October 23-24 – Smashing Color, Madrid, Spain
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Workshop Information
Availability: Please email me at maggiomc@aol.com to discuss scheduling a workshop.
Fee: Travel and accomodations plus:
- $75/student for one-day (6 hours) workshop. (Minimum of two one-day workshops if flying.)
- $125/student for two-day workshop.
- $180/student for three-day workshop.
- Note: Homestays are preferred if a private room is available.
Min/Max : Minimum students – 8. Maximum students – 18 if space permits.
Current Workshops Offered
WATERCOLOR PENDANTS
Learn the basic and advanced versions of the Watercolor technique including mixing colors from a palette, washing the clay across plain, textured, and patterned sheets, and how to collage the sheets to make gorgeous pendants. The focus of this workshop is on creating successful color combinations. This one day workshop can be combined with a Smashing Color workshop.
Level: No experience required.
Kit Fee: $15 includes handouts and all the polymer clay
Space Requirements: Group tables – two 6′ or 8′ tables for every 3 or 4 students, demo table with extra chair for each student and a large collaborative use table in middle of room.
Equipment Requirements: Need white board or chart paper and markers.
POEM BRACELETS
Combine Skinner Blends and the Watercolor techniques to make bangles that focus on expressing mood and emotion. The bangle form is intentionally kept very simple to allow time to explore use of color to create your very own wearable poetry. Students will learn basic and advanced versions of both techniques while playing with colors and patterns designed to reflect your favorite poems. Most important teachings from this workshop – exploring ways to use color to communicate emotion. This one day workshop can be combined with a Smashing Color workshop.
Level: No experience required.
Kit Fee: $15 includes handouts and all the polymer clay
Space Requirements: Group tables – two 6′ or 8′ tables for every 3 or 4 students, demo table with extra chair for each student and a large collaborative use table in middle of room.
Equipment Requirements: Need white board or chart paper and markers.
Materials:
- Pasta machine
- Blade
- Poems for inspiration
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SMASHING COLOR
Collaborative workshops for polymer clay, fiber arts and painter’s guilds. Forget the rules. Come and immerse yourself in color just for the fun of it. Maggie will lead you on a series of crazy rides through everything that is wrong with traditional color theory and then guide your explorations through what really works.
This fast-paced workshop explains the difference between what color is and what color appears to be, teaches you how to troubleshoot to get gorgeous color combinations and encourages you to customize your color choices. You will explore new ideas with collages, polymer clay, dyes (for fiber artist workshops) and paint swatches while filling in your personal color workbook. The two and three day workshops allow more time for collaborative hands-on exercises and the creation of customized color charts and project palettes.
Caution: This workshop may cause you to rethink everything you thought you knew about color.
Level: No experience required, just a willingness to question traditional color theory.
Kit Fee: $15 kit fee includes exercise materials, workbook, handouts and other group supplies.
Space Requirements: Group tables – two 6′ or 8′ tables for every 3 or 4 students, demo table with extra chair for each student and a large collaborative use table in middle of room.
Equipment Requirements: Need white board or chart paper and markers.
Materials
Students bring exactly 50 single color paint swatches of colors you like, and 100+ random magazine clippings with the white and text trimmed away – note that all paint swatches and clippings will be shared- fabric scissors, paper scissors, glue stick and one sample or photo of your recent work.
- Polymer Artists: Bring a pasta machine if you have one dedicated to polymer clay.
- Fiber Artists: Bring a large Ziploc bag of scrap yarns/fibers or of small scrap fabric swatches
- Painters: Bring a palette, brushes, 8″x10″ canvas/paper and the colors you usually work with.
