This workshop is taught in partnership with Two Hands Paperie in Boulder, Colorado.

In person class
Saturday, April 6, 1-4pm 
Investment: $115.00. Includes printed watercolor worksheets, handmade watercolor dot cards from Ruby Mountain Paint Company + Josie Lewis™ ceramic rainbow paint palette.
Limit: 6 students. All participants must be 15 years or older.

Class Details

Learn how to mix colors and how to understand color relationships in this hands-on watercolor class. It’s led by Lexis Krieg, a Denver artist known for colorful art that’s full of joy. She specializes in designing workshops that help students connect to their own color and joy so that they feel more grounded, calm, and present.

Everyone receives the same dot card of handmade watercolors. The card contains the three primary colors, from which you’ll create a multitude of other colors. It’s important that everyone is using the same watercolors for this class. (If you’ve ever compared red from one watercolor set to the red in another, you know what we’re talking about. They’re not the same, and the result when they’re mixed with another color is not the same.)  

Lexis talks about color relationships and color terminology while guiding you through the class worksheets. She’s specifically designed these worksheets to give you direct experience in creating colors from just the three primary colors on your card. Practice how to “work through mud” (!!), why the order in which colors are laid down matters, what color equations are, and when color swatching is useful. 

We’re amazed that Lexis has packed so much about color into one class. You’re bound to make a few joyful discoveries while gaining practical experience in mixing and using colors. We can hardly wait to see what you create!

This workshop is taught in partnership with Two Hands Paperie in Boulder, Colorado.

In person class
Saturday, April 6, 1-4pm 
Investment: $115.00. Includes printed color theory workbook designed by Lexis, color wheel + vocabulary resource sheet
Limit: 6 students. All participants must be 15 years or older.

Class Details

Have some color fun! Join Lexis Krieg for a class devoted completely to color without regard to medium. Lexis is a local artist and graphic designer who’s known for her colorful designs, and thinks the best way to understand color is through observation and experimentation. She’s designed lots of hands-on exercises to teach the basic theory and provide a color wheel vocabulary, but there’s a twist: you use your favorite colors instead of the more familiar ones. The goal is for you to tap into your inner sense of color and increase your confidence when working with it.

There’s some pre-class work that involves going through random paper scraps in your own collection or in magazines. Pull out the scraps you love, then sort through and organize them. They’re the raw material for tapping into your intuitive sense of color. During class, analyze their characteristics – hue, shade, tint, tone, complementary, analogous, cool, warm – and how your scraps relate to the color wheel. The result of the exercises is a unique and personal color booklet for you to use in future creative projects.  

Toward the end of class, use the paper scraps to create a personal color “map” that represents your favorite colors. An important part of the class is seeing each person’s color map and talking about the differences. Eye-opening! The map measures 8.5x11” and can easily be framed and hung as a visual reminder of what you discovered in class.

Read the blog post about what make this class on color so unique.

This workshop is taught in partnership with Two Hands Paperie in Boulder, Colorado.

Online Class
Sunday, February 25, 1-4pm MT
Cost: $110.00. Includes class kit + shipping.
Limit: 15 students.
To receive your kit in time for class, register by Feb 18. All participants must be 15 years or older.

Class Details

Create a playful watercolor in this online class with Lexis Krieg, a Denver-based artist who’s known for her joyful, vibrant colors and linework patterns. The class is perfect for novices and fun for those already familiar with watercolors. While creating what Lexis calls “circle doodles”, you’ll learn about the color wheel, blending colors, composition, and harmony. We like how Lexis adds pen lines to watercolor shapes to create patterns, and how she keeps up an ongoing dialogue as she creates a painting together with you. For example, as she adds an element to the left-hand corner of the page she tells you why – in this case to help balance the composition. She’ll also say “Hmmm… I don’t like what I just did”, explain the reason, and then correct the problem. (Nice to know that even experienced artists don’t get it right on the first try!)

Lexis encourages students to create their own composition rather than make an exact copy of hers. She came to watercolor later in her career and feels that it’s the perfect medium when there doesn’t seem to be any time or enough space to create. Learn why she thinks so as she shares her watercolor practice with you. As with Lexis’s other classes, what we really like about the way she teaches is that she offers a process with skills and tools that can be used to develop a personal style. She, and we, would love to see what you create!