Eat, Paint, Love
Painting with Alix Martin
Dates: May 15 - 21, 2011
Instructor/Leader: Alix Martin
Cost - $2875
Trip Description
Paint, eat, draw, and love your way through the Italian countryside. Experience its unparalleled food, inspired architecture, lively market places and sacred spaces. Spend afternoons gathering inspiration from the vineyards and village life, and spend mornings capturing your experiences on canvas in the studio. The trip is a tribute to the masters: experiencing what it was like to be an artist in Europe, reflecting life through art.
Alix will introduce the laying out of unique composition with both your eye and your camera, bringing these ideas into our inspired studio. She will guide you in exploring color and composition, texture, line and value. You will work with acrylic paints. The subject of your masterpieces will be the people, the historic buildings, the captivating landscapes, and the delicious plates of amazing cuisine in front of you.
Leave Italy with a collection of paintings and drawings to share and inspire, drawn from your personal time and experiences abroad. Even more, you will leave with the ability to use your new techniques and approach of capturing life on canvas in your travels to come.
Itinerary
May 15 - Arrive Orvieto, introductions, tour of our B&B,
group dinner
May 16 - Morning Studio: Setting up your composition,
capturing the moment, introduction to technique
Afternoon Exploration:
• Introduction to Italian culture, olive oil and wine
tasting in an Etruscan setting
• Walking tour of Orvieto - scouting subject matter
May 17 - Morning Studio: Using photographs from previous
day's walk, capturing a memory in paint
Afternoon Exploration:
• Cooking class - learn to make pasta and other
dishes, and enjoy the fruits of your labors!
May 18 - Morning Studio: Immortalize in paint the
gastronomic tour de force of the night before
Afternoon Exploration:
• Etruscan cave tour
May 19 - Morning Studio: Visit the weekly market to inspire
a painted series of your market finds
Picnic lunch with food from the market
Afternoon Exploration:
• Vineyard tour - see the vintner’s passion for wine
Sample local wines, including Orvieto Classico
May 20 - Morning Studio: Figure drawing/live model painting
Afternoon Studio: Final details and presentations
May 21 - Depart Orvieto
Details
Cost - $2875. Fee includes six nights double occupancy lodging, six breakfasts, one dinner, all cultural events, and instruction. Single occupancy available for an additional cost. Because Italian cuisine is such fun, meals are not prearranged allowing you the freedom to choose where and what to eat. We give lots of advice and no one eats alone! Travel costs are not included.
Click here for registrations and terms, or contact us by
e-mail, phone or writing at the contact information below.
Painting with Alix Martin
Dates: May 15 - 21, 2011
Instructor/Leader: Alix Martin
Cost - $2875
Trip Description
Paint, eat, draw, and love your way through the Italian countryside. Experience its unparalleled food, inspired architecture, lively market places and sacred spaces. Spend afternoons gathering inspiration from the vineyards and village life, and spend mornings capturing your experiences on canvas in the studio. The trip is a tribute to the masters: experiencing what it was like to be an artist in Europe, reflecting life through art.
Alix will introduce the laying out of unique composition with both your eye and your camera, bringing these ideas into our inspired studio. She will guide you in exploring color and composition, texture, line and value. You will work with acrylic paints. The subject of your masterpieces will be the people, the historic buildings, the captivating landscapes, and the delicious plates of amazing cuisine in front of you.
Leave Italy with a collection of paintings and drawings to share and inspire, drawn from your personal time and experiences abroad. Even more, you will leave with the ability to use your new techniques and approach of capturing life on canvas in your travels to come.
Itinerary
May 15 - Arrive Orvieto, introductions, tour of our B&B,
group dinner
May 16 - Morning Studio: Setting up your composition,
capturing the moment, introduction to technique
Afternoon Exploration:
• Introduction to Italian culture, olive oil and wine
tasting in an Etruscan setting
• Walking tour of Orvieto - scouting subject matter
May 17 - Morning Studio: Using photographs from previous
day's walk, capturing a memory in paint
Afternoon Exploration:
• Cooking class - learn to make pasta and other
dishes, and enjoy the fruits of your labors!
May 18 - Morning Studio: Immortalize in paint the
gastronomic tour de force of the night before
Afternoon Exploration:
• Etruscan cave tour
May 19 - Morning Studio: Visit the weekly market to inspire
a painted series of your market finds
Picnic lunch with food from the market
Afternoon Exploration:
• Vineyard tour - see the vintner’s passion for wine
Sample local wines, including Orvieto Classico
May 20 - Morning Studio: Figure drawing/live model painting
Afternoon Studio: Final details and presentations
May 21 - Depart Orvieto
Details
Cost - $2875. Fee includes six nights double occupancy lodging, six breakfasts, one dinner, all cultural events, and instruction. Single occupancy available for an additional cost. Because Italian cuisine is such fun, meals are not prearranged allowing you the freedom to choose where and what to eat. We give lots of advice and no one eats alone! Travel costs are not included.
Click here for registrations and terms, or contact us by
e-mail, phone or writing at the contact information below.
Adventures in Italy, 221 Forest Hill St., Morganton, NC 28655, 828.221.2322, info@AdventuresInItaly.net
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Meet Alix
A professional
artist for many
years, Alix has
traveled
throughout the
U.S. and Europe
studying and
creating art. Alix was born on the west coast of Florida in Sarasota. She spent her early years painting
A professional
artist for many
years, Alix has
traveled
throughout the
U.S. and Europe
studying and
creating art. Alix was born on the west coast of Florida in Sarasota. She spent her early years painting
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and drawing in the marinas and riding her bike to Towles Court, the artist colony near her childhood home. As an adult she studied art education and has taught painting at the Ringling Museum of Art in Sarasota, a place where she was inspired as a child to become an artist.
Her murals can be found in San Francisco, California, Olonzac, France, and The Florida Keys. She currently has her work on display at the Annie Adams Gallery Buffalo, N.Y. and at redFISH Art Studios and Gallery in East Aurora, NY, the Gallery and Studios she founded in 2002. Learn more at her web site.
