This workshop is truly an art education. Why? Because it is in Italy and at lake Como, where there are many oppotunities to do plein-air paintings. We teach the authentic method, used by artists from Monet to Matisse, you will live in an enchanting villa, close to Bellagio, Tremezzo, among the romantic villages of Lake Como, and you will enjoy the romance of art, adventure, education, Italy and more.There are paintings for sale and I explain a rare method used by Monet, Cezanne, Brackman, Henri, Chase and others. So you get an art education like no other. You are also able to travel the area, relax, as well as take classes every day and learn about the secret techniques of some great artists. It is an art education just to be in Italy and in Lombardy and the Italian Lakes. But to study the methods of great painters and paint en plein-air every day and to receive personal art instruction makes this art education a painting holiday like no other. It is a art adventure. Our teacher to student ratio in our art classes is only 4 to 1. There are no other art classes or painting workshops with villa living that can boast of such personal attention, certainly not in Euopre or Italy and certainly not on Lake Como where everywhere you look there are great opportunities for painters, especially plein-air painters seeking to find an unusual vacation, one filled with romance and enchantment and adventure. So if you want to learn the authentic methods of French and American Impressionists like Monet, Cezanne, Sargent, William Meritt Chase, Robert Brackman, Robert Henri, Charles Hawthorne, and William Schultz and if you want to live in a villa on Lake Como close to the magical towns of Bellagio, Menaggio and Tremezzo, this is the travel holiday for you.

Fresia Studios is an art school like no other. Call it instruction, painting, vacation, or travel holiday, it is an art education and then some. It is really a life education, an adventure, one that provides an Italian lake experience that is as enchanting and romantic as it is creatively fulfilling. Fresia studios will re-introduce you to your own creative powers, to those aspects of life that make the ordinary tastes, sights and sounds of everyday life thrilling once again. This is a workshop vacation, a journey in education, that will last a life time. It is a point of view that you know but one that has been buried under the time-efficiency standards of the fast paced business world. This painting workshop offers art classes and instruction on plein-air painting that is based upon French and American impressionism. These painting classes which are given in Italy on Lake Como near Bellagio are based upon the authentic method used by such painters as Monet, Robert Henri and Robert Brackman. This is an unusual vacation because we open the door of your own ability to know your creative power. On one level it is oil lake painting, it is Italy, it is a school, it is instruction. But on another level it is an awakening, a renewal, a re-birth. It is education in the deepest and yet the most common sense.We teach the authentic method, used by artists from Monet to Henri, Brackman, Matisse, Chase, Hawthorne and William Schultz, you will live in an enchanting villa living, near Bellagio, Menaggio,Tremezzo, among the villages of Lake Como, enjoy the romance of art, adventure, education, Italy and more. Italy is romantic and there are many art classes and painting workshops in Italy, but the art classes and the painting workshop I provide on Lake Como are an art education that truly provides families with an unusual vacation and the opportunity to become a plein-air painter. I sell my oil paintings on this site and also I give away free oil paintings too and the best part is that if you buy oil paintings then you can live in Italy, on Lake Como in my villa for free with having to take the oil painting workshop. But if you do want to take the oil painting workshop in Italy on Lake Como, then I will give you a wonderful free oil painting which I painting in Italy on Lake Como en plein-air. This is the best art education that you can experience in all of Europe, including France, not just Italy or not just Lake como. If you like French Impressionism or American Impressionism or the work of Monet or if you like the philosophy of Robert Henri, then you will love my painting workshop in Italy on Lake Como. So join our workshops soon and you will get a free painting or if you buy an oil painting you will get a free room at my villa in Italy on Lake Como. You and your partner may also paint for a weekend, explore Lombardia in Italy, practice techniques, use colors and brushes any way you want. It is a real art education and study especially if you paint a portrait or landscapes and use unusual colors.In short, this art school is not about painting pictures or making oil paintings of lake scenes. And I should add, if you search for art classes or painting classes or painting workshops or any kind of art instruction or art schoos in all of Europe, this painting workshop will deliver. Not just because it is in Italy or Lake Como, which is incredibly beautiful. Not just because it is near Bellagio, but because we offer something that is unique.

Trust me, not in all of Europe, will you find villa living, an authentic plein air method of painting used by such great artists as Monet, Cezanne, Henri, Brackman, Schultz, and Hawthorne. Here is a travel vacation that could be called an adventure. Here is art education that you won't get by going to a museum or by taking a fluff class in Tuscany or Florence. This is unusual and unique, especially if you love lakes and boats and paintings of lakes and boats and especially if you are a plein-air painter.