Jane LaFazio led her second workshop in watercolor sketching. She is so amazing at how she can teach her students to produce the most beautiful pieces. This is a case where pictures do speak more than words. Look at what her students did last week! Jane asked each of her students to show one of [...]
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Amazing Sketching
Posted in Adventures in Italy Teachers, Art instruction, Learning Vacations on May 30, 2012 | 2 Comments »
Sue Spargo Workshop Pieces
Posted in Adventures in Italy Teachers, Art instruction, Learning Vacations on May 22, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Sue’s workshop is over. What a talented group we had. Each person made various degrees of progress on their pieces. Each project was completely individual, and each reflected some of what they experienced and/or were struck by during the week. Gorgeous work by gorgeous ladies. Also part of the group, but not taking the workshop [...]
Sue Spargo in Italy
Posted in Art instruction, Orvieto Experiences on May 15, 2012 | 2 Comments »
Sue Spargo’s class has begun in Orvieto. Today is day two of the workshop. Sue arrived a few days early along with other folks. And they wasted no time in getting out their stitching. We love going to Scarponni’s for coffee and a beautiful day led to stitching time over a cappuccino. Yesterday was cool, [...]
Quilt Embellishment in Orvieto Italy
Posted in Art instruction, Learning Vacations, Orvieto Experiences, Orvieto Italy, Small group travel Italy on June 4, 2011 | 3 Comments »
I am late getting to the final group that was with us this spring. The blog software was agonizingly slow in Orvieto so I gave up doing it there. So here I am. Sue Spargo led ladies from Australia, Ireland, Holland (living in France) and the U. S. in a delightful week of embellishing fabric. [...]
Learning in Italy
Posted in Art instruction, Learning Vacations, Orvieto Italy on April 8, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Sometimes, while taking a workshop, one’s ego can get in the way as you compare your work to that of others. It can appear as if everyone else’s pieces are better than yours. Yet, in Italy, the place is so inspired that it infuses your own work. Somehow, the ego is diminished, in a good [...]
Painting and playing in Orvieto, Italy
Posted in Adventures in Italy Teachers, Art instruction, Learning Vacations, Orvieto Italy on November 4, 2010 | 6 Comments »
It is hard to believe that we are back nearly four weeks from our last workshop this fall. That last workshop was fun and productive with an energetic group creating and playing into each night. Misty Mawn led a talented group in making journals and then filling them with inspiration from Orvieto. The character of [...]
Fabric, Beading, Quilting in Orvieto
Posted in Adventures in Italy Teachers, Art instruction, Culture, Learning Vacations, Orvieto Italy, Small group travel Italy on October 17, 2010 | 4 Comments »
Australia’s Lisa Walton led a workshop for us at the end of September producing some beautiful dyed fabrics, beaded scarves and more. At the same time a Discover Orvieto group was out exploring the food, wine, oil and culture of Orvieto. The two trips yielded a raft of memorable experiences and products. Lisa is a [...]
Orvieto, Italy – Creating
Posted in Adventures in Italy Teachers, Art instruction, Culture, Learning Vacations, Orvieto Experiences, Orvieto Italy on September 19, 2010 | 4 Comments »
We have just finished the first of three weeks of workshops in Orvieto. What a wonderful week where Tracie and Marylin Huskamp helped their students take pictures and transform them into works of art. We had a week of fun, sun, food, wine, art, vineyards, cooking, Etruscans and Italians. We also had Discover Orvieto going [...]
Artwork
Posted in Adventures in Italy Teachers, Art instruction, Learning Vacations, Orvieto Italy, Slow travel vacations on June 13, 2010 | 1 Comment »
As a person with limited artistic skills it is always wonderful to see how unbelievably talented and creative people are. Everyone arrived at our workshops this spring with varied skills and histories of painting and photography. Yet our remarkable teachers, Jan Phillips and Jane LaFazio, brought out the most incredible work from everyone. Friday afternoon [...]
Exploring Orvieto
Posted in Art instruction, Orvieto Italy on June 10, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Just back from Orvieto. What a great time it was. Here are a few pictures capturing some of our groups as they were out and about on “assignment” photographing and painting. Jane LaFazio and Jan Phillips were our two amazing teachers. There was also cooking, eating, wine tasting and more. We’ll get to that. But [...]
