Italian Alps – Plein Air Holiday/Workshop with Howard Friedland and Susan Blackwood

Description - *The price shown is "The Special Early Bird Discount" After the April 30th the price will be $3,995.` Join Howard Friedland – Oils and Acrylics and Susan Blackwood – Watercolor and Sketching For a Painting Holiday/Workshop of a lifetime! Plus: Sketching, Touring and Dining Tell your painting buddies! Your non-painter family and friends are welcome too! (Lower price, they don't pay for the instruction)! Just when you thought Italy couldn't be more beautiful, welcome to the Dolomites! Nestled in the foothills of the Italian Alps in the Veneto region, the Dolomites are a wonderful mix of Italy, Switzerland and Austria (3 in 1)! These mountains are a prime destination for skiers in the winter, but in the warmer months, they provide great opportunity for Plein Air painting from unending vistas to quaint villages and if you like… modest optional hikes among the hills and valleys, engulfed in the exquisite scenery. Howard Friedland Oil/Acrylic Workshop: In this workshop we will explore the spectacular landscape and villages of this region and it won't be difficult to find captivating subjects to ply our craft. Whether you are an experienced painter or are opening up your first tube of oil paint, I will work with you at whatever level of experience you have. You will learn the "tried and true" techniques that have been used by the best landscape painters in history. Susan Blackwood Watercolor Workshop: My passion is to put my feelings into my paintings using strong values, color harmonies, clear compositions and by expressing a feeling of light in paint. I want to pass these concepts and techniques on to you, by teaching you to identify your emotional response to any subject and then teach you how to express it with your medium. You will learn to interpret each subject according to how you personally respond internally. Through plein air painting, we will explore a variety of techniques and approaches to creating a painting. PLUS! We will be teaching everyone the fine art of sketching, the tricks and the techniques… for everyone on the trip! Buy a new sketchbook and plan on filling it up with memories from this trip. Register NOW