3 Reasons to Cultivate Your Creative Color Practice

Good news everyone! The Evanston Art Center has just scheduled my one-day color workshop, Cultivating Your Creative Color Practice for March 7, 2023! Click the link ⬅ to get registered. This workshop is perfect for all levels of makers regardless of what you make or how you make it.

If you already make creative and colorful stuff, why would you want to take a class to learn more about color? Here are 3 good reasons why you should think about cultivating your creative color practice:

1. Fine-tune your natural sense of color.

Everyone has a sense of natural color preferences they favor over other colors. When you create with color it's easy to default to using the same colors without a second thought - or you may feel stuck when trying to use colors outside what you're comfortable with. Taking a class or workshop can help you find new ways to apply your natural color preferences in your creative practice.

2. Expand your repertoire of color combinations.

Just like everyone has a favorite color, makers also have a preferred color palette or combination. Discovering new ways to approach color combinations can help you reveal unexpected color palettes, find unique ways to combine some of your old favorite colors, and explore ways to include new colors in your creative practice.

3. Broaden your color perception and learn to see MORE colors than the average human.

For all of us humans that are healthy and without visual color issues (like color blindness), there are some people that score much higher on color tests, can identify more colors, and have a better "eye for color" than the rest of us. And I'm not talking about the handful of folks born with extra color-detecting cells in their eyes (tetrachromats), I'm talking about the average, run-of-the-mill people. Turns out that this extra sensitivity to color is a skill you can learn by practicing working with colors, you know, like coming to my workshop!

My mission in teaching others about color is not to work against what you already know or like about color, but to help you explore and expand on your own personal experience while passing on skills to apply in your own creative color practice. We approach learning about color in class with multiple hands-on exercises, open class discussion, and learning why historical color theory (ideas often outdated or disproven by modern science) are still informing how they think and use color today.

I'd love to see you in the workshop! Space is limited, so be sure to register soon. Click the link above or visit my "Lectures and Workshops" page at the top of the blog.