Come & live La Bella Vita in Florence
What is the “Bella Vita” ?
Our answer: 7 days of drawing from Florence's beauty,
individual attention & the guidance of a highly trained & inspirational artist.
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Our guiding concepts will be to “wander” & “wonder” using drawing to record our experiences and observations with a focus on expanding our abilities to perceive & savor the small moments of beauty around us.
The antidote to living in a far too left-brained world, Italy, and particularly Florence,
in the heart of Tuscany, is where you will nourish inspiration, develop your skills, and enjoy slowing down to really taste life.
intensive
drawing workshop
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You do one workshop per day with afternoons free to continue working in your sketchbook and explore the city on your own. Or choose to work the whole day, doing one workshop in the morning, and after a leisurely lunch break, a second workshop in the afternoon... a special way to get to know the city through your art practice, all customized to your requests and interests.
Choose to concentrate on the figure, architecture, still life, landscape , or a combination . You are invited to make any special requests to deepen your forray into different approaches and imagery.
You can come as an absolute beginner or with years of experience. Your drawing intensive will be tailor-made to you.
Your classrooms are Florence’s museums, piazzas, streets, churches, gardens and hillsides, where you will develop your own personal approach to drawing through the discipline of practicing drawing and observational skills, each presented clearly to build on each other.
You’ll go home with a bound sketchbook filled with your sketches and inspirations,
& numerous completed drawings & studies. but most importantly, you take home with you tools that will change what you see for a lifetime.
With your eyes more opened to the beauty around you, and a sense of joy in a small thing done & appreciated well, you will live what we consider the true definition of la bella vita.
(..& if you wish, we can book you in the comfort of a private apartment in the heart of the historic center in Palazzo Belfiore, or at a private Renaissance villa nestled in the green hillsides just steps away, the lovely Villa le Piazzole ) (click & see!)
