This 4-week COURSE meets Friday, FEBRUARY 7TH, 14TH, 21ST, & 28TH
from 1pm to 3pm

Want to know why Van Gogh, Cezanne and Monet's paintings are so famous and well loved? Want to make your artwork sing like theirs? In this four week class, instructor Rachel Crawford will let you in on one of their secrets... COLOR! This beginning Color Theory class will explore the theory and history of color through hands-on color mixing and painting. Students will create a variety of color wheels and each week, will create a small painting applying color mixing theory using the various color wheel relationships to learn color harmony, contrast, and value. This class will also cover the principles of design, the elements of art, and the Divine Proportion when planning out the small painting designs.

*Note: Traditional gouache will be used in this class (see materials list).

Want to Know Even More About Rachel’s Color Theory and Design I Class? Watch her Interview on Fox 8 HERE!

Rachel Crawford is a native of New Orleans that journeyed to the “country” and landed in the charming town of Covington, Louisiana, with her hubby of 30 years marriage.

She studied at the New Orleans Academy of Fine Arts where she discovered her love of color and gouache. Passionate about color, Rachel now teaches color theory & design classes in her home studio and at her local art association. Bookbinding is her second passion and Rachel loves to teach others how to create books by hand.

Rachel works in gouache, watercolor, acrylic, color pencil, paper collage and mixed media. Her art is bright, happy and energetic and encompasses colorful geometrics, expressive abstracts and paper-cut collages. Nature, primitive arts and mid-century design are her inspirations.

Her award winning art and hand-bound books have been shown and sold in galleries, group exhibitions and art festivals around the Gulf Coast Region and beyond. And Rachel’s bookbinding skills and work have been featured on HGTV.

In Rachel’s words, “I love teaching, because it’s planting creative seeds into others so they can discover, blossom and flourish in their God given creativity which will make the world a more beautiful place.”

 When she is not drawing in her sketchbook, she feeds her creativity by crocheting, reading, writing poetry and exploring the great outdoors.