October 26, 2020

Amy Shulke

Copic Marker, Colored Pencil, Improve your Coloring, Details in Focus, Marker Painting Workshops

Details in Focus: Add Beautiful Color to Gray Copic Marker Projects (Grayscale Coloring Paper Recommendations)

October 26, 2020

Amy Shulke

Copic Marker, Colored Pencil, Improve your Coloring, Details in Focus, Marker Painting Workshops

Details in Focus: Add Beautiful Color to Gray Copic Marker Projects (Grayscale Coloring Paper Recommendations)

A whole project with only gray Copic Markers?

How boring!

Actually no.

In the coloring world, grayscale is presented as a fun novelty technique. Something to try just for the heck of it.

But in the art world, gray is serious. Gray is how artists train.

Grayscale projects improve your coloring by teaching you to focus on value rather than color.

But oh, gray markers are so… uh… well… they’re gray.

Gray is drab and ho-hum.

Meh times 10.

Pssstt… gray is only boring if you color it boring.

My spooky Nevermore Manor online class project is anything but drab. You can get the same beautiful effects from your gray markers on a wide variety of projects!

August 11, 2020

Amy Shulke

Copic Marker, Colored Pencil, Improve your Coloring, Power Poppy, Details in Focus, Marker Painting Workshops

Details in Focus: Color White Flowers with a Rainbow (Copic Markers, Colored Pencils)

August 11, 2020

Amy Shulke

Copic Marker, Colored Pencil, Improve your Coloring, Power Poppy, Details in Focus, Marker Painting Workshops

Details in Focus: Color White Flowers with a Rainbow (Copic Markers, Colored Pencils)

How To Color White Flowers?

White flowers are white. Your paper is white and they don’t make white Copic Markers…

Do you color white flowers by not coloring them at all?

Or do you pull out gray markers, hoping to add a bit of shade and dimension.

Pssstttt… that’s why your white flowers are flat and lifeless.

Let’s look up-close at beautiful white flowers that are everything but white.

Colorful whites are easier than you think. You can do this!

November 14, 2019

Amy Shulke

Prismacolor Pencil, Copic Marker, Marker Painting Workshops, Power Poppy, Vanilla Livestream

Learn to Capture Accurate details for Realism (coloring Classes vs. demonstrations)

November 14, 2019

Amy Shulke

Prismacolor Pencil, Copic Marker, Marker Painting Workshops, Power Poppy, Vanilla Livestream

Learn to Capture Accurate details for Realism (coloring Classes vs. demonstrations)

Do you want to play a game? “Okay class, pick up your R35 and we will color the tail of this ribbon.” That’s how Copic and even some colored pencil classes work, right? If you do exactly what the teacher does, you’ll end up with something amazing. And it works… Kinda. You walk away with a very pretty project. Your Christmas scene looks just as cute as the instructor’s. Your ribbon is smooth, your ornaments look shiny and the box looks perfectly dimensional… maybe even realistic.

October 6, 2019

Elena Cazares

Crafts for Paws, Elena, YouTube, Card Making, Botanical, Copic, Floral, Marker Painting Workshops

Spotlight Cards: Showcase Your Advanced Copic Marker Coloring (Friendship Puzzle)

October 6, 2019

Elena Cazares

Crafts for Paws, Elena, YouTube, Card Making, Botanical, Copic, Floral, Marker Painting Workshops

Spotlight Cards: Showcase Your Advanced Copic Marker Coloring (Friendship Puzzle)

Elena Cazares teaches bright cheerful images using Copic Markers and colored pencils lessons at CraftsforPaws.com. Like Vanilla Arts classes, Elena’s class projects are too large for cards. Join us for the next episode in her Spotlight series making cards from big bold projects. Spotlight Cards let your coloring take center stage rather than the fancy papers, complex layout, or purchased ephemera normally used in cardmaking.