Art Workshops, Retreats & Tours

Note: The events listed here are subject to change without notice.  

Year-round
The Art Club! 
​6 complete painting lessons + bonus lessons which include downloadable reference photos, design diagrams and pre-recorded paint-along videos. 
Learn to paint at your own pace. 
To be a successful artist you need a passion for painting + solid painting skills. No matter what your current skill level, you will progress as you learn these new skills. 
I will demonstrate palette knife techniques, brush technique, color mixing, design, division of space, perspective and so much more. 
​We will paint a variety of seascapes, landscapes and garden paintings. ​
​Live Zoom Watercolor Workshops and Classes with Judy Mudd
Paint-along, ask questions and review during workshops. Reference materials, including drawing guides, reference photos, and palette colors are provided prior to class. After the workshop, a session video is provided to registered students to download and review again and again. Can't attend live? You can still register, receive the materials and recording to paint on your own.
​V.I.E.W. Painting Academy
(Virtual Interactive Escapade Workshops)
hosted by French Escapade, LLC
Paint step-by-step live with International acclaimed artists in small groups. 
Personalized lived feedback / All documents sent in advance / 2 to 3 days workshops /Get  recordings of class to download and keep for ever / Over 30 instructors available
online
Ongoing Wednesday Painting Class
hosted by Ned Mueller
This ongoing class is designed to help each individual with the information and process to take your work to a higher level. For the most part we will be using photos to work from and learning not to just copy, but to interpret!  I will be giving demos and presentations of the process I use to create a better work of art by learning and applying the elements and principles of design. It is our job to employ these elements and principles to make our paintings more compelling and interesting. I hope you can join us.
Weekly,
​Every Wednesday from 10:00 AM to 1:00 PM
Online
Live, Online Watercolor Workshops
with Cindy Welch
Interactive, live classes with demos recorded to view again and again. Reference photo, drawing, and supply list provided before class. 6 week sessions on a variety of subjects including landscapes, floral, still life, and animals. Learn about color mixing, values, composition, and more. Fun, stress free instruction concluding with a personal critique.
​Live Zoom Watercolor Workshops & En Plein Air with Theresa Goesling
Step-by-Step paint along online. 
Free to ask questions and receive critiques during the workshops. 
With your registration you are provided: supply list (FREE) Daniel Smith Dot card, lesson PDF with drawing, reference photos and a session video to download & replay. 
Can't attend live? 
You can still register, receive the materials and recording to paint on your own.
Online/Zoom
En plein air locations: Spain, Pasadena, SW France, Palm Desert
​Live, Online, Oil Painting Instruction
with Jason Lee Tako
• Create beautiful oil paintings step by step, all from the comfort of your own home.
• Personalized guidance and intense instruction.
• Get high-resolution reference photos and a photo of Jason's final painting for your personal study!
• Get all your art-related questions answered at the live monthly Q/A Session.
• Monthly Critiques: Feedback to help improve your other paintings.
• 24/7 access to recordings of all previous sessions and demos to view at your leisure.
Ongoing
Zoom

February 2023
Studio Colombia Art & Eat
hosted by Walk the Arts
Join our eight-night art workshop and experience the stunning Caribbean coast from Puerto Colombia (Barranquilla) to Cartagena. Learn the fundamentals of perspective drawing and watercolors and have a taste of Colombian Caribbean food and culture. After an art class, try a "mojarra con arroz con coco" with a cold Colombian beer or an "aguardiente". Paint on the beach, enjoy a street food tour, attend cooking demonstrations by local chefs and visit food markets. The perfect winter getaway!
February 14-22, 2023
Cartagena, Colombia, South America
Portrait Drawing in Pencil Workshop
hosted by Miami International Fine Arts
This is a two days workshop, 6 hours each day with live model.
You will learn:
- How to position drawing in the paper.
- Gesture.
- Proportion and alignment relationships.
- Understanding shadows, lights and transitions.
- Rendering. Accents and hilights.
- Edges.
February 25-26, 2023
MIFA
5900 NW 74th Ave.
Miami, FL 33166

March 2023
Renaissance Techniques for Contemporary Artists - 8 Week Intensive Workshop
Atelier Neo Medici
Based on the pictorial techniques of Flemish and Italian painters of the Renaissance, combining tempera and oil emulsions to reach an extremely high level detail, luminosity and color.
The Painting and Drawing Workshop is open to both beginners and professionals.
March 6 - April 27, 2023
Monflanquin, France

April 2023
​Mindful Mixed Media Retreat
This is the time for supportive, creative replenishment! Our 3 day “Art for the Soul” retreat is an immersive experience in The Art Process. We will be exploring our inner creative voice through process oriented mixed media art, community discussions, meditation and movement…This is a great opportunity for self discovery amongst a supportive creative community. The retreat is geared towards anyone who is curious about the creative path whether you are just exploring your creativity for the first time or are a practicing artist who wants to deepen your practice. Our work focuses on abstract layered mixed media and collage art. You will learn many useful techniques and compositional tips along the way while developing your own personal style. This is encouraged and facilitated by experienced creativity coach and artist, Kathy Leader.
April 14-16, 2023
Mary and Joseph Retreat Center, Los Angeles
​Pen and Watercolor in Tuscany
with Ann Thomas
An 8 day workshop capturing the ambience of Tuscany. Let me share with you how I record wonderful memories sketching in pen and ink and watercolor; the beautiful, sensitive lines of an old building, the energy of a street scene, or a simple shuttered window with flowers. Learn to zoom in on the important elements when working in the field to create interesting compositions and lasting memories with texture and rich washes of color!
April 19-26, 2023
Cortona, Italy with visits to Pienza, Montepulciano and Val di Chiana
​Landscape Painting with Terry Miura
hosted by Blair Center for the Arts
Seven Strategies to Level Up Your Landscape Painting.
You love to paint landscapes but you find it very difficult and more often than not you are not happy with the result, but you can’t figure out why. May be you feel stuck on your artistic journey. May be you feel like you’re doing everything you’re supposed to, but the painting always look…ordinary?
What makes a really great landscape painting, and how do we get there?
In this four-day workshop, we will explore strategies to up your game and create more effective, impactful and compelling landscape paintings. The concepts presented are practical, logical, and tried and true.
Let’s get you to the next level, whether you’re painting en plein air, or in the studio.
The workshop will include demos in both oils and gouache, discussions, and plenty of painting time and instruction at each student’s easel.
April 20-23, 2023
Blair Center for the Arts - West Ashley
10 Carriage Lane
Charleston, SC 29407
Watercolor Plein Air Weekend in Catalina Island
Join watercolor plein air artist and instructor Anne Kupillas and up to 9 other like-minded creatives of all levels for a once in a lifetime experience painting on Catalina Island!
All levels are welcome. Ramp up your plein air skills dramatically in a short period of time, enjoy excursions on land and sea and paint a variety of subjects, all under the California sun.  
Excursions, meals and instruction included. 
$995 /artist.
April 21-23, 2023
Catalina Island, California
​Full-immersion Watercolor Masterclass in Sicily with Michal Jasiewicz
Join Polish Watercolorist Artist Michal Jasiewicz to a painting retreat in delightful and peaceful West-Sicily with amazing light and color conditions. Michal will be your tutor during your stay at the stunning Salinara Art Farm, in the Trapani region. Daily painting excursions to surrounding salt pans, local markets, vineyards, villages such as the medieval town Erice, Archeological Park of Selinunte, one of the most flourishing classical civilizations of the Mediterranean area. The workshop will take you through selecting a dramatic composition and simplifying it, tone, light, color theory, effects and how to build up a watercolour painting in a structured, demonstration-led setting. Limited single rooms for a supplement.
April 29 – May 6, 2023
SALINARA
Art Farm | Retreat Centre | Sicily
Marsala, Italy

May 2023
​Plein Air Painting & Sketching in ATHENS & CRETE, GREECE
Join Alan Flattmann for twelve days of plein air painting, sketching, and touring in Athens and the beautiful island of Crete. Along the way, enjoy delicious Greek cuisine, delightful wines, and the camaraderie of fellow artists.
The itinerary in Athens includes a private tour of Acropolis and the museum of Acropolis, a day trip on a highspeed boat to the island of Hydra, and a day of sketching in the historic Plaka. 
In Crete, the itinerary will include painting the old harbors, a day trip to the mountain village of Anogia, a day trip by boat to the remote village of Agia Roumeli, and painting in the Monastery of Agia Triada.
May 1-12, 2023
​Athens & Crete, Greece
​Plein Air Watercolour Workshop in Central Australia with Cheryl Bruce
9 day, 8 night painting exploration of Alice Springs and MacDonnell Ranges. We will be exploring the gorges, gaps, waterholes and dry river beds from out base in Alice Springs. Includes tuition, accomodation, transfers, some meals, travel to the stunning gorges and gaps to paint and sketch with a small group of like minded artists. Some local guided tours included to learn about the Aboriginal culture and Arrernte people. Detailed itinerary available on request.
May 13-21, 2023
Alice Springs (Mparntwe) and the MacDonnell Ranges (Tjoritja), Central Australia
Painting Workshop with Keith Wicks Troo France
Small Limited enrollment 7 nights Troo France stay in the Beautiful Le Chateau De La Voute . farm to table traditional dinners. 5 days of plein air painting in the lovely countryside with views of the River Loir from the Charming Chateau. a Troglodyte village hidden away. excursions best local markets, wineries & Landmarks. Early bird 200 euro discount before Jan 27th. 20% discount non-painting participants.
May 27 - June 3, 2023
Le Chateau De La Voute, Troo France
Portugal 2023 with Artist Sharon Rusch Shaver
This exciting destination for creative people is located in a historic fishing village on the Atlantic Coastline of Portugal. Your accommodations include an ensuite bedroom with a balcony overlooking the sea in a 4-star hotel with an infinity pool and spa facilities. Upon arrival, you will be greeted at the airport in Lisbon, Portugal, and taken to your hotel for the next 6 nights. All transfers to painting sites, and activities included, as well as a delicious daily breakfast and Chef prepared gourmet evening meal daily from fresh local ingredients. Join us on this exciting adventure to Portugal!
May 29 - June 4, 2023
Portugal

June 2023
Plein Air Workshop - Beartooth Mountains
with Ned Mueller
Join us for our fourth Annual Beartooth Mountains Plein Air Workshop June 19th-23rd. Learn from AIS-OPA Master Ned Mueller in the most beautiful and inspirational scenery in the country.
Snow capped mountains, beautiful meadows, sparkling streams with reasonably priced cabins. 
Contact Scottsdale Artists' School for more details or to book your place. 
A few Spaces Left.
June 19-23, 2023
Cooke City, Montana-Beartooth Mountains area
Paint in Amalfi Italy
with Sam D'Ambruoso
We are in our 18th year in hosting a plein air painting workshop in Amalfi. The trip includes 7 nights, 8 days in a four-star hotel on the Amalfi waterfront, all rooms with sea-view, all rooms with private bath, hotel has an elevator, all land and ferry boat travel in Italy, to and from transfers from Naples Airport, most meals, paint in Amalfi, Positano, Ravello, and Capri. Beginners to advanced painters welcome as well as all media.
June 22-29, 2023
Amalfi, Italy

July 2023
Watercolor Workshop in Paros Island, Greece
Join George Politis AWS in the dream island of PAROS, Greece for a journey of exploration and creativity.
Working in small and large format, we'll be painting in watercolor and other watermedia practicing various techniques and most important... learning to see and find a subject (often far from the obvious). This workshop aims to boost the creativity by new inspirational ideas, winning techniques for an once-in-a-lifetime experience.
We will paint in Studio (hotel) and also in various places in this majestic island!
Also... great food (local gastronomy) and wine to make this artistic journey even more enjoyable...
July 5-12, 2023
Paros Island, Greece
Studio Italia 2023 - Art Workshop in Tuscany
hosted by Walk the Arts
This unique 9-day art workshop in Italy offered since 1997 combines plein air landscape painting, art history/theory lectures, touring, and gastronomy in the most beautiful area of Tuscany. Open to all levels and mediums (oils, acrylics, watercolors). As one of our former participants said, we offer “artistic growth, breathtaking beauty, delicious food, and new friendships”. 
July 9-18, 2023
Lucignano, Tuscany

August 2023
Watercolor Workshop in Santorini, Greece
Join George Politis AWS in the dream island of SANTORINI, Greece for a journey of exploration and creativity.
Working in small and large format, we'll be painting in watercolour and other watermedia practicing several techniques and most important... learning to see and find a subject (often far from the obvious). This workshop aims to boost the creativity by new inspirational ideas, winning techniques for an once-in-a-lifetime experience.
We will paint in Studio (hotel) and also in various places in this majestic island!
August 19-26, 2023
Santorini, Greece
​Watercolour Retreat with Australian Artist Cheryl Bruce in France at Haven on the Hill, Lalandusse
11 days, 10 night accomodation, meals and workshop tuition in the studio and around the beautiful grounds around our retreat venue, Haven on the Hill, along with painting en plein air in the local villages. 7 days of watercolour tuition by Cheryl Bruce, across the 11 days with free time and excursions mixed through. We will paint a variety of subjects from landscape, seascape, boats, dramatic skies, flowers, along with adding figures to our scenes and sketchbook layouts. It will be jam packed with techniques at a stunning venue with great hosts.
August 24 - September 3, 2023
Haven on the Hill located in Lalandusse, near Bergerac, France

September 2023
Art Journaling Workshop Oaxaca to Puebla: watercolor, mixed media, collage, ephemera hunt
with Pedro Cruz Pacheco & Corrie McCluskey
Are you hooked on art journals and want to play with paint and collage while traveling? Love to incorporate found objects into your art? Want to go on a vintage ephemera hunt? First, a week-long deep dive into the art and culture of Oaxaca - field trips include Sunday market, ancient ruins, and studio visits to artisan pueblos for handmade rugs, alebrijes (carved wooden figures), red clay pottery. In Puebla, a search for vintage ephemera, then collaging our found treasures.
September 22 – October 2, 2023
Oaxaca & Puebla, Mexico
​Capturing light and atmosphere in watercolor with Keiko Tanabe
Come to enjoy a masterful tuition by Keiko Tanabe, subject matters will be landscape, Mediterranean seascape, old historic city scape, locations in the charming 18th century farmhouse where the participants will stay. Sicily it’s like a dream, colorful sunset, olive groves, lined vineyards, picturesque villages with narrow streets, churches, a never ending range of restaurants and cafés, blue skies and beautiful nature, jovial people, traditional foods and great local wine. The participants will benefit from daily one-on-one guidance and a group sharing with Keiko. You can expect to learn about composition, how to capture lights and atmosphere, methods and techniques of creative process. Limited single rooms for a supplement.
September 30 - October 7, 2023
SALINARA
Art Farm | Retreat Centre | Sicily
Marsala, Italy

October 2023
​Watercolor Sketching and Journaling in Sicily with Theresa Goesling and Cindy Briggs
Join Cindy Briggs and Theresa Goesling for their workshop at the stunning Salinara Art Farm on the west coast of Sicily. Cindy and Theresa will give daily painting lessons and individual help, encouraging support, share how to draw and simplify your subject, play with colors and water, textures, composition, writing and precious advice on how to create and improve your watercolor journal pages. Resume of the workshop, final discussion about student’s works with Cindy and Theresa. Sicily is a unique island that has been shaped by many cultures over many thousands of years. Salinara is a 10 minute walk from the Sea, close by are salt pans with windmills, lined vineyards and olive groves. Limited single rooms for a supplement.
October 8 – 15, 2023
SALINARA
Art Farm | Retreat Centre | Sicily
Marsala, Italy
Día de Muertos Workshop: watercolor, group altar, sand tapestry
with Pedro Cruz Pacheco
Experience the color and pageantry of Día de Muertos (Day of the Dead) in Oaxaca. We’ll spend our days painting imagery and symbolic representations of our loved ones to honor their memories, shop for altar decorations and offerings in a local mercado, assemble a beautiful group altar, construct and decorate a tapete de arena (sand tapestry). We’ll visit 2 cemeteries, catch a comparsa – the traditional Muertos parade, and visit artisan pueblos for alebrijes (carved wooden figures), red clay pottery.
October 27 – November 5, 2023
Oaxaca, Mexico
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