tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4232768883447705212024-03-13T08:03:27.539-07:00Italy Painting Workshop: Apennines 2020Paint with Us! In beautiful Italy 2020Laurie and Blair PESSEMIERhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01630048852582526449noreply@blogger.comBlogger47125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-423276888344770521.post-42737219094873920862016-04-12T08:49:00.001-07:002020-01-17T02:27:07.357-08:00Painting Workshops in Roccamalatina start April 2020<div style="text-align: center;">
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We are painting here in the Appenines, so join us anytime!</div>
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Tell us when you want to paint between 15 April and 15 October. We paint in Rome from November to April <a href="https://paintinrome.wordpress.com/" style="text-align: center;">https://paintinrome.wordpress.com/</a></div>
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3 hours</div>
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Paint in the Bologna countryside. All supplies included. We meet at the Vignola train station.</div>
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200.00 €</div>
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3-5 days</div>
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Take a painting workshop with 3 to 5 full days of painting, accommodation and all supplies included.</div>
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starting at 1250.00</div>
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Custom workshop</div>
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If your group would like to paint, we can provide all services from pickup at the airport, accommodation, and painting. Typically, we have a group of 2 to 4 painters (we have had as many as 19) and produce one or two paintings a day for a week. We will include a museum visit, shopping day -- whatever you would like.</div>
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quote on request</div>
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<br />Laurie and Blair PESSEMIERhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01630048852582526449noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-423276888344770521.post-15018154147374538592015-08-09T07:37:00.001-07:002020-01-17T01:53:37.397-08:00Painting WHERE?Blair and Laurie have moved to Rocca Malatina, 40 kilometers outside of Bologna, Italy, in the AppenineMountains. <br />
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We will include all supplies, transportation, and accommodation in our historic Liberty-style house or nearby.<br />
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The workshop will be given for three or five day sessions. We will paint outdoors April through October. In addition to our plein air offerings, we have studio painting available. During the winter we will offer indoor painting classes in our studios and from our Rome location.<br />
Prices will be 1250 euros for three days, with pickup/dropoff in Bologna. Inquire for greater detail.<br />
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<br />Laurie and Blair PESSEMIERhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01630048852582526449noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-423276888344770521.post-33487173409145493912014-09-22T05:38:00.000-07:002014-09-29T02:45:51.931-07:00Plein Air Paintout<div style="text-align: center;">
Blair Pessemier won 2nd prize in the Piedmont Plein Air Paintout September 2014</div>
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<br />Laurie and Blair PESSEMIERhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01630048852582526449noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-423276888344770521.post-49061986221386809992014-01-02T04:35:00.002-08:002014-01-02T04:35:47.381-08:00Painting at Giverny with Eye Prefer Paris<br />
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Paris Painting Workshop in Giverny Link to this BLOG: <a href="http://www.ipreferparis.net/2013/08/painting-class-with-laurie-blair-pessemier-at-giverny.html" target="_blank">http://www.ipreferparis.net/2013/08/painting-class-with-laurie-blair-pessemier-at-giverny.html </a></div>
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Painting Class with Laurie & Blair Pessemier at Giverny</h3>
<a class="asset-img-link" href="http://ipreferparis.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451b0bd69e20192ac9bafc1970d-pi" style="display: inline;" target="_blank"><img alt="GIVERNYLB-1" border="0" class="asset asset-image at-xid-6a00d83451b0bd69e20192ac9bafc1970d image-full" src="http://ipreferparis.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451b0bd69e20192ac9bafc1970d-800wi" title="GIVERNYLB-1" /></a><br /><span style="font-size: 11pt;">My good friends Laurie and Blair, who I have written about before, lead <a href="http://www.ipreferparis.net/2011/11/-painting-workshop-with-laurie-and-blair-pessimer-.html" target="_self">outdoor painting workshops in Paris </a>and environs. During the summer they take clients to <strong>Giverny</strong>
to paint and they receive a special permit that is only given to
artists and photographers to go after hours when it is closed to the
public. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: 11pt;">We went on a hot
mid July day during the week. Laurie and Blair rented a van and we drove
to Giverny in about 90 minutes. That day the clients were two women who
were grade school teachers from Hawaii. Their teaching method was quite
interesting as they told us how they integrated art classes into the
curriculum. They were on a special grant from their school to expand
their painting abilities and skills to pass on to their students. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: 11pt;">We arrived about 4PM and went to see the <strong>Hiramatsu, The Lily Pond, Homage to Monet at Giverny Museum of Impressionisms</strong> (yes, the “s” on the end of Impressionism is correct). The show was a reverse take on <strong>Monet</strong>, as <strong>Monet</strong> was greatly influenced by Japanese prints, and<strong> Hiramatsu</strong>, a Japanese artist, painted a series of paintings influenced by <strong>Monet</strong> after he first saw the <strong>Water Lilies</strong> at the <strong>Orangerie</strong> in Paris and after visited <strong>Giverny. </strong></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: 11pt;">We
then saw the house and the gardens, which I had not visited in over 20
years. (I came once to the museum in the winter a few years ago to see a
show and the gardens were closed.). </span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Although
it was teeming with tourists, it was till a great thrill to revisit the
country house with its musty smell and antique furniture and of course
the gardens. At about 5:45 we carried the easels and art supplies to the
water lily area. The museum closes at 6PM so it was almost empty by the
time we arrived. It was still full daylight, as it doesn’t get dark
till about 10:15 in July.</span><br />
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<a class="asset-img-link" href="http://ipreferparis.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451b0bd69e20192ac9bb53a970d-pi" style="display: inline;" target="_blank"><img alt="GIVERNYLB-5" border="0" class="asset asset-image at-xid-6a00d83451b0bd69e20192ac9bb53a970d image-full" src="http://ipreferparis.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451b0bd69e20192ac9bb53a970d-800wi" title="GIVERNYLB-5" /></a><br /><span style="font-size: 11pt;">I
actually tagged along so I could take photographs, not paint. One
talent I absolutely don’t possess is painting, although one never knows
till they try but I wasn’t game enough that day, so I stuck with taking
photos. The light at that time of the day had a lot of glare, so it was
tricky trying to photograph the nature without it being overexposed. It
was a perfect time in terms of the vegetation as all the greenery was in
full bloom with the vines overhanging the pond, lily pads floating on
the murky, mud colored water and splashes of fuchsia flowers and orange
tiger lilies. The famous green Japanese bridge is a genius detail
because the exceptional color gives the garden a focal point and a
brilliant beam of color just where it’s needed. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Laurie,
Blair, and their students set up their easels and painted away, while I
luxuriated walking various paths of the serene, people empty garden,
snapping away. I met a woman who was with a group of students who were
taking a weeklong photography class just focusing on Giverny, where they
would photograph it in the morning and late day. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: 11pt;">We
wrapped up at 8PM, as the permit only allowed us two hours, but what a
glorious two hours it was having the special experience of being
practically being one on one with <strong>Monet</strong> and his garden.</span> <br />
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<br />Laurie and Blair PESSEMIERhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01630048852582526449noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-423276888344770521.post-86222338290002174652012-08-29T08:11:00.001-07:002012-08-29T08:11:40.421-07:00AugustWe went to Giverny yesterday and have another foray planned for the 11 September. The sunflowers, dahlias and water lilies were in bloom, and the sun was at just the right angle as we painted from 6 to 8 PM...Laurie and Blair PESSEMIERhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01630048852582526449noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-423276888344770521.post-14083162931688576982012-07-19T01:29:00.000-07:002012-07-19T01:29:17.977-07:00JulyWhere does the time go? This month we had 19 high school students painting in the Luxembourg Gardens -- fortunately no more than 13 at a time -- several sessions. This was a stellar group of young people -- most non-painters who rose to the occasion with pictures that inspired ME!<br />
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Meanwhile, Micheal House made a short movie of us painting, take a look --<br />
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A typical session might be one we had the other day -- an American
woman, in Paris for a while, hadn't painted in several years. We met
her at the Luxembourg Gardens -- after walking around a bit, she choose a
place which she liked. We each painted a 12 x 12 inch canvas there in
about an hour. Then, I suggested the Medici fountain -- we took a 14 x
18 linen canvas (general size) and we painted for 90 minutes. We lunched together at the cafe Rostand across the way -- if we are at the Seine, we usually make a tour of the
Orangerie, but the show at the Luxembourg Gardens isn't so interesting
at the moment. Then we walked to the other side of the park and she and
Blair painted the bee house, and I painted trees and people. <br />
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Blair's bee house</div>Laurie and Blair PESSEMIERhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01630048852582526449noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-423276888344770521.post-74288576212437348292012-06-18T01:26:00.001-07:002012-06-18T01:26:24.303-07:00Painting on Saturday in the Luxembourg Gardens<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Laurie and Blair PESSEMIERhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01630048852582526449noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-423276888344770521.post-54892597162413989112012-06-02T09:37:00.001-07:002012-06-02T09:37:10.044-07:00In the steps of the Impressionists<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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There was a small crowd at the Marmottan as we waited for
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Berthe Morisot show with another painter, before making our foray into the Bois
de Boulogne to paint.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I hadn’t really
spent much time with Morisot’s work before this, and the depth of her
production was amazing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She was the wife of Manet’s brother, and a
mother, and in an age where women didn’t paint,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>somehow <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>found time to paint not
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The Marmottan, if you haven’t been there, is the “Monet” museum.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Lots of smaller (48 x 54” or thereabouts)
waterlilies hang, and other impressions of Giverney.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In fact, the painting that gave “Impressionism”
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illuminations in the museum.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We spent a
bit of time examining these, as well as several walls of small portraits (12 x
12 inches) from the late 1700s.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I figure
these were the last vestiges of some of the French aristocracy, as depicted by
Bouilly, from just before the Revolution.</div>
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painters.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Even though we’ve been there
before there are moments I sit in Monet’s gardens and get goosebumps.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was
nearly overcome with emotion on Tuesday as I was walking by the lily pond,
checking on a watercolorist, and another painter.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I can almost feel Monet walking among us, or
at least on the collective minds of we five painters.</div>
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We had only one painter with us at Auvers-sur-Oise on Wednesday.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We picked her up on Montmartre, and followed
the route by the flea markets at Clignancourt out to the country.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was a shorter foray than Giverney, only about
40 minutes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We went to the graves of
Vincent Van Gogh and his brother Theo – I feel different about him now that it
is known he did not commit suicide, but was killed accidentally by a local
boy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He had a great respect for life and
it always set oddly with me that he would have ended it all during this, the
most productive time in his career.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This
new knowledge lends a more positive feeling to the trip, and I saw the church, the
fields, the river Oise with new eyes.</div>
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We painted a couple of pictures that day – and finished up
with a visit to the home of Dr. Gachet, the building now a museum.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Gachet was a doctor caring for Vincent in
Auvers-sur-Oise.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Gachet <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>gave up his regular practice, grew a
homeopathic garden on the small estate willed him by his parents.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He was a printmaker, and opened his home to
other artists as well as Van Gogh, including Pissarro, Renoir , Manet and
Cezanne.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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We got home to find a lodger in our flat :<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>a writer friend from Seattle has found his
way back to Paris. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I slept happily that
night, with the sense that , like doctor Gachet, we were encouraging artists on
their artistic course.</div>Laurie and Blair PESSEMIERhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01630048852582526449noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-423276888344770521.post-4597936540871419162012-05-15T01:24:00.000-07:002012-05-15T01:27:32.351-07:00In April 2012Three charming daughters gave their mother a morning of painting for a birthday present. Many happy returns!<br />
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Blair was photographed by Simon Collins (penlightplus.wordpress.com)</div>Laurie and Blair PESSEMIERhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01630048852582526449noreply@blogger.com0