Oh my goodness, I did not think this would turn out this way
Seriously thought this would be a big flop time for the big reveal.
[Crash] [Both laugh]
Okay, guys, are you ready to see it?
Dorvan: Whoa, that is so cool.
All right, we're gonna dive into a huge painting that I made from start to finish.
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I recently took an oil painting class on here, and it was so helpful.
It made me feel comfortable with the medium and it actually inspired today's video.
So we're gonna use that course and I'm gonna show you this painting. Super fun.
Let's get started!
Okay, I got my hair pulled back. I just loaded my pa - Oh, I need to do white.
I'm at the part in the course where she goes over mixing colors.
It is by Karolina M on Skillshare.
I can leave that course down below and I'm at the part where she's mixing colors.
I have watched this section five or six times now, but I struggle with oil paints and I really just want to get better.
[Music]
She suggested using the hard bristle brushes. Hard bristle brushes.
Brushes with hard bristles.Oil painting brushes.
So I looked through all my brushes and these were the only ones that I had. [Laughs]
[Music]
Wow guys honestly, I never premix my colors like this. Why haven't I done this before?
Probably because I'm stubborn.
Mixing, mixing, mixing, mixing.
Since she get started with the background Im gonna start with the background too.
Fun fact. The girl who is teaching this course actually helped make that Van Gogh movie
with all the different paintings making the movie so she's very good at capturing this style.
That's why I chose her. I was like oh that's so cool.
I have not seen that movie yet though. Have you guys?
Man! I ran out of the blue color I was using.
[Music and satisfying brush stroke sounds]
"We want the brush bristle to leave a strong visible mark."
So next it's like a series of all these little brush strokes.
Keeping my paint thick
Okay, I decided to switch over to a voiceover rather than talking as I'm painting for two reasons.
One: I enjoyed relaxing a little bit and two this took way longer than I thought it would
About two days so talking and doing a live painting would be a lot of editing.
So you just saw me paint the sky and it's very similar to the style of Van Gogh's Starry Night
and a couple other of his paintings.
I would say that's what he's very known for is the way he does those flowy skies with all the brushstrokes.
I had to look up tons of his paintings in order to do this
because I felt like I had a lot of stuff going on in the background
and because of that, I wanted my artwork to be consistent with his style.
He's done many landscape pieces in his lifetime.
I was zoomin' really far in, looking at the brushstrokes of how he did bushes and looked at how he painted water.
Then I tried to apply everything that I saw to my painting as I followed this course too.
It was very enjoyable because I think learning different styles and trying to replicate famous painters styles,
Really helps me learn a lot more than I thought I would learn every time.
For instance this one really helped me think about color differently. It was very refreshing.
So I really enjoyed that aspect of this entire painting.
[Funky music]
So one thing I really second-guessed myself with the entire time I did this painting was the water.
It took the longest and it had so many different waves and ripples.
The whole time it just didn't feel like it looked like water to me,
until I backed up and then I was so happy because it just made me appreciate impressionism a little bit more.
It really made me feel more confident with using thicker paint.
Globs and going straight out the canvas, letting that texture show through 'cause I'm usually a smooth painter.
This really brought me out of my shell.
It was really fun to just play with that and experiment and have fun.
Yeah, this was so therapeutic for me. That's another reason, as I said, why I chose to do a voiceover.
I was really just enjoying this time, distressing and it was wonderful.
[Music]
Okay, so I have a few questions of the day and since it's about the middle of the video, I'm gonna ask you them.
A lot of you guys always say you really enjoy this part of my videos, so we're gonna make it a thing, dude.
The first question: Who is your favorite famous artist?
Somebody who is long gone, their stuff is in museums, let me know.
Then I want to know who your favorite current day artist is as well.
I don't have to be super famous. It could be your mom or your neighbor or somebody on Instagram and let me know why.
What kind of art are you drawn to? Let me know.
I think I have found that I have a big appreciation for a lot of different kinds of art.
As I get older, I think I really enjoy a lot of different art styles and variety.
I think that's why, for me, it's so hard to commit to a style.
I always just jump around. I'll do illustration, realism and I never commit to one thing.
I think it's just because I love all the different kinds of art. I'm so drawn to it.
Another question of the day is have you ever taken a course on Skillshare?
If so, what was your favorite course? Drop some recommendations down below
'cause I'm always taking courses on there.
I would love to hear what your favorite ones are. If you have recommendations.
We can all recommend some to each other. I really love learning different things on there.
There's a lot of stuff with the Adobe Suite on there, so if you do Graphic Design,
hey, you can learn how to do some stuff!
Just a side note.
[Music]
Aside from the water, the skin was my favorite thing to paint.
The reason why was because I got to pull so many other colors from this painting into the skin.
It was just really fun adding really, really, bright pinks and really, really bright blues,
but when you back away, it doesn't look that bright. It looks kinda normal.
So that was really fun playing with that.
I didn't put this on an easel to paint it because my easel is really wobbly, it just would have been annoying
and this just worked better for my camera setup and I was happy.
The sky, actually, was my least favorite thing to paint just being real with y'all.
Yeah the skin, it was just fun painting in the direction that shadows went and everything
and even though this was Impressionism, I felt like I learned a lot of things in terms of oil painting
that I could apply to realism, so I'm really excited to take everything I learned from this,
then turn around and maybe try a realistic portrait. We'll see.
I had the constant temptation to just start blending all these brushstrokes though
because I wanted to turn it into realism at some points, but I was like, you know what, Miranda, calm down.
You are doing the whole painting and Van Gogh style. We're doing this!
So something are really unique and interesting that I noticed with this painting.
It's been a few days. This painting is hanging in the corner of my art room drying where it will be for a while,
until I can paint the edges but I've been looking at it and let me tell you what,
I might not commit to an art style but I do think I have one whether I can help it or not.
I'm fine with that. That's cool
I think some of my style still shows through even though I was learning and replicating another artists style.
Anyway, this was really fun. I absolutely love Van Gogh's art style.
I'm really thankful that I was able to do this because I feel like I learned a lot.
Not only from the Skillshare teacher, but from him
That's so cool to me, that you can look back at artists work over years and still learn stuff.
Okay, guys, thank you so much for watching. This was by far my favorite course I've ever taken on Skillshare.
I was really afraid to use oil paints. I know I've said that a lot in this video.
I'm really excited to keep applying what I learned in that course.
It's the first course or anything that's ever actually made me feel confident with the medium.
So, yeah, if you like this, please feel free to a thumbs up the video and subscribe.
I will leave a link to this course below and remember you can get two free months of Skillshare with my link,
So you should take advantage of that and maybe take this course. It was really fun.
Okay. bye!