Sarah Mclaren (website) and I taught our new 'Mindful Colours' workshop to 24 people.
It was important to have 24 people because we sat them right in a colour wheel to involve more of their senses as they explored their own personal responses to colours.
Most colour workshops start off with making the ubiquitous colour wheel. Our workshop was no different except we encouraged people to intuitively pick their favourite colour from each tray and not overthink it. The idea is based on the way Johannes Itten worked with his students by encouraging them to isolate and work with their own personal palettes.
It was very interesting to see the variation in colours different people picked to make up their personal colour wheels. We encouraged them to write about their choices.
Sarah led the group in an exercise on value.
We also had exercises to explore other characteristics of colour - temperature and intensity.
The last exercise was based on pulling together what had been learned to make an abstract colour image expressing an emotion, feeling or visual experience.
It was so interesting to walk around the room looking at different people's colour wheels with their abstract picture. For a lot of the participants, it was only when they stepped back and saw their own colour choices besides others did they see how distinctive their own work is.
We asked every person for an evaluation of the workshop. We were delighted with the feedback we recieved. Sarah and I sat down for a couple of hours while going through the comments and reworked parts of the workshop based on these comments.
Now we feel ready to go out into the world with our 'Mindful Colours' workshop.
We had such a fun time teaching it we are looking forward to our next booking - more on that later.
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