This Isn't Paint-by-iNumber - Change your Marker Blending Philosophy
Copic, Copic Blending, Creativity, Improve Your Coloring, Food Illustration, Prismacolor Pencil, Marker Painting Workshops, Intermediate Coloring Amy Shulke Copic, Copic Blending, Creativity, Improve Your Coloring, Food Illustration, Prismacolor Pencil, Marker Painting Workshops, Intermediate Coloring Amy Shulke

This Isn't Paint-by-iNumber - Change your Marker Blending Philosophy

Back in the 1970’s, if you did crafts, you made them from a boxed kit. We didn’t have the internet for inspiration and instruction. We crafted by the box.

I loved one kind of box more than any other- the paint by number kit. I lived for the moment when all my weird globs of paint on the canvas finally coalesced into a prancing horse or a spray of roses.

The rule in paint by number was to stick to the numbering system. Bad things happened if you went outside the lines, put the wrong color in a spot, tried to blend two sections together, or if you ran out of paint and had to start substituting.

Up close, paint by number paintings are eye-scalding but from 20 feet away? You might be mistaken for Van Gogh… or so the box claimed.

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Improve Your Copic Coloring: Color for Yourself
Colored Pencil, Copic, Creativity, One Tiny Thing, Art of Coloring, Copic Art Class, Marker Painting Workshops, Online Class, Improve Your Coloring Amy Shulke Colored Pencil, Copic, Creativity, One Tiny Thing, Art of Coloring, Copic Art Class, Marker Painting Workshops, Online Class, Improve Your Coloring Amy Shulke

Improve Your Copic Coloring: Color for Yourself

There are tiny things which you can do today to improve the quality of your coloring projects. They’re not fairy tale enchantments but they really do help.

Today's Tiny Thing: stop coloring for everyone else.

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Art versus Exercise: Are Copic Tutorial Projects Considered Art?
Creativity, Improve Your Coloring Amy Shulke Creativity, Improve Your Coloring Amy Shulke

Art versus Exercise: Are Copic Tutorial Projects Considered Art?

I’m amazed by my students!

And while I’d love to hog all the credit and boast that I’m an amazing teacher who can turn complete schlubs into Rembrandts… that’s not true.

Coloring has reached a whole new level. Copic Markers and colored pencils are not just a goofy hobby, people are learning to make art!

The fact is that there are some really talented people out there who work 9 to 5 jobs as dentists, accountants, and bus drivers. If you’re reading this, you’re likely…

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