Cup of Columbine
Beginner Challenge Marker Painting - Neutral Color Palettes
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.
Learn to add zest and liveliness to the colors you've always written off as boring.
Explore form and shape as Amy guides you in an introduction to neutral palettes and bird anatomy. Includes a discussion on depth for three dimensional forms like teacups which have both exterior shape and interior depth.
Cup of Columbine is a Beginner Challenge coloring demonstration.
We welcome colorers of many levels into this class. This class requires some experience with blending and moderate marker control. Basic blending is not taught in this course. Intermediate to advanced colorers will appreciate the practice and opportunities to add more advanced techniques to the base project requires familiarity with beginner techniques and confidence in using them.
Skill Level: Beginner Challenge
Techniques used:
- Flicking
- Push & Pull
- Underpainting
- Coloring with neutral palettes
- 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. Cup of Columbine is the digital stamp used for this class.
- High-quality Copic-friendly marker cardstock (X-Press It Blending Card or Cryogen Curious Metallic White 89lb are highly recommended)
- Tim Holtz Distress Ink
- Life Changing Blending Brushes by Picket Fence
- Copic Markers
- Technical pens - Triplus Fineliners (0.3)
- Artist quality colored pencils (Prismacolor Premier recommended)
- Lawn Fawn Stamp Shammy
- 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, Tombow Mono Zero Eraser (round)
We recommend these Workshops as companion classes to Cup of Columbine:
(these Workshops are not required but the skills covered there will help you succeed with Cup of Columbine)
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."
"Another fun class. Thanks Amy!"