DRAWING CLASS IN ITALY’S UMBRIA REGION
Civita di Bagnoregio
learn the basics or improve your drawing skills
immersed in the scenic Umbrian landscape!
One week (May 20-27) of art and culture with full immersion in
diverse drawing techniques, and a class exhibition in Fabro, Italy
Professors Davide Prete and Lynn Sures instruct at all levels.
Small class size permits individualized instruction.
Experience drawing in nearby historical cities and picturesque towns
On our day-long excursions.
The Workshop:
Arrive May 20 and depart May 27
Itineraries include drawing travel visits to:
Citta della Pieve, Orvieto Cathedral and city, Montegabbione, Civita di Bagnoregio, and Perugia.
Daily instruction in black and white: pencil, conté, charcoals, ink, and brush, and color techniques, color pencils, watercolors.
Investigate drawing topics: Line, Shading, Perspective, Proportion, Composition, and beyond with fascinating towns as our drawing subjects.
Exhibit your drawings in Fabro for the town to enjoy.
Note: Excursions may be modified based on weather or unforeseen events.
Stay at La Villa Il Poderaccio in Fabro in the evocative countryside between Rome and Florence.
The vacation home suites—finished with traditional Italian stone, wood and plaster construction—offer private or shared bedrooms, private or shared baths, and a living room in each suite with a flat-screen TV and free WiFi.
The villa complex has a private outdoor pool, and participants can also relax in the garden, use barbecues, and enjoy the incomparable 360- degree view from the property.
One of the apartments of the complex.
The low $2,500.00* cost of this travel and drawing workshop includes so much!
All tuition for a full week of classes with extensive personal instruction**
Pick up and drop off from Fabro Scalo train station to La Villa, “Il Poderaccio”
Luxury 7-night stay in room suite at La Villa Il Poderaccio
7 delicious full Italian breakfasts
7 gourmet Italian dinners
Our organized local wine tastings
All drawing materials for the workshop
All transportation for our all-day drawing excursions to evocative hill cities and picturesque, characteristic Umbrian locales
A final exhibition of drawings at Il Poderaccio
The student is responsible only for:
Roundtrip airfare to Rome, train to/from Fabro Scalo station
Entry fees to castles and museums
Lunches
Alcoholic beverages
*Based on double occupancy of room suite. Small additional charge for single
occupancy.
**You may bring a partner to share your room suite and participate in all meals,
travel and wine-tastings for a reduced fee that does not include materials or
instruction.
For registration go to www.davideprete.com/Drawing_in_Italy
Deposit of $500 reserves your place in the workshop on or before March 20.
Payment can be made with
Venmo to Davide Prete @Davide-Prete
or
Zelle to davide@davideprete.com
Full Payment and course confirmation on or before April 20.
Payment and deposit fully reimbursed if the course is canceled.
The deposit is non-refundable if the student does not attend the course.
For more information, please contact us:
davide@davideprete.com www.davideprete.com
lynn@lynnsures.com www.lynnsures.com
Lynn Sures
Lynn has an MFA from the University of Maryland and studied at Atelier 17 in Paris. She is Professor Emerita at Corcoran College of Art and Design in Washington. She is a Research Associate in Drawing at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, and was recently a SARF Fellow, drawing in Kenya.
Lynn says:
In my studio practice, the reasons for working are always clear in my mind. I might relive a place or an experience—the narrative of a site, contemplating natural or architectural phenomena, awareness of a moment in the world—and then work towards an allusion to this thing, via the inexactitude of memory and the full range of physical senses. Or I might be focused on a specific scientific phenomenon because the sciences of geology, anthropology, and physics guide my lifelong curiosity in time perception, evolutionary development, and capacity for change. I internalize what I observe or uncover in research, and naturally interpret the sciences in my work.
As an artist, I am in my preferred place in a long and physical process of making. During this time, a vivid connection with the material as well as the concept, the reason for being, roots me in my work.
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Davide Prete
Davide studied at the Institute of Art in Venice, Architecture at IUAV in Venice and his Master of Art and Master of Fine Arts at Fontbonne University in Saint Louis MO. He also studied new technologies at FabAcademy.
After teaching in different colleges such as Corcoran College of Art, The George Washington University, he is now assistant professor at the University of the District of Columbia where he teaches Drawing, Sculpture and Digital Imaging.
Davide says:
My recent work explores the mathematical beauty of “minimal surface” -- a surface that locally minimizes its area. I’m especially interested in Scherk surface examples that arise in the study of harmonic diffeomorphisms of hyperbolic space. Using software and virtual reality I am able to visualize variations of forms that achieve minimal surface subject to a constraint. This process can involve bending, scaling and twisting the forms. I’m able to transform these visualizations into physical objects by combining new manufacturing technologies like 3D printing and laser scanning with traditional metal casting. My inspiration is to express figurative images through a mathematical language, and discover what I call a new form of shamanism.
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