The Workshop at La Romita School of Art

July 14 - July 28
New Directions in Watermedia

The workshop, taught by Marilynn Derwenskus, will provide abundant opportunities for creativity on location and in the studio. We will start each day exploring a different ancient Umbrian hill town to sketch, paint and photograph. In the afternoons, we will continue our artistic exploration by creating paintings in response to Italy from our morning experiences. We will end each day with watermedia and drawing demonstrations along with the next days project guidelines including slide lectures and individual and group critiques.

Welcome

Welcome to our blog to travel with us on our journey to the Umbrian region of Italy. Lisette McClung and Kathleen Courville, both art teachers in CCISD, will be traveling to Italy on July 9th to begin a fantastic journey into the study of plein-air painting in a region that saw the birth of the Renaissance. From the 12th to the 15th centuries, Umbria was the apex of the arts, carrying the Middle Ages into the Renaissance.