Toscana Americana Workshops
presents
Painting the Figure
en Plein Air
with Kathy Busillo
Artist & Instructor
Cortona, Italy May 3-10, 2008
June 27-July 4 2009
Venice Waiters
About this workshop...
What to expect: First and foremost--Have fun!! Our goal will be to paint a vision of life in Italy with people going about their daily business while capturing the ambiance of the lovely town of Cortona. Don't expect to go home with finished masterpieces--if you do, lucky you but plein air painting, by its very nature, is never really a completed painting. It is a moment captured in time, the essence of the locale. You should be able to go home with pieces that you can work into larger, more compete paintings. For painting in town, we will be working on gestural strokes of people since they won't be hired models--if they are sitting for a while, hooray, but don't count on it. For the formal modeling sessions, you will have time to get more information down.
Please don't forget to bring your camera with extra batteries, charger if needed, memory cards or film (yes, film still exists). *If you have a charger for your batteries, please remember to bring voltage converters and plug adapters.
