Oh no!!!
*gasp*
I hereby present to you... Mira Byler's mistakes in the studio---
I forgot to tell you guys a huge detail...
Uhh okay, the back of this puzzle...
*static interruption*
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Guys, I am so excited to show you what's going down today!
Okay, are you ready for it?!
THREE
TWO
ONE!
We are painting on puzzle pieces!
You saw in the title, and that's
that's what's going down!
I've never painted a puzzle before,
but this one is a whopping nine pieces,
so I'm excited!
And shout out to my Patron and dear
friend Keelie for mailing me this.
She sent me a box full of -- it was like a care
package, let me tell you what.
Like, a couple months ago... and I've been dying to paint this.
Grab your brushes, your Posca Pens, whatever you want to use...
and let's create!
[MUSIC]
Man... I accidentally broke this piece.
I can't find my wood glue and super glue didn't
work, so *chuckles*...
I literally -- this is what I used
Don't hate, but I'm impatient.
Sorry, Keelie. I broke one of your pieces
No!
I glued my finger!
Whoa, do you guys remember all these tiny paintings I did?!
I just found them.
Lay out all the pieces...
Now before we put this together...
I'm gonna keep you guys on some full-out suspense, okay?
We need to gesso!
I hereby present to you... Mira Byler's mistakes in the studio --
*genuine shock*
Guess we weren't messing around.
We have a lot of gesso now.
I'm just gonna use this as my little tray...
Wow...
[MUSIC]
So I just noticed this piece came chipped,
and I don't have the rest of it so...
I guess we'll roll with...
some landscape terrain change on this puzzle piece.
You know, sometimes you have to roll with your mistakes,
and I'm actually very pleased to have a
puzzle piece palette right here.
Prepping for my Posca Pens
How's that alliteration?
Alright, I have a question of the day for you guys...
Have any of you done any puzzles lately?
And if you have good recommendations for
a puzzle, drop it below.
I'm kind of on the hunt right now actually...
What am I gonna do with the rest of this?!
*grunt* Phew! That was hard to get open.
I refuse to waste it, so we are putting it back in here...
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]
YES! Saved it all!
That's how we do!
What are you gonna do when you wait on puzzle pieces to dry?!
You probably spin in circles...
Like this... yeah.
Pass the time...
Instead of watching paint dry, just get dizzy!
I'm too old for this. Phew.
Okay, let's put this together!
All I know is this is the middle piece because...logic.
[MUSIC]
Alright, no need to be so delicate...
Let's just...
Hey, we have a stubborn puzzle piece on board.
*hits puzzle piece*
That's what you gotta do...
Just put that hammer down!
I'm on a hunt for a certain kind of object...
This kind of object okay?
Let me just show you...
I have something really cool in mind, but I do need a perfect...
perfect...
Perfect circle!
This isn't a perfect circle... this is not working...
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Let's assess the matter here...
This glides on really well!
[MUSIC]
Alright, let us hope that we can
do some blending down here
with orange.
I keep turning this sideways, but *obnoxiously shakes Posca Pen*
Oh, honey that does not....
We'll just work with it and hope for the best...
[MUSIC]
It is warm in the studio!
Okay, I need to brighten this up a little bit
because this is a bit of an awkward stage of this...
OH NO! *gasp*
Not what we wanted to happen!!!
*gasp again* Oh my goodness!
I'm going crazy here!
We have had two giant marker explosions happen.
I might have to let this dry and then layer it over it,
because it's getting pretty muddy.
We don't want that!
No we don't!
[MUSIC]
Okay, yeah we're just gonna let that area dry...
Pretend it doesn't exist right now.
Sometimes you just have to go through that ugly stage before things look better.
And you have to believe in yourself!
If you ever find yourself at this point...
don't give up!
So I haven't told you what we're drawing yet...
I think I should ...
Just because this is kind of a different thing.
We're doing a hot air balloon!
And it's gonna be like the old old kind of hot air balloons.
With a Mira Byler twist, of course!
Now for the fun part!
Let's do the foreground.
Hopefully I don't mess this up but...
I like to be positive, you know. life is an adventure...
[MUSIC]
I started doing some little like blendy things up in the sky.
I don't know how I
feel about it yet,
but it's working, you know.
Ooh, that really brightens things up!
Yes!
So our hot-air balloon is just this like
globe floating on the sky.
*shakes Posca Pen obnoxiously*
We can't do that, no. Let's.. let's change it up.
Have any of you guys ever flown in a hot air balloon before?
My hometown actually had
this like hot air balloon festival,
and it was so cool it was like the thing to
do in the summer.
But.. I haven't been to it in a long time because I don't live
there anymore.
[MUSIC]
Ooh! I need to do a little basket!
Did you hear that knuckle crack?!
Do I want to do like a round basket, or like a square basket?
Have you guys ever seen that Aeronauts movie?!
Oh my word, it's so good!
if you haven't... highly recommend!
Okay, I have an idea for this. I hope it works.
I kind of want to make like half
the basket highlighted...
and then half the basket kind of moody and dark
Like the landscape at the bottom...
I'm trying to decide what I want to do with
this like a grassy field,
or a desert... or I don't know.
What if we do a little bit of both?
[MUSIC]
I am literally painting a puzzle right now...
Like WHAT?!
This is fun! Like... whoa!
I mean it's only a nine piece puzzle, but...
AhHhHh!
We're letting some stuff dry right now
while I chitchat, but...
We're about to add some fun stuff!
all right I'm admittedly nervous for this part cuz I'm drawing netting around
the balloon how am I gonna do this this is sad I feel like I'm gonna ruin this
oh well so far so good I'm doing like the old-fashioned kind of hot-air
balloons because well that arrow knots movie is really good so you should watch
it it's on I want to say Amazon Prime
I kinda don't want to do like a little sandbag hanging over I just think that's
cute you know now perhaps a little stream coming
through here this is so fun I keep saying that but like I don't know how
much more I can emphasize it
well I took like an hour break got some wild blueberry tea and now we're ready
to paint again so this is where we're at right now so I was looking at this while
I was enjoying that tea and I think we need to outline the basket it's just not
popping enough you know now I want to do some vegetation down here we're gonna
get rid of this little chunk of purple I don't like it
these clouds will literally brought this piece to life I'm like really into
drawing scenery lately like mostly water I would say but even this kind of stuff
is it's just so enjoyable it's so refreshing I think it's because I have
the travel bug right now and I can't actually go anywhere because none of us
really can but you know it does inspire some cool artwork so that's a positive
you know I think of all the customization projects I've done this
might be the most enjoyable one that I've done with pasta pens anyway I
really really like doing shoes but this is just a nice refreshing thing this is
like a wildflower field over here to the side why not right in the middle of the
desert there's gonna be a magical flower field
mmm-hmm what kind of plant should I do here I want to do something like
silhouetted in the foreground you know it's not really a desert plant but you
know I think we've established at this point this is a made-up please
yeah I think I finished it I think I'm gonna try to hold it up without the
puzzle falling apart so I forgot to tell you guys a huge detail and now we're at
the end of the video okay the back of this puzzle is magnetic so
if we're gonna hang on the fridge anyway this was really scary to pick up I'm
like actually afraid to be holding it right now but this this is what it looks
like now that it's done as I said I'm really enjoying doing stuff with nature
it's really freeing right now since we're home you know can't go anywhere
may as well paint the place as you wish to see so here we go and this is a
made-up place because a lot of this vegetation doesn't even like belong
together so yeah I hope you enjoyed this I am terrified to take this puzzle apart
so I might just like leave it together for a day or two before I do that
because I just want to let this stuff soak in and I might varnish it to seal
it in extend the life I don't know if you guys made it this far in the video
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