- Hello, everyone.
Today is a good day to have a good day.
So we're gonna have a good day together
and paint on some wood.
Lemme tell you about this stuff, okay.
This came from a family member
who got it from a friend, who got it from a spouse's
like woodworking place.
And these, solid wood, these are just scraps
from like their wood working place.
I'm pretty sure that's where they came from
to my understanding, but it could be wrong.
Anyway, I'm painting on them.
Let's just say, it's gonna be fun.
We have a bunch of them,
and I love upcycling stuff like this into paintings.
And I also love painting on wood.
So the fact that this is like
really good quality wood is awesome.
So we're gonna prep the surface with our lovely Gesso,
our lovely Gesso.
This stuff here is a game changer.
Sometimes I use it and sometimes I just paint
on raw wood depending on my mood.
But we're gonna use this and it's gonna be a good time.
I did just reorganize my studio a little bit,
so I need to find my good brushes.
What did I do with them?
My brushes are so crusty right now.
Yeah, bad habits are hard to knock.
(soft music)
We need sandpaper.
I'm just gonna tear a little chunk off, we won't need much.
Do you see the edges here?
They just need sanding, it's not a big deal.
Luckily the surface on all of these
it's like baby butt smooth. (scratching sound)
(bright music)
Okay, we have our Gesso at the ready, we have all our wood.
Let's prep some surfaces and then have some good old fun.
I think this will be a really fun time together
just creating some art.
Think realistically, we'll probably paint two of these.
And then if you want this to be a little series
let me know and I'll paint the others.
(upbeat music)
♪ I've been feeling so small ♪
♪ Watch the clock ticking off the wall ♪
♪ But tonight I'm letting it go ♪
♪ Spend my ♪
- So the Gesso is down, everything is drying.
And I think while that happens, we're gonna go outside
and look for some good old inspiration
♪ I'm gonna be myself ♪
♪ Or I could be someone else ♪
♪ No one's stopping me now ♪
♪ I'm gonna skip my breaks ♪
♪ I'm gonna make mistakes ♪
♪ I just wanna feel alive ♪
♪ It's just what I do when I'm out so ♪
♪ Try not to hold me down ♪
♪ Feel alive, when I'm in this town ♪
♪ Look at those beautiful stars ♪
♪ I wanna drive a faster car ♪
♪ Nothing can break me ♪
♪ No, nothing can break me ♪
♪ Try not to hold me down ♪
♪ Feel alive, when I'm in ♪
- All right, now that we got some good old inspiration
from the great outdoors, let's prep these wood pieces.
The Gesso is dry, so I'm just going in
with some burnt Sienna and doing an underlayer.
This will help me judge color later
and just serve as a nice, warm under painting.
So you can see here I'm doing two of these
and now let's prep our palette.
Let's actually dive into the paintings.
Now because I just walked through a park
that had tons of flowers, you might be thinking
that I'm probably going to paint flowers
in this video and surprise, I'm not.
I don't know why, but when I walked through all that stuff,
that is not what came to my mind.
I got inspired by other things.
So this will be a fun surprise,
especially the next painting.
(bright music)
So for this painting here
I was really just inspired by the sky.
The weather was so beautiful
and I just could not stop thinking
about clouds and sunsets and whimsical brush strokes.
So I sort of decided to apply all of that to this painting
and do a loose styled, carefree, sorta sunset with clouds.
I really enjoyed this because,
I wanted to play around with blues and pinks.
And I think this sort of painting
really allowed me to do that.
It was really fun also because
I didn't try to like over blend.
I just went with it and did some playful things,
and I really liked the way that it turned out.
(bright music)
Now I wanted to add a lot of contrast to this.
So I did include some trees
at the bottom and I actually took this photo
about a year ago when we were driving, I believe.
So there's technically a road, but I didn't paint the road.
So yeah.
I thought it was really fun though.
(bright music)
It's just fun to try new things sometimes.
And for me lately, loosening up my brush strokes
and not getting caught up on all the little details
has been so transformative for my art journey.
It's allowed me to confront things
with less fear and just go for it.
So I'm really excited for some stuff
that will be coming soon.
I think this was a nice warmup to some bigger things.
Here's the finished painting and I hope you like it.
(bright music)
All right, let's start the next painting.
And then I'll tell you what's going on in a minute.
This one might take you by surprise.
We'll see.
(bright music)
Hello, it's a new day.
We have our tea, we have our paints
and we're gonna finish the final painting of the video.
So this is where we stopped last week.
I painted the edges off camera
and then there's this royal blue color on top.
So I actually gave you a subtle hint as to
what we're doing when I was sipping my tea.
So we're actually gonna be doing like
a vintage-y folk art whimsical sort of teapot.
And I'm so excited for this.
By the way, I'm gonna be listing
these original paintings that I'm doing
in this video, in my shop.
So if you want them, you can go to mirabyler.com.
I also released like a lot of new stickers and stuff.
I just always forget to talk about it on here.
So yeah, if you want to check out all my new stuff,
really excited about it and it's been fun shipping it out.
Anyway, back to the painting.
(bright jazz music)
So if you are somebody who's been with my channel
for a couple of years, this might take you way back
to some stuff that I used to paint.
Now, for those of you who are new
let me tell you what I'm talking about.
I went through this phase where I was literally obsessed
with gouache paint.
Like I used it all the time.
Most of my videos were centered around gouache,
and I went into this like funky painting phase
that was very different from what I had done in the past,
and it was folk art.
So what I would do is I would pick like an object
like this teapot here that I'm painting.
Actually, I'm pretty sure I did paint teacups
and teapots back then too.
But I would also do stuff like moths in greenhouses
and just all sorts of stuff,
even like animals with clothes on and stuff.
And every now and then I dip back into it
because it's so fun and I really enjoy folk art.
(bright jazz music)
Now, I think reason why I enjoy folk art
is because I can take these botanical patterns
and fill an object with them.
But at the same time, you limit your color palette
and you take away the shading,
and it just creates such a cool effect.
And I honestly, I have not done this in such a long time.
So when I walked through that park,
I was really expecting to leave and come home
and paint flowers on both of these pieces of wood.
But for some reason, my mind just went entirely elsewhere.
And here I am painting this teapot
and going back to some folk art with acrylic gouache.
(mellow music)
Side note, I also had this really cool
ultra marine blue color,
which is what we used on the background,
And I've literally been dying to use that
as a painting background for so long.
So it feels so good to finally be able to do it.
And I don't know, at this point I did kinda
stress out a little bit over my color choices.
I was just like, did I choose the wrong colors?
I don't know.
But this here what you're looking at is my awkward stage.
We're about halfway done with the teapot.
And this is, the part where I usually second guess myself.
But I think those stages of paintings are very good.
They help us grow as artists
and they help us to learn how to critique ourselves,
and I highly encourage you to embrace that.
It's good.
A lot of people don't like the awkward stage of paintings,
I'm right there with you,
but man when you get through it, it is so rewarding.
(mellow music)
So I thought leaving this blue background empty,
but for some reason after I finished that teapot,
I just looked at this painting for about 10 minutes
and was like, it just, it needs something,
so what can we do?
And I decided to take that yellow ochre color
and create the same leaves on the teapot,
but in the yellow color.
And I feel like that really helped the teapot stand out
because I outlined it with that yellow ochre,
and that was when I second guessed myself.
But now that this liner is in the background,
I feel like it helped so much.
(mellow music)
Anyway, this is how it turned out.
I hope you like it.
It was really fun to paint this one.
And as I said, it took me back, to my old roots,
it was really fun.
(mellow music)
All right, this was so fun.
Like honestly, I really enjoy just
using scraps of wood to create really fine artwork.
So this is the piece we painted last week
which for you was probably like four or five minutes ago
but I really enjoyed this.
It was fun just doing big carefree brush strokes
for all these clouds.
I also did the edges pink to match
the clouds and the sunset, and I thought
that was a really fun way to dress it up.
And then this piece here I actually
sort of second guessed myself a little bit
going into it, because I was like,
man did I choose the wrong color scheme?
This seems so cool in my mind.
And yeah, we just had to get through the awkward stages.
It was all good.
I'm really happy with it now.
And again, I took that yellow ochre color
that was in the painting to do the sides.
And I just thought that was really fun.
Anyway, I hope you have a fantastic day
and I will see you next week
in another video. (chuckles happily)
Bye.