IMAGINE THE POSSIBILITIES

Color is never just decoration — it's the emotional language of your work. A Color Narrative is a focused course that teaches you to use color with real intention, building limited palettes that carry feeling, memory, and story. You'll begin by exploring how warm and cool colors behave, then move through a series of color mixing experiments designed to loosen your grip on the palette and expand what you think is possible. From there, the course moves into watercolor washes and mark-making, and wraps up with three creative projects: a layered geode slice, an imaginative give-it-a-spin globe illustration, and a quick Ducks in a Row composition study. By the end, you'll have new confidence in every color decision you make.

UNLOCK A NEW SKILL

With a background in graphic design and fine art, I create illustrations that tell hidden stories. The skill at the heart of A Color Narrative is learning to hear what your colors are saying. Most artists spend too much time defaulting to the same comfortable palette without ever stopping to ask what story those colors are actually telling. In this course you'll learn to build limited palettes from the inside out — starting with a feeling or a memory and working toward the colors that express it — then practice mixing warm and cool variations, tints, tones, shades, and surprise combinations that you'd never have chosen from a chart. It's a fundamentally different relationship with color, and once you have it, it changes everything you paint.

BUILD YOUR CRAFT

The course is structured as a genuine learning sequence, not a collection of isolated projects. Color theory comes first — not as dry vocabulary but as active experimentation, with over 90 minutes of color mixing video and a full mixing worksheet to fill in as you go. Then watercolor wash techniques and mark-making sharpen your control over the medium. Only after that groundwork is laid do the projects begin, each one designed to put your new color intuition into practice in increasingly expressive ways. The geode slice asks you to commit to a limited palette across many layers. The globe invites you to fill a composition with your own imagination. It's a layered, intentional progression from understanding to expression, creating a depth that shorter classes simply can't match.

WHAT YOU GET

This course includes a beautiful downloadable handout packet that serves as your hands-on companion throughout. Inside you'll find a color-mixing notes page, a Your Color Story worksheet for exploring your personal relationship with every color family, a mixing colors practice grid, thumbnail practice pages, a watercolor technique guide with twelve labeled wash samples, geode slice reference photos and step-by-step practice instructions, a give-it-a-spin globe worksheet, and a collection of class sample illustrations — all yours to download, print, and keep as an ongoing creative reference.

LEARN OFFLINE, ANYTIME

Every course includes a dedicated Start Here lesson — your personal download hub where all your packets and videos are organized and waiting for you. Save everything to your device and keep learning wherever you are, whenever you want.