Discovering Your Intuitive Colors In-Store Class Feb 23

Discovering Your Intuitive Colors In-Store Class
Sunday, February 23, 1-4pm
Instructor: Lexis Krieg
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, a local artist and graphic designer who’s known for her colorful designs, thinks the best way to understand color is through observation and experimentation. She’s designed a set of hands-on exercises to teach the basic theory of color and to introduce the concept of color schemes, 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, increasing your confidence when working with it.

Some pre-class work involves going through and pulling random paper scraps from your own collection or magazines. Focus on 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, use the color wheel to analyze their characteristics – hue, shade, tint, tone, complementary, analogous, cool, warm – and how your scraps relate to the color wheel. One result of all the exercises is a unique and personal color booklet for you to use in future creative projects.  

Toward the end of class, use your paper scraps to create a personal color “map” that represents your favorite colors. Seeing each other’s color map and talking about the differences is eye-opening! Your map measures 8.5x11” and can easily be framed to serve as a visual reminder of what you discovered in class.

An email will be sent to participants the Monday before the class. Classes with homework may receive pre-class info earlier.  No email? Double check the email address you entered when you registered and your SPAM folder. Due to SPAM filters and inbox settings, we cannot guarantee you will see, read, or open these emails. Two Hands Paperie assumes no responsibility for non-attendance of a class. Contact twohandsclasses@gmail.com with any class questions and see our Class Policies page for more information. 

Class Materials

Please bring the following materials:

• Two weeks before class: gather scraps of assorted solid and patterned paper in lots of colors. Examples: scrapbook and handmade paper, magazine or catalog pages, wrapping paper, stationery and envelopes - just about anything. You will receive instructions on how to sort and organize them ahead of class.
• 10-12 favorite paint swatch colors
• Optional: apron

Class Materials Include:

• Printed color theory workbook designed by Lexis, color wheel and vocabulary resource sheet
  
• Additional color paper scraps 
• Paper mounting materials
• Glue, pens, scissors, other tools, etc

Class Refund/Cancellation Policy

Cancellations made up to 14 days prior to the first class meeting will be refunded or, at the participant's option, used to pay for another class. Two Hands Paperie will retain a $10 processing fee for EACH class cancelled by a participant. After 14 days, there is no refund or credit. In addition, the fee for a class cancelled within this 14-day timeframe by a participant cannot be transferred to pay for another class. These policies are to ensure that teachers are compensated for their investment in materials and in time spent preparing for the class. We reserve the right to cancel a class if fewer than 3 students enroll 48 hours prior to the scheduled class time. If for any reason Two Hands Paperie cancels a class, students will be called at the phone number on file and refunded the FULL class fee.

Instructor Bio

Lexis Krieg is the artist, illustrator, and designer behind Lexisworks, a business she started in 2008 as an outlet for her personal creativity. She can’t remember a time when she wasn’t making something. She took every art class in high school, then left to study art at Minnesota State University Moorhead. While there Lexis fell in love with graphic design and, as she explains, decided to leave the “real art" to “artists.” She worked as a graphic designer for a while but, after being laid off twice, she ended up growing her freelance business to satisfy her creativity and her urge to create with her own hands.

Her background in graphic design shines through the art she creates now: custom murals, surface patterns, illustrations, hand lettering, and mixed media paintings. No surprise that her studio is stuffed with vintage papers, tubes of paint, containers full of brushes and pens, old sketchbooks, glue, and a collection of materials for her daughters to create with. She’s decided she is an artist after all, and enjoys teaching workshops as a way to help others discover their own creative talents.

When people ask Lexis where she’s from she takes a deep breath and recites: “Alaska, Oregon, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Minnesota, North Dakota, and now Colorado.” (Somewhere in there she managed to live in England for a while.) Colorful Colorado became her home almost 15 years ago, and she’s been inspired by the Rocky Mountains ever since. Lexis takes any opportunity she can to get out and explore the Colorado landscape with her husband Bear, their two daughters, and their dog, Jackson.

See more of Lexis' work on her website and on instagram @lexisworks.