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Alistair mixing colours... Sylvia enjoying working her way through to the foreground... Sue, laying in background tones of distant hills... Jan, making good use of wax resist Jan and Mary...in the zone! One of Mary's paintings! Just taking some time out and thought I would post some more photo's from last weeks course.

The Place- Monte Falcone. The artists... Alla-prima paintings by John and Jan .

Sue painting! " in-the-zone!" Alistair and Sylvia with Sue... Me painting view from Monte Falcone! Jan takes a snap of "alla-prima" artists working at -"Monte-Falcone". This is one of my chosen locations for the Italian Landscape painting course. It is off the beaten track- with a small cafe serving ice cold beer nearby! You will…

Jan and Mary- painting "alla -prima"

Some examples of landscape painting work by guests from days 1+2 motif painting.

Days 1+2 What a most splendid week of landscape painting we have just spent at The Retreat. We had guests with plenty of talent, from the U.S.A Jan and Mary (from Seattle and Michigan friends since school!) From S.A came Sue who has travelled on to Florence! From St Andrews Scotland; keen water-colourists and golfers,…

This is an autumnal view of Montidinove. I took a photo of it on a rainy day just as a ray of sunlight caught it and created a rainbow. Rainbows are difficult to say the least, especially when they merge into the landscape. I have struggled with the placing of the highlights of colour where…