- It is a new year.
We are going to make a new art and
have a good time today hopefully.
Confession time.
I actually already filmed this video.
Let's just say I was really interested
in the art that I was making and I just
I didn't film the intro.
So we have a little series on my channel.
That's been going for awhile where I make tiny paintings.
Now, obviously tiny is relative to the artist.
However, for me, this is what I would consider tiny.
So I like to do six by six paintings in this series.
I'll try to link the series below.
Anyway, we're going to do three paintings today
and I'm really excited for it to let's just hop on in.
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So one of my favorite things to do
on my channel is to bring inspiration
to you in many different styles and forms.
I know we are all different people
and we have different interests
and mine are kind of all over the place.
So I feel like that's a fun way to just put my art out there
and hope that it reaches different people in different ways.
So I like to do that
through testing art supplies, goofy challenges.
And I also dive deeper with videos like this
where I do tiny paintings
or I do like sketchbook idea videos.
So this video I'm going to do three paintings as I said
and it's all acrylic paint and I'm just jumping
into what gives me the most artistic fuel.
You know, what makes me feel inspired.
Now in 2020 you may have noticed
that my art took a huge shift.
I started diving into painting water, to doing landscapes
all sorts of different things.
And if you look back on my Instagram, actually years ago
I focused mostly on people
and then I started getting into plants and now we're here.
And I still like doing all those things.
Anyway, with this piece
I wanted to kind of incorporate all my loves.
So you're seeing water, the landscapes and plants.
And I really enjoyed this because
my
goal with this piece was to focus on color.
And most of the time when I do landscapes
the colors are very like vivid and bright
and I want to make vivid and bright colors work.
However, I also want to take that to the opposite end
of the spectrum and do gloomy overcast days
and make those less saturated colors work too.
So I'm playing with a little bit of both here
and this one is more toned and I really, really enjoyed it.
I especially enjoyed too telling myself, you know
Mira back off the detail, do bigger brush strokes
and just see where it takes you.
So yeah, if you're somebody who wants to switch up
your style or learn different brush techniques
these tiny paintings are so nice.
They don't take as long as big paintings
so you can practice
quite easily.
And then if you like what you do
you can blow it up on a huge canvas.
But these little piano canvases are also really nice.
They're great for framing and stuff.
So I enjoy it.
Hope this inspires you.
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So I'm really happy with how this piece turned out.
Actually took this picture a couple
of years ago when I was in California
my husband and I were traveling for our anniversary.
And I remember when we were driving down Route one
feeling so inspired and snapping all these pictures
and telling myself I'm going to paint these.
And yeah, years kind of just went by and I didn't.
And then in the new year I decided, you know
I want to invest in myself.
So I decided to take this class
on Skillshare called Color Masterclass
simple steps to create vivid art by Victo Ngai.
It really inspired me to just mess with color
and especially like neutrals in nature, because I feel
like I always make my colors a little too bright sometimes.
Now, since I just mentioned that class on color theory
I also just want to thank
Skillshare for kindly sponsoring today's video.
Skillshare is an online learning community
with thousands of different classes that allow you
to explore your creativity.
I've been using Skillshare for over two years
and they're always adding new classes.
They have stuff ranging from oil painting
to productivity, cooking.
So many cool topics that allow you to invest in yourself.
Skillshare has helped me sell much
as both an artist and a small business owner.
Now, something really cool
about Skillshare is it is curated specifically for learning.
They don't want your flow to be interrupted.
So there's no ads.
And it's also super affordable.
A premium membership is less than $10 a month.
And as I said, they're always adding new classes.
So you can make the best of 2021 by, you know
learning something new every month.
That's awesome.
So if you want to explore your creativity
I have good news for you.
The first 1000 people to click the link
in the video description will get a free trial
of Skillshare premium.
I will also actually link the class that
I'm currently taking in the video description
because it has been a very helpful resource for me.
And I hope that you guys can benefit from it too.
Let's move on to the next painting.
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So with this piece here.
I am doing a diluted under painting with burnt sienna.
And you may have noticed an old videos.
I pretty much do this with every painting that I do
for at least oil and acrylic anyway.
I like to do my under paintings with that
and sometimes even block in values.
Now with this piece, it's a little different
I'm not going to block and values.
I just need that base color to shine through
cause we're painting an eye.
And I want that like warm tone to like shine
through the skin.
You feel what I'm saying?
So,
yeah, I decided to
just do an eye honestly
I didn't want to commit to doing a full-blown portrait
and if you want to practice like
one area of the face
you totally don't have to commit
to the full portrait either.
I don't think it's always necessary.
So yeah.
And I know many people also love to just draw a single eye.
It's really fun for some reason.
So yeah, I decided to do that.
Now
I think
my main goal with this piece was to focus
on color and to play around with blue and red
and also just keeping my color palette, not super bright.
So yeah, you're going to see in my shadows
some blue appearing, you'll see some red appearing
and I really enjoyed the process of this piece.
I thought it was fun to just slow down.
And honestly, I had a reference photo
up on my screen and I would very meticulously mix my colors
and then hold the brush up to my screen to color match it.
It was kind of like the, the class I talked about earlier
because she used the eyedropper tool to kind of do that
with a color palettes that she wanted to use.
So I tried to implement that technique
in a traditional style and yeah, it really helped me.
So hopefully if you
struggle with color theory or you just want to
brush up on that
or get more accurate colors, that little tip helps you.
I find that holding my brush up to my reference photo.
And sometimes even if I like print out my reference photo
I'll like paint little pieces directly
onto it to try to match the colors.
And that has helped me
so
much my color mixing game.
Another thing that's helped me also is just
limiting how many colors I put
on my palette and try to mix them myself.
I mean, you can do whatever you feel is good for you
but yeah, this wasn't really supposed to be a tutorial
but I don't know, hopefully all these little nuggets
of information inspire you in some way.
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Also something I had so much fun doing was
the thin skin tone layers.
So from the side angle it does look
like there's texture within this,
but I spread that paint so thinly
that the burnt sienna
under painting does shine through a little bit.
And I thought that effect was so cool.
I really want to implement that more into my artwork
and kind of let the underpainting
show through in different ways,
whether it be through like thin layers
of paint or just like messily coming through.
I see a lot of artists do that with nature and
they kind of let that
sienna glow
show through leaves and stuff.
And it's so cool.
Anyway. Yeah.
I also messed with brush strokes here, like tons
of little strokes on the eyelids and it was just
fun giving the skin texture in different ways.
And I always think, you know, once you get
to this stage of the painting, if you just push yourself
and do find little things like this, it really
really changes how your artwork comes out.
If you're not much of a painter, you can do this still
with like drawings, adding those final highlights and stuff.
It's just a fun, art is such a fun thing.
I'm so glad that we can like relate
to each other through this and yeah.
Let me know what's on your list of art goals this year.
If you've made any, I'm curious, for instance
do you want to paint more
get better at color theory or anatomy
maybe attempt a completely different style of art.
Let me now I love hearing what you are working on
and working toward.
And if you feel up to it also
you are totally welcome to encourage other people
in the comments to chase their goals.
All right, this painting here was really fun to do.
It's kind of unique because the eye is slightly at an angle.
So like right here is where
like the bridge of the nose starts.
Part of me wishes I would have centered the eye
a little more but part of me is like,
you know, that's actually pretty unique.
I kinda like that.
Now again, I had that class in mind
I'm trying to mess with color and just really be intentional
about like what colors I laid down.
And so this piece here, I tried not to make the white
of the eye, like super, super white.
And since this, I was kind of sad.
I tried to convey that with like a
a more pinky gray white of the eye, you know how, like
after you cry, your eyes are kind of like that color.
Yeah
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Let's start the final painting.
I did a couple layers of the diluted burnt sienna.
So it ended up being pretty dark.
And after that I began the final painting of this video.
So similarly to the first painting
I decided
to do a landscape.
However, this one is very different
than any that I have really done in a while.
You know, and this is something I've kind of toyed
with in my mind for awhile.
I want to do
like streets and
just
city views I guess
sometimes
I don't know.
I'm just toying around with the idea and seeing
if I enjoy the process before I go onto a bigger painting.
And yeah, now I'm also toying around
with the techniques I learned last year, which is like
you see those mountains in the background.
I learned that if you paint them a little less saturated
and sometimes more with like a purple-y blue purple-y blue
hue,
it looks more realistic I guess.
So I really enjoy that effect.
And I think it also just makes things feel softer
and more believable.
Yeah.
Anyway this
entire small painting video
was good for me to make
it helped me and I hope it helps you to
it helped me just to process my life
and think about goals
think ahead, think of the past, you know, all that stuff.
So
I guess if I leave you with anything in this video
this might be kind of deep but
words don't have to define what you're feeling all the time
or what you're going through or what goals you have.
You know, you can process that through pictures
and through creating or any sort of hobby
that you have as an outlet, there is value in your hobbies.
So
I,
I really enjoy that aspect of painting
and just creating in general.
And I hope it, it helps you too.
I hope you have that.
And if you don't have a creative outlet
I hope you have like something that helps you feel
like you can express what you're feeling.
Yeah.
I hope for all of you out there that this year
is a little better than last year.
And I also just hope you feel inspired to take
on new things.
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This piece here, it's really fun too.
I just, I really enjoyed messing
with color in these tiny paintings.
I think that's why I like these little paintings
because you can do like fun studies like this.
And I think
I think those painting only took me like, I don't know
45 minutes or an hour, this one took way longer.
This one took a lot longer.
I generally go for more
like saturated skies and like bold colors in my work.
So I enjoyed trying to tone it down a little bit
and see
how that changes my art.
I do read your requests
and I know you want a winter sketchbook video.
I'm gonna try and make that happen.
I also know you want a 3D wool
video.
You know I did the wool painting.
You guys want to see me sculpt
with wool that is coming next week.
So
yeah.
I also have some really fun things coming.
So
I can't wait to share those
with you also have these three paintings.
Let me know which one was your favorite.
I hope you feel inspired and I hope you feel
like investing in yourself this year
in tackling maybe a creative goal that you have anyway.
Thank you so much for watching
and I hope you have a good day and a good year.
Yeah. All right.
That's all bye.