Class Description
FRESIA‘s oil painting classes are held at Villa de Herra, a 17th century villa located directly on the lake in Lenno. They are open to students with any level of painting experience.
In 2012, we will offer 10 one-week classes, two of which will focus on painting flowers. You may sign up for 2 or more 1-week classes if you wish.
Special Class: Flowers in February
LOCATION: Villa de Herra, Lenno, Lake Como
DATES: February 12-18 & 19-25 (Sunday-Saturday)
WORKSHOP FEE: To find out, send email thru Contact form .
INCLUSIONS: 25 hours of class time, all art materials, and some meals. (Lodging & transportation costs are not included in the fee but information and assistance with reservation are provided.)
Whether one paints faces or trees or urban streets, one must not see faces or trees or urban streets. Rather one must see in a visual language so that as visual artists we get excited regardless of what we look at. The way to do this is to see everything in terms of line and color. Painting flowers may be the best way of illustrating the thought above. “Don’t draw with color – it’s not a flower after all. Place the color.”
The instruction offered in this class is the same as the One-Week Painting Holiday (see below). However, this is primarily a studio class and will focus on painting flowers. Class runs Monday thru Friday from 9:30-12:00 and 1:30-4:00.
Lake Como in February is quite different than in the summer months. Quiet to be sure. Unearthly in its colors. Magical all the same.
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One-Week Painting Holiday
LOCATION: Villa de Herra, Lenno, Lake Como
DATES: April 1-7, 8-14, 15-21 & 22-28, September 9-15, 16-22 & 23-29, and Sept 30-Oct 6 (Sunday-Saturday)
WORKSHOP FEE: To find out, send email thru Contact form .
INCLUSIONS: 25 hours of class time, all art materials, and some meals. (Lodging & transportation costs are not included in the fee but information and assistance with reservation are provided.)
Our one-week painting holiday is an intensive introduction to a method of painting handed down from the French Impressionists to such American painters as Sargent, Olinsky, Henri, Brackman, and Schultz. During the first 12 hours of instruction (Monday and Tuesday, 9:00-12:00 & 1:30-4:30) Jerry Fresia will provide a demonstration of the method which breaks down the painting process into stages. Then students will be walked through the method so that by end of class on Tuesday each student will have painted two still lives in the studio using this method. In the remaining 13 hours (Wednesday through Friday, 9:00-1:00) students will continue with the method and choose whether or not to continue painting in the studio or work en plein-air (outside) on the villa’s garden or terrace, along the walkway which borders the lake, or in the village of Lenno.
This is a complete, structured, step-by-step method that includes both the “mechanics” of painting or craft and the philosophy of painting as developed by the French Impressionists. The method, however, is intended to function somewhat as training wheels in that its purpose is to enable the student to express him or herself fully. The entire course, and then some, is contained in a book written by Jerry Fresia which can be reviewed here. All levels of experience are welcome even the absolute raw beginner. Take a look at the feedbacks from former students.
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