Year: 2015

Are you curious what the new Copic class Vintage Values and Monotones is all about?  Well here is the scoop!

Vintage Values and Monotones is coloring without color!  Most of us Copic users are color fans that is why we love Copic so much.  But some images scream for the simplicity  of black and white, or the warmth of Earthy sepia tones.  The trick is without color to fall back on your shading has to be spot on!  So that is what we are going to talk about in class.  Remembering those basics of light source and form and pushing contrast to show detention on your images.

So what do you walk away with?

1 – 4 colored images each colored in a different monotone range.

2 – Knowlege on how to better use contrast or “Value” to punch the depth of your images

3 – Lots of great ideas to transfer onto your color images.

4 – A new love of monotone coloring!

Here is a look at 2 of the images we will be coloring in class.  This first is done in cool gray tones in class we will look at him in warm grays, sepia and mixed sepia tones as well.

This second image is colored in Sepia tones.  Sepia refers to a very specific Earth tone, we broaden that definition for our class,  instructors will share how that works during class time.

I hope that helps give you a clearer picture of what Vintage Values and Monotones is all about.  Having just watched Colleen Schaan teach the class this past weekend at CHA gave me a new appreciation of the curriculum and the students who participated were LOVING the information and the skill building.  There were multiple “Ah Ha!” moments through out the class.  Students could really see how this was going to transfer over to their coloring in color and how this class would improve there overall coloring ability!

Thanks for stopping by today and reading all about Vintage Values and Monotones.  Check out all the available class openings for this class and all of the Copic offerings HERE.

I have two weekends open now!  February 13th and 14th in Seattle, Washington and March 13th and 14th in St. Louis, Missouri.  Hope I will see you this year some time!

Happy Coloring

 

I am back from CHA 2015.  (Craft Hobby Association)  I got to sit in on all the Copic classes and walk the show floor and I am inspired!  My fingers are itching to color and scrapbook till the cows come home.  Now I just need to carve out the time to do it!!

While watching Copic classes I did a little coloring myself and pushed myself to use color choices that are far from my norm.  Here are the results;

This image is from he Whimsical Faces and Hair class, it is an image by Mo’s Digital Pencil

So excited how she turned out!  Not my normal fair brunette or red head!  I even learned how to do Sherrie’s amazing Impressionistic looking hair on our Day for Daisies image and that is COOL!  You have to come to class to get that peek though ha ha!  Then we did our Vintage and Values class, I will have a special post about this class in a couple days.  The responses to the lessons were spectacular and the people who took it felt they learned the most in this class!

Lastly we spent Saturday coloring cloths and accessories.  Again I had fun playing with new color combinations and pushing my own coloring skills, here are a couple fun examples:

This first one is from Tiddly Inks, we had just finished learning plaid and were moving on to pleats with this image and when we had her skirt all colored someone noted “Hey we could make her skirt plaid!”  So of course we all decided we better try that too.

 

Coloring her hair is NOT a part of this class but I was dying to try to color her hair like Cindy does in her sample so I gave it a whirl and oh so love the results!  Well worth the extra effort Cindy!

This next image is from Stamping Bella, I decided to go for a shiny black look.  We are practicing gathers on this image as well I just decided to crank up the contrast 🙂

The classes were fabulous and the ladies that will be teaching them are the very best!  I can’t wait for Seattle 13th and 14th for my first run at teaching them!  I hope any of you in the area will join me.  You can ask for it for your Valentines present, just think a whole day or two of coloring and then a romantic dinner after.  I truly can not think of a more perfect day!

Make sure to check out all the current openings in the Copic schedule HERE!  I have two weekends on the schedule now, February 13th and 14th in Seattle, Washington and March 13th and 14th in St. Louis, Missouri.

Happy Coloring!