Plein air scene in Val d'Orcia Tuscany A field

The Painting Workshop

A real art painting workshop in Italy; ten full days entirely devoted to art in the medium of your choice; oil, watercolor, acrylic, etc. Mornings are dedicated to significant art instruction at the lodge, afternoons to lighter coaching in a village in Tuscany (Cortona, Montepulciano, etc.) or Umbria, and most evenings to serious discussion on various art issues. However, you may work on sketches for the first few days, and then proceed to more accomplished works derived from these esquisses. If for some reason, you just want to wander and explore the territory, please do so.  We will spend one day in Florence visiting the Uffizi and some of its most important sites. Lectures for all, instruction for most, and personal conversations for those who wish, are the important foundations of this workshop, our most popular art course.

Meals provided at the lodge are a reflection of Tuscan cuisine: tomato sauce, Chianti wine, sage, garlic, olive oil, are the premises of one of the finest cuisine in the world.

Every two years, at the end of our painting workshop we are offering an optional two day trip to visit the celebrated Venice Biennale.

The Location

Since 1997, Studio Italia is given near Torrita di Siena in the beautiful Tuscany. We will stay in an old medieval borgo house, with its original terra cotta tiled floors and beamed ceilings, yet with the comfort of modern conveniences. The house has many bedrooms, bathrooms, a living room with a huge fireplace and a kitchen. Meals provided at the lodge are a reflection of the Italian cuisine, one of the finest in the world. Bells will call you early in the morning to paint, or to simply wander among the vines to meditate upon your work. Needless to say, this environment will undoubtedly contribute to the re-evaluation of your pictorial themes and to the renewal of your palette. The view of the hilltop medieval villages such as Pienza (The English Patient), Castelmuzio, or Prolio will undoubtedly leave you mesmerized.

The price
The price of the painting workshop includes: 10 night accommodation, all breakfasts, 8 lunches, 9 dinners, transportation from and to Arezzo train station , transportation to our painting sites, museum entrance, and tuition.

Price varies because of the current fluctuation, of the exchange rate, and flight costs depending on port of departure. Please contact us for price information

CALL > (800) 611-4789 or e-mail icscis@cyberus.ca
or icscis@sympatico.ca
Painting Workshop in Italy (Val d'Orcia)
Our Painting Workshop in Italy (A critique at our House)
Painting workshops in Italy (the contessa's Palazzo)
Art Painting workshop Tuscany (Our dining room)

The Rigomagno Art Festival

For the last two years, icscis has been working with the community of the Val di Chiana in establishing the art component of the Rigomagno Art and Jazz June Festival (Il Colle degli Ulivi). Once more, in June, all icscis painters will be showing their works during this week long happening, on top of meeting other Italian artists. Usually, at the last night, icscis and its artists participate in La Benefinita, the final party celebrating the end of the festival, with an open air supper served on the village piazza and followed by a dance.
Art Painting workshop Tuscany Italy (Rigomagno)

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updated on Saturday, September 20, 2008

one our most popular painting workshops

October 6 -16, 2008 (full)
June 20-30, 2009 (full)
July 6 -11 2009
July 13 - 18, 2009
October 5 - 15, 2009

Art Workshop Studio Italia