Take the CAT™ Workshop and learn to use the CAT or Color Assessment tool to easily select colors more accurately and keep track of the colors your select.
Do you constantly play with color? Do friends and family always ask you for advice on what to wear? Are you a professional interior designer, art director or style consultant—or instinctively know you could be one?
Are you always driven to learn more about color, so you can better help yourself and others?
If you answered “yes” to any of these questions, now you can take your innate talent for discerning colors even further!
Introducing the CAT™ Workshop—the color class that literally puts the powerful knowledge of personal color theory, a powerful color tool and the modern color wheel—right in your hands.
Be more color confident in choosing colors for clothes, interior design, and graphic design by demonstrating your knowledge with the ColorQUICK color tool fans! You can never KNOW enough about color!
The CAT™ Workshop shows you how to use innovative Assessment Tools with two fans, one of which is one shown above. This convenient color tool helps you:
1) Quickly identify a person’s inherent natural colors, i.e. their hair, skin and eyes colors.
2) Provides color guidelines for:
- make-up and hair color selection
- personal shopping, accessory selection and closet audit
- fashion and jewelry design
- interior design and graphic design
How many ways can I use my CAT™ knowledge and tools?
You can confidently help PEOPLE—You can use CAT™ to accurately assess and demonstrate an individual’s personal color harmonies. Determine your client’s natural color value and ideal contrast patterns. Plus, analyze and recommend the color temperature, intensity level, and color families that relate to the person’s hair, skin, and eye colors.
Help highlight an individual’s best features, such as eye colors, to their wardrobe and accessories.
You can choose color for PLACES—Whether you’re an interior designer or simply passionate about home décor, you can use the CAT™ tool to determine the best interior colors for your client based on their coloring and demonstrate why they will work!
You can create beautiful THINGS—The CAT™ tool is a great way to plan color palettes for jewelry creation, fashion designs, fine artwork, and more. And since it’s portable, you can use it to match the resources you need to the colors you’re looking for. No more guessing!
CAT™ Assessment Tool transforms your color intuition into demonstrable knowledge:
You will receive two CAT™ fan sets featuring:
- A Personal Colors section—featuring skin tones & hair colors (42) from the pales light to the darkest dark
- Eye colors (21)—families of related reds (4) clear, muted and toasted of all different temperatures
- Twelve different kinds of metal colors- helps coordinate everything from clothes and accessories to home furniture and interior finishes
- Six types of color qualities—Pure Pigment, Tinted, Muted with Gray, Muted with Complements, Muted with Brown (Toasted), and Shaded with Black, so you can easily identify a color’s quality & intensity
- A range of whites—warm, cool, and neutral color temperature.
The CAT™ swatches covers many shades of color for precise matching.
Designed to allow you to construct/build your palette from the bottom up. Starting with the client’s personal colors and coordinating with the color qualities that suit them.
The CAT™ fan sets come in two convenient sizes:
Small – Created for consultants on the go | 6 inches x 1.25 inches
Large – Designed for consultations & group demonstrations | 10 inches x 2 inches
And, no matter which fan you choose, each comes with 50 sticks that showcase one to six fabric swatches per stick. That’s about 190 fabric samples—more than enough to advise like a pro.
You’ll train (online or in-person) with an industry-leading color expert.
Industry color expert, Mary Lou Manlove, will train you how to precisely communicate your color choices using the industry’s language to describe color. Then, teach you how to demonstrate your knowledge with hands-on instruction on how to use the CAT™ Assessment tools.
Mary Lou Manlove and her color client, Shelly Swift, hold Shelly’s personal color fan, which is the exciting next step for students who want to become color consultants after they complete this CAT workshop.
CAT™ transforms you from an intuitive color lover to an informed color consultant.
So, sign up today for this engaging and fun workshop and boost your color savvy!
Your Investment provides:
1 CAT™ Workshop and Tool training PLUS the consultant size CAT™ Tool $875
(If you prefer the Full-size CAT Tool™ add $225)
Plus, you get an added BONUS: You’ll receive the CAT™ twelve-page instruction guide to help you remember everything you’ve learned. Plus, get valuable copies of Mary Lou’s Sample Client Profiles with the rights to reproduce, so you have examples to show your customers!
The CAT™ workshop is taught four times a year on line (3-Zoom session) or when conditions permit at the ColorInsight studio in Redwood City, CA or conference location as a one-day session. Contact marylou@colorinsight.biz for more information. ColorKinetics Workshop is a prerequisite to the CAT™ workshop. Find out more by contacting us.
About Mary Lou:
Mary Lou Manlove is a Color Specialist, Image Consultant, and Trainer. She graduated from Color Designers International, Color Designer Program in 2001. This multi-year training was taught by Sharon Chrisman, a student and teaching assistant of Suzanne Caygill (1980), who established the science and art of personal color analysis. Sharon went on to develop the Appearance Design Color System and related materials to systemize the personal color analysis process. Mary Lou and other color enthusiasts in Color Designers International carry on her work today.
Mary Lou is now dedicated to helping color professionals and enthusiasts understand the basics of color, so they can excel in the color field of their choice. Please consider joining Mary Lou in bringing color education out into the world. There is room in this field for all, so whether you’re a talented beginner or seasoned professional, you can always learn about color.