Whether painting is your life or you are very much a beginner you will be inspired.
In such a wonderful setting you may want to spend most of your painting and sketching 'al fresco'. With the help and encouragement of our tutors you'll be amazed at your progress.
Our workshop sessions are experimental.
Here you will be introduced to new ideas, different techniques and media from conventional watercolours to wax and ink. How about collage or papermaking?
There's plenty of feedback aimed at personal development too - our tutors know how to get the best out of their students - in the nicest possible way.
Naturally, it's all very informal. How much or how little you do is entirely up to you. Feel free to pick and choose, to relax and enjoy the Versilia Tuscany.
Lido di Camaiore (between Viareggio and Forte dei Marmi, 20 km far from Lucca and Pisa) - your home throughout your stay. Five minutes outside the walled town of Fivizzano, a side road snakes up the hillside to the medieval hamlet of Caugliano.
You will be staying in an 20th Century 'villa Chini', built for his holiday in the heart of Lido di Camaiore (Versilia Tuscany) by Galileo Chini (1873 - 1956), friend of Giacomo Puccini who also stayed here several time. Recently restaured and updated to full comfort with 20 rooms, maintens the original furniture and 20 original paintings.
Painting Course "oil colours"
This painting course is for everyone. Forget about all the complicated theories you’ve ever heard and learn how to produce paintings with knockout power.
Capture the essential qualities of the Tuscan landscape. The special light, tones and textures that are so famous.
Discover the magic of your own style and express your ideas, paint with passion!
I don’t want to see how well you can paint details, or how skilful your work is, I want you to show me what grips you. The painter who is afraid to make mistakes is not going to have much fun, remember we are not interested in your public image, but your ideas.
When you have transcended the principles of technique, when you reach within yourself, then you will be able to capture a mood and expression that is uniquely yours will you truly make art…“By their works shall you know them”…
Each picture you paint, no matter what, is a portrait of YOU!
We will paint outdoors, beginning each session with a discussion of the scene in front of us. I will talk about composition, light and colour possibilities, bringing attention to the following:
- space (negative and positive)
- how to crop, use dominance, and layer effects
- using lines, shapes and textures to add structure and interest
- awareness of size relationships and perspective.
- How to combine colours and tones
Let’s make paintings that are more than just copies, more than pretty pictures, beyond stories…
We want to release ourselves from slavish technique, from photographic idealism, from proving our perfection.
Galileo Chini 1873 - 1956
BIOGRAPHY - Galileo Chini - Famous Italian Painter and Cheramist Galileo CHINI , famous italian painter and cheramist, was born in Florence on December
2nd 1873 and died on August 23 rd 1956
As his father died when he was 13, he began to work with his uncle
who was a decorator and restorator.He attended evening lessons at
a school of art, and in 1896, he funded "The Art of Ceramics"
(later called "Factory Fornaci S.Lorenzo), a small factory where
he created beautiful objects & thanks to them he introduced the
Liberty style in Italy.
As a painter he took part at the"Biennale di
Venezia" from 1901 till 1936. He worked, as a stage-designer,with
Sem BENELLI and Giacomo PUCCINI .
This cooperation brought to the creation of the scenes
for "Gianni SCHICCHI "and "TURANDOT"
.
In 1911 he was in Bangkok to decorate Siam King's palace.
He remained there till 1913: it was a triumph! Back in Italy, he taught
at the "Accademia di Belle Arti"in Florence. Some of his
beautiful works of Art can be found at the Modern Art Gallery in Rome,
at the Uffizi in Florence and at the Modern Art Gallery in Palazzo
Pitti.
During the last years of his life, he lived mainly
in Versilia,
in Fossa Dell'Abate ( today
Lido Di Camaiore ) where he had a beautiful villa (built in the
Liberty style), which is now the "Club I Pini Hotel where you
can still find some of his paintings and works of art. The hotel,
we are 20 km far from Pisa and Lucca, 85 km from Firenze, 30 From Carrara and 60 km from Cinqueterre ligurian Border
This great Region Tuscany ,
including the mountains and sea, has a thousand of faces, colors, scents and flavours.
The extraordinary variety of the landscape traditions, superb artistic and cultural patrimony, make Tuscany the emblem and the synthesis of Italy in general.
Tuscany Let the word roll over your tongue ... a charmed land, equally blessed by the genius of man and nature, and often by the combined efforts of both. Think of the vineyards: rows of baby green vines that manage somehow to march in arrow-straight formation up the gently rolling hillsides, bounded by single files of darker green cypress trees, roads leading to rust-colored farmhouses and moss-coated castles.
Drawing & Painting
For those who have always dreamed of making a drawing or to play with the colours on canvas, or to explore the magic of art and its secrets.
An expert teacher will guide you in your first steps, introducing the various materials, the importance of observation, in order to arrive at a point were the research will become more intuitive and thus bring you to the creation of your own original works.
The courses can be designed to meet your specific needs, and whereas there are no minimum numbers required, the classes will have not more than 6/8 students.
The courses will take place in the morning. Coffe and tea are included as well as a lunch in a typical italian trattoria.
Our Staff is at your complete disposal for quotations, availability and programs.
Lucca Tuscany private villa Overooking sea, ideal for Painter Course view and hight quite 10 Beds 12 km from Forte dei Marmi with Swimming-Pool
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As his father died when he was 13, he began to work with his uncle
who was a decorator and restorator.He attended evening lessons at
a school of art, and in 1896, he funded "The Art of Ceramics"
(later called "Factory Fornaci S.Lorenzo), a small factory where
he created beautiful objects & thanks to them he introduced the
Liberty style in Italy.
As a painter he took part at the"Biennale di
Venezia" from 1901 till 1936. He worked, as a stage-designer,with
Sem BENELLI and Giacomo PUCCINI .
This cooperation brought to the creation of the scenes
for "Gianni SCHICCHI "and "TURANDOT"
. 
After earning high school diploma, he lived in Rome for ten years working in the 
Riccardo Corti’s works can be seen at www.mercurioviareggio.com/corti.htm.
