking about using red oil based paint or red lacquer paint maybe even a candy red color paint for dye. This video and the previous with household stuff like mustard and hot sauce were real eye openers! You rock dude! Off to experiment.
Do house paint, want to know if these samples I have sitting around from my renovation can work. Also I Kinda liked the unicorn mould better, more of a variety in depth / translucency. The masks were just pucks of resins.
I know I’m late to the game here and that this is probably redundant, but.... first, great job on this concept - super impressed with the highlighter - I never would have thought of that!! As for some other colorings.... - achiote / annatto - paprika - Mac & cheese powder - model paints Thank you for what you are doing - you have a new subscriber!!
Good quality artist pastels aren't cheap though because they're almost pure pigment. If they cost any less than a couple of bucks each you're buying mostly chalk.
I myself have in fact used chalk pastels to dye resin for jewelry! It works extremely well and depending on how fine you grind it, it can look like sparkles are included.
@missmagic you can get a mid quality set for a decent price though. Especially if you have a coupon and got to one of the major craft stores. Or if you catch a sale at Dick Blicks.
Wow you have no idea how this totally brings new value to my supplies hoarder mentality! I'm gonna try this with my nail polishes, shadows, tube watercolor, school markers and water based inks plus my hair dyes! Thinking about oil markers too.. I have a lot of gold. Not sure if they will work.
fun fact: the turmeric turns red as a reaction to the alkaline ph of the epoxy... more fun with highlighters: take the ink tube out and drop it in a bottle full of water, let it soak overnight and pull it back out, put the cap on and turn on the blacklight... works with tinted glass bottles as long as they aren't too dark, works with most colors of Expo brand highlighters, (some brands don't use phosphorescent ink) though many will give a yellowish glow regardless of the ink color, that's just how phosphorescence goes... works great with Smirnoff "Twisted" Vodka bottles, they have a really cool shape... throw some glitter in there and shake it up... ah, college sure was fun...
Mustard powder would give you more orange than turmeric. either that or mac and cheese powder. Lol You should try blue matcha (which is basically powdered blue butterfly pea flower) as well as green matcha and instant coffee/tea
Blue butterfly pea flower tea makes a gorgeous watercolor ink. I would love to see that. Maybe he can try steeping it in both alcohol and water in addition to the powdered form?
DragonRiderShiru I also wonder if it would stay blue in the resin, since it turns fuchsia in the presence of acids below a ph of 5, and I’m not sure if resin is ph neutral or not. Edit: but if it is he could always add a little powdered citric acid to it and see what happens.
For the nail polish, yes most of it is acrylic. There are some gel nail polishes that require a special light to cure, but they tend to be more specialized. Used for fine detail work that the indefinite dry time allows.
