- You might be wondering,
Mira, what are you doing with a giant
piece of housing insulation?
I feel like I'm, you know, strumming on this
like it's a guitar, except I don't know
how to play an instrument, or even read music.
Basically. You asked me to do a larger needle, felted wool
painting of sorts.
So we're going to need this and you'll see why in a sec
the truth of the situation,
what an actual background.
It's beautiful.
We're good. Throw it back to that one time when we
whipped out the film pieces because this is the base
to the painting.
I liked this mustard one.
Yeah. Look at that canvas,
by the way welcome to another video of Mira-Christmas.
There's a video Monday Wednesday and Friday this week.
So today's Wednesday.
You may have already seen Monday's.
If you have not seen the other needle felting
video that I did.
There's tons of wool here.
And again, if you didn't see the other one
you might be wondering like, how
how am I going to paint with this though?
Let me show you.
You see that scary looking doodad right there.
Yeah. So he's looking kind of dangerous and guess what?
It's because he is, last time I got hurt.
So if you do this at home, be careful.
Anyway. Well, let's start.
Look at all this stuff.
Last video.
This was the little cushion we used
but we've upgraded to a giant piece of housing insulation
because this is not big enough for a bigger project.
I think we created a series on my channel.
We also have lots of other fun tools in here.
I loved doing this last time.
I honestly, I just cannot wait to do it again.
So let's begin.
Oh, look how satisfying all this wool is.
Yeah.
- But wait, there's more
again.
- I can never win.
I don't even know what I want to paint
which could be problematic, but we'll roll with it.
Okay. All right, we have these two mustard baggies.
We might use that for the background
or should I use the gray baggies again?
I think I'm going to use the gray baggies again.
Since it's the rainy cold dreary winter day
we're going to sip some hot chocolate
and make our wool thing.
I am so excited for this.
Okay. First things first
let's get the wool out of the baggies.
I'm kind of excited to do a giant piece.
I'm not really sure what to expect, but if this goes, well
then I want to do one that's maybe twice the size.
So let me know if you want to see a third video.
I really enjoy this.
So.
Okay, the wild part at the beginning.
Also, if you decide to do this, this tool break very easily.
If you don't have some sort of
like foamy surface underneath, so I'd highly recommend using
like housing insulation or styrofoam.
Isn't this the most satisfying thing.
It's just so therapeutic and soft.
Honestly, I think that's why I enjoy this so much.
It's just so soft and it makes me feel cozy while I do it.
- (Puffing at Air)
Do you see the wool bits flying?
highly recommend it.
Hey.
- [Male Voice] Hey, how's it going?
- [Mira] It's going good. I'm doing another one of these.
- [Male Voice] Oh, wow.
- [Mira] Yeah. This is how it starts.
Yeah. I don't know what I'm going to do yet.
- [Male Voice] The options are wild flowers.
- [Mira] Mhm.
Wild flowers are good.
How about some purple ones?
- [Mira] You want purple?
- [Male Voice] Just not yellow.
- [Mira] Okay. You don't want yellow?
- [Male Voice] I don't know.
It just doesn't seem like yellow.
I just don't want yellow.
I'm just gonna take this hair out of it.
- [Mira] You don't want me to weave my hair into this?
(both laughing)
- Now a lot of you told me in the last video,
you are not a fan of ASMR and I respect that
because I kind of feel the same way,
except that "Kluna Tik" food channel.
You know what I'm talking about?
Like they eat like mermaids and alien stuff.
It's so funny.
Anyway, I'm going to voiceover for a little bit
while I watched cheesy Christmas-y movies and stuff.
- All right.
So the part you see right now is actually in my opinion
the most time consuming part of this entire project
and it is the noisiest because
well, for each one of these I've done,
I've used a different foam surface
underneath the sort of like wool painting.
And you kind of have to break it in.
And when it's like freshly not poked, it's really loud.
And then it gets quieter as you go.
But it's so satisfying to do this and to see all
that fluffy wool turn into a flat under painting.
I am also going to add a little disclaimer.
So all the wool you see me laying down right now is
like a bunch of different shades of gray and blue.
And I'm just kind of patching it together.
Cause it's not going to show anyway.
However, if you do this, I would totally recommend going to
like your local yarn shop and just buying wool
because the kits on Amazon are way overpriced.
Like they just are.
So I'm trying to use up my kit and then I'm probably
going to get bulk wool because I found a new hobby.
This is so fun.
Like,
it is the most relaxing thing.
And I think it's just because of how soft it is.
And it makes me feel
like
it's just such a peaceful sensory exploration.
There's no other way for me to describe it.
Right now I'm feeling sunflowers.
So
Yeah. Let's- Let's try that.
All right now we're getting to the juicy stuff,
the actual painting.
So right now I am laying
down a bunch of blue and just poke, poke, poking it.
This is going to be the sky.
However, it is just the, I guess,
base color
because I am going to do a little bit of blending
with the sky and it's going to be a very slight gradient.
So you're going to watch me blend and surprisingly
there's a tornado siren going off right now.
So,
if you hear that.
It's Wednesday in the Midwest
and that's what happens at noon on Wednesdays.
All right, tornado sirens are done.
Let's talk about blending in the sky.
So blending with wool is actually surprisingly easy.
You can see, I did "Perry Winkle" at the bottom
and then this light blue up top
basically all you do is just thin out the wool
and it creates a really nice gradient effect
and it is
way more effortless
than painting or markers or something like that.
Honestly.
So now we are doing my favorite part
of this entire painting probably.
And that is these little
like swoopy things to create texture.
Basically, I take like a tuft
of wool and roll it up in a curly cue.
And then I like poke, poke, poke. Boom cloud texture.
You'll see me repeat this a couple times
throughout different elements of this wool-y painting.
So since I've officially done two landscapes now
what should I do for my third
needle, felted painting?
Like, I'm kind of thinking about making up little monsters
or trying to do an animal or something.
I don't know.
What do you think?
What would you create if you did a needle felted painting?
That's a question.
I know there are a lot
of different styles and interests out there.
So I am curious
as to what you would choose to create if you did this.
Okay. I think we're about halfway done with this.
We are on the green part now
in the foreground
this tree line here was really fun.
I implemented a lot
of the same textures that I used in the clouds.
I feel very relaxed.
I've been really into spinning on my chair lately.
So that's all.
Back to the art.
Good morning.
It is the next day.
These things take a really long time to do so,
it is a multi-day project.
I am trying to drink less coffee.
So today I am drinking blueberry lavender, almond milk
instead of two cups of coffee a day
I am now drinking one or a half cup.
So that's cool.
Let's get this party started.
We're going to add sunflowers today.
I'm so excited for that.
Oh my goodness.
Question of the day.
What is your favorite flower?
I like to know people's favorite flowers and plants.
- So this is probably the weirdest part of the painting
because you see that little gray strip
at the middle part of the two green segments.
That is because I ran out of
pretty much both of those shades of green.
I did not have enough.
And these Amazon kits, they give you a very
very small amount of each color.
So it's good for small scale projects, but once you get
to something this size you're going to run out so fast.
So I just kind of made due,
because I knew when I planned this whole thing out
that, that whole gray strip
would be covered with sunflowers.
So yeah, I just started laying those down.
This was very, very time consuming.
Now, the beginning of the painting
when I did the underpinning part, that was time consuming
but I learned that this was more time consuming.
Basically. I did those little curly, cue things, again
similar to the clouds, but smaller.
And then I poked it down
and it made me really beautiful flower texture.
- This is what I have been doing for two or three hours now.
You take this,
you bend it,
you twirl it around
into this like cute curly, cue little ball.
Okay.
And it forms
like
a flower sort of thing in the distance.
This is therapeutic.
All right, don't get me wrong.
But after you've done like a hundred of these
and you feel like you've hardly made any progress
you just kinda
get to a spot where you're over
doing all these little flower pieces.
And this is really fun.
It is.
But I'm ready to do the bigger flowers in the foreground.
So yeah.
Also let me tell you something
little like bits of wool keeps flying like
up around my nose.
(Mira laughing)
So I just kind of feel like I'm doing this
(Mira wiggles her nose and laughs)
Anyway, this is so fun.
And I'm enjoying it though.
It's very-
(Mira lightly spits out wool from her mouth)
it is very fuzzy art.
This is very-
this is fuzzier.
I need an allergy pill.
This is more fuzzy than the other
little wool painting that I did.
However, this one is like way more fun.
I think, because it's bigger.
I feel like I can do more with it.
And I'm excited.
- So as I said, it definitely feels
like I can do more with larger pieces.
And that's mainly because as you see here
I am playing around with so much texture
and something else that gave me a lot
of joy was just implementing a couple different shades
of yellow into this
for the sunflowers
and just
working with perception.
I mean, there's very, very clearly
like a foreground, middle ground
and background with this piece.
Now the first needle felting piece I did
was also a landscape.
So I could say the same.
However, it was so small that I felt
like I didn't get the same experience
as I did with this one.
I really got to play around
with blending and the sky and all sorts
of different techniques with this bigger piece.
So that's why I keep feeling ambitious about moving up to
larger
needle felted
pieces in the future.
I think if I did a piece that is perhaps
two, three or four times the size
of the current one that you're seeing right now
I could do a lot.
And I would totally love to try that.
I think doing pieces that are focused
around nature are also easier
because I feel like this is more forgiving
if you don't have the proportions correct.
So yeah.
Now my friend, Brenda
I mentioned her in my first needle felting video
she does animals and she is so,
so good at it.
And she also knows how to work with color so well
in the way she shades and stuff is so colorful and fun.
So yeah, I will link her Instagram
down below and you should totally check her out.
I'll also put it up on the screen here
so you can see it, but highly recommend.
She is the person who encouraged me to try this.
So I just want to give her some credit and yeah
I think you guys would enjoy her artwork as well.
Now, another thing with texture, you can see I'm going back
to the background
and I'm layering more flowers over top
of everything I already did.
And that was such a fun way to just
add a little bit more texture to this piece.
I mean, this really is like kind of three-dimensional
and when you run your hand across it-
Ah! It's just so cool.
Oh my goodness.
I think we're finally done
poking a thing!
I've been doing this for two entire days.
Now. I see a spot that needs touched up.
So hold it.
Let's peel this off.
I know this part is super, super satisfying.
- Moment of truth.
- Do you see how satisfying that is?
Oh my goodness.
- Oh my goodness.
- Oh, you know those like blackhead strips, it totally looks
like we just pulled a bunch of oil out of our nose.
Ew. I just made that slightly disgusting.
But anyway, I'm so happy I tried this again
on a bigger surface.
Like ever since I did that little one in my last video
I have been thinking about doing this again.
It's just such a nice outlet.
It's different than the other kinds of art that I do.
I just, I love how fuzzy it is.
It's like fuzzy art, you know?
So now we need to tuck the edges and polish this up.
(foam crunching)
I definitely have a new hobby.
Like this is so enjoyable.
Okay.
Well.
I hope you enjoyed this
and I hope it makes you feel inspired
if you think we should make this wool painting thing
a series, let me know in the comments down below
because I really love doing this.
This one was really fun.
It took me like two days, but you know, really fun
nonetheless.
I will see you again on Friday.
Cause this is a "Mira-Christmas".
That just means we're having a video Monday
Wednesday and Friday.
So there's one left in the week.
Yeah, that's cool.
All right.
I love you guys.
See you next time. Bye.