- Hello. Guess what we're doing today?
We're gonna do some wool painting.
I am so excited for this.
It's actually been a while since we've done one of these.
We did like two of them over the winter.
I figured it was time to bring it back, so.
Confession, I actually started this last week
and I'm halfway through it right now,
but it's going really good.
This is gonna be a really fun one.
I have wool all over my studio.
I just gotta pick it all up.
Oh, my friend Annie gave me this cute basket,
so this is where I store my wool now.
So that's really cool,
except a plant will probably go in this really soon
'cause it's a really cute
flower pot looking plant basket, you know?
I'll describe what we're doing to you super quickly.
We are essentially painting
with this colorful wool material here.
(gentle music)
And we do that with this giant eight needle sorta thing.
It works. Just kinda roll with me
and you'll see all the fun stuff that happens.
If you want more detail than that description,
I'll link my old videos down below,
'cause no sense in explaining it in every video.
With that being said, let's just get started.
Let's take this bright green piece of felt here.
And now we're gonna take this floofy, poofy white wool,
get some more floofy poofies
'cause we're gonna need a lot of this stuff.
That's why I have this massive bag here.
Now what we're gonna do
is we're gonna lay this wool all across this piece of felt.
So that means it doesn't really matter
what color piece of felt it is,
it's getting covered anyway.
I just used what I had in my art studio.
And you can see here,
I'm laying all this wool in the same direction,
and that is because I'm gonna do a second layer
in the opposite direction later,
so it's gonna be like a crisscross pattern.
Now this is really tedious.
It probably took me an hour or two
to completely cover this piece of felt.
However, it makes your piece a little thicker
and easier for all the other colors to stick on top of it,
so I highly recommend that you do not skip this step.
(gentle music continues)
Look at how satisfying all these needles are.
Pokey, poke, poke.
Okay, now we're taking this pastel yellow wool color
and I'm just laying it right across the middle
of my homemade sorta canvas thing.
Yeah, we'll call it that.
Pokey, poke, poke. Lots of pokes.
Now we're gonna take this darker yellow here.
Do the same thing? Oh yeah.
Lay it down.
You can see I also lay it down
in really thin layers, by the way.
But yeah, more pokings, pokeys, pokings, whatever, you know.
(gentle music continues)
Now we're doing a light orange,
and I'm gonna continue the blending process.
If you are somebody who, with drawing or painting,
perhaps gets intimidated by shading,
wool painting may be your friend,
because this is probably the easiest medium to blend
that I've probably experienced in a really long time.
It's just so easy. (laughs)
You just layer colors, and if you mess up,
you just layer again and poke it with this tool.
It's pretty great.
(gentle music continues)
Now we're getting to the good stuff in the sky.
We are getting to the pinky colors.
This was my favorite part of the whole sky
because I totally envisioned
like a pinky, bright sky for my little sunset
'cause what we do on the bottom of this canvas later,
it's all gonna tie together, just bear with me.
(quirky music)
So at this point I was thinking, "Hmm, you know what?
I could probably bring this to life a little bit more."
So I took that same floofy, poofy white wool,
and I started twirling it around and making clouds.
Now, I love this little twirly technique.
It makes it very three-dimensional,
so clouds, here we go.
(upbeat music)
All right, so we've been at this for a while
and most of the background is done.
I'm really enjoying doing these textured clouds,
so I think I'll add a couple more of those and then
we'll do the ocean scene.
Good stuff. I like it, let's go.
(upbeat music)
So we are continuing these clouds still,
and this was super tedious
because twirling them in that little curlicue motion
before sticking them onto this felt piece
was very time consuming.
But I think it's worth it
'cause it makes everything look super whimsical,
three-dimensional, and just adds a nice playful touch.
(upbeat music continues)
Now it kind of looks like we're sticking
a giant worm or a snake all over this piece,
but let's fill it in and I'll show you what's going on.
(upbeat music continues)
So right now, I'm creating a shoreline
because we are doing a beach sunset theme
and I'm so excited about this.
The sand was honestly the easiest part of this entire piece
because it was like a solid color,
and then I laid a little bit brighter
of a color on top of it.
Very easy blending.
That was it.
(playful music)
All right, well, we finished the sand
and it was surprisingly easy to blend, so that was nice.
And you know what?
We didn't run out of this color either,
and I really thought we would
I was a little stressed
when I started the sand because of that.
So good stuff.
Now we just have the ocean water to do.
So anyway before we continue,
I just wanted to say do you see that painting behind me?
I did that a couple videos ago
and I opened up pre-orders for this print. (spitting)
Wool is everywhere in this room, it's like floating.
But anyway, yeah, there's pre-orders for this print
and I actually already started shipping them out,
so it's technically not a pre-order anymore.
They are available now at mirabyler.com.
I just wanted to show it here
because I'm so excited about this print
and that painting was so fun to make,
so I just wanted to share that with you.
Let's continue with this wool painting
and do that ocean water.
We need to find a good blue color.
Ooh wait, wait, wait, wait.
There are so many good blues in this set,
so this is gonna be fun. (laughs)
You wanna see something super satisfying?
I love unraveling these little wool balls
and then just ripping them apart,
and then, yeah, sticking them on my canvas.
It's so fun. (laughs)
It makes you feel slightly destructive.
However, you're reconstructing it onto a wool canvas thing,
so it's all good.
So I laid this color down for the bottom of the ocean scene
because I'm hoping that it shines through quite nicely
when I lay all the lighter colors on top.
And you know these sets
do not come with a lot of each color,
so you have to be creative and do stuff like this.
Otherwise, yeah, it's just difficult.
So I'm on my mission
to use up all these blue colors anyway.
(chill music)
I thought it really fun painting an ocean scene with wool
because that's like my favorite thing to paint right now
with oil and acrylic paints,
so may as well try this with wool.
I think it's really fun, too,
because wool is very bright and saturated,
so this piece kind of gave me
like Lisa Frank vibes in a way, you know?
Throwback to childhood.
'90s kids, raise your hands. (laughs)
(chill music continues)
Now we're getting to the part where I'm laying down
all these lighter blues and trying to go the direction
that the water is hitting the shore,
which is kind of diagonal, so, you know,
we want those waves and those water ripples
to look believable, if you will.
So I feel like once I got to this step,
it actually started to feel like, oh, this is water.
This actually makes sense now.
It actually looks like water.
All those art pieces, you know,
we all have those messy stages
where it doesn't come together.
This was the come together moment. (laughs)
(triumphant music)
Now, once I got to this part, I decided, you know what?
I want some dimension in these waves.
So I took that same floofy poofy wool
that I took out of the bag at the beginning of the video,
and I decided to make sea foam with it,
and it was so fun because it was super three-dimensional
and it definitely brought the water to life.
(warm music)
And then remember that color that I laid at the bottom
in one of those bottom water layers?
I added it back to create shadows under some of these waves.
And it worked out. I was pretty happy with it.
(warm music continues)
I really don't know how long the water took me,
but when I imported my footage onto the computer,
I think I had 10 or 12 hours of raw footage, so yeah.
Now I will say I am a slow needle felter.
I take my time because I injured myself once,
so I'm a very cautious poker, if you will.
But I don't know.
It's really therapeutic to go at a slow pace
and enjoy the moment.
I also decided to add like stars and a moon.
It was so fun, made the sky look really cool.
(warm music continues)
All right, let's peel this off.
It looks like one of those Biore pore strips, you know?
If this was somebody's poor strip
they have a lot of blackheads,
but we won't talk about it. (laughs)
It's so satisfying though.
I love looking at the back of these after I'm done.
So here's some little close-ups
to satisfy all you curious people.
Let's tuck these edges under,
and we're gonna do some pokey pokes,
make the sides of the canvas look all cleaned up.
(warm music continues)
So I just tucked all the loose wool
from the edges over and secured it down,
and this is how it turned out.
Super, super happy with it.
(warm music continues)
This piece of like housing insulation that I used
as like padding for the needles is so satisfying
'cause there's so many holes in it. (laughs)
It was really fun making this.
I really like painting with wool
because it's so easy to blend,
and I loved doing the sky especially.
I hope you liked this.
If you wanna see me continue this series,
give this video like a thumbs up
or just comment down below and let me know
and maybe I'll do another wool painting soon.
This is our third one,
and we did a wall sculpture, which is really fun,
but I will not be doing more wool sculptures. (laughs)
These things are so light, too.
Anyway. Yeah.
I really like putting these in shadow boxes,
so if you ever do that, Amazon has some good ones
that you can just like pin these in.
I can link one below that I've used in the past.
Thank you so much for watching.
I hope you enjoyed this wool painting video.
I've been really inspired lately
because it's getting warm outside,
so you'll probably see a lot of fun stuff
coming soon on my channel.
I have a really long list of ideas,
and I hope I can fit them all in
in the next like two months.
With that being said,
have a good day and thanks for watching.
Good bye.