to skillfully create with color

Would you like to know the secret that can make your projects and creations truly memorable? It’s color.

Every day, we choose colors without realizing how deeply they can influence emotions, perceptions, and the messages we communicate. Yet color is so much more than a decorative detail: it is one of the most powerful communication tools we have at our disposal.

This workshop is an invitation to explore color, understand it, and use it with greater intention. Collage is a simple, practical, and creative way to build color compositions, explore unexpected combinations, and create moodboards that can tell a story or evoke an atmosphere even before words come into play.

Through an intuitive and sensory journey, you will work with color starting from the emotions, words, and atmospheres you want to evoke. You will cut, combine, experiment, and begin to see new possibilities and unexpected color combinations.

Using colored papers and collage techniques, you will train your eye through a hands-on workshop with a series of focused exercises. Three hours that can make a real difference in the way you choose and work with color.

During the workshop, you will create a small handmade zine: a mini accordion-fold booklet that brings together exercises, inspiration, and useful references to keep and revisit over time.

This is not about learning rigid rules, but about training your eye, developing your sensitivity, and discovering how color can become a valuable ally in your creative process.

What will you take home?

A deeper awareness of the language of color, new ideas to apply to your projects, and greater confidence in your creative choices. But above all, a new way of looking at the world around you.

Why join the workshop?

To give yourself some dedicated creative time, experiment freely, and discover how color can become a powerful ally in communicating what you do.

If you have ever chosen a color “by instinct,” wondered why some combinations work while others don’t, or wanted to give more strength and personality to your creations, this workshop is for you.

Materials included: colored papers to work with, scissors and glue, plus a small reference booklet with theoretical and practical insights to keep with you and use as a guide whenever you work with color.

What to bring: just your curiosity, a willingness to experiment, and the pleasure of letting color guide you.

For more information:francescachessaillustrator@gmail.com

With the purchase of an Abilmente Academy course, your one-day admission ticket to Abilmente is included.