COST INCLUDES
- Workshop fee, personal & group instruction & discussions, assistance.
- All group ground transportation: trains, boats, taxis.
- All hotels in Venice & Florence.
- 4 Group Dinners and all Continental Breakfasts.
- Museum entrance fees, personal assistance, guides & more!
- Not included: Passport, personal items, laundry, art supplies.
- Not included: Airfare - Use WW rate, use air miles, or make your own arrangements.
WORKSHOP DEMANDS: This is a well-paced workshop, walking and or taking a water taxi to most morning and afternoon painting sessions, with a couple of classic sunset painting sessions. There will be time to rest later in the afternoons and evening as one paints and takes in the sights of Venice and Florence as well as some of the best shopping in the world. The excellent hotels are centrally located for coming and going with painting gear and luggage. The group will be taking a boat from the airport in Venice for our arrival and a boat to the train station for the trip to Florence. Bags must be manageable and each person responsible for their own belongings and gear. All painting sites will be within walking distance or taxi.
FOOD: A continental breakfast is provided each morning as well as four group dinners. However, it is necessary to explore the various districts the workshop visits for a local lunch snack as well as for an evening meal.
SUPPPIES: Upon receipt of a deposit, a copy of a personal packing and supply list will be sent to each participant or one may access the website. We will walk and or water taxi to all painting sites. There is not a great physical demand in order to reach the locations, with the terrain being flat. All of the work will be on-location during the workshop, sometimes inside a public space, all most all of it outside.
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PROGRAM SCHEDULE
During an ideal day, everything and more will be completed. Weather will modify daily choices. Departure times will be announced the day before.
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Monday, July 7 |
DEPARTURE – US GATEWAY CITIES
Please coordinate airline transfers and arrivals with Watercolor Worldwide for European connections, the Venice arrival and Florence Departure. |
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Tuesday, July 8 |
ARRIVAL VENICE, ITALY, hotel check-in, 6 nights, free-time, GROUP DINNER, evening stroll to the nearby San Marco Plaza
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Wednesday, July 9 |
Morning & afternoon painting sessions
Castello district-This is the largest area of the city the island taking in the Bascilica of San Marco, Campo San Francesco della Vigna, the Romanesque cloister of Sant¹Appollonia, under a beautiful carved-stone Gothic archway to the Church of San Zaccaria, the Church of San Francesco della Vigna, seldom visited, but also includes Bellini¹s moving ³Madonna and Child with Saints²-1507 masterpiece & a stop at San Giovannia in Braggora – a small baptismal church for the Venetian composer Vivaldi.
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Thursday, July 10 |
Morning, afternoon and early evening painting session Cannaregio, the northwestern district as this has long been a working-class enclave. More recently, it has become the city¹s Rive Gauche, attracting artists and writers. The painting base will be at the Church of the Madonna dell¹Orto. The Gothic sanctuary is filled with remarkable treasures, including a stunning Tintoretto; the Ghetto, old Jewish quarter on a shopping day & Ca¹ Mocengio, a small museum with 18 C interiors. An afternoon and evening at the Venice Biennale.
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Friday, July 11 |
Colorful Lagoon Island of Burano will provide a full day of bold images to paint. Burano is the most colorful of the lagoon islands and a great painting location. A late day arrival back into Venice will provide a grand view of the romantic city from the sea.
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Saturday, July 12 |
Morning & afternoon painting sessions. A day in Dorsoduro-which means ³hard backbone² to the south and west, crossing the canal at the Accademia Bridge or Rialto, the Accademia Museum, with the beautiful Campo Santa Margherita, as the base. We will also be visiting: the 17th C Scuola Grande dei Carmini, Church of San Sebastiano, wonderful painting sights of the boat market off the campo, ending at the Guggenheim Collection.
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Sunday, July 13 |
Morning painting session, in the church area & afternoon painting session Campo San Polo will serve as our base near the Rialto Bridge and markets. This area is named along with Santa Croce after churches bordered by the upper sweep of the Grand Canal. Important sites to be visited include: Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari, which include master pieces by Bellini, Titian and Donatello; Sculo Grande di San Rocco-panorama by Tittoretto; San Giovanni Evangelista and the marble screen will be highlights of this painting day. FAREWELL VENICE GROUP DINNER
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Monday, July 14 |
DEPARTURE-FLORENCE, 8:33 AM train, 1st class reservations. ARRIVAL-FLORENCE, 11: 22 AM hotel check-in for bag storage, 2 nights www.italyhotel.com/it/firenze/paris/
Galleria dell¹ Accademia and of course the important David, sketching time, sightseeing, group painting session, free-time GROUP DINNER
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Tuesday, July 15 |
Museum morning at the Cappelle dei Medici, Uffizi Gallery with a highlight tour and discussion of one of the world¹s great collections, lunch break, afternoon painting session, free-time, FAREWELL GROUP DINNER
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Wednesday, July 16 |
DEPARTURE-FLORENCE - US GATEWAY CITIES
WORSKHOP COMPLETED
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