You will be guided by a passionate and experienced teacher, speaking fluent English in an inspiring and warm environment.
The teacher combines her passion for arts and watercolour with a competent teaching approach and a strong connection to nature.
She will give you tips and advises helping you to improve and develop your personal style and expression. 

You can learn how to draw your subject and compose the painting, about color theory and perspective. You will excercise different watercolour techniques, including layering, positive and negative painting, improve your control of water and colour. You will obtain all the necessary knowledge to continue the adventure of painting watercolours on your own once you will be back home!

You will be in constant contact with beauty and nature during your painting session or sunrise meditation. 

The wonderful Tuscan light has inspired an infinity of artists. 

Whether you are an absolute beginner looking for a new challenge, or more experienced willing to improve your existing artistic skills.....This is for you!

The marvellous views and scenic settings will inspire us with endless subjects. Painting 'en plein air'  and enjoying the outdoor location embracing olive grooves, wines and the hills of Chianti will certainly be an unforgettable experience. 
Sketching and drawing, composition and perspective, light and shadow - observing and capturing the Tuscan colours and light during different moments of the day, as well as studies of characteristic elements will be part of the program. You will learn how to build up a watercolour painting with layers and achieve deepness and distance to your work ending up with a very personal souvenir of Tuscany!
 

You will be inspired by the beatiful garden and surroundings with flowers, herbs, trees and branches with their foliage and fruits, pots with succulents and much more. Painting surrounded by the fragrance of the seasonal flowering such as roses, honeysuckle and iris, as well as herbs like mint, lavender, rosemary, is a pleasure for your senses but also a great way to practice and learn more about watercolour techniques and botany as the teacher is also a keen gardener.

Learn or improve your painting and drawing skills, blending colours, practicing the different techniques of layering, wet-on-wet painting and wet-on-dry painting. Inspiring still lifes with everyday objects, fruit or natural elements  will help us to study light and shadow, colour, prospective and composition, positive and negative painting as well as painting the background.

Often you learn the most when you are just playing with water and color! If you feel blocked when painting, even don't think you can draw or just want to feel more confident with this media, learn the basics of mixing the colors and experimental watercolour techniques, this is for you! You will excercise and learn more of techniques like wet on wet painting and wet on dry painting, positive and negative painting, how to create structures and experiment mixing different alternative materials. The skills you achieve will turn out very useful as part of your future paintings...and life!