Timeless Tulips: PreClass

Welcome to your journey tiptoeing through the tulips! (Anyone remember Tiny Tim’s song? It’s a lot stranger than I remember from childhood!) All through preparation of this lesson, I kept humming it though.

If you wish to use your own tulips from your yard or local flower shop, you’ll want to download any photo editing app on your smart device, or use a photo editor online or software on your computer. Practically all photo apps have the ability to adjust the crop and exposure of a photo, and exposure is the feature you need to do what’s shown in this soundless video below. (It may be called any number of things in different apps, but I’ve most often seen it as “exposure”).

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.

Supplies

If you’re a regular marker colorist, you likely have all you need to create the drawing in this class.

Paper

For class you can use whatever paper you normally use for your marker art; the demonstrations will be done on a single sheet of Neenah Cardstock, sized 8.5″ x 11″; as you learn, I recommend drawing at least at this size before trying to draw small ones (ie on greeting cards) so you can really study the flowers.

 Markers

Below are the colors used for each of the flowers from the Copic line – feel free to substitute something you have, and if you choose to adapt and color a different color tulip, have fun exploring! I purchase my markers at Dick Blick or Jacksons both are businesses I feel really good about working with. If you would like to complete this course with other markers, please feel free to do so! I also use Olo Markers, and am totally fine with you using whatever colors you have. See the next lesson for more on converting colors for other brands.