Painting & Creativity Art
Workshop in Tuscany, Italy by artist Tjaša Iris
Program and Excursions… and DAY BY DAY program
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Intensive
one week Landscape Painting & Creativity Art Workshop in
Painting. Color theory. Visual creativity techniques. Slides of contemporary and modern art will be shown
each evening. It is as well an art appreciation course.
We live in a society in which the creative
ethos is
increasingly dominant.
The future belongs to a different kind of person with a different kind
of mind: artists, inventors, creative "right-brain" thinkers whose
abilities mark the fault line between
who gets ahead and who doesn't.
WHAT IS THIS
WORKSHOP ALL ABOUT:
Tjaša Iris, an internationally acclaimed
artist will guide you in order for you to explore your creative potential,
develop your own painting style and see and be inspired in some of the most
beautiful places in the world as TUSCANY, Italy.
This workshop is going to open your eyes on art. You will learn a lot about
painting. Tjaša will work with you so that you develop your own personal
style. It is as well an art appreciation course for those of you who love art and
will wish to know more about it. It is also a cultural & gourmet tour. You
will get to know a lot about the country that you will be visiting. About its art & history. It is for you to enjoy their
best wines & cuisine. It will be about pleasurable painting. Plein air landscape painting. Four hours of painting per
day and one hour of an evening slide lecture - art appreciation course. It will
be about relaxing and having fun while learning and discovering. Many museum
& cultural sites visits. In a couple of afternoons you will be as well
invited to go trekking with Tjaša. And more...
DAY BY DAY: The first day will be about loosing
the fear and about getting loose. In the following days we will get more
intellectual, but we will also play a lot. Tjaša finds
learning through having fun as the most important way of learning & making
progress in life. You will be painting without thinking, you will analyze lots
of paintings painted by very famous artists with Tjaša.
Learn about the visual. Analyze from the highest intellectual point of view why
something works and why something else does not. The visual language, the
energy of colour, about being personal, what makes certain painters genius,
about powerful, passion, about joy of life…
Great Italian Cuisine is big part of the great experience
that will be offered to you. It is impossible to visit Italy and not to taste
all the wonderful dishes. For dinners we will go to local farms and
restaurants. Most have a 3 course menue, some have a
4 course menue with wine. We will have a typical
Italian pizza evening one day. All the dishes are local Tuscan cuisine. For
lunch Tjaša will get you fresh lunch every
day. She will go shop every morning before the start of the lessons and she
will buy: salamis, cheeses, fresh vegetables, typical Tuscan breads...
FOR WHO THIS WORKSHOP IS GOOD FOR:
and
why
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For artists and art lovers With Tjaša Iris you will paint in one of
the most beautiful places in the world. Tjaša will help you develop your
personal style. And will make you find inspiration in these
wonderful places, for an unforgettable painting vacation. The
art appreciation course will help you understand art better as well as it will
make you develop a more critical thinking about art.
- For art collectors
and investors With Tjaša Iris you will paint in one of
the most beautiful places in the world. Under her guidenes,
trying to paint yourself, will expand your perceptions and will totally open
your eyes on the works of other artists, too. The evening art appreciation
course will make you understand, why a certain painting is good. What was it
that the artist did that was so genius. What is it
that makes certain paintings special and precious and others not. During Tjaša's evening slides lectures, you
will analyze many works of art. For investors keen to gain a competitive edge. The workshop will
mean a solid base for your art collection and for your future
investments.
- For those of you who
are in Education Many educators taking the workshop receive financial help from their school
district or university to attend our summer workshops in
- For business people,
corporative, investors, entrepreneurs, business owners who, as
part of their innovation strategy, need to bring creativity to the innovation
process. The workshop aims to develop your business
creativity.
Investments into creativity and
innovations are the most important for your business right now in the present
time of economic crises. Only the creative people will be the most successful
ones. Many of the people taking the workshop are sent by their companies as
part of their professional development (and in this case workshop expenses may
also be tax-deductible). This workshop make the
participants aware of their own creativity. And how to use
it. So, once back to their office, they are now able to recognize and
use their own creativity to the full at their own work place. They are now
turning economic crises into opportunity.
- For scientists The workshop aims to develop more the right-side of your brain. A very successful
scientists need both right and left side of their brain. Science is
unable to make new big steps without the scientist being very creative people.
Understanding art and creativity can help enormously to the scientists in order
to achieve most significant results in science.
- For adventurous travellers
with the passion for art. The workshop is an
investment into personal development of single person. It is an achievement of
new experiences.
ABOUT TJAŠA
IRIS
is an artist with a multicultural
profile. Born in
She is a member of Slovenian Artist Association and of AIAP
Association Internationale des Arts Plastique by UNESCO since 1996.
She had many exhibitions
in different countries as in
Her works are in many
private and public collections in The Netherlands,
She is currently living at Villa Flora, Branik in the Mediterranean Wine Country of Slovenia a villa
apartment rental as well as an Artist Retreat www.villaflora.si
Tjaša Iris is also the founder of
Villa Flora Artist in Residency Program - Branik Rihemberk Artists' Colony in Branik
village,
.
She is organizing and holding painting workshops
since 1996.
See Tjaša Iris on WIKIPEDIA
pages:
- in Slovenian http://sl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tjasa_Iris
ABOUT TJAŠA
IRIS Paintings: www.tjasairis.com
CLIENT LIST:
UBS
The American
Barclays
British Airways
Luftahansa
Amazon
Adobe
Ward - Young Architects,
Orange County Schools
City of
Anglo American
Banktechnology.com
Northern
Revlon
Nease/McDonald, Interior Design
Teetan and Associates
JPMorgan Chase
Sex & the City
Pfizer
Targa
Isabel
The American Jewish Committee
Universita' di Napoli
Mars
Clarus & Fidelis Consulting
Elan
People Magazine
Tour Strategies, AU
MBM Intellectual Property Law LLP
Ann Warner ,
SB Biotechnology
Mary Pat Fuchs Artist’s Residency in
Fondazione
Villa Benzi – Zecchin, Caerano di San Marco
MORE
ABOUT THE PROGRAM
under San Donato
village
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Emphasis will be put
on perception and observation, as the bases to painting. I will help you
develop your personal outlook, as well as inspire your imagination in all
this magical places and to help you appreciate art to the full. We will paint
4 hours every morning. |
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San
Donato
DAY 1
Meeting at Fattoria (Farm) San Donato at 7.30 pm for
cocktail. We will have dinner after that.
www.sandonato.it
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DAY 2
Painting en plein air from 9 am - 1 pm in the field
near San Donato.
Light lunch. Afternoon visit to San Gimignano, visit
of the old city with the fortress, entrance to the Cathedral where we will see
frescos of Barna di Siena, Benozzo Gozzoli, Bartolo di Fredi,
Ghirlandaio…
6.30 pm slide lecture
8 pm dinner
- an
afternoon excursion to San Gimignano, visit of the
old city center with the fortress, entrance to the
Cathedral where we will see frescos of Barna di Siena, Benozzo Gozzoli, Bartalo di Fredi, Ghirlandaio...
Piazza della Cisterna main square of San Gimignano, Collegiata church of
San Gimignano
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DAY 3
Painting en plein air from 9 am - 1 pm near San Donato. 
Light lunch. Slides at 4 pm.
Afternoon trekking excursion to Montauto, an ancient
hill top town on the Franchigena road.
6.30 pm slide lecture
8 pm dinner
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afternoon trekking excursion to Montauto an ancient
hill town on the Frachigena road.
from the way to Mountauto
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DAY 4
Painting en plein air from 9 am - 1 pm at San Donato. 
Light lunch. Afternoon trekking excursion to Castel Vecchio a city abandon in
the 13 th century in the middle of the woods.
6.30 pm slide lecture
8 pm dinner
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afternoon trekking painting excursion to Castel Vecchio a city abandon in the 13st
century in the middle of the woods.
Castel Vecchio abandon Romanesque church, Ruins of Castel Vecchio
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DAY 5
10.30 am slide lecture
A whole day painting excursion to Volterra. Visit of
Etruscan museum.
6.30 pm slide lecture
8 pm dinner
- one
whole day excursion to Volterra with visit of
world most famous
......
ombra della
sera
II. B.C.
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DAY 6
Departure at 9 am.
A whole day painting excursion across little towns of Tuscany, a visit to two
museums with Tuscan paintings in the town of Sienna: visit of cathedral and Piccolomini Library inside the cathedral with frescos of Pintoricchio, visit to ancient fortified town of Monteriggioni, 
where we will paint in the
afternoon.
8 pm dinner
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one whole day excursion across little towns of
a visit to the town of
Sienna, Cathedral od Sienna and frescos, Montereggioni
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DAY 7
Slides at 9 am.
Painting and finishing paintings.
Slides and final critique at 6 pm.
8 pm dinner
final
critique
final critique
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DAY 8
Departure in the morning.
Admissions are opened to participants of
all ages and levels from beginners to advanced.
I realize how important it is for you to
travel light. I will provide all you need for your lessons: acrylic paints,
brushes, canvases, paper, French easels, chairs... (just if you wish to
work in any different mediums, I ask you to bring your own paints).
Because the workshop is limited to 8 participants, I encourage you to send your
enrolment form with deposit as soon as possible. In event of inclement weather,
arrangements will be made for indoor painting. There will be no rain dates or
refunds for inclement weather.
I encourage non painter partner to join us
by offering them reduced rates.
The lessons
will be contemporarily in English and Italian.
Please note, that the workshops are as well opened to the patrons of Tjaša’s
art.
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