Turn your passion for COLOR into breathtaking RESULTS

Be part of a select group of professionals who have been trained by Kathryn Kalisz, founder of Sci\ART® and creator of the Sci\ART Twelve-Tone Color System™. Access the professional knowledge and tools and ongoing support that are setting the standard for personal color analysis worldwide.

The Twelve-Tone System is the most precisely organized and accurate color analysis system for personal image enhancement available today. In fact, this program is ONLY offered as a face-to-face training program because online programs are too limiting. Sci\ART offered an online program in the past, and concluded that participants were missing important benefits that can only be gained in the classroom, where simultaneous review and discussion of color can take place.

Color your perceptions of personal SUCCESS

Color creates a powerful impression. In fact, when we look at someone, color is the very first thing we see. Color also lends an emotional response to first impressions, that shape, size, and style cannot. It quite literally COLORS our perceptions.

Stylists in the entertainment industry have prized this little known fact for decades. They have used color to the fullest advantage to slenderize, beautify, dignify, minimize, enhance, and otherwise create any image a director could imagine.

The world recognizes color

People have always understood the idea of someone looking fabulous in a certain color. However, the notion of wearing "the right colors" as a tool for personal image enhancement came into the spotlight in the early 1980s, most notably because of the book, "Color Me Beautiful" by Carole Jackson. Some people found great success using the seasonal approach. They were "sold for life".

That's because their color palette aligned perfectly with a true Winter, Spring, Summer, or Fall skin tone. For the significant number of people with skin tone that did not perfectly align with one of the four seasons, however, disappointment resulted when they "had their colors done" and found they didn't feel good in their colors. It didn't take long for discerning consumers and color analysts alike to recognize there were inherent limitations in the four seasons approach. Imagine. Even in the heyday of "Color Me Beautiful", two-thirds of your clients would have walked away dissatisfied. Worse, you would have lost credibility as people walked away wondering why you didn't do a better job of matching them up to one of the four palettes.

Sci\ART has transformed seasonal color analysis

Kathryn Kalisz, founder and CEO of Sci\ART found this dilemma fascinating. She decided to take on the challenge of uncovering what was missing in the four seasons approach. Through her comprehensive research, her extensive experience as a fine artist, and her seven years working full-time as one of four master colorists for renowned artist and color standards expert Munsell during a period when every example of every color had to be produced for use by industry for color matching purposes, she knew that virtually two-thirds of humanity has skin tones that are neutral. This means they fall between warm and cool, and more importantly, they fall outside the four seasonal palettes. From this robust frame of reference, - along with her exceptionally gifted eye as evidenced by her 100% accurate color vision when tested by Munsell - Kathryn devised the Twelve-Tone Color System™. It is the ultimate extension of the seasonal color approach.

Imagine a color system so accurate, yet so straightforward to use

The Twelve-Tone Color System is a comprehensively researched, well-defined approach to personal color analysis. Using the four seasons approach as its touchstone, it is a system that provides four valuable advantages to you and your clients:

• Twelve Unique Color Tones - for each of twelve identifiable skin tones, there are twelve mutually exclusive color palettes - no overlap, no confusion, and no "cheat" colors. Your clients will be able to clearly identify which colors are right for them, and which colors are not, making shopping easier.
• Distinctive, Identifiable Hues - Kathryn's system is based on a scientific approach to color. This means the selection of hues in each of the twelve tones can be validated in terms of their respective position in three dimensional color space. More importantly, it means this is a true color system - one that is explainable, NOT subjective.
• 64 Hues in each Palette - each of the twelve tones spans a full spectrum of hues, offering your clients versatility. Most palettes provide no more than 35-40 hues, while Kathryn's system makes it easy for your clients to immediately come away with a wide selection of colors they like.
• A World Community of Color Tones - the twelve color tones devised by Kathryn make the results of personal color analysis three times more precise. They beautifully encompass the full range of skin tones found in all races and nationalities.

A Note From Kathryn Kalisz, Founder and CEO

Science and art color our world.

Do you want to understand how color can improve your life? If you answered "yes," then you'll want to bookmark this site. This is where you will return to learn more about the life-sustaining qualities of color and how it can empower those who embrace its nature.

Whether you wish to use color to enhance your appearance or heal your body, you first must recognize this: While color most certainly is an art, it also is a science. I have spent my life developing the ability to understand the relationship between the two, and it is why I named my business Sci\ART Global when I started it in 2000.

You can read all about my background as an artist and colorist, as well about how Sci\ART has become the industry's gold standard for educating and certifying color analysts worldwide, here on this site. There also is useful information here about our services and products, as well as an overview of my book, Understanding Your Color - A Guide to Personal Color Analysis.

You also can learn about how light and color therapy is gaining popularity as a holistic health practice and increasingly gaining respect in the mainstream medical community. (Check here for a few health care providers who think so)

It is my intention to use our new blog as an educational tool that will raise awareness about these specialized applications of color, and to offer my expertise to help those who need it. It will include topics that are essential to both existing and potential clients, and it also will include links to other World Wide Web sites that contain relevant information about color, light, science, art and even fashion.

As the dialogue develops, I am hopeful it will foster a greater appreciation about color and how it can be used every day to improve your life and the world around you.

I hope you'll drop by frequently. But until the next time, always remember: When it comes to color, beauty and health are inseparable.