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Dates: May 29-June 5, 2025
Instructor: Sarah B. Hansen
Venue: Palazzo Angelo d’Oro, Rovinj, Croatia
Medium: Watercolor
Level: All (some experience in painting and drawing helpful)
With an emphasis on landscape, find yourself painting cobblestone streets, stairways, the astoundingly blue Adriatic Sea, tranquil park settings, and small vignettes of daily Croatian life. Learn to capture the essence of your subject by simplifying forms using values groups, limited color palettes, and interesting edge variations. Lessons will include composition arrangement, form simplification, value grouping, pigment selection, water to paint ratio, and expressionistic paint application. Each day will include lectures, demonstrations, group painting, and personal instruction from Sarah, a highly sought-after, generous, and hands-on instructor. During your stay, a combination of plein and studio work is planned. Some degree of prior watercolor and drawing experience is helpful for this class.
Draw and paint directly from surroundings, and your own references. Demos done principally in watercolor and but also gouache. Some experience in painting and drawing is helpful.
Angelo d’Oro is a beautifully converted 17th Century Bishop’s Palace, a Croatian historic preservation site located in the heart of Rovinj’s old town. Built around a charming interior garden where breakfast and evening drinks are served, the three-story site offers elegant accommodations in 21 rooms on three floors. Interior art workshop space is available in a vaulted room on the first floor.
The town of Rovinj, the jewel of the Istrian Peninsula, is heavily influenced by Italian architecture and culture, and indeed formed part of Italy until recently. Surrounded on three sides by water, medieval and renaissance Rovinj consists of a warren of cobble stone streets, tunnels and stairways, the entire town banned to car traffic. Waterfront restaurants, shops, cafes and a vibrant marketplace are all within steps of our venue. At the top of the town is a cathedral, surrounded by a park with dramatic views of the crystal-clear Adriatic Sea.Â
In addition to workshops led by nationally acclaimed instructors, and a day excursion arranged by Winslow Art Center, participants, and their non-painting companions, will have access to beaches, boat excursions, bike rental and an extensive public park created in the late 19th Century when Istria was still under Austrian rule.
The pick-up and drop-off point for those traveling to Rovinj by transportation arranged by Winslow Art Center is nearby and convenient to Venice, its international airport and train station so that those who wish may visit this fascinating city before or after the workshop. This should be a memorable experience.
With over 10 years of experience organizing art tours, and with part of our team, my daughters Anne and Amy, living in Europe and fluent in Italian and Spanish, we have the ability not only to maintain long term relationships with the owners and staff of our favorite venues, but to seek out and vet new and unique locations each year. 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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