Renaissance Oil Painting Retreat with Timothy Allen (September 2018)
From Sunday 16th September to Sunday 23rd September 2018
Join the American professional painter Timothy Allen for a luxury getaway at the Castello di Potentino: 7 days of painting from life with the goal of creating an oil portrait in a landscape…plus cooking, wine tasting and more.
It is open to anyone from beginners to advanced painters who are enthusiastic about landscape, portraiture, adventure and community.
Most of the time with the model will be in the castle’s chapel which will be transformed into a painting studio for the occasion. Additionally, you will spend some time outside sketching the model in the countryside.
Timothy Joseph Allen is an American artist and painting teacher, whose work is classically and figuratively driven with a marked influence from the Old Masters of the 17th century. He studied a BFA in Studio Art and a MFA in Painting in Indiana, USA.
He has been living and working in Rome since 1998 and has designed an indulgent week-long Renaissance Retreat to be an immersive experience which allows one to fully focus on painting from life while enjoying the pleasures of the Italian countryside. Set within the Castello di Potentino, a Medieval Castle in the heart of Tuscany, it promises 7 days of painting, cooking and wine tasting with the goal of creating an oil portrait in a landscape as exemplified in many Renaissance portraits.
Tim’s workshop focuses on showing how to use a live model fruitfully, outlining the primary considerations of:
Composition – setting the placement and scale of the subject within the landscape.
Likeness – what does it mean to achieve a likeness in a portrait and what are the best strategies to do so?
Light – management of light in connection to the specific subjects vs. management of light of the whole (the light pattern).
Glazes and Scumbles – how to use them and how each affects volume, space and atmosphere.
Tim Allen aims to demonstrate in 7 days the methods and steps with which you’d complete an entire oil painting and the full scope of the process: an oil sketch, underpainting, glazes, scumbles, etc.
Other non-painting activities available to both painters and accompanying family members or companions:
– Learning to make pasta with Michelin-Starred Chef, Roberto Rossi, of the restaurant Il Silene
– Learning to make pecorino and ricotta cheese with Lorenzo and Francesca of Caseificio Murceti
– Tasting nationally and internationally-awarded wines produced and presented by the owners of the castle, Charlotte Horton and Alexander Greene
– Swimming in the glorious outdoor pool
– Exploring the mysteries of the castle
– Strolling through the vineyards and gardens and discovering the secrets of the surrounding valley, including the nearby river, the Torrente Vivo
Please note
If you would like to pay a deposit
The payment system asks for payment in full. If you would rather pay a non-refundable 25% deposit at the time of booking, please enter the code DEPOSIT25 at checkout. The final payment will be due one month before the start of the course.
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If you have any issues at all, please contact Alexander Greene alexander.greene@potentino.com
