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.
