got it from here
oh god our plant turn it a long ways i'm turning it long ways oh my god
i'm trying oh god okay hold on no it's okay i got it i got it i got it
hold on i gotta take the back strap off
hello everybody it's your favorite faux fur wearing youtube artist here
well maybe that's pretty bold of me to assume but i don't know any other artist on youtube
who like rock faux fur like now as you guys know recently i have been doing a whole entire studio
revamp to my little art room and i've come to the conclusion that it's very cramped in here there's
very very little space so i got to thinking you know what would make this tiny little cramped room
that much better a five-foot giant canvas that'll solve my lack of space issue so yeah as you guys
can tell by the title of this video and literally what i just said i'm going to be painting on the
largest canvas that i could find and it just so happens to be a five foot by four and a half feet
canvas so with that being said we're just going to jump right into it today because there is a lot
of painting and work that i need to do so yeah let's go ahead and start
oh shoot zach you know what just remember we should ask for a bag
well doc thank you for your help i appreciate it but i got it from here i got it from here
oh god our plant oh god oh god oh my god i'm trying oh god okay hold on no it's okay i
got it i got it i got it there's so much stuff in our house okay got it thank you
now i hope you guys are enjoying my new backdrop because it's the [ __ ] canvas
i'll move it slightly out of the way that way it's not just like a white void behind me
there we go that's better now the official dimensions for this canvas is 48 inches by 60
inches originally it cost 90 dollars but with a coupon i got it for 60. uh one thing that
surprised me about this canvas is the fact that it's so large it actually has support beams behind
it which is something that i have never seen before when it comes to canvas the canvas came
already pre-prepped with acrylic gesso so it's immediately ready to be painted on which thank
the lord because priming this bad boy would have been a literal whole entire day's worth of work
just to prepare it so thank god it's already primed now unlike my other videos every time
i buy something i always buy it in twos that way if i mess up it's not a problem but because this
canvas was so big so expensive i only have one meaning if i mess up i mess up there's no coming
back from it and i'm not gonna lie yesterday i spent a whole entire day procrastinating to
like mentally prepare for the giant painting that i'm about to paint but i mentally prepared myself
i'm ready i'm in the zone i got my game face on and i'm ready to start preparations step one
all right now that everything's set up i'm ready to start finally painting the next question is
what am i going to paint and originally i thought maybe like a giant portrait like a giant face on
here but i can't think of one single person whose face i would want hanging over my couch judging
me as i down a whole bag of chips i can't think of one so i'm going to be painting a landscape
but it's not going to be a regular landscape it's going to be a cool landscape it's going to be at
night it's going to be in the desert it's going to have a fantasy element and i have a few other
surprises for you with the landscape but i'm a lady and i don't want to give away my secrets
just yet so so yeah starting off with step one the background okay here goes nothing no coming
back from that now for some reason the first layer of the sunset was out of focus but i'll
try my best to explain what i did which was pretty simple actually i laid down a layer of
turquoise a beautiful blue to replicate the night sky and a little bit of pink to replicate a sunset
it hasn't even been 30 minutes in and i've already created what can
only be described as a brutal murder of a smurf just blue splatter everywhere
here i am going in with just pure paint to like make the colors pop even more
and just on a weird side note originally i'm from new mexico the desert and i gotta say we have
some of the best sunsets i have ever seen some of the best memories i had growing up were going out
with my friends out into the country watching the sunset and stargazing all night and that was the
only benefit of living in the middle of nowhere is that you can enjoy the sunset the calmness
of no people and see the stars perfectly so while i was thinking about what to paint and
what could i stare at for like the rest of my life the only answer was the new mexico sunset
well that took longer than expected so long that it's actually the next day as you can tell by my
makeup change what ended up happening was so frustrating right before i put on the stars
an evil drip of water at the very very tip top like dripped all the way down
and left like a white trail all the way down so i basically ended up having to redo
this whole entire section all over again because of that one evil drip of water
i'm really happy with it so far i think i'm off to a great start and this leads me to part two the
foreground
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woot it's coming out so great so far usually by now something like really dramatic would
have happened where i would have had to like do something major reconstruction but it's working
out perfectly well i shouldn't say everything's going super perfect there is one very minor thing
that has been driving me nuts and that thing is how bouncy the canvas is okay i'm gonna
lightly pounce it and i want you guys to observe firsthand just like how bouncy the canvas is
you hear that and because it's so bouncy it's a little less stable than like a normal
canvas would be for example when i did that landscape on a solid wall i had no problem
pushing the brush onto the wall but this i have to be very careful because i don't want
[ __ ] like that's happening but yeah now i'm going to start on
the plant of the new mexico landscape
now unlike my last landscape which was filled to the brim with trees and bushes and flowers
and everything that screams life that's not really new mexico's style well at least the
areas that i'm from as you guys can see new mexico is very empty full of dirt for
some reason the grass is dead year-round so i'm going to replicate that emptiness in my painting
so it is currently day three that i have been working on the painting and out of all the days
i would say that today is arguably the most exciting because i can finally reveal the
surprises that i have regarding this painting now if you're not aware originally i'm from
roswell new mexico now roswell is very famous for an old ufo sighting from the 1940s and still to
this day in 2020 people will flock from all over the world to come to my little hometown to see all
the alien themed items that we have for example the street lights aliens there's a ufo museum
hotels and restaurants have aliens street signs parades we have a whole entire festival every
single summer well not this summer but usually every single summer dedicated to ufos even the
freaking mcdonald's is in a shape of a ufo and so this leads me to the big reveal as to why
i left this whole entire area blank i plan to paint a ufo abducting something
usually whenever you see alien abduction pictures it usually involves some kind of
cattle getting abducted but i decided to do a personal little twist and i painted a
little thicky thick dog in honor of my personal favorite thicky thick dog miss bowie in fact let
me turn the camera around and i want you guys to see what she looks like at this exact moment
wow really really bowie wow but anyway for this last step consider it a psa for
all my artists out there paint you damn edges painting your edges will make the
painting look that much more complete and a little bit more professional and
put together hypothetically speaking if i was to put a custom frame on this canvas
depending on the material it might have made this canvas very very heavy and secondly it might have
cost a pretty penny so in this case i did opt for a beautiful blue to frame the edges and with that
being said four days worth of painting and one ruined pair of shorts later here's the final piece
me going back it up ah hi it's me and bowie before the video ends i would like to give
a huge shout out to artichloe rose and her podcast spilling the paint water
she recently had me on as a guest we talked about some very personal things our friendship
funny stories i'll link the youtube video down below it's also on apple music and soon to be
spotify and yeah guys i've been doing a lot of extra editing and putting a lot more effort into
my videos so i hope you guys enjoyed it and with that being said i will see you guys next video bye