Art Among the Poppies

A Watercolor Painting Holiday

in Tuscany - Part 1

Over the decades we have taught many painting workshops, both here and abroad, but this has to rank among the very best we have experienced. Not because we didn’t have any hiccups — behind the scenes we had all we could handle! Even so, this wonderful week of travel, camaraderie and painting just wasn’t going to be held back by anything. There were only four requirements that had to be met for this workshop:

1. Enjoy great food.
2. Drink good wine.
3. Have fun.
4. Paint!

With those four rules in mind, we made preparations on Saturday for the arrival of our students the next day. It all started at Rome’s Fiumicino airport on Sunday, June 3rd, when we wheeled our newly-rented nine passenger van into the curb outside the arrivals terminal. There our happy and patient group of students awaited in the bright Italian sun—tired from their flights but excited to finally be on our painting holiday adventure. In a few minutes we were loaded up and on our way out of the busy ai…