Colour Theory: a body of practical guidance for colour mixing; an informed approach to combining colours in a way that knowingly evokes specific visual and emotional experiences in humans.

Welcome to Pro Palette Design: a comprehensive curriculum that teaches you how to master the art of using colour theory to design stand-out, visually impactful and professional-level colour palettes.

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A practicing mandala artist in love with the meditative nature of dot painting and the gorgeous works of art it creates
Endeavouring to grow an income and/or audience from your artwork, or just enjoying it as a personal pastime
Wanting to elevate the impact of your final pieces and create art that truly connects with people
Committed to the evolution of your practice, always seeking to learn and grow into new levels of skill, confidence and opportunity through your mandalas

You are...

There's a science to creating gorgeous palettes that draw people in.

When someone feels captivated by a piece of artwork (especially one as visually compelling as a mandala), they usually don't know why, or what about it is so alluring to them.

The truth is that it's the colours in any particular piece of art (and the specific ways in which they're combined), that create an overall experience that's either highly magnetic to the person viewing it, or it isn't.

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Uncover the secrets behind creating mesmerizing mandalas that evoke emotion, captivate the senses, and radiate harmony. Pro Palette Design delves deep into the influential and captivating world of colour theory, equipping you with the knowledge and step-by-step to expertly select and combine colours.

What you'll learn:

🎨 Fundamental Principles: Master and implement the core principles of colour theory to design pro-level palettes, from the different combinations of colours that appeal to the human eye, to a step-by-step "formula" for developing custom, captivating colour palettes (and everything else in between)

🎨 Emotion and Expression: Learn how to infuse your mandalas with emotions and tell compelling stories through your colour choices and intentional colour combining

🎨 Harmonious Blending: Develop an eye for harmonious colour blending, creating visually stunning and balanced compositions that capture attention

🎨 Depth and Dimension: Explore techniques to add depth and dimension to your mandalas, making them leap off the canvas/wood round and come to life before your eyes

Inside Pro Palette Design

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About The Creator

Hello creative soul, I'm Lauren. I'm a painter and former high school art teacher turned business owner, mindset mentor and mandala artist. For as long as I can remember, I've worked with colour (and the principals of colour theory) to inform my palette design choices and elevate the impact of my final pieces. I believe that my affinity for and understanding of advanced colour principals is about 75% of why I've always found it easy to sell my art and attract a fast-growing community from sharing it online. Not because I'm the best artist, but because I understand WHY people love art, and the psychological and emotional implications that colour has on the art that we both love, and the art that we don't.

I haven't just used pro palette design for my own art, either. I've taught it to countless high school art students, especially those putting together advanced art portfolios in order to apply to some of the world's most elite art schools.

Pro-level palette design can take a finished piece from flat, to depth-filled. It's the reason that we can't look away from some pieces of artwork, while immediately moving on from others.

Creating captivating colour palettes means standing out on people's For You & Discover pages and increasing engagement on socials. It means painting mandalas that people feel emotionally drawn to and thus, desire to have more of in their lives. It means elevating the success of your final pieces, and attracting more opportunities through your art.

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A lot of intention has gone into planning PPD so that it's both informational and also extremely applicable.

You'll start with 7 theory-based modules that cover the principals of colour theory and how to apply them to designing stunningly captivating pro-level palettes, before moving onto the "Pro Palette Formula", which brings together the teachings of the course to provide you with a plug-and-play approach to designing pro palettes of all different kinds, no matter your style or colour preference.

Then, you'll move into the "Recipe Book" section of the course, where I walk you through 15 different step-by-step palette design tutorials, so that you can see the course teachings in practice while also getting access to 15 stunning recipes you can use or customize for your own paintings.

If you're ready to become a pro at designing captivating colour palettes that catapult your skill, audience and/or income as an artist, Pro Palette Design has been built for you.

Initial feedback from students inside PPD:

"This is a game changer Lauren!"

"It instantly makes sense and I get it! I feel so liberated"

"My mind is blown, and I've only watched the pre-course! I can't imagine what is in the rest of them and I'm so excited to keep watching learning growing"

"LOVING the course so far and appreciate all the time and effort it obviously took you"

"This is incredible that she's put this together for the mandala community. I've always wanted to do a course like this, this is just a dream."

"I'm loving your pro palette course!"

"Thank you so much for sharing this information and making it so accessible. I feel really empowered watching the course content! I can't wait to start applying it to my mandalas."

Why Pro Palette Design?

The colours in any particular piece of art (and the specific ways in which they're combined), create an overall experience that's either highly magnetic to the person viewing it, or it isn't.

There are two key reasons why understanding colour theory as a painter (and intentionally using it to elevate the success of your pieces), matters:

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The way we combine the colours in any given palette, is either coherent, or it isn't.

Not every shade of red goes with every shade of blue (not even close, actually). Creating a "rainbow" palette that really speaks to people, isn't as simple as choosing one of each colour. In fact, it's easy to unknowingly combine colours in a way that make a piece of art less-than-magnetic on a subconscious level.

How you combine your colours directly correlates with how captivated someone is with the final work of art, and whether or not they want to continuously view your work, follow you online and potentially purchase a piece.

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People love works of art (viewing them, buying them, watching them be created) not because they're pretty to look at, but because of the emotional experience they offer.

Joy, intrigue, peace, excitement, inspiration, hope, freedom, possibility.

Did you know that different colours (and different strategic combinations of colours) create different emotional experiences (both good and bad, both wanted and unwanted) for those viewing them?

Understanding the science and psychology of colour theory means combining colours and designing pro palettes that evoke highly desirable emotional experiences in your viewers, turning them into excited audience members and customers.

The Curriculum

Pre-Course Module: The "Genetic Make-Up of Colour"

The pre-course module has been added for the artist who either doesn't have access to Decoart Americana, doesn't have every colour that's available (/doesn't want to spend hundreds or thousands buying them all in order to create an unlimited range of palettes) OR who wishes to use a different brand/kind of paint altogether. Inside, you'll learn how to really see colour for what it is (possibly for the first time), breaking it down so that you're able to custom mix and match your own. The pre-course will also equip you with some game-changing online tools that'll help you determine how much purple vs. green is in the version of blue you're currently wanting to match from another brand so that you can mix it yourself.

Designing pro palettes starts with understanding colour and the unique "recipe" of each one. The pre-course has been built to teach you how to do exactly that.

Module 1 - The Magnetic Mandala

Module 1 is your foundation for developing truly magnetic mandalas through strategic colour combining. Inside, we'll talk about the many ways in which informed palette design will transform both your art work, and the opportunities you attract through it.

Module 2 - The Science of Colour Theory

Module 2 is your introduction to the colour wheel, with a quick run-down of the colours that make it up, as they relate to palette design. You'll learn how to use it to inform your colour combining choices, and why it’s an artist’s best friend when it comes to creating next-level magnetic mandalas and growing your practice, audience and income as a painter.

Module 3 - The Psychology of Colour

Module 3 is where the magic really starts to happen. Inside, you'll learn about the significant psychological and emotional implications of colour, and what most people are (actually) looking for in a piece of artwork and how to stand out and draw in through strategical colour choice & palette design. By the end of module 3, you'll know how to start making colour choices based on the emotions you wish to convey through your artwork, and how to start designing palettes that are highly appealing to those you most wish to attract in terms of customers and audience members.

Module 4 - Warm vs. Cool Colours

When you start to understand how to combine cool vs. warm-toned colours effectively, you simultaneously start designing palettes that people are naturally drawn to, because the emotions they evoke are now harmonious and alluring instead of contradictory or incohesive.

Inside module 4 you'll take colour psychology to a whole new level, through learning how to combine and pair up cool vs. warm-toned colours within your palettes in a way that creates a captivating emotional experience for your viewers.

Module 5 - Colour Properties

There are three key colour "properties" that, when intentionally utilized, create depth, flow and harmony throughout your final art pieces. Inside Module 5, you'll learn about each one as it relates to the process of designing stunning palettes, and how to utilize each to elevate your palettes into new levels of professionalism and visual impact.

Module 6 - Colour Schemes

Colour schemes are the different colour combinations that have become widely regarded as desirable to the human mind and eye, by combining colours within a palette that compliment each other but also create visual intrigue. Inside module 6 you'll learn about the ten that lend themselves most effectively to mandala painting, and how to choose which scheme to use and when, depending on the emotional experience you're endeavouring to create within the piece you're currently designing a palette for.

Module 7 - Pro Palette Design (The Formula)

Now that you're an expert in the colour theory principals, schemes and properties that inform professional palette choices and colour combining, it's time to put it into practice.

Module 7 starts by walking you through a virtual tutorial of designing a pro palette from start to finish through a step-by-step, repeatable and customizable pro palette "formula", before we move onto the first full-length palette tutorial inside of Pro Palette Design. In this module you'll gain an invaluable colour combining process that'll allow you to create gorgeous, intentional palettes that'll have your art pieces tell stories, stand out from the crowd and speak specifically to those your art is meant for (even if that's currently just you!).

Module 8 - The Recipe Book

I don't know about you, but I'm a hands-on learner. I don't want to just share the teachings of colour theory with you, I want to demonstrate exactly how they're put into practice, so that the process of designing visually impactful colour palettes becomes automatic and intuitive for you moving forward.

The "Recipe Book" consists currently of 18 different step-by-step tutorials, documenting me designing palettes within each of the ten colour schemes. These tutorials also serve as palette "recipes", which you can use and tweak within your painting practice for those wanting some "done-for-you" palettes to jump to whenever needed.

Module 9 - Advanced Pro Palette Techniques

There's so much more you can do with your paint than just dots and swooshes! Inside module 9, you'll learn how to create stunning effects within your mandalas like a centre gradient design, floral swoosh patterns (strategically using the colours of your designed pro palette), non-cracking centre dots and incorporating metallics effectively into your palettes.

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Join Pro Palette Design for one payment of $99

Upon enrolling, get immediate access to:

A 10-module curriculum (over 7 hours of teachings and tutorials) covering everything you need to know about colour theory and designing pro-level palettes that significantly elevate your mandala practice
18 step-by-step pro palette tutorials and recipes for you to learn from, customize or use in your own practice
A pro palette formula for creating gorgeous colour palettes that'll grow your skill, audience and sales as an artist now and forever

*Scroll down to bundle PPD with my other courses and save $39 - $195!

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Add a second course for just $60 and pair Pro Palette Design with Beautiful Brushstrokes, Mandala Design Blueprint, or any of my other mandala painting courses (save up to $195 with custom course bundles):

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What happens next?

As soon as you sign up, you'll be granted immediate and lifetime access to all course materials, as well as any updates or additions I add in the future.

Pro Palette Design is a DIY, self-paced course, meaning you can work through the curriculum and supporting materials at whatever pace best suits you.

The curriculum is designed to be watched in the sequence that it appears inside the course platform: starting with the pre-course module, and building on the knowledge it provides gradually as you work through Modules 1-7.

By Module 8, you're putting the teachings into practice through creating your own palettes and watching the 15 step-by-step palette tutorials and done-for-you recipes that make up the second half of the course.

Your journey into the captivating world of colour palettes starts the second you sign up, and PPD has everything you need to become masterful in the art of creating custom, captivating colour palettes.

Frequently Asked Questions

When can I start!?

Immediately! You'll be sent access to the course materials as soon as you sign up, to work through on whatever time frame works for you, and refer back to for years to come, should you so choose. Within a few minutes of signing up you'll receive an email granting you access to the course alongside your unique login that you can use to sign in and watch at anytime.

How long do I have access to the course content for?

You have lifetime access to the Pro Palette Design curriculum, including any and all additions I may make to the course in the future.

Where and how do I access the course?

Pro Palette Design is hosted on my Kajabi members-only site, which is easy to use and comes with a free app you can download if you wish to, to take your PPD course content wherever you go!

How does it work?

A lot of intention has gone into planning PPD so that it's both informational and also extremely applicable. You'll start with 7 theory-based modules that cover the principals of colour theory and how to apply them to designing stunningly captivating pro-level palettes, before moving onto the "Pro Palette Formula", which brings together the teachings of the course to provide you with a plug-and-play approach to designing pro palettes of all different kinds, no matter your style or colour preference. Then, you'll move into the "Recipe Book" section of the course, where I walk you through 15 different step-by-step palette design tutorials, so that you can see the course teachings in practice while also getting access to 15 stunning recipes you can use or customize for your own paintings.

I don't have access to Decoart Americana paints/prefer a different brand. Can I still take and benefit from Pro Palette Design?

Yes! The bonus pre-course module has been specifically designed with you in mind. It teaches how to colour match and mix your own paint to replicate or substitute any colour of any brand. While there will likely be a bit more mixing for you involved if you plan on using the done-for-you palette recipes in your own work, the course teachings will 100% still allow you to design beautiful custom colour palettes regardless of which paint brand (or type) you're using.

I'm an artist, but not a mandala artist. Will PPD still benefit me?

Yes! While the course does cater some of its content to mandala artists in particular, the principals taught inside can be effectively applied to any kind of painting style or art form. The skills taught will be valuable for any artist, designer or person who wants to start using colour theory and colour psychology to draw people in, no matter the subject matter.

Is there any support from you provided inside the course if I have questions?

Yes and no. There is a questions section below each module that I've left active, so that students inside may ask questions as they work through the course material. However this is not an included feature of the course and answers to your questions are not guaranteed. I also am not able to provide feedback on the palettes that you create. PPD is a DIY course and I'm able to offer it at a very accessible price point by not offering any official form of support to those inside. However, if you have a question you may ask it in the Questions section and if I'm able, I'll write you a response!

Do you offer refunds?

Due to the nature of PPD and the content inside, there are no refunds available after you have purchased the course. This is a means of protecting my digital products and ensuring that my business attracts those who truly respect my work and the effort that has gone into creating it. Please be sure you're committed before signing up. If you have any questions before deciding whether to purchase or not, please do not hesitate to contact me via the info listed below!