stuck between coloring and artistry?
You’ve taken lots of coloring classes. Now your head is full of new ideas for your own unique projects.
You want to do things your way.
Maybe you want to skip the markers. Maybe you want to try it in watercolor.
Or maybe you want to use the techniques you’ve learned in class on your own drawings.
But in regular coloring classes, you can’t just substitute your own changes and expect feedback and advice about what you’re doing.
So you keep doing the class projects and postponing your own art.
What a bummer.
Or maybe you’re afraid?
Coloring on your own is hard.
It’s much easier when there’s an instructor guiding the way.
Independence makes you nervous.
How do I get started? What happens if I mess up? How will I know what to fix or improve?
Are you taking coloring classes but expecting art school results?
You’re comfortable receiving a class image plus detailed instructions. Then you follow the instructor, step by step from start to finish.
But everyone ends up with the same ho-hum instructor-approved project.
You feel good about what you’ve done, but does it really have to look like everyone else’s?
Psst, art school doesn’t work this way. Art school gives you open-ended challenges and asks you to invent your own solution with your own materials, your own colors, and your own ideas.
Tutorials, follow-the-leader demonstrations, and practice exercises will not transform you into an artist.
What you need is gentle guidance and a community to support your transition from coloring to independence.
the Underpainters: Artistic Coloring Community
Join Amy Shulke, professional illustrator and art instructor plus her Vanilla team of experienced colorers in a new guided education format designed to get you coloring with independence and creativity.
Move from simply coloring-along to creating unique and original art.
Feedback and support for the projects you want to create.
Take the monthly challenge using the original Vanilla stamp of the month or improvise with your own line art.
Use your medium of choice: marker, pencil, watercolor, pastel, charcoal, etc.
Add your own ideas, style, and creative flair.
Share what you’ve learned & receive helpful feedback in return.
Monthly Livestreams
Submit your questions for discussion and demonstration.
Livestream Q&A sessions cover the issues and hurdles holding you back. This is community directed learning.
Learn about alternative techniques, substitute mediums, or just ask for a demonstration on the part where you had problems.
Request the lessons YOU need most!
A community of learners, a family of support
Move beyond standard coloring classes to self-determined projects in your medium of choice
With support and mentorship from the Vanilla Arts Team and the exclusive Underpainters Community Forum.
previous Underpainters Projects
(Now available as Artistic Coloring Kits. Click to for more info.)
