Painting & Creativity Art
Workshops in Puglia, Southern Italy by artist Tjaša Iris
Program and Excursions / day by day
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Intensive
one week Landscape Painting Classes & Creativity Workshop in
Color theory. Slides of contemporary
and modern art will be shown each evening. It is as well an art appreciation course.
We live in a society in which the creative
ethos is
increasingly dominant.
The future belongs to a different kind of person with a different kind
of mind: artists, inventors, creative "right-brain" thinkers whose abilities
mark the fault line between
who gets ahead and who doesn't.
WHAT IS THIS
WORKSHOP ALL ABOUT:
Tjaša Iris, an internationally acclaimed artist will guide you in order
for you to explore your creative potential, develop your own painting style and
see and be inspired in some of the most beautiful places in the world as
PUGLIA, Southern Italy.
This workshop is going to open your eyes on art. It will make you discover your
own creativity. Your
visual creativity. You will learn a lot about painting.
Tjaša will work with you so that you develop your own personal style. It
is as well an art appreciation course for those of you who love art and will
wish to know more about it. It is also a cultural & gourmet tour. You will
get to know a lot about the country that you will be visiting. About its art
& history. It is for you to enjoy their best wines & cuisine. It will
be about pleasurable painting. Plein air landscape painting. Four hours of painting
per day and one hour of an evening slide lecture - art appreciation course. It
will be about relaxing and having fun while learning and discovering. Many
museum & cultural sites visits. In a couple of afternoons you will be as
well invited to go trekking with Tjaša. And more...
Some more STARTING POINTS FOR THE WORKSHOP WEEK:
Tjaša Iris:
“You know that we
painters see much more than other people can see.”
“Creativity is
something we are born with. It just needs to be nourished constantly and in
many ways.”
A quote from our client:
"Ask an economist. The arts are big business and a good investment. Ask an
educator. The arts give our youth the creative edge we need to compete in the
21st century work force."
DAY BY DAY: The first day will be about loosing
the fear and about getting loose. In the following days we will get more
intellectual, but we will also play a lot. Tjaša finds learning through
having fun as the most important way of learning & making progress in life.
You will be painting without thinking, you will analyze lots of paintings
painted by very famous artists with Tjaša. Learn about the visual. Analyze
from the highest intellectual point of view why something works and why
something else does not. Learn about the visual language, the energy of colour,
about being personal, what makes certain painters genius, about powerful,
passion, harmony, about joy of life…
FOR WHO THIS WORKSHOP IS GOOD FOR:
and
why
- For business people, corporative, investors, entrepreneurs, business
owners who, as part of their innovation strategy, need to bring
creativity to the innovation process. The workshop aims to develop your business creativity. Investments
into creativity and innovations are the most important for your business right
now in the present time of economic crises. Only the creative people will be
the most successful ones. Many of the people taking the workshop are sent by
their companies as part of their professional development (and in this case
workshop expenses may also be tax-deductible). This workshop make the
participants aware of their own creativity. And how to use it. So, once back to
their office, they are now able to recognize and use their own creativity to
the full at their own work place. They are now turning economic crises into
opportunity.
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For scientists The workshop aims to develop more the right-side of your brain. A very
successful scientists need both right and left side of their brain. Science is
unable to make new big steps without the scientist being very creative people.
Visual creativity can help enormously to the scientists in order to achieve
most significant results in science.
- For art collectors and investors With Tjaša Iris
you will paint in one of the most beautiful places in the world. Under her
guidenes, trying to paint yourself, will expand your perceptions and will
totally open your eyes on the works of other artists, too. The evening art
appreciation course will make you understand, why a certain painting is good.
What was it that the artist did that was so genius. What is it that makes
certain paintings special and precious and others not. During Tjaša's
evening slides lectures, you will analyze many works of art. For investors keen to gain a competitive edge. The workshop will
mean a solid base for your art collection and for your future
investments.
- For those of you who are in Education Many educators taking
the workshop receive financial help from their school district or university to
attend our summer workshops in
- For artists and art lovers With Tjaša Iris you will paint in one
of the most beautiful places in the world. Tjaša will help you develop
your personal style. And will make you find inspiration in these
wonderful places, for an unforgettable
painting vacation. The art appreciation course will help you
understand art better as well as it will make you develop a more critical
thinking about art.
ABOUT
TJAŠA IRIS
is a European artist. Slovenian born,
Italian by adoption.
She studied Fine Art in
She is an internationally acclaimed painter. She is organizing and
holding painting workshops since 1996.
ABOUT
TJAŠA IRIS Paintings: www.tjasairis.com
CLIENT LIST:
UBS
The American Museum of Natural History,
New York
Barclays London
British Airways
Luftahansa
Amazon
Adobe
Ward - Young Architects, California
Orange County Schools
City of Sidney (Urban Design)
Anglo American
Banktechnology.com
Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist
Art
Northern Arizona University
Revlon
Nease/McDonald, Interior Design
Mayo Clinic Hospital, Arizona
Teetan and Associates
JPMorgan Chase
Sex & the City
Pfizer
Targa
Lenox Hill Hospital
Isabel Le Roux
The American Jewish Committee
Universita' di Napoli
Mars
Clarus & Fidelis Consulting
Elan
People Magazine
Tour Strategies, AU
MBM Intellectual Property Law LLP
Ann Warner
Boston Globe
SB Biotechnology
Mary Pat Fuchs Artist’s Residency in
Fondazione
Villa Benzi Zecchin, Caerano di San Marco
MORE ABOUT THE PROGRAM
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Emphasis will be put on perception
and observation, as the bases to painting. I will help you develop your
personal outlook, as well as inspire your imagination in all this magical
places and to help you appreciate art to the full. Emphasis will be put on
CREATIVITY, visual language, color and the use of color. We will paint 4
hours every morning. to more accomplished works derived
from these last. Or you may simply paint two or three works a day. If for
some reason, you want to wonder and explore the territory during these
days, you are pleased to do so.
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Three days we will go on excursions to places of major artistic and cultural
importance: we will paint trulli at Alberobello, archeological rests
at Egnazia where we will also
visit the
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Alberobello,
trulli houses
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..... gulf of Egnazia
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Lecce, Santa Croce
baroque church, detail
olive growths in spring centuries old olive trees |
Ostuni white 
FOR
THOSE JOINING FROM 23 - 30 SEPTEMBER:
That
is still the season to go to the beach and to use the swimming pool at Masseria
Salamina!
We
will be painting as well on the
beach of Egnazia or Capitolo and fishman village of Sevelletri.
day by day
March - April 2008
Day 1. Meeting
at 7.30 pm for cocktail and dinner.
Day 2. Painting from 9 am till 1 pm at Masseria Salamina.
Lunch at 1 pm. Free afternoon painting. 6 - 7 pm critique, slide lecture.
Dinner 8 pm.
Day 3.
Travelling to Alberobello, the town of trulli houses. Visit of the town.
Painting 4 hours. Return in late afternoon. 6 - 7 pm critique, slide lecture.
Dinner 8 pm.
Day 4. Visit of Lecce, the baroque city. Painting in Lecce
4 hours. Return in late afternoon. 6 - 7 pm critique, slide lecture. Dinner 8
pm.
Day 5.
Visit of Egnazia arch. site, visit of the
Dinner 8 pm.
Day 6. Painting from 9 am till 1pm at Savelettri fishman
village. Lunch at 1 pm. 6 - 7 pm critique, slide lecture. Dinner 8 pm.
Day 7. Painting from 9 am in Ostuni. Lunch at 1 pm. Free
afternoon painting. 6 - 7 pm critique, slide lecture. Dinner 8 pm.
Day 8. Departure.
September
2008
23 Sept.
Meeting at 7.30 pm for cocktail and dinner.
24 Sept. Painting from 9 am till 1pm at Masseria Salamina.
Lunch at 1 pm. Free afternoon painting. 7 pm critique, slide lecture. Dinner 8
pm.
25 Sept. Visit of Egnazia arch. site, visit of the
Dinner 8 pm.
26 Sept. Visit of Lecce, the baroque city. Painting in Lecce
4 hours. Return in late afternoon. 7 pm critique, slide lecture. Dinner 8 pm.
27 Sept.
Travelling to Alberobello, the town of trulli houses. Visit of the town and the
annual town feast of the Saints Cosimo and Damiano. Painting 4 hours. Return in
late afternoon. 7 pm critique, slide lecture. Dinner 8 pm.
28 Sept. Painting from 9 am till 1pm at Savelettri fishman
village. Lunch at 1 pm. 7 pm critique, slide lecture. Dinner 8 pm.
29 Sept. Painting from 9 am till 1pm in Ostuni - the white
town. Lunch at 1 pm. Afternoon for finishing paintings. 7 pm final critique,
slide lecture. Dinner 8 pm.
30 Sept. Departure after breakfast.
Admissions
are opened to participants of all ages and levels, from the beginners to
advanced.
I realize how important it is for you to travel light. I will provide all you
need for your lessons: acrylic paints, brushes, canvases, paper, French
easels, chairs...(just if you wish to work in any different mediums, I ask you
to bring your own paints).
Because the workshop is limited to 8 participants, I encourage you to send your
enrolment form with deposit as soon as possible. In event of inclement weather,
arrangements will be made for indoor painting. There will be no rain dates or
refunds for inclement weather.
I
encourage non painter partner to join us for daily excursions, meals and
evening art appreciation course by offering them reduced rates.
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Painting Workshop in Puglia, Southern Italy