Denise Tipka in front of her works during the last crit. Another participant from Minnesota. Denise Tipka was the “sponge” of this Fall Studio Italia painting workshop. She listened, tried everything; she was open-minded and she let go… and her paintings took flight....
If there was a little bundle of energy in our Atelier Provence group, Hyacinth (from Dayton, Ohio) was certainly. Kind, talented, persistent, with a yearning to learn, she even spent a whole night painting… below, is a “quick” appreciation of her painting workshop in...
Learning perspective drawing online Do you feel confident about your perspective drawing skills? Since the pandemic, we have been offering live online perspective drawing classes via Zoom and we love it! It is true that they are more challenging than the usual...
We can’t wait to see you again! Painting the landscape in Italy, now it is the time! Travelling to Italy to paint and eat! This is what we want! We are optimistic about our upcoming art workshop in Tuscany, Studio Italia 2021 (October 1–10). So far, the...
2021: Time for novelty, surprise, harmony, parsimony, and empathy. Is it possible to link neuroscience and art? This is the question that French neurobiologist Jean-Pierre Changeux addresses in his beautiful book La Beauté dans le Cerveau (Odile Jacob, 2016); The...
Radical-polemicist-radical or capitalist-strategist? Why does the negative attract us more than the positive? A timely post in the time of COVID-19 Commenting on Yves’last post, it is my turn now to comment on Mme Sourgins’ book, The Mirages of Contemporary Art, yet...
