The Language of Color

🎨 The Language of Color

Exploring color, expression, awareness & healing

What if color could tell us something about ourselves before we even have the words?

In this workshop,  we are going to explore a language that has been communicating with us all along — the language of color, hue, value, line, texture, symbol, and visual expression.

As we become more familiar with this language, we can begin to notice how much information is communicated without words and how we can use color more intentionally to express ourselves.

🎨 What We’ll Explore

We’ll move through color and explore the meanings, associations, and messages connected with different colors, hues, and values.

Along the way, we’ll explore:

🌈 Color & meaning

How different colors communicate and how our relationship with color can influence the way we perceive and express ourselves.

🎨 Hue & value

How subtle shifts within a color can change what is being communicated.

🌿 Our awareness of nature

Noticing the colors, patterns, contrasts, and visual language already surrounding us in the natural world.

👁️ Our awareness of others

Becoming curious about how color and visual choices can communicate.

〰️ Line & movement

Exploring how line can communicate direction, energy, movement, emotion, and intention.

🖌️ Texture

Discovering how texture adds another layer of communication and expression.

⭕ Universal symbols

Exploring symbols and the meanings humans have associated with them across cultures and throughout time.

🧍‍♀️ The body as a map

Becoming curious about the ways our bodies can reflect and communicate our thoughts, emotions, experiences, and inner worlds.

As we learn the language, we’ll also explore how we can use color intentionally to express ourselves and communicate things that may be difficult to put into words.

Our creative experiences will give us an opportunity to practice the language of color and explore what we discover along the way.

🤍 Color, Expression & Healing

I’m especially interested in what happens when we begin paying attention to the ways we naturally communicate through color and visual expression.

Sometimes we know something before we can explain it.

Sometimes our bodies communicate before our words catch up.

Sometimes a color, a line, a texture, or a symbol can give us another way to express something that is asking to be seen.

This workshop will give us space to explore those possibilities together.

We’ll draw from the work of Johannes Itten, a major figure in color theory whose work explored the relationships between color, perception, emotion, and human experience.

🎨 What You’ll Need

You won’t need anything for our first session.

We’ll go over the materials together during our first meeting so you’ll have time to gather what you need for the following sessions.

For our creative explorations, you’ll eventually want:

Color craft paint 

• Cadmium Red

• Alizarin Crimson

• Ultramarine Blue

• Light Yellow Ochre

• Titanium White

• Burnt Umber

• Black

Other materials

• A few paintbrushes

• A jar or cup for water

• Paper towels or an old rag

• A simple palette for mixing — a paper plate works perfectly

• Paper or canvas

I recommend good-quality paper for the best results, although you don’t need anything expensive. An inexpensive canvas is another option, and packs of canvases are often an economical choice.

You’ll also want access to a computer, or phone.

💗 Come Explore With Me

I’m really looking forward to discovering what happens when we bring a group of curious people together and begin learning this language together.

There is so much around us communicating through color, shape, line, texture, and symbol.

I’m curious to see what becomes visible when we start paying attention.

Dates and times:

next series begins January 12th 1:00 pm mountain time we will meet every Tuesday for eight weeks. 90 minute sessions

cost: $400 for the eight week workshop. 

Location: Zoom