Easy, fun & creative geometric drawing with Formettes
Discover my method and tools to create unique geometric patterns and express your creativity.
Formettes:
A New Way of Drawing
Drawing is time for yourself — a breath of fresh air away from everyday life.
Formettes are simple, intuitive tools that let you trace geometric figures, from the most basic to the most intricate. No drawing skills required.
Geometric drawing becomes a game with Formettes. Discover your creative potential and hidden talents.
Unleash your creativity to beautify your home or transform everyday objects.
What’s more, the Formettes experience goes far beyond geometry. It’s a tool to refocus, sharpen concentration, and develop precision and dexterity. By playing with shapes and colors, everyone can express their individuality and creativity, with complete freedom.
Creating with Formettes is also about rediscovering:
The pleasure of making things with your hands, freely and at your own pace.
The power of personalizing an object that carries meaning.
The simple joy of a meditative moment.
A boost of confidence when your pattern comes to life.
Alone, with family, or in a creative workshop, Formettes are drawing kits that let you create decorative artwork while also treating yourself through drawing and artistic creation.
Formettes Workshops:
Draw Geometric Patterns in an Inspiring Setting
Come discover geometric drawing by joining a creative workshop in the heart of Lisbon.
A timeless moment where you create, share, and leave with an object that truly reflects you.
I’ll welcome you in a warm atmosphere and, after a short introduction to Formettes, you’ll let your imagination flow. Plenty of examples will be there to inspire you and help spark your own design ideas.
You’ll learn how to draw geometric shapes inspired by Portuguese azulejos or Moroccan floral motifs. Step by step, you’ll sketch your composition before painting, coloring, and decorating it however you like.
Throughout the workshop, I’ll guide you and share both my experience as a painter and my knowledge of Portuguese azulejos.
Our Formettes workshops are open to everyone: children from 10 years old, curious adults, drawing enthusiasts, or lovers of handmade wall décor. No artistic skills are required.
I invite you to enjoy a creative break immersed in Portuguese culture. It’s a chance to draw with total peace of mind, reconnect with your hands, and leave with a unique original artwork — along with a ceramic tile featuring your design, transferred using the Sublimation technique!
The result is a beautiful balance between personal expression, the heritage of traditional geometric drawing, and modern technology.
Our Formettes Kits:
Create Your Geometric Drawings Anywhere
Bring home the magic of Formettes with you. Our kits let you draw and build geometric figures at your own pace, independently — and transform your creations into objects you will love.
Each Kit Includes
A set of Formettes made from recycled plastic, to draw on the surface of your choice.
Model booklets with illustrated step-by-step guides.
A sketchbook with coloring examples and blank pages for your own drawings (depending on the kit version).
A pencil and eraser (depending on the kit version).
“The joy of tracing is a path to the happiness of creating.”
Whether as a gift or for yourself, it’s unique experience.
Alone, with family or friends, the Formettes kit is a creative experience that offers a true moment of well-being.
Draw, slow down, marvel:
the essence of Formettes
Formettes was born from a simple desire: to make geometric drawing accessible and fun.
It’s a project at the crossroads of traditional motifs, contemporary art, interior design, education, and well-being.
The idea came from a simple observation: many people would love to create, but believe they “can’t draw.”
Formettes are designed as intuitive tools that let anyone trace simple or complex geometric figures — and find fulfillment in repetition, proportions, and visual rhythms.
Inspired by azulejos, Art Deco, and Islamic art, Formettes open up a unique creative space, somewhere between decorative art, interior design, and creative leisure — where anyone can imagine works that are both beautiful and meaningful.
I drew on my experience as a painter and my quest for harmony to design a way to let people create beauty while also doing themselves good.
This sensitive, accessible approach connects gesture, imagination, and the joy of creating — inviting everyone to reconnect with their creative abilities.
“Drawing with Formettes is playing with shapes to create harmony.”
Have questions?
Formettes has the answers!
What exactly is a Formette?
A Formette is a “normaform” — a drawing stencil made from recycled plastic. It’s designed to guide you in creating simple geometric shapes or more elaborate patterns, easily and precisely.
Unlike traditional tools like rulers or compasses, Formettes let you intuitively draw decorative geometric patterns in a playful, accessible way — perfect even for complete beginners.
Slide it, rotate it, combine it! Each Formette offers a set of shapes you can freely mix and match to design geometric motifs on the surface of your choice: paper, cardboard, wood, even walls…
It can be a moment just for yourself, or something to share: Formettes are creative tools that calm, stimulate, and refocus. You play with lines, curves, and proportions — without pressure, simply for the joy of drawing.
How are Formettes made?
Our Formettes are designed and manufactured in Portugal, in small batches, using recycled plastic, following an artisanal and responsible approach.
They are carefully thought out to minimize environmental impact, to highlight local craftsmanship, and to offer you an object that is useful, beautiful, and sustainably made.
Formettes are remarkable tools — serving free, joyful, and mindful creativity.
Do you offer Formettes formats for schools and other institutions?
Our Formettes kits are perfectly suited for schools, leisure centers, libraries, and even therapeutic settings.
Designed to be fun, accessible, and versatile, they allow children (and adults alike!) to explore the basics of geometry in a hands-on and sensory way, while stimulating creativity, fine motor skills, and concentration.
Whether it’s to structure an educational activity, support fine motor development or rehabilitation, or simply to create artistic patterns, Formettes adapt to a wide variety of contexts and audiences.
Contact us for an offer tailored to your needs.
What patterns can you draw with Formettes?
Formettes let you trace simple geometric shapes that, once combined, become your own unique geometric designs.
Rosettes, borders, mandalas, tessellations, star patterns, floral or geometric motifs… Inspired by Portuguese azulejos, Art Deco, and oriental designs, Formettes open the door to an infinite world of creations.
They don’t impose a fixed pattern — instead, they offer a playful foundation for exploring, decorating, meditating, and letting your imagination flow.
By using them, you naturally learn how to structure a drawing, respect proportions, and explore symmetry and rotation.
“More than just a decorative tool, Formettes also offer a gentle way to explore visual geometry while boosting creativity.”
At what age can you start using Formettes?
Formettes can be introduced from around 7 or 8 years old, when fine motor skills are developing and children begin to grasp the first concepts of spatial geometry.
It’s important to respect the natural development of movement — without forcing or directing. The idea is to let the child explore freely and joyfully discover the shapes that emerge from their own hand.
How to Organize a Formettes Team Building for Your Company
A creative, customized, and inspiring team building experience
Every company has its own needs — that’s why Formettes team building workshops are fully adaptable. They are designed as a creative, collective break during your seminar or team day.
Duration: flexible – typically 2h30
Location: at your office or in a venue suited to your group size
Capacity: up to 30 participants
What’s included:
A moment of focus, relaxation, and creativity — accessible to everyone — to reconnect the team through a simple and universal gesture: drawing.
At the end of the workshop, individual or group creations are transferred onto a ceramic tile (or another medium of your choice, such as coasters or mugs) and delivered within a few hours or days.
A unique keepsake, personal or collective, to bring back to the office — or home.
What Are the Benefits of the Formettes Method?
Creativity Development
- Encourages free exploration of shapes and patterns
- Stimulates imagination, with no fixed model
- Allows you to create unique works, decorative or functional
Learning Through Action
- Introduces the basics of geometry in a concrete, intuitive way
- Raises awareness of proportion, symmetry, and visual composition
- Promotes an active and sensory approach to drawing
Fine Motor Skills & Coordination
- Improves movement precision (sliding, rotating, aligning…)
- Beneficial for children in development or rehabilitation
- Suitable for seniors or people with disabilities
Well-being & Focus
- A calm, meditative, and pressure-free activity
- Enhances grounding, attention management, and self-esteem
- Offers a creative break, alone or with others
Eco-Responsibility Awareness
- Made in Portugal, in small batches, from recycled plastic
- Promotes local, sustainable, and mindful consumption
- Shares values of environmental respect and the value of handmade work