Wietzie
Itinerary: May 12-19, 2018
Saturday
1pm: Pick up at Nice airport and transported to Bastide La Belle (BLB)
5pm: Welcome drinks
8pm: Three course dinner BLB
Sunday
9h30-12h30: Landscape painting preparation, concentrating on the relationship between light and colour. Discussing how to achieve a convincing sense of volume and depth in various expressive styles of landscape paintings from abstract to semi-abstract to realistic.
Lunch: Picnic in the French countryside
2h30-5h30: Painting in the French countryside
8pm: Three course dinner BLB
Monday
9h30-12h30: Working on your landscape painting
Lunch: Lunch at BLB
2h30-5h30: Completing your landscape painting
8pm: Dinner in Tourtour, a lovely hill top village close to Lorgues
Tuesday
9h00-12h00am: An early rise and we're off to enjoy the well-renowned Lorgues market. Remember to make some sketches of geometric lines in buildings as this afternoon we start on our color field abstract - think Nicolas de Stael or Mark Rothko.
Lunch: Local restaurant in Lorgues
2h30-5h30: Helpful visual information and discussion on abstract art emphasizing concept, composition, balance, colour, design, form and symbolism. Start on your abstract painting.
8pm: Three course dinner at BLB
Wednesday
8h30-12h30: Ferry ride to St. Tropez and a visit to the modern art museum the Annonciade Museum, which reminds us that Saint-Tropez has been one of the most active centres of avant-garde paintings at the beginning of the XXth Century.
Lunch: Restaurant in the port of St.Tropez
2h00-3h30: Leisure time in St.Tropez
4h30-5h30: Working on your abstract painting
8pm: Three course dinner at BLB
Thursday
9h30-12h30: Finalize your abstract painting.
Lunch: On the covered terrace at BLB
2h30-5h30: Semi-abstract flower painting preparation, concentration on the flower as a source of lines, shapes, space, gesture, color and value. You will learn how to create an abstract flower, with a variety of lines inspired by the subject in front of you or the memory of the flower.
6pm: Game of Petanque
8pm: Three course dinner at BLB
Friday
Morning: Working on your abstract flower painting
Lunch: On the covered terrace at BLB
2h30-5h30: Finalizing your semi-abstract flower painting
5.30: Wine tasting at Chateau de Saint Martin
8pm: Dinner in Les Arcs, a medieval village close to Lorgues
Saturday
10h00: Goodbyes and transport back to Nice Airport
€2550 pp sharing all inclusive, non-participating partner €1850. Single supplement €780. Our art vacations are limited to 6 persons
