- Hi.
We have some super tiny canvases
that we're gonna paint on today,
and in the past, I have done like tiny painting videos,
and this is my version of tiny.
Let me show you.
Tiny to me is usually like four by four inches.
That is small, but a lot of you folks are like,
Mira, that's not very small.
Mira, go smaller.
I want to see you do a super tiny canvas.
So I kid you not,
I went on a hunt to find these little canvases,
couldn't find them for awhile,
and then I found them,
and we're gonna paint on them today, so join me.
I already have my little art area set up here
with the necessities, my crusty paint water jar,
the water's clean, the jar is old,
perhaps the most necessary thing on my entire art desk,
my Blistex, brushes, and of course, my acrylic paint.
Wait a second.
We need a palette.
I'm just gonna use this thing again,
'cause it worked great last time.
If you're wondering where my usual pallet is,
this little buddy is in use currently
because I'm working on a water painting
that I'm not filming.
It's kind of like a for me project, but there it is.
Let's open this.
Uh.
Ooh, everything looks preserved.
Yes.
Palette knives at the ready.
Now we need to open this.
Man, each one is wrapped.
Why?
They were already wrapped, right?
Why do we need all this?
I don't know why I had it in my mind
that these were one-inch canvases,
but I guess it makes sense 'cause this is four by four.
Anyway, let's open these up.
Do you think we can actually make something
look cool on a canvas this tiny?
Do you guys remember a couple years ago
when I did 100 layers of acrylic paint
on a canvas this tiny?
If you want to dig up the embarrassing parts of my past.
Let's paint.
Ooh, I just broke this canvas.
Eh, sorry little buddy.
We'll make it work anyway.
Guys, I actually already know
what I want to make for this stuff.
You know what?
Let's clean this off first.
(knife scraping)
Bunch of paint just flew up at me.
Ooh, you know what?
I need a paper towel.
Back.
We're back.
I hate when I do this.
I have this little spray bottle for to keep my paints wet,
and every now and then I decide to water my plants with it,
and then this thing is empty,
so that's what's going on in my life right now.
I'm just gonna put some of my drink in here,
'cause what you guys don't know,
I'm hooked up to a mic right now.
I don't feel like unplugging myself.
Let's just try this.
This might be bad.
Oh, oh, oh, oh.
(suspenseful music)
Extra cold water for the paints.
Just kidding.
My ice maker is broken, sadly.
This video, I feel like we're starting
with like a complete mess right now,
(knife scraping)
but it's good to hang out.
Whoa.
Okay, okay.
I just fell.
Look how cute this is.
I hope all these paints are still wet,
'cause I hate wasting paint.
Let's get a fun, little brush here.
This one is fun, not super little, but what we need.
All right.
Doing the usge.
Gotta coat my canvases with some colors.
One down.
So I really love this quinacridone magenta
I want to do an undercoat with it.
Got our little dollop.
Look how beautiful.
(bright music)
Okay.
All the canvases are painted.
When I say they're all painted,
I mean we're only doing three canvases today,
so if you want me to use the other three in another video,
feel free to like thumbs this up or like comment down below
and say please continue this series.
That way I know if you guys like this sort of thing.
What do we need from here?
Oh, just about everything.
I want to do something like cutesy and pastely,
but portraity.
(bright music)
This is kind of a nice way to use up paint
instead of wasting it.
I'm just scraping away a lot of layers in my palette
to revive some of this old stuff,
so in a way, tiny paintings are really great for that
if you ever want to use up your paint.
(bright music)
So my goal with this is like, because it's small,
I usually like get super tight in my hands.
I'm gonna try to loosen up and be really gestural.
Think it's time to do some of the skin.
Let's just dip into this little dollop.
I think this will just be a good skin color.
Ooh.
You know what, I don't know if I'm ready for this yet.
Hold on.
I want to do something else.
Wait, now I'm changing everything up.
Let's do the eye.
Let's just do the eye, commit to the eye.
Okay, there's this little fleck of like orange
up in this eye.
Aw, I don't think I achieved it very well.
Oh well.
We'll come back to it.
Okay, so the royalty-free reference photo that I'm using
has this cute, little like rainbow streaked across the face.
It's like she's peeking through a door
and like the reflections are showing a little rainbow,
so I want to show that little rainbow.
(bright music)
Okay, we have a little like rainbow thing happening now,
so let's try to make this skin tone stuff
around it blend in, I guess.
Might not be easy, but we're gonna work on it.
(bright music)
Okay, I'm just painting the sides real quick
before I do some final details and highlights.
(bright music)
Okay, let's do the little reflections on the eyes.
Okay, I think I want to do something
to make this a little cuter,
do like a little heart or a star right here.
(bright music)
Okay, we have the first tiny painting done.
I really like the little star.
Okay, let's move on to another tiny painting.
Look how satisfying and colorful that pallet is,
all from that little eye back there.
So for this painting,
I think I want to do something more in the realm of nature.
That would be fun, wouldn't it?
You know me and my water.
I'm getting self-conscious about doing water
because some people tell me that it's really boring
and they're tired of it,
but I am really passionate about painting it,
so, you know, whatever.
I might just scrape this off though.
Gotta make space for the new stuff, right?
So this brand, Golden,
came out with a slow-drying acrylic paint,
and I really would like to try it out
because I like oil paint and everything,
but I don't want to use it all the time.
I like acrylic too, so I might try it.
Seems like a little in-betweener.
Who knows?
Okay, this one here.
Let's do.
Wait.
I have an idea.
So this pallet here has been surviving with me through,
oh, I don't know, like probably three or four paintings now,
and I'm still using up a lot of the wet paint in it.
Let me just keep preserving it.
Anyway, let's use some of this teal dollop
that I added this video, and ooh, I'm so excited for this.
I need to find a good brush.
This one is brand spanking new,
so come with me to painting number two.
Got a little bit of this.
I kind of want to do like a beach scene
that looks like maybe somebody used a filter
to get some nice colors.
It looks a little too dark for the sky.
All right, what about this?
(calm music)
Okay, let's do the water.
I'm super excited for this part.
I'm gonna take the same blue,
which let me just move it into frame, that one,
and make it a little bit darker.
Let me add a little bit of yellow ogre to it.
Ooh.
I'm gonna take this, come down here.
Boom.
We have the ocean.
Now it's time to bring in a tiny brush, like this one,
some dark blue, little bit of burnt umber.
Okay, so this side is like orange-ish yellow.
If any of you guys ever get scared to start large paintings,
I highly recommend
doing like little, tiny paintings at first,
because it can help you maybe figure out
the colors you want, figure out the composition,
like how things are arranged,
and maybe just give you a little confidence boost
to be like hey, I actually can do this,
and I can go on a larger scale.
It's okay.
It'll help you believe in yourself.
So anyway, yeah, just wanted to share that
for anybody out there who gets scared to start art projects.
You are capable.
(calm music)
Okay, here's this fun, little, tiny painting.
I really enjoyed this one 'cause it was less detailed
and I could just do big, loose brush strokes.
Oh you know what, I need to paint the sides.
I should do a fun color,
like let's mix some bright yellow with this teal
and do a green border.
Doesn't that sound fun?
Sometimes you just have to be whimsical with your art.
Yay for green edges.
Now to let this dry.
All right guys, we are on our last tiny canvas.
I'm really excited to do this one.
Okay so, probably should scrape this again, huh?
It's all wet though.
Probably not a good idea.
I have some space on my pallet now.
Nothing big, nothing fancy.
Just functional.
Okay, so for this painting,
we're gonna need a little bit of red,
a little bit of burnt sienna.
Do you know what I'm making yet?
Okay, now I need to do the leaves.
Gotta get that greenery, you know?
Okay, I want to get a really bright blue color
for the background.
(calm music)
Okay, I'm gonna paint the edges real quick,
and then I kinda have a twist that I want to introduce,
so this'll be exciting.
Okay, let's do some of these seeds, and then the twist.
(calm music)
Okay, I'm mixing up this like orange-ish color,
maybe a little more magenta.
So, I feel like these leaves are a little boring,
and I kind of want to add some character to them
by doing like a fun outer glow.
Aw, this is kind of fun.
There we go.
Maybe I should add a little bit more just variation
with some parts of this.
I don't know.
The leaves are kind of boring.
Let's do some yellow and stuff.
That is so sweet.
Okay, I'm a lot happier with this now,
but not with the shadows.
We need to do something here,
make it more exciting, you know?
All right, here's our cute, little strawberry.
I just love how this one came out.
It's so cute.
(piano music)
Well, that concludes our mini paintings.
I hope you enjoyed this
because I really had fun with this one.
I tried to go for a certain aesthetic,
so I'm gonna hold them all up here
and see if we achieved it.
I wanted like bright, happy colors,
kind of pastely but a little more saturated,
just some summer fun kind of stuff.
I feel like these all exude happiness.
So I hope this video cheered you up.
I hope it inspired you.
And again, if you're somebody who gets intimidated
by starting art projects, and you tell yourself
that you're not good enough, you really are.
You're good enough, you can start anywhere you're at,
and I totally encourage you to try tiny paintings
if a big canvas intimidates you.
Alrighty.
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Bye, guys.