Color as a Way to the Spirit: Color Dynamic
Jan 07, 2026 10:00AM—Feb 11, 2026 11:00AM
Location
ONLINE: Eastern Time (USA and Canada)
Cost $0 - $200 (sliding scale)
Event Contact Laura Summer | Email
Categories Course, Creative Arts, Eastern Region US, ONLINE
AN ONLINE ARTISITC EXPLORATION WITH LAURA SUMMER
How does red feel when it’s next to yellow? How about blue?
The Color Dynamic block is an investigation of how colors move and exist in relation to each other. For 6 sessions, we will explore this by painting.
Color Dynamic Block: January 7 – February 11, 2026
Wednesdays at 10 am
Sliding Scale: $0 – $200
Do you want to develop your capacity in the world of color perception, interaction and dynamic? Working with painting and drawing can be health giving and transformative. Working with color and composition in relation to meaning and expression can be life engendering for your soul. Whatever style of painting you are inclined toward, understanding color and composition will increase your capacity and enjoyment of your work.
When we begin to work with color we are often swayed by our likes and dislikes, but as painters, we must move beyond this and learn the language of color. Although we see color with our eyes, the experience of color is in the realm of quality and that realm is at first quite subtle. We must learn to quiet our sympathies and antipathies, cast off intellectual associations and listen to what the color is. Although you may at first wrinkle your brow in doubt at this, color is a non-material reality. To understand and to work with it as a partner, we must learn to speak its language. Observe in yourself how one color feels, how is it different from another? Ask yourself the questions of the quality realm: Is it heavy or light? Is it warm or cold? Is it lively or still? Does it move toward me or away?
This four-part course will include written and video instruction as well as weekly group calls with participants from all over the world. Through this creative work, a supportive transcultural community will be formed. Often in a group, working together, we can feel inspiration and understanding flow between us.
The course will be taught in blocks of 4 to 6 weeks. You can join at the beginning of any block. Blocks 2025-2026 include:
- Color and Contemplation September – October 2025
- Color Mood November – December 2025
- Color Dynamic January – February 2026
- Color Devotion March – May 2026
Tuition: Free Columbia is committed to making the cultural realm financially accessible to everyone. Each block is on a sliding scale of $0 – $200. A sliding scale tool is available.
Acknowledgements:
Many people have been Laura Summer’s teachers over the years. Many of these exercises were developed out of the exercises of Jennifer Thomson, Ella Manor Lapointe, and Nathaniel Williams, as well as, of course, of Rudolf Steiner and of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.