Perfect for All Levels of Artists!
This workshop is designed to welcome both beginning and experienced watercolorists. If you’re newer to watercolor painting, you’ll be guided through a clear and encouraging step-by-step process. If you’re more advanced, you’ll appreciate the nuanced instruction on layering, movement, and artistic expression.
You’ll paint along in real time, with direct guidance and live Q&A throughout the session. By the end of the day, you’ll have not only a finished painting, but a deeper understanding of the methods behind the process.
What You’ll Learn in the Tuscany Retreat Workshop:
How to paint atmospheric distance - create rolling hills that fade beautifully into the horizon using layered washes, soft edges, and color temperature shifts.
Capturing stone villas and rustic architecture - learn simple techniques to suggest age, texture, and warm sunlight on classic Tuscan buildings without overworking detail.
Designing with depth and movement - use winding roads, vineyard rows, and cypress trees to lead the eye and create a strong, inviting composition.
Mixing a harmonious Tuscan palette - master soft earth tones, sun-warmed neutrals, silvery greens, and distant blue mountains using a limited, cohesive color palette.
Light and shadow in the countryside - develop the ability to suggest time of day and atmosphere through warm highlights, cool shadows, and lost-and-found edges.
Natural foliage & vineyards - paint lively, believable trees, olive groves, and vineyard patterns using wet-into-wet, drybrush, and negative painting.
Telling a story with landscape - go beyond copying a scene to evoke emotion, nostalgia, and the quiet poetry of the Tuscan hills.
And so much more!
Then, we will apply everything we learn to a guided step-by-step demonstration of the painting shown above. As we go from step to step, we'll discuss the techniques and concepts we learned and how they directly relate to this painting. Since this will be a live, interactive, hands on experience, you'll have the opportunity to ask questions in real time and have them answered by the artist.
This two day event is going to help you to make a quantum leap in your watercolor painting abilities.
This is definitely a watercolor workshop you will not want to miss.