- I got carried away on a passion project
and that's why I've been MIA for a while.
I definitely got carried away with this.
There are so many paintings in today's video.
Like, I kid you not, weeks worth of paintings.
It's all within a theme though
and I'm really excited to share this with you.
Here's a little teaser.
I'm gonna show you so much artwork.
So much in fact that my memory cards,
like, they all were full at the end of this
and I couldn't film all of the paintings.
(bright music)
Before I show these paintings to you though,
I just wanna let you know
all of the originals will be for sale in my shop
at mirabyler.com.
And I am launching tons of prints.
I have new stickers in my shop.
I just did a big shop launch,
so go check out mirabyler.com
if you would like to see what's new.
We obviously have to do a voiceover for this video
because with weeks worth of footage,
like, mm-mm, I kid you not.
So this first painting here is actually
a little bit of a collaboration
and it is what ignited this whole series.
It inspired the whole thing.
I've been on this kick with collecting handmade mugs
and supporting small businesses with that.
And in my spare time
I love finding different ceramic artists on Instagram,
and I came across Aline,
and her handle is the analog.clay.girl.
Her artwork, amazing.
Her photography, amazing.
It all inspired me,
so I messaged her and I was like,
"Hey, can I paint one of your photos?"
She said, "Yes,"
so, boom, the series of floral paintings
kind of started from this.
And when I went into this I was like,
"Yeah, I wanna do tons of moody florals,
and I'm gonna start with this one."
I thought it was fun because it was going to challenge me
to use color schemes that I normally don't use.
I normally do really bright and saturated paintings,
even though in my heart a lot of the time
I would rather go toward muted colors,
but I think, like, my personality
just kind of leaks out when I paint.
I don't know, it is so hard for me to be muted colory.
(chuckles)
But I really enjoyed this painting
and I'm so thankful Aline
let me use her photography for this one.
(bright music)
So this is how it turned out,
and this is a 16 by 16 canvas by the way.
It's a gallery stretch.
Yeah, I really enjoyed this though.
I love that the background is so dark though
and it's mostly a solid color.
Like, a little bit of this pink leaks through.
I did that little halo effect with the underpainting.
So if you look up close
you can see the underpainting all around the edges.
I don't know, I'm just digging that style lately,
so here we are.
This was so fun.
Like, I have no words to describe it
because the process was what was fulfilling for me
and now that I'm looking back
at something I did a couple weeks ago,
like, I just have, like, feelings to associate
with this painting rather than words.
Anybody relate to me with this?
Let me know in the comments.
Anyway, yeah, this original is at mirabyler.com
and I also have pre-orders for limited edition prints.
I forgot to say this earlier,
but the pre-orders for my prints are gonna ship out,
like, at the end of the month,
but I'm putting them up now to give people time
to get them and everything.
Let's talk about this painting now.
I decided to just look through my studio at this point
and see, you know, I have so many canvases
just laying around, what can I use next?
Let's just use the things that I already have
and make this vision come to life.
So, I wanted to do these moody florals.
I found this little canvas here,
so I decided, you know what?
Let's do some florals with this one.
So, this time I did like a really full bouquet
and I decided let's just make the florals
a really take up the page
and then do some dark purple-ish
colored background around it.
(gentle music)
So this is the point where everything just kind of shifted
and it turned into this full-blown passion project
that I did not expect to happen
because I went into this expecting a one thing
and it was these dark, moody floral paintings.
(sighs)
I don't know what happened.
Something in me just, like, changed,
and I was like, that was fun, I really enjoyed that,
but we're changing directions.
So, I'm just taking you along on my thought journey,
being transparent with what goes on in here
when I start getting really inspired
and into something, I changed directions.
So, once again, I dug through my art studio.
I found another small canvas.
This one's a little bit bigger than this one though,
so I decided let's make things really bright.
Cheerful spring is here
and we're going to really dive into the bright colors now.
I decided to do like a magenta colored flower
as the focal point and then the whole background
is like this impressionistic array of daff,
I guess you could call it.
And it's kind of giving me like Monet meets Lilly Pulitzer
or something vibes.
I don't know, that's just like what keeps coming
into my head when I look at it.
Which is funny because I wasn't like shooting
for that at all when I was painting it.
I was just, like, really going with what I was feeling
and now that I look at this, it's like,
yeah, I don't know, it just reminds me of that.
(chuckles)
(bright music)
So then, I once again looked around my studio
and guess what?
Another canvas, I have so many canvases tucked
in random places in this room.
It's ridiculous, but not really anymore.
The pile that you saw earlier, or like,
in the thumbnail, you know, that's about what I have left.
And I have a couple other large canvases left,
but all these little ones, they're mostly used up now.
So, we did that magenta coneflower in the last painting.
It really changed the vibe of this whole series,
so I decided, you know what,
let's do another coneflower, but make it like a cream color.
Let's just see how that pops against the background.
I just really enjoyed it.
So, yeah, I tried to keep the color scheme really similar
with this one.
I feel like I'm just like waving these around right now.
But I'm so excited about this whole thing
and I felt so suspicious
because I have been working on these
for a couple weeks now
and trying not to talk about it much.
I hinted about them once on Instagram, but that's all.
But anyway, yeah, these two are kind of
like sibling paintings, the little coneflowers.
Oh, and the sides, they match just like the two moody ones.
I was like, yeah, we're gonna go with this theme.
I'm digging it.
I feel so dumb right now because there is a painting sitting
in the background that I did not want to be seen
and it was just chilling back there.
I'm not refilming the rest of this video,
so if you saw it, you saw it
but you're gonna see it again later.
Huh, I can't believe I did that.
(chuckles)
So the next four paintings you're going to see
is like a collection within a collection.
And this one is really cool
because it's a bunch of tiny paintings.
The paintings are each four inches
and I wanted the theme
to kind of be like, daisies and coneflowers.
So, yeah, you already saw I did the magenta under painting
for all of them and I used this lovely vine charcoal.
I have had this pack
since college and it's like almost used up now.
These little bits here is like all I have left,
but I do have another pack around here somewhere.
I really like the idea of paintings
that are, like, very related right now.
And for me, somebody who paints for the process
that sort of thing is very fulfilling
because say, I really, really love painting this,
and I just wanna like do it again, you know?
That's kind of what happened with this whole thing.
(bright music)
The last painting in this video,
I'm saving the best for last.
This is my favorite one.
And sadly, I barely have any footage of this one
because by this point all my memory cards are full.
(bright music)
Here's the big reveal
because the little speed paint that you just saw, mm-mm.
This is what it looks like, makes me so happy.
I did a lot of the blue wildflowers
in the background of this one too.
And then I decided to do this
like brick color here and there,
like little splashes of it to accentuate things.
Anyway, this is my spring floral collection
and I still honestly feel very inspired.
I really do.
But at some point, you know,
you have to stop and breathe for a little bit, you know?
So, I honestly, I don't know if this series
for 2023 will keep going
or if this is like it
and I move on to something else, I don't know.
Just a reminder, these prints will ship out closer
to the end of the month.
So, if you pre-order and there are other items in your order
it will all ship with your pre-order.
Also, one of the new things in my shop,
it's like kind of related to this floral series in some way,
but it's like tropical plants, this artist's sticker.
And the cool thing about it,
you see that?
It's transparent, so whatever you stick it on,
like, this whole clear background, you know,
just blends in with whatever you stick it to.
Ha, so excited, so excited.
I need to get a new iPad case,
so I can stick this to my iPad.
Thank you for hanging out with me.
Thank you for listening to this, like, flood of inspiration.
I can stop feeling suspicious around you guys now.
I'm not kidding, this whole thing
made me feel really suspicious,
so I felt like I was keeping a really big secret
even though, like, it's really not a big deal,
but to me it's a big deal
'cause it's like, this big passion project.
(chuckles)
Okay, have a beautiful day and I will see you soon, bye.