
16 HIGHLY-FOCUSED VIDEO LESSONS
16 HIGHLY-FOCUSED VIDEO LESSONS
After this live training, you will walk away knowing precisely how to distinguish complex neutral undertones (where it really matters) along with the shortlist of whites that will contain every white you might need to use.
You’ll also learn to create flow using colour and recognize the real difference between clean and dirty colours. PLUS, you’ll learn the three best possible colour descriptors to keep in your back pocket.
Have you noticed that traditional colour theory, the tired standard you will learn in any interior design program, is so abstract that it is basically useless?
That it leaves you merely guessing and relying on vague instincts about colour?
No one wants to make a colour decision worth tens of thousands of dollars based on a hazy “feeling that this is the right colour”.
What you need is an effective, practical, and applied SYSTEM for choosing the right colour every time— in any situation.
You’re not only going to uncover the secrets of how to see colour differently, your eye is going to actually be trained! Every time I start these exercises, everybody leans in because they are all excited to train their eye for colour!
If you’re a design professional, you’ll have the confidence to raise your rates immediately. If you’re a homeowner, you’ll have the confidence to make future colour choices (while saving money on costly mistakes) and fix the colour issues you may be living with right now.
In Day 1 we established a firm foundation for comparing and describing colour. Equally important is learning the process for choosing colour in real life situations. Which elements are most important. What comes first? How to coordinate the colour of anything from tile to soft furnishings.
To create spaces that fill you with joy, you do need strategy.
“Dear Maria,
I want to thank you from the bottom of my heart for your amazing class and your color system. We used your course and your color system as the foundation of our Color Consulting business.
Since the course we have performed thousands of color consultations both online and in-person. We use your digital color wheel with every consultation that we do, and again with our quality control peer review process. I even took the class again a year later to make sure I hadn’t missed anything.
I buy a set of your large color boards every year. I use them several times a day and they need a refresh from so much use. The large color boards are key to our process.
I remember thinking at the time, why you would train so many people that could one day be your competitors. The answer is easy. This is an enormous market and there is room for many color consultants to work and even support each other. And also, when you have such a super power it's a gift to share it with others.
I often find myself quoting Maria during my consultations, and tell my clients that she is my teacher. I love what I do and I’m proud to tell everyone that I am a True Color Expert.”
Michelle MarcenyStudent & True Colour Expert
This virtual event offers you a precise system for identifying the undertone of any neutral, anywhere.
Twenty years ago, a local design college asked me to teach a colour course that would actually help their students learn how to work with colour in real designed environments.
That asked me to do this because basic colour theory tells you absolutely NOTHING about coordinating subtle neutral colours. My course gives you a precise system for identifying the undertone of any neutral anywhere.
What’s more, basic colour theory doesn’t offer any real insight into creating harmonious colour palettes with colours at any level of saturation. You will learn how to create stunning palettes, using any range of moody muted hues, right up to punchy vibrant colours.
Let’s keep going… basic colour theory teaches you nothing about solving problems with colour.
I will show you how I approach a broad range of colour and decorating problems including how to create perfect colour flow that immerses you in a space because it all feels exactly RIGHT.
We all know that when colour is done badly— the undertones of the neutrals clash, the intensity of the saturated colours is all out of balance, IT FEELS OFF.
Colour Is Powerful.
Learn to have the answer WHY colour is working or not.
Begin your journey to nothing less than colour mastery in my intensive and interactive 2 day course. Reserve your spot today!
You’ll be able to add a badge to your website and social media channels so you can promote your new True Colour Expert certification and potentially charge more for your services.
Currently, we do not have any plans to do that until the pandemic is well behind us.
We rescheduled our courses twice in 2020 and then worked very hard to make it just as powerful and transformative virtually as it was in person! And the feedback we received was overwhelmingly YES.
Still a major game changer in learning a system you can’t learn anywhere else. And you’ll receive your very own box of samples to use in the exercises and keep forever.
Unlike Maria’s Exterior Colour Selection Masterclass, this is not pre-recorded. THIS IS A FULLY-IMMERSIVE EXPERIENCE. Maria will lead the course live from her studio office and you can expect her to be just as high energy on your computer screen as she is in person 😉
You will be invited to a private Zoom meeting and will receive a link for the two-day online course. You will need a laptop or desktop computer with a camera to participate (the interactive experience just isn’t the same via a cell phone).
Maria loves to connect personally with her students and that means she needs to see your lovely face – so it will be MANDATORY to turn on your camera during the virtual workshop. There will also be time to interact with your fellow classmates during some of the exercises. We promise this makes it more fun!
YES!! When you complete these two days of training including all the exercises, you will SEE COLOUR DIFFERENTLY and you’ll also receive certification as a True Colour Expert™, which includes a badge for your website and social media accounts.
COMING SOON: We are also still developing some more advanced lessons (formerly known as Day 3 of the live workshop). If you are a graduate of this two-day workshop, you’ll be the first to know when The Business of Colour and The Business of eDesign are available for purchase. They both include highly focused, on-demand video lessons that you can complete at your own pace.
So, if you want to learn more about eDesign and Maria’s exact business model, you’ll have time to practice implementing all the new skills you’ve learned BEFORE you jump into the more advanced lessons. Lucky you!
This course is all NEW and completely revised to reflect where the trends are RIGHT NOW.
We are thrilled to report that the feedback we received from our first virtual event in May was the same as the live events! This course has always been a game-changer in helping you choose or specify colour for everything in your home and it still is!
Your course materials will be delivered to your door and include a fan deck, colour chips, plus fabrics and tiles so you can touch, see and feel the undertones you are learning to master.
You’ll be able to do all of this without the extra expense of travel and hotels, all from the comfort of your own home or office.
If you’re building a business – or even if you’re a homeowner who wants to learn exactly how to select the right colours for your home – then you may be unsure about whether this is the right time to spend money?
First of all, consider this training an investment rather than an expense. This is an investment that can literally save you thousands of dollars if it helps you avoid even just one design mistake on your home. It’s easy to make a costly mistake when you are a homeowner trying to make big decisions on your renovation or new build project without any guidance.
And, if you’re an interior design professional (or even in the home construction business), learning to choose colour accurately (as well as coordinating neutrals and whites) is absolutely the best investment you can make!
Not only will you carve out a niche for yourself as the go-to expert in your area, but you’ll also easily transition your clients from consult-only clients to full-on design clients, dramatically increasing your bottom line. And if you’re a homeowner, imagine how good it will feel to have the confidence you need to make decisions about finishes that you won’t regret, for a beautiful home you’ll love for years to come.
There’s really nothing that replaces a live training experience.
At the end of two days, participants are astounded with everything they have just learned and, most importantly, you’ll be getting it all in the right order. Yes, you can probably find everything for free online these days, but it won’t be in the right order. And, if it’s not in the right order with the right context, it’s far less useful.
For real colour mastery, you’ll need to join Maria live to learn all of her best practices while taking your knowledge of colour to the next level with unique skill-building exercises that Maria personally leads you through.
The short answer is, No.
This is Maria’s own personal system she developed after performing thousands of design and colour consultations. No one else teaches these concepts, because no one else knows it!
Maria wrote her eBooks to widely share the principles of her system, and they are full of great information you can use right away. That’s why she includes them and asks that you read them prior to taking this course.
What makes Maria’s live virtual training so transformative is that you spend these two days working with real-life projects and exercises together. She will lead you through endless examples where she quizzes you, “What’s the undertone here?” and “What’s wrong with this room? How would you fix it?” Plus, this is the ONLY way to get her exclusive colour-training kit, delivered to your door, filled with cheat sheets and other surprises to help build your skills.
You will go beyond understanding colour principles to developing experience around CHOOSING colour. And you’ll leave with a level of confidence that would be hard to achieve alone, just by reading any book no matter how great it is.
If your business is struggling, you need to do something different. And, this colour training all but guarantees you’ll be able to ultimately enhance your service offerings with a niche in colour and neutrals.
When your customers and clients can see and feel your confidence, your business increases exponentially. We’ve seen it countless times with True Colour Expert graduates. You can command higher rates and work with your ideal clients (who not only pay you happily but also really listen to – and heed – your advice).
The short answer is NO.
This is my own personal system, developed after conducting thousands of colour and design consultations. You won’t find this training anywhere else in the world.
Also, you’ll notice that all the colour training you’ve had to date is colour theory which is primarily about combining colours. This workshop is strictly “Here’s how you do it in the real world, right now”.