Dates: September 26-October 3, 2025
Instructor: Susan Abbott
Location: Castello di Petroia, Gubbio, Umbria, Italy
Level: Intermediate to advanced skills in your medium of choice
Mediums: Watercolor, oil, acrylic, gouache. Susan demonstrates and teaches in watercolor and oil
Join renowned painter and teacher Susan Abbott for an exhilarating immersion into the color of the Italian landscape. This intensive workshop will take you step-by-step from practical color theory to a plein air exploration of the Umbrian countryside. Weâll learn to use value, complements, and temperature in ways that will immediately improve your composition and color use. All this in the setting of an 11th Century castle, its courtyard and surrounding olive groves in the foothills of the Umbrian countryside. After this immersion into the Umbrian landscape with Susan, youâll have new confidence and enjoyment in your plein air painting.
Winslow Art Center will arrange a Zoom meeting for participants with Susan to discuss class format, painting supplies, travel with painting gear and life at the castle. This course is sure to be as memorable as Susan’s prior workshops at the castello!
The venue for this week-long art immersion is the 10th Century Castello di Petroia, an authentic medieval fortress perched on a hilltop between the towns of Perugia and Gubbio, with inspiring views of the surrounding landscape. The castle, birthplace of Federico da Montefeltro, Duke of Urbino (b.1422), is surrounded by a 600-acre traditional Umbrian farm with beautiful olive groves, hiking and horse-riding trails, meadows, woods and abundant wildlife.
Martha and the Winslow Art Center team have over 10 years of experience organizing destination art workshops. We personally participate in every travel workshop to ensure the quality of the accommodations and cuisine as well as to coordinate the special needs of the art instruction program.
If you have any questions, please use the form below, phone 206-715-6663 or email martha@winslowartcenter.com to contact us.
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