
FLORENCE on April 21-28
PLEIN AIR workshop
ITALY 2025
For any level
No age restrictions
- English-speaking
- Russian-speaking
- Portrait with a model in the open air
- Landscape from sketch to picture




VENICE In June
PLEIN AIR workshop
ITALY 2025
For any level
No age restrictions
- English-speaking
- Russian-speaking
- Landscape from sketch to picture




Hi, welcome!
We've created the opportunity to explore not only the most beautiful city in the world, but your unique way to absorbe it.
Every weekend we spend time doing things we love and creating the bonds between people from all around the world through our passion to art.
What awaits you?
The Florentine plain air includes the task of the portrait in the open air lighting, we will discuss how natural light affects the general flavor and color schemes in the portrait. Every day we are engaged in the scenery for 2 hours and 2 hours with a portrait, classes are held in the morning. One of the days we will write an evening study. Plus, we will devote one hour daily the theory - we will discuss the plain painting, the features of conducting in a particular technique, as well as a part of the time we will devote to discussing the pastures of the past day: we are counting on 5 hours of daily work.
IMMERSION
During the workshhop you will be immersed in the process of drawing landscapes of narrow streets, medieval towers and churches of Italy. Live, from nature.
INDIVIDUAL GOALS
After the short etude sessions you'll be able to transform some of your best pieces into the long-session artworks on a large-scale format where you'll reach your personal goals as an artist.
DEVELOPMENT
The main task of the life-painting sessions is to develop the sence of an environment and the impact of the light and the air on it. You will discover techniques and skills that are going to help you to express an atmospheric and emotional side o your artwork.
SUPPORT
Throughout the process you'll be guided by an experienced professional artist and tutor, receive the feedback and advices for your future realisation.


















The results of landscape practices
We will display all the work that we will do in pleid practices to come to the landscape as a picture with an optimal compositional, color and technical solution.
During the year, we will select work for the exhibition. We plan an exhibition in Venice in Palazzo Barbaro has historically been a significant hub for American artists, often dubbed the "Venetian Mecca." Now, the Palazzo is poised to reopen its doors, welcoming us to its historically rich interiors, adorned with masterpieces by American artists of the 19th century.
In 1881, the older palazzo was rented by a relative of the American painter John Singer Sargent, Daniel Sargent Curtis, who eventually purchased it in 1885. Daniel and Ariana Curtis undertook extensive repairs and restoration of Palazzo Barbaro, transforming it into a vibrant center of American artistic life in Venice. The palazzo saw visits from luminaries such as Sargent himself, their son Ralph Wormeley Curtis, Henry James, Whistler, Robert Browning, and Claude Monet. Notable members of the "Barbaro Circle" included Bernard Berenson, William Merritt Chase, Isabella Stewart Gardner, Edith Wharton, and Charles Eliot Norton.
Henry James famously completed The Aspern Papers at a desk still housed within the palace today. James lauded the Barbaro ballroom as the epitome of Venetian Baroque interiors, immortalizing it with a vivid description in his novel The Wings of the Dove. In 1898, John Singer Sargent captured a group portrait of the Curtis family within the salon, titled An Interior in Venice.
Participation
You can choose the type of participation depending on your own schedule.
ONE-DAY EXPRESS WORKSHOP
130 €
Even if you want to spend only one day with us, we can make it absolutly beneficial and incredible. The workshop starts early in the morning and is held in several locations.
WEEKEND WORKSHOP
220 €
The weekend workshop is a two-days study journey. It perectly suits for those who want to spend the weekkend in the company of like-minded people and immerse more deep in the process of life-painting.
THREE-DAYS WORKSHOP
300 €
Starts in the Friday's aternoon and ends on Sunday. Great option for slowly diving into the process and explore the life-painting sessions.
FULL WORKSHOP
550 €
Designed for anyone regardless of the previous artistic practice. Take your favorite creative material and enjoy the journey of exploring city within yourself.
