Margie Deeb - Beaded Art - Design

50-minute Interactive Lunch & Learn Understand the emotional and physical impact of color, its symbolism, and how to apply it in business and marketing. This rich, fun, and fascinating talk is for marketing and advertising professionals. Class Details	50-90 minute Interactive Lecture Delve into the mysteries of color and understand how it is far more than a visual phenomenon. Increase your awareness of its impact and power. Contact Margie for more information.	2-Day Intensive Get out of the rut of using the same colors and gain new confidence in creating powerful, effective color combinations with all the hues, tints and shades available. Class Details
One-day Project Class Learn about color properties and combining bead surface finishes while creating the “Draped Loop Collar” from Margie’s book, The Beader’s Color Palette. Contact Margie for more info.	One-day Project Class Discover the poetry of analogous color combinations while creating the “Collar of Glass & Light” necklace from Margie’s book, The Beader’s Color Palette. Read the October 2008 Margie's Muse column to learn more about this gorgeous necklace. Class Details	One-day Project Class Learn the magic of complementary color combinations while creating the “Rainforest Cascade Necklace” from The Beader’s Color Palette. This stunning neckpiece is featured in the June/July ‘08 issue of Beadwork Magazine. Class Details
One-day Project Class Learn about color properties and making harmonious combinations while creating the “Festival of Fringe” from Margie’s book, The Beader’s Color Palette. Contact Margie for more info.	50-90 minute Discussion Understand how and why complementary harmonies are the most powerful combinations in your palette... and change the way you use color forever! Through images, color swatches, and beaded examples we’ll explore the unique attributes of complementary pairs, and experience the dynamic dance each pair does in action. Class Details	One-day Class (and project) Hands on class with project geared to help you understand how and why complementary harmonies are the most powerful combinations in your palette. Through images, color swatches, and beaded examples we’ll explore the unique attributes of complementary pairs, and experience the dynamic dance each pair does in action. Class Details
One-day class Understand the color wheel and how to use it. If you love color, but the color wheel has always intimidated you; or if you want to know more about how to work with color, but the word “theory” overwhelms you, this is the workshop for you. Class Details	Extraordinary Palettes from Existing Sources 50-90 minute Interactive Lecture Look around you: color inspiration is everywhere. If you’ll grasp the importance of color properties and the power of proportions, you can take any scheme you find, put yourself into it, and create unique color palettes expressive of your color voice. Based on The Beader’s Color Palette, Margie will show you how to take your inspiration, navigate through color properties and proportions so you can concoct extraordinary color schemes. Everyone will take a leap forward in their artistic growth. Anyone that makes jewelry for gifts and for sale will not want to miss this presentation. Contact Margie for more information.	Margie and her first book, Out On A Loom, have been teaching beaders to weave on a loom for almost a decade. Now, with Margie at your side, you can learn the basics of looming, and move on to more advanced techniques like increasing and decreasing, weaving openings and focal beads, tying warps on and off the loom, and multiple beads between warps. Project varies according to skill level. Contact Margie for more information.
One-day Class Experience the emotional magic of color through examples, experience, and hands-on practice and exercises. This lively, interactive course conveys the emotional magic of color through examples, experience, and hands-on practice and exercises. You’ll learn the psychological effects of color and how to create a mood, communicate an idea, or elicit a reaction with color. Class Details	One-day Class Deepen your personal relationship with color. Develop your color voice so your art becomes a true expression of you. Based on Margie’s Masterclass article in the April 2007 issue Beadwork Magazine, “Toning Your Color Voice” explores your personal relationship with color. In this lively, interactive day you’ll explore not only colors you like and don’t like, but families of color, and combinations that resonate with you. Class Details

The Beader's Handbook, published by Bead & Button (Fall, 2008) features a color article by Margie called "Select Colors that Liven Up Your Work."
The Beader's Handbook is a ready reference for everything you need to make beautiful beaded jewelry. You'll consult this complete resource from Bead&Button over and over again! Use it to make 9 brand-new, exquisite jewelry projects and also to find in-depth information about tools and materials.

Step-by-Step BEADS features "Colorworks," Margie's color column. Be sure to read it each issue - you'll expand your color horizons by leaps and bounds.

BEADWORK Magazine's April/May 2007 issue features Margie's Color Masterclass article. Available in book stores and bead stores in late March 2007.

Interweave Press's special publication, BEADS 2006, names The Beader's Guide to Color as one of the top 20 beading books available!

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