Healing Color art workshops for expressive hearts
"For fifty years, I've painted to express the one thing my heart yearns to say -- to feel sublime within myself. The divinity within us yearns to be expressed in vibrant life-affirming color. "
Promise Me a rose Garden: Mixed Media Textile & Painting Workshop · July 25, 2026
in-person * A Full Day of Healing Color, Painting & Textile Collage in Dorothy's virginia Studio
An intimate experience.
Dorothy guides your experience personally with inspirational Promise Me a Rose Garden story challenge of juxtapositions. This is a hands-on, fully guided studio day where your own creative heart speaks seeds of wisdom in a painted textile collage. ~ Only 8 participants.
📅 Saturday July 25, 2026 · 10am–4pm · Cobbs Creek, Virginia $400 per person
🎨 All supplies included · Intimate group of 8 ·
Everything is provided.
All acrylic paints, palette knives, brushes, textile materials, collage papers, 8" gallery wrap canvas and Joy's Garden Journal are included in your $400 tuition. Come as you are — no art experience needed, no supplies to gather.
Just bring yourself and your willingness to play.
Your day includes:
✦ Full day studio access — 10am to 4pm
✦ All materials and supplies
✦ Dorothy's personal instruction throughout
✦ Lunch break in the studio garden (bring your own lunch)
✦ Your completed mixed media artwork to take home
✦ A studio experience on the Chesapeake Bay watershed you will not forget
Where:
Dorothy Fagan's Studio · Cobbs Creek, Virginia · Middle Peninsula · Chesapeake Bay
(Exact address shared upon registration)
$400 per person · All supplies included · Limited to 8 participants
→ Reserve Your Spot — July 25 Mixed Media Textile Workshop
Only 8 spots available. When they're gone, they're gone.
Splash Scribble™ Mini-Lessons— Quick-Start Your Healing Color Practice
online
One Week of Painting & Journaling to Open Your Creative Heart Flow
What You Will Learn in Splash Scribble™
The Color Alchemist's Signature Method — Expressive Heart Colors with Signature Fusion Drawing
BONUS — Embrace the Mountain: How France Transformed Dorothy's Healing Palette
Splash Scribble™ Works for Every Medium — Watercolor, Acrylic & Oil
No Experience Needed — Just Your Willingness to Begin
by Dorothy Fagan · The Color Alchemist · 50 Years of Expressive Fine Art · Cobbs Creek, Virginia
Splash Scribble™ is Dorothy Fagan's signature quick-start method for expressive healing color painting — developed over fifty years of painting the living world as medicine from her sacred studio on the Chesapeake Bay in Virginia.
In one week of short, guided mini-lessons you will:
🎨 Pick up a brush with confidence — no art background, no experience, no fear
✨ Learn the Splash Scribble™ method — expressive healing colors with you signature scribble!
🌿 Open your creative heart flow — painting and journaling exercises that work together to unlock your inner colorist
💛 Discover your healing color voice — which colors call to you, what they mean, and how to use them intentionally
🖌️ Work in any medium — exercises are designed for watercolor, acrylic, or oil
One week. Short lessons. Immediate results.
✦ BONUS — Embrace the Mountain
Discover Dorothy's secret ingredient — the France residency that transformed her palette from hundreds of colors to six, and how the healing heart colors she discovered in Provence and Brittany became the foundation of the New Earth Healing Palette™.
Included free with your Splash Scribble™ purchase.
★★★★★ This is an inspiring heartfelt journey with art into healing.
I drink in the tender paths walked, wisdoms shared and embracing colors Dorothy shares in this book. The loving wisdom from one who knows how deep the hurt goes and how it can be transformed into a part of the beautiful landscape of our lives is a gift to my heart. ~ Laura G
★★★★★
Dorothy Fagan's story in itself is so brave, so authentic, so honest and moving that I was totally inspired all over again after being inspired by seeing her gorgeous art on line. Now I have this wonderful book with her story and paintings together and I treasure it. Thank you for being such a shining light in this world. Every time I see one of your paintings, I feel joy. ~ Jean B
$47 · Instant access · All mediums welcome
New Earth Healing Colors Painting Demonstration
online
The New Earth Healing Palette™ Painting Demonstration gives you Dorothy — on screen, brush in hand, walking you through every single pigment.
Not more colors. Not more complexity.
More meaning.
In this intimate video demonstration you will discover:
🎨 Each of the 6 healing pigments demonstrated live — watch Dorothy mix, apply, and activate every color in real time
✨ The healing significance of each pigment — the emotional, energetic, and chakra resonance behind every color, explained by The Color Alchemist herself
🌿 Why these specific pigments work — the frequency, the vibrancy, and the healing intelligence behind each one
💛 How to see color the way Dorothy sees it — as medicine, as language, as living light
Infinitely deeper color resonance.
$27 · Instant access · All mediums welcome
"I can feel my whole body humming from this... i studied with a clairvoyant teacher who had a school long ago. She taught us to read the energies of the chakras in others and so much more. Being able to connect this with my painting feels very big. . . thank you Dorothy. . . Lisa
"So glad i signed up for this workshop . . . right up my alley with the energetic perspective, thank you!
A Full Day of Healing Color, Painting & Textile Collage in Dorothy's Sacred Studio
An intimate In-person experience at Dorothy's Virginia Studio.
Dorothy guides your experience personally with inspirational Promise Me a Rose Garden story challenge of juxtapositions. This is a hands-on, fully guided studio day where your own creative heart speaks seeds of wisdom in a painted textile collage. ~ Only 8 participants.
📅 Friday July 25, 2026 · 10am–4pm · Cobbs Creek, Virginia
🎨 All supplies included · Intimate group of 8 · $400 per person
Some art begins on canvas.
This one begins on cloth.
Join fine art painter and Color Alchemist Dorothy Fagan for a full day of mixed media exploration — where healing color, expressive painting, and textile collage come together in one luminous, layered practice.
Working in Dorothy's sacred studio on the Chesapeake Bay watershed in Cobbs Creek, Virginia, you will spend a full day immersed in color, texture, and the intuitive act of making something beautiful from many things at once.
What You Will Make & Learn:
🎨 Expressive painting with healing color — using Dorothy's signature palette knife and brush techniques to apply vibrant, layered color to your mixed media surface
🌿 Textile collage as a healing practice — selecting, tearing, and composing fabric, paper, and found textile elements into a cohesive, soul-led composition
✨ The Splash Scribble™ method applied to mixed media — Dorothy's signature fusion of expressive color and intuitive mark-making, now in three dimensions
💛 Layering and integration — how to marry paint and textile so they speak one language on the surface
🖌️ Your own finished mixed media artwork — created entirely in one day, in Dorothy's studio, with her guidance throughout
Everything is provided.
All paints, palette knives, brushes, textile materials, papers, fabrics, and surfaces are included in your $400 tuition. Come as you are — no art experience needed, no supplies to gather.
Just bring yourself and your willingness to play.
This is an intimate experience.
Only 8 participants. Dorothy works personally with each person throughout the day — this is not a demonstration you watch. It is a hands-on, fully guided studio day where your own creative voice is the point.
Your day includes:
✦ Full day studio access — 10am to 4pm
✦ All materials and supplies
✦ Dorothy's personal instruction throughout
✦ Lunch break in the studio garden (bring your own lunch)
✦ Your completed mixed media artwork to take home
✦ A studio experience on the Chesapeake Bay watershed you will not forget
Where:
Dorothy Fagan's Studio · Cobbs Creek, Virginia · Middle Peninsula · Chesapeake Bay Watershed
(Exact address shared upon registration)
$400 per person · All supplies included · Limited to 8 participants
→ Reserve Your Spot — July 25 Mixed Media Textile Workshop
Only 8 spots available. When they're gone, they're gone.