Hey Diana, With regard to sanding the wood; it might be worthwhile finding a lumber yard or woodworker near you who has an industrial size belt sander/planer. The one I am thinking of allows you set the size the piece by width to remove the correct amount, then you 'post' the wood through the machine like a letter, then flip it to sand the other side. Once you are happy any minor modifications you can do yourself at home, 8 hours sanding is a lot (it's noisy, labour intensive plus with Hand-arm vibration from the use of hand-held power tools over time, can cause significant ill health (painful and disabling disorders of the blood vessels, nerves and joints) I have a health and safety background in the UK so just thinking of your safety. .........just an idea, and a possible collaboration with a local business/ tradesman. Stay Safe as Always ☮🕊 🧡

The ending with the goofball. My favorite! You are such a hard worker and it truly shows. You put so much love into your work. I also love that you show the little things that stir up the process and how you go about fixing them! You do a fantastic job, you should be so proud!

@diankapours6214

Жыл бұрын

🥰🤗♥ Youre THE BEST! Thank you, love you so much 🤗

I didn't see any other response to your wood sanding question so I thought I would share my opinion. First of all you do great work, and I applaud your ambition to expand your art business. Keep it up! If the slab is actually primavera, then it is reasonably soft (about 1/2 the hardness of hard maple). Since you are dealing with a wood slab, it is possible, although unlikely, that the wood was treated with something to minimize cracking. It is hard to tell without actually examining the wood. However, the most likely scenario is that you are just dealing with end grain, which is much harder and more random than the length wise grain of the tree. While sanding it is often necessary to raise the grain with a little bit of water. A spray bottle and clean towel to wipe off the excess works great. Wait a minute or two for the water to evaporate and resume sanding. Repeat as needed. When dealing with end grain, sanding can often compact the wood, resulting in the polishing effect you described. Raising the grain with water will help minimize this issue. It is also best to go form coarse to fine grain sandpaper rather than going back and forth. Start with 60 or 80 grit to get most of the milling marks, then move up to 100, 150 and 220. The goal is to remove all of the previous coarse grit sanding marks before moving on to the next finer grit. You can also try a card scraper to remove the mill marks quickly before sanding. Best of luck on your next slab.

Take your next Round or slab t a wood shop and have the run it through the big roller sander...takes like 5mins, comes out perfectly flat. Shops also have loads of wood pieces for purchase that they will sand as a purchase package.

Im so happy you made a youtube video, Im tired of the fast paced IG videos that show nothing in 30 secs hahah. Right from the beginning, I said to you that you would make it far and here you are killin it! Thank you for showing each of these beautiful pigments with details! The metal shards and glitter glass will be a huge hit as well, really you have a wide range of colors and selection to make stunning WOWfactor art 🥰 You are a beautiful young lady, kind, talented and an inspiration to many 🥰😘 Keep it up! xoxo Sheila

@diankapours6214

Жыл бұрын

Awe Sheila!!!! What a compliment 🥰🥰 Thank you! And I completely agree haha. I cant cut all the pretty details down to 30 seconds! Feels illegal haha

I love people who teach things they carried inside their souls...

I love getting your packages! I'm a huge fan and can't wait to order more but I think I'll save some back to take one of your courses.

Loving you with all your hardworking skills

Beautiful art, wonderful video!! My personal recommendation, when it comes to cutting off drips etc., is to use a multitool like Fein Multi Master or similar. Due to the fact, that it uses a vibration movement to cut, you can work very closely and exact, while having waaaay less dust! Also using way less materials (sandpaper etc.). Best wishes!!

@diankapours6214

Жыл бұрын

I just looked into it and wow!!! Thank you so much for the recommendation. The drips are definitely no fun - I will be looking into purchasing one :)

@asc23channel

Жыл бұрын

@@diankapours6214 You’re more than welcome!! Keep creating such beautiful art pieces! Best wishes

Nice job, that is a beautiful table! Looking forward to the next!

Lovely work!

Lovely work of art. Great video

Love this Diana!! Lovely to see you back … you’ve been very busy indeed!!! Please can you tell me how you get such defined and thick fronts of your waves?? When I try these they seem to just blow out as I’m worried about leaving it for too long in the pots … thanks in advance. Martin 🙏🏻

Amazing ❤️

The ending ❤

I just started using the blue viper and O.M.G it made me stop in my tracks.

Diana you are totally the best at what you do of any artist I've ever seen do Rosen awesome work I want to see more from you

Your an amazing young woman/artist. The hues of your pigment range are out of this galaxy and love the name descriptions. Beautiful work, beautiful soul. Cheers & Blessings, from Australia. 🙏❤

Love all the blues, especially Fallen Empire, also love Portal (purple) and Aquatica, pity shipping costs to Australia is rediculous as I would love to test them out, maybe one day I will make it to the USA and get some

@joeljacq7486

Жыл бұрын

Absolutely agree with you on the colour range. Cheers, from another Aussie.

Great video, very good, excelent work, greetings from Portugal 😉👍

@diankapours6214

Жыл бұрын

Hi!! Thanks so much ♥

Loved it! Your work shows! Love how you explain everything and share what you know 🧡

Beautiful table!!!💙 Thank you for another great video!! 🥰

I need every color!!! I absolutely love your work!!!

Such a beautiful collectors piece. Just stunning. Well done!❤

This was an absolutely amazing video! I definitely felt the exhaustion throughout the process. You're such a talented and hardworking artist! Headed to your website to place an order 🙂.

Wow! What a beautiful piece! I could see myself trying to build something like that. I have the woodworking skills but I've never worked with resin. At some point in the next year I can see myself taking your resin course.

@diankapours6214

Жыл бұрын

Looks like we could learn a thing or two from each other 🤗 Any idea as to why I had such trouble sanding the wood?

@berniebuchholz6450

Жыл бұрын

Hi@@diankapours6214, to remove all the saw marks, I probably would have started with a belt sander with 60 grit sandpaper. I have the same palm sander as you were using. It works better if you connect a vacuum to it. I would also use 3M sandpaper. It seems to be some of the best out there. Hooking up a shop vacuum to the sander helps keep the sanding pad clear of dust and let's it works faster. Once the saw marks are gone you can move up the sandpaper from 80 to 120 and so on, depending on how smooth you want it. I would be curious to know how smooth you would want it for the epoxy to adhere to it. Hope this helped.

@diankapours6214

Жыл бұрын

@@berniebuchholz6450 Ah, a belt sander would have definitely been a much better way to start. And of course, the vacuum tip as well. Thank you so much for the advice!!

Welcome back Dianka - beautiful work on the table x

@diankapours6214

Жыл бұрын

thank you 🥰🥰

How beautiful the table looks! Looking forward of more videos from you.

@diankapours6214

Жыл бұрын

Thank you!! Looking forward to being more active ♥

Yayy! Happy you’re back! 🙌🏽

@diankapours6214

Жыл бұрын

Thank you!! So happy to be back 🥰

I love how you’ve named one of your blues “Banksea” I’m hoping that’s after the illusive artist Banksy! I’m actually from Bristol in the UK, where he’s from!! Exciting and beautiful colours Dianka x

Beautiful 💕 How long did it take you start to finish? Congratulations on all your resins/pigments, etc... How exciting for you! I will definitely be ordering from you! 😉❣

@diankapours6214

10 ай бұрын

Maybe about a month :) thank you! Looking forward to it 💕

That looks amazing! Do you have a tutorial to purchase? Also what kind of wood is that?

Purchasing your ocean course very soon, been spending too much lately on resin projects so I am having to wait but can’t wait 🙂 Table is stunning 😍 it sucks that you live so far away & postage & tax are so expensive as I would love your pigments & glitters etc

@diankapours6214

Жыл бұрын

I hear ya!! Resin art is definitely expensive. I try to keep my art supplies as affordable as possible which hopefully helps. And thank you!! ♥

Let me start with I'm not the smartest person so keep that in mind lol. There might be someone who makes it somewhere but not that I know of an since you have all the other color an paint stuff I feel like someone should make clear primer or for all I know it's not possible to do with primer lol. Also love the outcome

May I ask where you get the wood?

Do you ever do specials on the classes? Prices seem high for non hands on training.

@diankapours6214

Ай бұрын

Yes, i’m running one right now actually. code: launchday :)

we could rule guitar center too honey

👍🌹💖

Can we learn resin art by just watching KZread vedios without going to a resin class? Plz help

can you recreate that for your beutiful moma

You could have taken that wood piece to a professional wood working shop and had them run it through a planer. would have saved you a ton of time and effort.

Where are you . With country?