by Yves M. Larocque (Ph.D.) | Jul 6, 2023 | art classes Italy France, Art workshops, General, Ideas, Painting, Philosophy
The “Color” of Humanity Currently in Italy giving our twice-a-year Studio Italia painting workshop. Everyone is painting hard and… playing hard. I am always fascinated by the seriousness of each participant. However, the subject of this post is the color...
by Yves M. Larocque (Ph.D.) | Jun 10, 2023 | art classes Italy France, art retreat, Art workshops, Ideas, Inspiration |Thoughts, Painting, Painting | plein air
Walk the Arts beats AI We knew at Walk the Arts that we had to prepare for the current upheaval of Artificial Intelligence and its impact on visual arts education. For the last quarter of a century, we have stuck to our niche and instead of offering demonstrations, we...
by Yves M. Larocque (Ph.D.) | Nov 11, 2022 | art classes Italy France, art retreat, Art workshops, Gastronomy, Painting | plein air, painting workshops Italy France
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....
by Yves M. Larocque (Ph.D.) | Aug 19, 2022 | art classes Italy France, art retreat, Art workshops, Food | Cooking, General, Painting | plein air, painting workshops Italy France, Philosophy
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...
by Yves M. Larocque (Ph.D.) | Sep 3, 2021 | art classes Italy France, Art History, art retreat, Art workshops, Food | Cooking, Gastronomy, General, Inspiration |Thoughts, Painting
Mónica Márquez presenting Sevy Euqcoral from her series The Lives of Others Opening/vernissage Thursday September 16, 2021 from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. Ottawa Art Gallery d’Art d’Ottawa Mónica Márquez, Colombian-Canadian digital artist, photographer, and...
by Yves M. Larocque (Ph.D.) | Jun 10, 2021 | Art workshops, Online art classes, Painting | plein air, painting workshops Italy France
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...
