I love the leaning lights and that you went out of your comfort zone and painted cars! Thanks for being an inspiration to many!

I would love to see butterflies/ a butterfly in a garden on flowers or a butterfly bush as a new print edition for your shop! I am truly amazed by everything you do! You are a fantastic inspiration.

A pre-pandemic sunset, when they meant something different. We all had no idea, did we? It's like time travel. You look amazing for having had twins only 2 months ago. I'm glad you could carve out a little time to paint.

I blinked and the babies are here?!?! Oh my goodness 2 months?! Congrats!!

Can't wait to see another water painting ❤️

I think we all have pictures that we wanted to paint in our pictures folders. Your ambition and ability to play with the paint is inspiring. I often find myself feeling rigid and too afraid to play with the colors or styles. Super cool. Thanks for sharing.

You look amazing and I'm so happy for you and I'm glad the twins doing good and I'm happy to see you again , and I saw the canvas as well , good night 😴😴😴😴 much love

I love how this turned out. It makes me think of an ending scene from Supernatural. Great job 👏

Wonderful painting! I love the burnt sienna warmth as well. ❤️

I'm so happy u and dorv are parents!!! And I'm glad ur back on KZfaq!

I’m very impressed by your cars. Love the channel! Thank you for sharing your gift.

It turned out so good!

Yeeeeeeessssss!!!

Incredible painting. Great video. So happy to see your positive energy.

So beautiful sharing dear m full watch

2 months!! So happy to see your recent videos & excited to check out your prints at the shop! I love videos where the artists talks through the process. Live or voiceover either. And I love to hear your thoughts on both the inspiration and source, but also the process and the materials you use. I feel like I learn even if I’m not creating myself

This was so inspiring because i have so many paintings that are only half finished because i couldn't get past that awkward stage of feeling like it was gonna fail. So maybe now I'll go back and finish some those paintings although it's also so hard when I'm inspired every day to paint something new.

Love it... love all your paintings... congrats on the twins by the way.. so happy every is good and healthy.

Its always so satisfying to watch you paint. I get inspired to do the same or just sketch some doodles in my sketchbook. Its really pretty sunset. I'm glad you are getting back into art while taking care of twins. Its so beautiful to see these large paintings. I also love when you do tiny paintings too.

Myra, that painting came out sooooooo COOL .. Really Really Great Job 👍👍👍.. Love it 🥰

You look amazing, I cannot believe you had two babies recently!!! 😍 I'm so happy to hear the babies are well and you're well. Plus I'm super happy that you've been able to post again. I definitely noticed the difference (I understand the needing to have the time.) . . . Basically just all the happiness!

WOW!!!!! Awesome painting!!! And great messages in this video. Well done! 😊👍🏻 Cars are extremely challenging to me too.

Beautiful Painting love the colors dear and you are looking lovely still glowing Momma Happy you are all doing well

the sky look wonderful!

Ohh my congratulations!! You look awesome!!

congrats on the babies to you both. I think you got the cars well, would have liked to see more how you painted them.

Beautiful painting. Well done. Great video.

Congrats on the babies🥰 lovely painting

It’s nice to see a KZfaq artist use good quality paints! I watch a lot of artists and am always surprised by how many of them use brands I find horrible. It surprises me a bit honestly

I also like to take pictures of random things I see as I go through my daily life so I can paint them later. But yeah painting from life is pretty intimidating!

woow Mira, this painting is amazing and to see your process is impressive. You have such a beautiful unique style! (momma, you looking good, happy and incredibly rested for having two months old twins). 🌸

I'm often told that I'm too hard on my own artwork, but I always say like you did, that it's about improving my skills. So next time I paint/draw/whatever it'll be even better.

I grew up in Plain City, and I miss those sunsets so much! Every time I'm back I am just blown away by the sunsets. As soon as I saw the post of this painting on Instagram, I recognized that central Ohio sunset. You captured it beautifully!

It's a beautiful painting!

That’s such a cool piece!

The street lamps are my favorite part. I love how you did the glow and the lean. Impressionistic art is my favorite

That came out beautiful!

Your paintings are amazing ❤️

I love the contrast between the bright colors in the sky and the darker bottom road. Reminds me of our Arizona skies.

2 months old? Oh my goodness, so exciting! And you look absolutely amazing by the way. God bless! P.s. the painting is stunning.

This artwork is amazing!

Ohhh, congrats on having twins! ✨😃✨ I’m a new subscriber and here to get some inspiration because we always need visuals. A gazillion on top of everything. Navigating self-doubt is a beautiful thing I believe. You finally did it and went through this challenge and the result is beautiful. I hope you are happy with it. 🖼😃👩🏼‍🎨 High 5 for being a fella leftie! Love from 🇨🇦.

I LOVE THIS VIDEO!

Really enjoyed. Gonna paint this soon in sha Allaah

Nice artwork , loving the colors 👍🏼

I love it so much, Miranda! I'm so proud of you for going out of your comfort zone. 👏🏼🥳

I’m so proud of you for going out of your comfort zone. You inspire me to do the same 🤓

My youngest just turned 5 months old and I'm slowly getting back into art as well!! I'm definitely more grateful for it these days since it brings me such joy and relaxation. 🥰

Congratulations on your twins!

Beautiful piece! I love your videos

It’s lovely! If something in the original picture is intimidating, take creative liberty and remove it! Glad that the babies are well!

I have a canvas just like this gifted to me by my old art teacher that recently retired I’ve been struggling with thinking what to paint

great job! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

What a transition! Your paintings are typically nature inspired, usually tranquil, and always soothing. This painting is so far left from your style, and I love it. You kept nature your main focus, but what I love is you made the scene shout out, "hey, I'm in here, see me?" Your talent never ceases to surprise me. You don't allow me to ever feel I know what's coming next. BTW, your cars and road are spot on. I hope you do more paintings like this. Fantastic!

This is making me hopeful because I have so many pictures that I've taken that I want to paint someday and maybe I really will paint some of them!!

I'm happy you tried something new and unfamiliar! I hope you try more of this!😊💕

Great painting, so brave of you, I totally get your point…I’m not much of an acrylic painter, But I think you did a nice job with the impressionistic lights!

I love when you do large paintings or any at all. You inspire me to create. 💜. I agree with you… art is my therapy. Keeps me calm. I have MS and art is what I turned to to keep my mind calm.

Beautiful 😍

Love it 💕

Well done!

Amazing !!!

These videos are amazing Mira is so kind and sweet. The hard work paided off

Mira, that painting is truly beautiful! I really love it so much. The road looks so inviting! I love how you put the halo of light around the street lights, and the burnt sienna seemed to have warmed the sky so well from behind, that it's easy to imagine that it's bringing the warmth of that day into the painting. God bless you Mira, and all those you love. Enjoy your children while they are little because boy do the ever grow up fast! Oh and from one mother to another, take lots and lots of photos lol! God bless.both of your children, I pray they grow up healthy, happy and strong. Have a great day Mira!

I saw this canvas in your recent art haul and got excited to see you paint on it, Can't wait to see the final result! ❤️

I LOVE YOUR VIDEOS thank you :)

Looks wonderful! ^^

It's really neat to have followed you for many years and see your confidence and abilities grow. What a beautiful painting! 💞

I can see the joy this painting gave you as you showed us, and it is so great to see you enjoying art with such a passion. Your art is beautiful as always, thank you for a lovely video :)

Beautiful painting! AND I love your stories. I FINALLY GOT TO GO TO BLICK IN COLUMBUS a couple weeks ago. I HAD so much fun!!! Even stopped at some other places to play Pokemon Go! LOL

Thanks again for sharing your talent. Beautiful painting. I love the colors and that you tackled something that you were anticipating was hard with gusto. I love that you gave yourself space to find the right day to your challenge. It is a great piece. Blessings to you and yours.

Congrats on the babies arriving! Wow, that went by so quickly- I feel like I blinked and time skipped… your painting turned out lovely, the burnt siena is just a perfect under tone. Love your thoughts on how going through an awkward processes helps us to grow as artists. Risk taking helps so much to develop our personal styles and skills~ really good things to think about there! 💜

Beautiful! Thanks for sharing your painting. Missed seeing these. Would love to see the twins!

I have tons of photos like this that I want to paint. That’s great that you did it! You inspired me to take those photos (I put them in a folder art reference pics) and start to try them in a small sketchbook

I just want to thank you for your words they mean a lot to me because I’m self taught and I am struggling with my painting at the moment…I hate wasting paint 🎨 and I hate not getting my work right…I’m learning to see where I go wrong 😑 and trying again to get it right…love your work..x

I renovate my compliments for how good of an artist you are, as I see every time you dive into these challenging projects! I know it's not sustainable to create this kind of content consistently every week, but I fully support you for bringing them out here when you feel like😍 I want to add that I've been following you now for about 2 years and I can totally see the growth you've made in your painting, expecially in how your impressionistic experimentation has influenced you into giving character and life.m to those beautiful landscapes. In this one specifically, I love how yiu combined realism in the cars (WHICH YOU ABSOLUTELY NAILED) and inroessionism in the ambience, it creates a cool dualism between urban-natural, subject-ambientation, focus-surrounding! Looking forward for your future artwork! And as I'm here, congratulations on your twins' birth! Best luck and happiness to you and your husband ❤️

Claim your “Early ticket“ here! 👇

This turned out so lovely!! And we’ve miiiiiissssssssed you!!! Hoping your little family is doing well ❤️❤️❤️

You're amazing. I love this piece and love your energy.

Really enjoyed this. I'm in the process of painting my first landscape so helped hearing the encouragement and just watch how you approach your work. Turned out great. Love the sky and lights in the impressionistic style.

Not sure how I missed you were pregnant, but congrats on the two little ones. I need to get back into painting when I finish my first polymer clay scuplure of a manta ray. I am hoping to get my own home soon, so I need to get moving on the art in my free time.

Good job!!!

The painting turned out so pretty!! Love the impressionistic touch you put on the light ^^

This painting is so beautiful!! I think for the first time trying to do a painting like this, you did incredible. It gives me “gouache” feels. The burnt sienna wash definitely brought a lot of warmth to the painting. Love it love it love it!!!

Wow that’s amazing I really look up to you so much this turned out great unfortunately I’m not at your level of art yet but I will keep trying and maybe one day so amazing

You can also mix reference or takeout/omit and modify from reference rather than a direct copy. You could always have cropped out the road and only left I. The tops of trees +sky. Or add in you own imagined fantastical elements. You can take any references with incredibly similar lighting and mash. Or adjust the lighting digitally and make the reference you truly desire first in a program like Procreate, CSP etc. You never have to direct copy just one reference unless it’s a specific art challenge or commission! I think it’s often better to Frankenstein reference or look at multiple to create something new. You can take just the lighting from one ref and subject from 4 others and even look at other artwork as inspiration to help with techniques and style! I draw and paint cars myself but it’s not for everyone. Part of why I depict vehicles is spite, because I remember I was told it was not possible for a little girl like me to do an old car accurately when I was 12. So ever since even if it’s hard now and then I depict cars and have learned how to do so accurately. I’ve even been paid for vehicle commisons by car enthusiasts, bikers and a trucker once. Some car tips 1) lightly rough in the larger shapes very lightly and be ready to erase. 2) find the ground/perspective (even if rough) and make sure all 4 wheels are touching the ground on the same plane level. Far wheels should line up along the ground as should the near ones. This is vital! Like how getting eyes positioned correctly is vital I. Portraits! 3) erase and fix details I’ve and over. Look at the reference see how things line up and actually look at the way it curves and fits in the car and in 3D. Also use negative space shapes to help. 4) look for the areas of large highlights vs large shadows. Then add smaller reflective details. 5) it’s hard so really consider doing practice and studies in sketchbooks (etc) before the final good piece. 6) double check the perspective by making sure things match the ground plane you established. Make sure elements like seats, wheel, windows are correctly aligned to the ground. After establishing the wheels as correct. 7) the easiest angles to depict cars are directly behind and directly above. The. Direct front, direct side then 3/4 front then 3/4 rear. However 3/4 front and 3/4 rear are the most appealing and beautiful ways to depict cars even if it’s the hardest. 8) take photo reference yourself at many angles and focus on more beautiful vehicles you actually like! 9) buy accurate scale model cars (like hot wheels) these are absolutely excellent art reference and can be moved into any angle and you can set the lighting. If it’s easier for you take photos of your car models and work from those; remember you can set up the lighting. For example if you want cars added to a sunset scene literally set up a photoshoot outside at sunset in similar lighting at the angles you desire and use that as reference. Try to only use reference you take yourself or public domain images for the sake of copyright. Note old car and vehicle shows are sometimes in a corner of other events such as county fairs. Take advantage and take reference photos and draw from life in location 10) believe you can and want to do it otherwise it will be too hard. But I did that pencil 1952 ford mercury and showed that stupid man. It took me 40 hours and several tries but I did it! And ever since vehicles have been easier. He had to admit he was wrong apparently I can accurately depict a car! Heck I learned to accurately depict cars before humans lol. Don’t be afraid to use spite as a motivator and to intentionally do art that is hard. You can always try Again and again after all! Or to try that hard reference you can try again later if you ‘fail’!

This piece turned out so amazing! You did a wonderful job. The process of working on something that intimidates you is very relatable. I started using acrylic gouache recently and have some oils to work with as well. All of it is intimidating when kids are running around and it's difficult to get into the flow of work.

I love your artwork! It's beautiful

I love this painting! I know there are a lot of pictures in this world but if you would ever be down for it I would love to send you pictures I take. I think it would be awesome to see something of mine being painted. I love taking nature and animal pictures. It's just a hobby of mine, I'm not professional or anything. I live below you in Kentucky and I love the scenery here. Also I have the cutest picture of a newborn lamb covered in hay from my farm. Lol Thank you for taking time out of your day to make videos for us! Sending love and positive vibes your way! 💖

I hope you and the twins are going great! :D And your husband of course! :D

Hey fellow Mira. Just wanted to say that this piece is incredible. Absolutely breathtaking. And your words of wisdom about learning from making mistakes and the need for mistakes is so so true

You should sell this painting. I bet it would look great in someone’s room or house to give good vibes.

I think we all feel the large Blick bag on the couch…😂

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Why u do brown in the background first?? Does that enhance the colors of painting?

I love ur channel. I watch it whenever I’m doing art and I have on question. Y do u paint burnt seiana before all the other colors.

Love your paintings, and watching you create. Did you have boys/girls I don’t know yet ! xx

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You were too intimidated to try this because it had cars in it? Lady, you just grew two entire human beings inside your body....you can do anything!!

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