Color Magic

On Thursday and Friday I attended a color workshop with Lois Bryant, a terrific teacher and weaver from Ann Arbor. The workshop was wonderful. It was independent of technique, so it was just fun to relax and play with crayons, colored pencils and paper. While I've studied much of the material before, she presented traditional color concepts in a fresh, inviting, fun way.

Lois is a great teacher -- talented, supportive, helpful, attentive. In addition, she's a down-to-earth, fun person. The workshop was structured so that there was a good mix of presentation and hands-on exercises. Her PowerPoint presentations are wonderful -- the examples are set to music and simply are awesome. I especially enjoyed the examples of everyday things (the sidewalk, an oil slick, lettuce, etc) -- a real eye-opener. Then she re-enforced and expanded on many of these examples.

The exercises were meant to be fun -- non-threatening but quite instructive. I thought the music CDs added another dimension to the workshop. It's always great to have music. She put a lot of thought into the music accompanying the presentations, and she played music with colors in the lyrics, which added a nice touch as background while we worked on the exercises.