- Hey guys, welcome back to my channel.
Today is gonna be a little different
because we're doing an art haul.
I actually don't do these very much on my channel
but something I have been doing a lot is asking you to vote
on videos on my community town.
I usually put like four video ideas that I want to do up
and then you vote, and then I choose that one.
And the art hall won by a landslide.
So I'm just gonna show you some new stuff
that I got lately.
If you're somebody who wonders
about the supplies that I use,
this video will probably help you out quite a bit
because my favorites are in here, (chuckles)
a lot of my favorites.
And then there's a couple, you know, experimental things.
So with that being said, I think we should just get started,
and I will hop into this.
Now, the first thing I'm gonna show you is something
that I bought, I think about two years ago.
This is something that I put in this like box for myself
of like new supplies that I reward myself with
if I like hit a goal,
or if I have a rough week, or something.
And this is one of the only supplies that are like left
in this box that I have not used.
But they are these really cool, like crayon pencils.
They're called, it just says Stabilo Woody 3 in 1.
I don't really know what that means.
But I do think we should test them in this video.
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Okay, so the next thing I got
is this really cool Uni-Ball Gold Metallic Gel Pen.
I'm really excited to try this
because I love my gold leaf marker.
So if this is anything like my gold leaf marker,
you know, I'm gonna be excited.
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Now the next thing I'm gonna show you
is my tried and true favorite.
It is like my art baby.
It is my absolute favorite art supply.
And I think it's uncommon for this sort of thing
to be somebody's favorite art supply,
but I can't help it, I love it so much.
You have probably seen me rave about this
in so many videos by now,
but it is the Ampersand Gessobord.
I also use their Claybord, which is a little bit smoother.
It is wonderful for oil painting.
But I like this for my little acrylic painting studies
and I just ran out of it.
So I got some more.
Also, if you wanna know where I get most of these supplies,
I am not sponsored, but shout out to Blicks.
That's my favorite place to order from.
They just have lots of options,
and a lot of like professional quality art supplies.
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The next art supply I am so excited about,
and Jazza actually had this in one of his boxes,
and my husband is using it
because he was so excited about it.
And if you don't know,
my husband paints a lot of like Dungeons and Dragons minis.
He's actually a phenomenal artist.
So yeah, we bond over art
and have lots of like painting dates
at our dining room table.
Anyway, it is a Sta-Wet Palette.
I decided to get this because,
well I will reveal the reason later in the video.
It basically keeps your paints wet.
There's a little lid on it and stuff.
I'll open it up for you,
and we'll like set it up together.
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Oh my goodness!
I also have had this art supply for like two years,
and I keep losing them,
but I found them, and I got them on clearance.
And that's the only reason why I bought them.
So I'm really excited for these.
I think I might use them for like signing prints,
or I don't know, like decorating shoes,
some sort of fun crafty thing. (chuckles)
I really just liked the fact that they're fine tip though.
That's like what brought me to them?
And the color selection here is just really pretty.
Okay, now we're getting to the good stuff,
and I can't wait to show it to you.
So first of all, I just needed more
Phthalo blue for my paintings.
I've been doing a lot of acrylic paintings this year,
and like blowing through paint,
especially blue, because I paint a lot of water.
So I had to get more.
And if you wanna know what my favorite acrylic paint is,
yes, it is this.
Let's talk paint brushes now
because every time I either go to Blicks, or buy online,
I, for some reason,
always look at paint brushes.
Do any of you guys do that too?
Like you get really caught up like feeling them all,
or online, just like comparing them all.
I do that quite a bit.
The Princeton Dakota line here is I would say
one of my favorite paint brushes at the moment.
Right now I would say these are my all-time favorite brushes
because they work so well on that Gessobord
that I mentioned earlier.
But I also love these red short-handled ones.
They are the Princeton Velvetouch brushes.
I was actually introduced
to these ones from a Paletteful Packs box,
and I've just been hooked ever since.
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Now this next art supply,
I'm actually like really excited about.
However, I think I'm going to do a giveaway,
and give it to one of you,
because I don't wanna leave you out of this art haul.
I want you to kind of feel
like you're a part of it. (laughs)
And I'm a smaller YouTuber,
I can't do like huge giveaways.
But I thought it would be cool to include this art supply
and some merch from my store.
This is a Stillman & Birn Sketchbook.
It looks so nice.
It has a nice feel to it.
And it's for pen, ink, dry media, and light wash.
I think it's a really, really nice looking sketchbook.
And as I said, I love the way it feels.
And I just want to include you guys in this haul.
So yeah, I will be hosting this giveaway over on Instagram.
My handle is Mira Byler.
So you can check the post to find out how to enter.
And there will be fun merch from my shop
that you can win along with this sketchbook.
I'm really excited about it.
One of the things I'm gonna give away with it
is my pencil case here.
And as I said, this giveaway is on Instagram only.
Sorry, I'm not making exceptions.
If you don't have Instagram,
this is just the way it is. (laughs)
Okay, so the last things that I got in this haul
are really exciting to me,
and this is the reason why I got the Sta-Wet Palette.
I got a bunch of new Holbein Acryla Gouache paints.
Most of the colors that I already had
were like really earthy.
And I wanted some like bright ones because spring is coming,
and who knows what I'm gonna paint, you know?
And I was also out of white,
so I couldn't really do any paintings
until I got more white.
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Anyway, that's the haul portion of this video,
but now it's time to put some of these supplies to the test.
So let's do some fun art, yeah?
The first thing I'm doing is setting up the Sta-Wet Palette.
Now this thing is notorious
for keeping your paint wet for hours, and even up to weeks.
So these things are amazing.
Let's open it up.
You can see here, there's this paper,
and underneath is the sponge that keeps that paper
and your paints wet.
So to set this up you soak the top layer of paper
for about 15 minutes.
There is a shortcut option if you lack patients
but I decided to do it the long way.
I soaked my sponge and then I put it in the pallet.
And then after that paper here was done soaking,
I took it out of the water and added it to the palette too.
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And now we're ready to set up the paints.
I decided to add all my colors
because I was feeling overly enthusiastic.
I'm gonna leave it sit for a little bit,
and then we'll revisit this part later.
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Okay, so for the first thing,
I think I actually want to bust out my own sketchbook here
and use those to Stabilo Drawing utensils,
whatever you want to call them.
Honestly, if I had to guess, I would say this is probably
like a crayon meets an oil pastel meets a colored pencil,
'cause it says 3 in 1, so I don't know.
(whistling)
I dropped one.
Let's just see what's going down.
Okay, we have our little sketchbook here.
Let's find a page that has not been used yet.
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These are cute little chunks. (laughs)
I like it.
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All right, these things are very cute.
Let's do like a little swatch test up top.
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Wow, that is not what I expected.
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They feel very much like an oil pastel,
but there's something about them that's different.
And I think it's, they're not as smeary, I don't know.
Well, let's doodle some cute things.
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How stinkin' cute!
All right, let's do another one.
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Okay, so this one is gonna be heavily inspired
by my animal crossing character.
I just think these colors fit
that cute illustration style so well.
We'll add my own little twist on it though.
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This doesn't look exactly like my character.
Oh, my mouth is not like that.
Oh, (laughs) she looks like a scarecrow. (chuckles)
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So, confession time.
I am actually not a fan of like oil pastels.
A lot of you guys actually request
that I use them in videos,
and I never do because it's like a sensory thing.
It just doesn't mix well with me.
There are like certain sensory things
that like really give me the heebie-jeebies,
and that's one of them.
However, this art supply here, it's kind of like a crayon.
I was right about that,
but it does feel a little oil pastely
and a little bit like a colored pencil,
which is exactly what I predicted.
And I was kind of afraid that I wouldn't like it
because of the oil pastel feeling.
I think since I only have three colors
I don't really need to try to blend or anything.
So because of that, I'm cool with it, you know?
As long as I don't have to touch it
because that's where I get the heebie-jeebies.
Does anybody else have that issue or am I just weird?
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I'm really enjoying this. (chuckles)
It's kind of relaxing just to do little doodles like this
with this material.
I wish I had more colors though, like purple and stuff.
'Cause I feel like there isn't a whole lot I can do
with just three colors.
Anyway, here's how it turned out.
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Let's test out that Sta-Wet Palette now.
I am so excited for this.
The paints have been sitting
and waiting for about 45 minutes.
So that'll be nice just to see if it bleeds,
and stuff like that.
The directions did actually say
that darker colors tend to bleed.
So I'm not worried about it.
I kind of expect it, we'll see.
Moment of truth, let's open her up.
Ooh, they did actually bleed a little bit
but to be expected.
I'm cool with it.
All right, we have a fun little piece of paper here.
All right, I actually found a really cool reference photo
that I think I want to use.
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It's kind of weird, like mixing on paper
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I would say so far so good.
My only thought so far is this is probably better
for smaller scale projects,
like painting miniatures (chuckles)
because I'm blowing through paint
just like I would any other time, but, you know.
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Okay, so this piece is gonna be kind of
like a fall scene, I guess you could say.
And there's a lot of like fun layering to this.
So I'm gonna start just building up some background.
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You know how sometimes when you're working
on a painting for a long time,
some of your colors start to develop that film
on the outside because it's drying.
Well, I'm at the point where I would usually expect to see
a film forming,
especially with the paints that I'm currently using.
And guys, there is no film.
(hands tapping) So this is exciting.
I am really liking this palette so far.
I'm very glad I got it.
That's all I have to say.
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So I really like this reference photo
just because the colors were so unique
like every time I see pictures of inside of a forest,
it's either all green, you know, or with fall,
it's like all the yellowy leaves,
but this one is like the red leaves.
And I just think that's sweet.
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I just had an interesting bout of inspiration.
And in this little tub are actually old art supplies.
So, I don't know, I'm just kind of going
with what I'm feeling here, but it would be really fun
to take this bright red fluid acrylic
for the front layers of the leaves,
which means the rest of the painting will be matte,
'cause it's Acryla Gouache.
However, this fluid acrylic will be glossy,
and I think it will look so cool
like when the light changes and you see some glossiness,
but most of the painting is matte.
I love experimenting with that.
So let's just do it.
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Not really sure what will come of this,
but hopefully cool things, you know.
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I'm gonna do some like yellowish accents,
especially on the ground.
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All right, this is how it turned out.
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All right, honestly, these things are awesome.
I love this.
I think this is one of those
like underrated art supplies
that doesn't get talked about very much,
but lately they're getting some attention.
I'm just really glad I gave it a try.
This is gonna help my flow so much later down the road,
and it's gonna save me a lot of money on paint.
So that's great.
I actually have a palette that's similar to this
that I use for my acrylic paints.
And there's no like sponge or paper on the bottom.
It's just, you have a lid and you put it on top.
And that works amazingly too.
This is how the piece turned out.
And the entire time I was working on it, I was just like,
this is not coming to life, you know?
But then once I added this older art supplying,
this fluid acrylic,
I was really happy with it.
I don't actually have primary red with my Acryla Gouache.
So I guess I should have bought that
for this haul, but that's okay.
This was all over the place.
We experimented, we had fun.
I hope you enjoyed this video.
If there's something in here that I didn't use,
that you'd like me to see,
comment down below and let me know.
Also, don't forget,
I'm giving away this sketchbook
and then some of my own merch from mirabyler.com
over on my Instagram.
The handle's right up here, MiraByler. (laughs)
I will be giving away this pencil case,
probably some washy tapes, stickers, enamel pins.
It's gonna be big.
This is my thank you for supporting me and my channel.
And yeah, there's only one winner,
but in my book, you're all winners.
So yeah, I love you guys.
With that being said,
thank you so much for watching.
I'll see you next week in another video, bye guys.