Painting & Creativity Art
Workshop in Tuscany, Italy by artist Tjaša Iris
Program and Excursions… and DAY BY DAY program
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Intensive
one week Landscape Painting & Creativity Art 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 TUSCANY,
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...
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. The visual language, the energy of colour, about being personal, what
makes certain painters genius, about powerful, passion, about joy of life…
Great Italian Cuisine is big part of the great experience
that will be offered to you. It is impossible to visit Italy and not to taste
all the wonderful dishes. For dinners we will go to local farms and
restaurants. Most have a 3 course menue, some have a 4 course menue with wine.
We will have a typical Italian pizza evening one day. All the dishes are local
Tuscan cuisine. For lunch Tjaša will get you fresh lunch every day. She
will go shop every morning before the start of the lessons and she will buy: salamis,
cheeses, fresh vegetables, typical Tuscan breads...
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 is organizing and holding painting workshops since 1996.
ABOUT TJAŠA
IRIS Paintings: www.tjasairis.com
CLIENT LIST:
UBS
The American
Barclays
British Airways
Luftahansa
Amazon
Adobe
Ward - Young Architects,
Orange County Schools
City of
Anglo American
Banktechnology.com
Northern
Revlon
Nease/McDonald, Interior Design
Teetan and Associates
JPMorgan Chase
Sex & the City
Pfizer
Targa
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
SB Biotechnology
Mary Pat Fuchs Artist’s Residency in
Fondazione
Villa Benzi – Zecchin, Caerano di San Marco
MORE
ABOUT THE PROGRAM
under San Donato village
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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. We will paint
4 hours every morning. |
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San
Donato
DAY 1
Meeting at Fattoria (Farm) San Donato
at 7.30 pm for cocktail. We will have dinner after
that.
www.sandonato.it
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DAY 2
Painting en plein air from 9 am - 1 pm in the field near San Donato.
Light lunch. Afternoon visit to San Gimignano, visit of the old city with the
fortress, entrance to the Cathedral where we will see frescos of Barna di
Siena, Benozzo Gozzoli, Bartolo di Fredi, Ghirlandaio…
6.30 pm slide lecture
8 pm dinner
- an
afternoon excursion to San Gimignano, visit of the old city
center with the fortress, entrance to the Cathedral where we will see
frescos of Barna di Siena, Benozzo Gozzoli, Bartalo di Fredi, Ghirlandaio...
Piazza della Cisterna main square of San Gimignano, Collegiata church of
San Gimignano
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DAY 3
Painting en plein air from 9 am - 1 pm near San Donato. 
Light lunch. Slides at 4 pm.
Afternoon trekking excursion to Montauto, an ancient hill top town on the
Franchigena road.
6.30 pm slide lecture
8 pm dinner
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afternoon trekking excursion to Montauto an ancient hill town on
the Frachigena road.
from the way to Mountauto
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DAY 4
Painting en plein air from 9 am - 1 pm at San Donato. 
Light lunch. Afternoon trekking excursion to Castel Vecchio
a city abandon in the 13 th century in the middle of the woods.
6.30 pm slide lecture
8 pm dinner
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afternoon trekking painting excursion to Castel Vecchio a city abandon
in the 13st century in the middle of the woods.
Castel Vecchio abandon Romanesque church, Ruins of Castel Vecchio
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DAY 5
10.30 am slide lecture
A whole day painting excursion to Volterra. Visit of Etruscan museum.
6.30 pm slide lecture
8 pm dinner
- one
whole day excursion to Volterra with visit of world most
famous
......
ombra della
sera
II. B.C.
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DAY 6
Departure at 9 am.
A whole day painting excursion across little towns of Tuscany, a visit to two
museums with Tuscan paintings in the town of Sienna: visit of cathedral and
Piccolomini Library inside the cathedral with frescos of Pintoricchio, visit to
ancient fortified town of Monteriggioni, 
where we will paint in
the afternoon.
8 pm dinner
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one whole day excursion across little towns of
a visit to the town of
Sienna, Cathedral
od Sienna and frescos, Montereggioni
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DAY 7
Slides at 9 am.
Painting and finishing paintings.
Slides and final critique at 6 pm.
8 pm dinner
final critique
final critique
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DAY 8
Departure in the morning.
Admissions are opened to participants of
all ages and levels from 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
by offering them reduced rates.
The lessons
will be contemporarily in English and Italian.
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