- Hello to my lovely art family.
I hope you're in the mood for some creativity today
because I have these really fun Gessobords.
And usually when I paint on something this small,
it means I'm doing multiple paintings in a video.
And that's good news 'cause this comes in a four-pack,
so yeah, I'm excited to do some art.
So if you're in a creative mood,
feel free to bust out your art supplies and create with me.
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If you've been watching my channel for a while,
you know that I love these little Gessobord panels,
there by the brand called Ampersand.
This is just one of my favorite surfaces to paint on
because I don't always feel like gessoing
a canvas myself, and I also really like how smooth there,
especially these little panels.
It's just nice if you want something
that's readily available to practice on.
I'm also hoping to put prints
of whatever I make in my holiday boxes,
that's kind of what's on my mind right now.
So I have lots of ideas because I went to Hawaii,
and I got a lot of pictures, but also it's fall.
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This will probably be a chill hangout with me sort of video.
I will start voice-overing once I paint,
because yesterday I finished watching Downton Abbey
and I thought it was eight seasons, it's six.
So yeah, I cried on the finale and then my friend was like,
well, there's a movie.
So I'm gonna watch that while I paint
and then we'll actually be talking about the paintings
though in the VoiceOver so let's go, let's do this.
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Okay, so the first thing I'm doing here,
is just prepping all of these panels, because guess what,
we are using all four of them for this video,
this is gonna be a longer video,
but it is jam-packed full of art,
and I can't wait to share this with you.
So this first painting here and let's talk about it.
I decided to sort of sketch it in with Burnt Sienna
in the background
and it probably doesn't look like much right now,
but let's build it up and do some layers.
So as many of you folks know I went to Hawaii
back at the end of August slash early September.
We went to Maui, and had a wonderful time.
While we were there, we took tons of pictures,
tons of video footage, because that place inspired me,
and first of all we wanted the memories,
but like also painting, hello.
So something unique about that experience though,
was every day on that island we saw multiple rainbows,
it was amazing.
Like we could be swimming in the ocean and turn around,
look at the mountains and like boom,
there's a double rainbow,
just like looming over us in the sky, it was beautiful.
So I decided one day to take a picture of what we saw
because I wanted to paint it.
So here I am painting that picture
and I'm just kind of building up the landscape right now,
and preparing to add the rainbow.
Now, something unique about this painting.
It may not look like the Hawaii in your mind
because some parts of Maui actually had like a forest fire
in 2019.
So this particular scene here had a lot of like vegetation
burnt down and then there were the mountains
in the background.
So yeah, I thought it was like oddly beautiful though,
to see the remnants of a forest fire on a tropical island.
So yeah, that was cool.
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I really enjoyed this painting
because it also felt like I was revisiting my vacation
and it made things feel really special.
Anyway, there's the little rainbow.
I hope you liked this one.
I loved creating this one and I just miss Hawaii.
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Okay, so I really meant it when I said it,
there are going to be four paintings in this video.
I kind of had like an acrylic painting marathon
and it was really fun,
so I can't wait to show you the other three paintings,
but before I get to that and we really dive into this art,
I wanna talk about something
that I think will be very beneficial to you folks.
So I read your comments all the time,
and many of you always ask me,
where can I find a tutorial on oil painting
or acrylic painting or illustration,
or how do I grow my Etsy shop?
You know, all these questions,
and I want to provide you with a place
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and really help you.
So what am I talking about?
I'm talking about Skillshare.
I love Skillshare, and first of all,
I want to thank them for sponsoring this video.
Skillshare has seriously helped me so much over the years.
Skillshare is an online learning community
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So I'm taking this class right now
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I really like classes like this,
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and it helps me have insight to change up what I'm doing
and improve.
Now, a really cool thing about Skillshare.
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But also there are opportunities that you can communicate
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and other people who are taking the class can see it too.
I just think that's really cool.
Anyway, as I said,
there are so many different classes to choose from,
pretty much any category you can think of, it's there
and I've been loving Skillshare for years.
So I really, really hope
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That's why Skillshare and I have teamed up
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If you click that link in my video description.
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And yeah, I applaud that.
Alrighty, thank you so much Skillshare for sponsoring this,
and thank you guys for hanging out.
Let's go do some more paintings.
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Alrighty, painting number two.
I'll tell you upfront, this one was very fun
and very relaxing for me to paint.
You may already have a guess as to what I'm painting.
So I really love painting water.
It is something that I'm very passionate about.
It just brings me so much peace
and it is a thing that I can paint
that really helps me process what I'm going through
in my own life,
and it comes out as this really peaceful looking thing.
So earlier this summer, I also went to Erie, Pennsylvania,
and we went to Presque Isle.
Oh my goodness, the sun sets there were so pretty,
so I took some pictures with my friends,
and yeah, had to paint this one.
This one was really fun though,
because I don't often paint lakes.
I feel like I usually paint like ocean scenes.
This one kind of looks like an ocean scene though,
because Lake Erie is huge, but yeah.
I really enjoyed playing with the darker blues
and having a more chill water thing going on.
There's no like huge waves and stuff.
Admittedly, it feels kind of weird
doing smaller water paintings now,
because I've done two really large ones,
but I feel like these ones are really good for,
like if I don't wanna commit the time,
or if I just want to be chill and do something little,
do little study like this, it does help me learn things.
So I see a lot of value in these little water paintings.
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Okay, I was admittedly like super nervous to add the clouds
in the sky because I don't know,
the thought of adding like darker clouds scared me,
but I really love how they turned out,
and it was actually really fun to paint them.
So yeah, here's the finished painting.
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Okay, we're on the third painting
and we are switching it up a lot with this one.
So I really like using Pixabay and Pexels
and all those like royalty free photo sites,
especially when I am looking for a prompt,
but maybe I want to alter the picture.
So I like to paint animals like wearing clothes and glasses
and stuff like that.
I found this really cute photo of a cat wearing glasses,
and I'm really sad because I closed the tab
and I lost the photo, but at least I got to paint it.
I changed the colors because in my mind
I really wanted to do like a pinky hued sort of painting
with this and make it feel a little more magical
and add some pizzazz, so that's what we're doing.
Now, as you watch me paint this one,
I want to tell you about something super exciting
that I have actually been planning for a couple months
and that is holiday boxes.
So you're gonna see some more rollout about that,
on my channel within the next couple of weeks, probably.
But I am doing a limited release of holiday boxes
that contain notepads, enamel pins,
some prints and some stickers.
And I'm really excited for these,
because everything that's in the box
is exclusive to the box.
So yeah, that's really cool.
There will probably be around 300 boxes.
So yeah, I can't wait.
And the paintings you're seeing in this video
will probably be part of the box, so that's cool.
The way I'm going about it,
is each box will have two mystery prints.
So there's four paintings in this video
and you could get any two of the four in print form
in the box.
So I think that's really cool.
I really like the element of surprise
and that's what like draws me to those like boxes,
so I decided to do that,
and I think the same thing will be with the stickers.
It will be like a mystery sort of sticker selection too.
There will probably be like five or six
possible stickers you could get,
and each box we'll probably have around like three stickers
or form, we'll see.
I just wanted to tell you guys that,
because I have not been as active on social media
and on here lately,
but that's part of the reason why, so yeah.
Also part of the reason why I had an asthma flare-up
and it like really sucked,
and that's why I skipped last week.
And if I sound winded, yeah, it's been a struggle,
but it's okay, I have good doctors
and my husband is a doctor, so we good, we good.
Here's the kitty, isn't it cute?
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Alrighty, let's move on to the final painting.
Now this painting may bring back a familiar vibe
if you've been with my channel for a while,
because last year around the holidays,
I did this video where I painted on Christmas ornaments
and I did these super impressionistic wild flower fields,
and I was just so into it.
Honestly, these are like so therapeutic for me to paint.
Like I could do this like seven times
and not get tired of it.
So I decided, you know what,
I wanna revisit that because it's,
again, I said, it's therapeutic
and I've been just bingeing Downton Abbey and stuff,
and yeah, it was a nice painting to enjoy,
a relaxing show with.
I really like flowers too, so yeah.
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Now, I have a confession about this one
and this is like really odd and unexpected,
but of all the paintings
that you've seen in this video so far,
this one was by far the most time consuming.
Which like, kind of seems, I don't know,
like surprising to me because it doesn't seem as detailed.
It's just impressionistic.
There's just like different blobs of color everywhere
to convey leaves and flowers and stuff,
but yeah, really time consuming.
I think I spent like three or four hours
on this little panel, so kind of shocking.
I hope you like it.
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Alright folks, we finished all four paintings
and I have to say,
this week has been a dreary, rainy, fall week
which is a nice like cozy thing.
And just being inside and cozy
and looking out at the leaves falling
while painting has been so nice.
I'm pretty happy with how these turned out.
As I said, I was really inspired by nature
and I think it's because we went to Hawaii recently,
so yeah, I'm still having some inspiration from that trip.
This painting is actually not from Hawaii,
it is from Lake Erie, and yeah, that was fun.
This is from like another little trip I did over the summer.
And this cat one was just so fun to paint,
I really enjoyed it, and I don't know,
it's just so derpy and cute.
And then this one here is definitely more impressionistic,
but I really enjoyed it,
and I really love painting wild flower fields in this style.
I think I'll probably do more Christmas ornaments this year
in this style because I did that last year
and it was just so fun.
I'm also gonna be doing a Christmas ornament painting video
sometime soon, I don't know when, but it's coming,
Anyway, I hope you got to relax and unwind
as you watched this.
And I hope you enjoyed watching the process
of four mini paintings.
And yeah, if you want sneak peeks of my art in the future,
like while I'm working on them,
feel free to follow me over on my Instagram @mirabyler,
because sometimes I post stories
of like the in progress stuff
and it's a fun way to peek at it,
before it goes on YouTube.
Well, that's all we have for today.
So thank you for watching and have a good week, bye.