- A few weeks ago I did a giant oil painting
on my YouTube channel.
And I actually have a ton of these canvases
in my basement because I bought them a couple of years ago
and then for some reason,
my art just took a change in directions
and I was scared to use my canvases.
So this out there for a couple of years
and here we are now filled with inspiration
and we're just gonna tackle using these giant canvases.
I'm on a mission to use up art supplies
and also just not be afraid of going larger.
And it's been such a liberating journey
and I'm excited to take you along on this ride too.
Let's go, let's do this.
Now my goal with this painting is to convey flowers
in a very impressionistic style.
So I hope that when you look at this
it makes you feel like exploring
or it just makes you feel happy
because everything is florally and colorful and stuff.
So let's just see where this goes
and I'll tell you about my process along the way.
You can see here I'm just doing all these blobby things
and it's just various shades of green.
I am painting trees in the background.
The trees are meeting the sky.
And typically when I do oil and acrylic paintings
I like to start with the background
and make my way to the foreground.
It's just sort of how my brain comprehends stuff
except if I'm painting water,
then that's different but yeah.
So right now I'm sort of also blocking
in a lot of other blobby things,
which will be flowers later.
And it's just, it's fun to block everything in.
I'm not doing shading right now.
I'm not getting caught up in that.
I just need to know where stuff goes
because it's about to get wild.
This painting took probably a week to paint
and I poured hours upon hours into this.
But every second was worth it
and I feel rejuvenated, I feel inspired to keep on painting
and yeah, I just I hope it inspires you too.
And actually I'm gonna tell you
but there is the option to pre-order this print
in my shop right now @mirabyler.com.
This is gonna be a limited edition print
and I will mail it out on May 1st.
So if you're interested, go to https://mirabyler.com
there will be 100 prints in this print run
and then it's done forever.
I'm really excited though.
And it's just such a joy to share my art with you.
So this day in my studio is actually a very good day.
You ever just, you know start an art piece
and then it's just it's not feeling
like it's coming together.
Pretty much everything you saw before this was that for me
and then this day, Oh, I was just so happy,
I'm dancing in my studio got the creative vibes
because it just felt like this piece
was finally coming to life.
It felt like, wow, I am in a flower garden
and it was just, it was so wonderful.
And I think just adding the contrast in greens
in between all these flowers really made a huge difference.
And again, my whole purpose with this was to
sort of convey everything in a very impressionistic style.
So it was really fun to mess with that.
And it was actually more time consuming than I anticipated
because I would back away.
Look at this leave the room for a couple hours,
think about how I wanted to do the next steps
and keep reminding myself like Miranda,
do not over blend you can't do that, don't do that.
(chuckles)
I definitely feel like I could potentially make this
into a series though because I really enjoyed the style
that I did this in.
And I love love love plants and painting flowers
and everything.
So don't be surprised if you see this turn into a series.
I especially also love that like pinky magenta color
for some of the flowers.
It just, yeah, it's just so fun working with that
in green simultaneously.
So I probably will do more of these paintings
and I'm excited to see how that goes.
Hello.
I think we're on day three or four of painting
this flower field.
I don't really remember, I lost track.
I also ate a blue raspberry ring pop earlier
so my mouth looks dead to you.
It's just the blue.
Anyway I'm really enjoying this.
It's so fun.
This sort of piece here has been kind of like
in my mind ever since I painted
those Christmas ornaments last year
on those like little logs slices.
And then I just always wanted to do something
like this after that.
So I'm using up the canvases in my basement right now
and it feels good.
It feels good to use up art supplies.
And I really like working on this kind of scale
when I have time.
It's not feasible for every week
so that's not gonna happen.
But anyway, yeah, this is more of a voiceover video
because as you can see I just get like so into this
and it's a good time.
Anyway, let's continue painting.
I just wanted to say hi in the middle and yeah, that's all.
I'm just having so much fun here.
I'm actually getting ready to do all the like the details
on these flowers.
So that'll be really fun.
So this day here was so incredibly time consuming.
You can see, I am adding detail on all these flowers
and Oh it just felt like I had nothing
to show for it for awhile because there are
so many flowers on this canvas
and I was doing almost the same thing to all of them.
This is a field of dahlias so look at the brush strokes.
They're all pretty similar.
Now I did take some creative liberties
and tuck a couple other types of flowers
and with this, I just felt like it looked
more natural that way, I guess.
So you'll see some daisies, you'll see some English roses,
a couple other types of dahlias.
I really enjoyed doing that.
I think it's so fun to just take creative liberties
and not be afraid to stray from your reference photo
and just sort of do what you kind of feel inspired to do
midway through the process
or even just at the beginning, you know.
The entire color scheme of this piece
made me so happy the entire time I was working on it
because I live in Ohio and we have some warm days right now
but we do still have some cold days.
So when I started this painting,
there actually wasn't a ton of stuff blooming outside.
We pretty much only had like tulips and daffodils
and you know, just Crocus's and stuff like that.
But now that the week has progressed,
you know, some of our trees are getting leaves and stuff
and that's exciting.
So this painting, I say all that, because this painting
makes me look forward to the summer.
That is my favorite season.
(chuckles)
Question of the day.
I know I asked this from time to time,
but what is your favorite season?
I'm really curious to know that.
I think it's really fun to pull lots of people and to see
what everybody's favorite season is,
especially because many of us are creatives
and I think it's so fascinating to learn,
I guess what season inspires other artists
and crafters the most?
I definitely think minus summer
because I like painting water and plants.
So we're doing more of these flower pedals
after doing you know, probably close to a hundred of these
I don't know.
It kind of felt like second nature
like I was just breathing out pedals.
Now I get this question a lot
so I figured I would film this part,
but yes I do paint the sides of my canvases.
A lot of you asked me that question
and I realized I usually don't film that part.
I usually do it afterward off camera.
So I figured I would show you,
I usually just do a solid color like this.
I don't really like to carry the image
over the sides of the canvas anymore.
I used to do that, but I feel like a solid color
fits my style better.
I thought it was really fun to sort of match the sides
with the pinky peachy flowers too,
made it pop and look happy.
And I'm just so glad I finally tackled
a giant flower painting and yeah,
I just feel so creatively fulfilled now.
Wow, it has been a lot of days worth of painting
and we finally finished it.
I'm really happy with how it turned out.
I don't know if you can tell but I added a lot of
like purple and teals and just very unique colors
in with the green to sort of add
some impressionistic oath to it.
Anyway, it was really fun to just experiment with my style
a little bit with this take it to a larger canvas.
As I said, in my last giant canvas painting video
my channel will probably start changing directions
a little bit, but it probably won't actually be
that noticeable to you guys.
It's more like I'm just gonna really go for
what I feel like doing which will probably be
more of this sort of stuff.
But also I just love doing like the sketchbook videos
and customizing Starbucks cups, stuff like that.
And it won't actually be that much different
except I'm approaching it with less of a
like trying to make everybody else happy sort of mindset
and trying to do what makes me feel most inspired.
So yeah.
Speaking of my last giant canvas painting video
I turned that piece into prints
and they're available in my store now @mayorbyler.com.
So I have giant prints of the ocean scene
and I also have small ones.
This is a limited edition print run.
There's only 50 available.
There's 25 little ones, 25 big ones.
So if you want in on them I will tell you,
the little ones are selling really fast.
So yeah.
In this painting here will be coming soon
as a print as well, probably in late April or early May,
so yeah.
I'm just so excited to be sharing this stuff with you
actually just did a really big shop lunch
so I'm gonna show you some of the new stuff.
I also have these prints here.
This is from my creatures of peace series
which you guys know is just near and dear to my heart.
I love it so much.
Look at the little creatures just chilling out with the sun.
Isn't that adorable?
And you guys now I'm a washi tape lover
and for all you washi tape lovers out there too
I came out with three new roles.
So if you wanna see what they look like
better than how I'm awkwardly holding them
you can go to my shop at mirabyler.com.
But yeah, I'm so excited to be sharing this stuff with you.
And yeah, I've been so inspired lately
and working on a lot of bigger projects behind the scenes.
So you'll probably start to see some of that rollout
over the next couple months.
This was such a fun video.
I hope it made you feel like you were at peace in a garden
or maybe you're just inspired to create your own stuff.
Have a good week, I'll see you later.
I have another fun video coming.
I can't wait to share it with you.
It's something.
This is my hint, this is my hint.
This is something that I did about a year
or maybe a year and a half ago
and it was so fun at the time
and I do not know why I have not done it again since then.
So that is my hint.
If you have any guesses, you can drop it down below.
All right, have a good day.
Bye.