Clean and Simple Trees

CAS Trees: Preclass

Clean and Simple Trees CAS Trees: Preclass

Welcome to this “snack” class!

This “Artventure Snack” course originally was located only at Artventure – our platform for sharing, asking questions, getting encouragement, and making friends along the way.

In a course like this, you can see if you like the teaching style around here. A preclass lesson like this is available for free for each course here at Art-Classes, so anytime you’d like to see what kind of supplies you’d have to get, you can view the information prior to beginning the course.

Before we start…a little housekeeping

I retain the copyright to the content you are learning in class. That means…

  1. Do not sell or give away the concepts from my classes – you may not re-teach my instruction contained or created within these lessons.
  2. Do not post a video tutorial or step by step photo tutorial of your own redraw of class content.
  3. Do not repost any handouts you receive in class.

However…I love to see students making strides and taking this teaching and personalizing it with your own skills.

  1. DO make your own designs and develop your own style! I love that!
  2. DO gift your creations made with these techniques, of course!

At the bottom of each lesson you’ll see some ways to share your homework and ask questions, so that’ll be handy for you.

In this course, four mediums are involved – you do NOT have to use them all to learn a ton in this little class! Use the medium you have and love – and just look at the samples for the others for ideas to incorporate. I tried to make a variation in each one.

There’s a few things to get yourself ready, so let’s get rolling:

Papers

I love different papers for different mediums but feel free to use your own favorites:

    1.  Watercolor: Arches Cold press 9×12 pad (natural white)
      1. BLICK
      2. AMZ
      3. JACKSONS
    2. Water-based marker: Canson XL watercolor pad 9×12
      1. BLICK
      2. AMZ
      3. JACKSONS
    3. Colored pencil: Legion Stonehenge 9×12 pad
      1. BLICK
      2. AMZ
      3. JACKSONS
    4. Alcohol marker: Neenah Solar White
      1. AMZ

Mediums

You can use all the mediums if you have them – or just follow the medium you love best and get ideas for different twists on a tutorial from other mediums.

  1. Watercolor: I use Daniel Smith brand but use what you have!
    1. BLICK
    2. JACKSONS
  2. Water-based markers: links to several; note that in some lessons you could see Sketchmarker Aqua which went out of business.
    1. Tombow BLICK – AMZ
    2. Albrecht Durer BLICK – AMZ – JACKSONS
    3. Zig Clean Color BLICK – AMZ
  3. Alcohol  Markers
    1. Copic at BLICK – JACKSONS
    2. OLO
  4. Colored  Pencils: if you use children’s colored pencils, you may have less pigmented (lighter, paler) results.
      1. Prismacolor Premier Colored Pencils BLICK  – AMZ 
      2. Faber Castell Polychromos Colored Pencils BLICK –  AMZ –  JACKSONS 
      3. Derwent Lightfast Colored Pencils BLICK  – AMZ  –  JACKSONS – DERWENT 

    Brushes: for watercolor markers and watercolor, you’ll need brushes. Here are some good affordable ones:

    1. Silver Brush Black Velvet Round #8
      1. BLICK
      2. AMZ
      3. JACKSONS
    2. Silver Brush Black Velvet Round #4
      1. BLICK
      2. AMZ
      3. JACKSONS

    Quick links to share your work wherever you like:

    Artventure Community

    Artventure is an active art community of thousands of artists that I run on Mighty Networks via an app or the web. You’ll be right in my pocket for quick feedback and answers to questions and bonus zoom calls! Free to join.

    Social media & blogs

    Post wherever you like to share, and tag @sandyallnock – I love to see your work!  Posting lets your friends know which class you’re taking. They might enjoy learning as well!

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