If you want the Rainbow you gotta put up with the Rain ~ Dolly Parton
My first True Colour Expert Workshop was this past weekend and I was a little stressed the first day knowing the expectations were high of all the designers and colour experts that flew from all over the US and Canada to participate! Traci Zeller (below, 2nd from left) from Traci Zeller Designs was the first to register for my course through her husband! He emailed me the same day I launched the course here.
This was the first afternoon of colour mixing. Here we were mixing light/dark, cool/warm, clean/dirty primary colour wheels! The location is above the Designer’s Resource center about 10 minutes from the airport and I rented the classroom from Bea O’Driscoll who is the CEO of Choices Interior Decorating School! 10 years ago when I first began my business I took a one day “how to set it up” course from Bea. She is a wealth of information about decorating and her students are convinced there is nothing she doesn’t know. Click here to see her website.
The creative talent that we each have just shows up from when we are born but the skill that it takes to actually becoming a decorator, interior designer or True Colour Expert comes from training and practice. This is where the above quote comes in (Bea has a poster of it in the class). To get the rainbow you gotta put up with the rain—in other words, it’s a WORK shop! You are here to WORK :)
My participants were unanimously looking to gain more confidence in specifying colour so here are some of the comments from the feedback I received! Now I also know which areas should be shorter and which areas I need to spend more time on! Book now for June because it’s still at the introductory price as I’m tweaking it to make it perfect, but it will be higher for September which will be my next date.
“Thanks for figuring out colour far beyond any colourist I have met! Your list of colours will be an invaluable tool!” Ann Flynn.
“Loved it – I believe it jump started my confidence which is what I came for”. Ann Berens
“Maria you have such a great blog, you are a great teacher and communicator and your energy is great! And I love your confidence”
“I feel much more confident now in becoming a colour consultant. Great tools were given to us”
“We learned so much in choosing colour, how to deal with real life situations and how to actually conduct a colour consultation, thank you so much Maria!”
“The case studies were valuable, and I learned the most from the real-life, hands-on stuff in terms of the discussion around what a client said, what you said, etc”.
Thank you very much for a fantastic 3 days ‘saturated’ with colour! I learned so much that words don’t do this experience justice. The tools you provided, the knowledge you shared, well let’s just say the world to Pandora’s colourful box has been opened and nothing will be the same again… Clean or dirty? Warm or cool? Light or dark? Sheila Zeller
The best part of the workshop was teaching to people who were truly passionate about colour! All three days flew by and I’m looking forward to the next one scheduled for Thursday, June 24, 25 & 26!
If you are considering attending my workshop and want to know more about whether it would be suitable for you, please email me your phone number and I will call you or you can also reach me at 604.318.9725.
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