All is Bright
Intermediate Marker Painting - The Power of White
Join Amy Shulke, a professional illustrator and marker enthusiast for a live coloring demonstration. Real coloring in real time.
Are you ready for realistic coloring?
Online video classes are not real, at least not real in the way you assume.
The projects are planned months in advance. The lessons are tested and simplified. The demonstration is rehearsed. The footage is shot multiple times and edited for clarity. The script is….well, it’s a script!
Everything about an online art class is designed to make the project look easy and amazing.
But that's not how real art works
Vanilla Livestream breaks the production barrier, giving you a real look into the real time artistic process.
Snow is white... except when it’s not.
Join Amy for a revolutionary lesson on the color of nighttime landscapes and soft illumination and gentle light sources. Learn to communicate a story and setting through the use of color instead of white.
The abuse of white gel pens and white pencils flattens your coloring by removing depth, dimension, and realism. But the overuse of white also damages your ability to set a scene and mood. We’re looking beyond the use of white to find alternatives that will knock your socks off. You’ll never look at color the same way again.
This lesson also Includes Amy’s tips for coloring on alternative paper colors with Copic Markers!
All is Bright is an Intermediate coloring demonstration.
We welcome colorers of many levels into this class. This class assumes you’ve mastered basic techniques and now you’re ready for more independent work and artistic skills. We don’t cover basic blending technique in these classes.
Skill Level: Intermediate
Techniques used:
- Flicking
- Push & Pull
- Underpainting
- Coloring on alternatively colored paper
- Detail work with colored pencils
Course Includes:
- Over 2 1/2 hours of video demonstration with Q&A timeouts. Work at your own pace.
- Recipe guide
- Printable photo reference, underpainting guide, detailed color map, and full color sample
Please note: Q&A session was for students who attended the live session
Required Supplies: printable supply list included in class package
PLEASE NOTE- Stamp is a separate purchase from PowerPoppy.com and is not included in the class materials here. Snowy Church is the digital stamp used for this class.
- high-quality Copic friendly marker cardstock - Bazzill cardstock in Candy Buttons
- Copic Markers
- Technical pens - Triplus Fineliners (0.3)
- Artist quality colored pencils (Prismacolor Premier recommended)
- Tombow Mono Zero Eraser, Round
- Mod Podge or Hake dusting brush
- Acrylic clipboard, glass mat or hard surface and drafting tape to secure your project to the surface
- Pencil, pencil sharpener
- Erasers - black and white polymer, white sticky tack
We recommend these Workshops as a companion classes to All is Bright:
(these classes are both Intermediate skilled classes)
(click image above for more information and to enroll in Luminous Lanterns)
(click image above for more information and to enroll in Santa's Backup Plan)
Your Instructor
Amy is a professional freelance technical illustrator with 25 years of experience in graphic arts. Amy began using colored pencils in 1985 and she started with DeSign markers in 1989. Colored pencils with a base of either marker or watercolor is her preferred process for portraiture and scientific illustration. She has a special passion for teaching crafters and shy artists to stretch their boundaries by adding established fine art techniques to their coloring projects.
Join Amy for fun and highly informative lessons which will not only change the way you color but the way you see color in the world around you.
"It's the OMG moments. That's why Amy's classes rock. She explains things that you've maybe noticed before but never thought much about. I love it!"
"At 62 years of age I have no illusions about becoming a great artist but. I am so appreciative of the change in my perception since taking classes with Amy at Vanilla Arts Co. Now I see the play of colors, the motion and the grace... It's a great way to view the world around me."
"I just love the things I'm learning and can't wait to start the next project. Your images are challenging for me and I like that. I'll never look at another image and how to color it the same again!"