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Landscape & Figure Painting with Eli Cedrone

May 20-27, 2019

Trip Status: OPEN

Tour Cost: $3750

Activity Level: Easy to Moderate

Join Eli Cedrone’s fifth workshop with Artful Journeys LLC and the third in Cascais. Eli’s workshops are designed to be fun, stimulating and stress-free experiences, for beginners to advanced students alike. Everything has been carefully organized so all you have to do is paint and enjoy the wonderful experience of being in Cascais, Portugal. Come experience the sharpness of color, decorative tiles everywhere, and the warm sun and people of Portugal.

One of Eli's workshops in Portugal

Highlights

TRIP HIGHLIGHTS

Explore

Cascais - a resort town on the Atlantic, steeped in history and offering some of the most exquisite natural and architectural sites in the country. It is a place of magic, myths, and mystery.
Secret places that our young, handsome guide Frederico knows.
The golden, rugged coastline with sandy beaches, sometimes.

Savor

Sophisticated, gastronomical delights in the restaurants of Cascais

Attend

Five days of painting workshops, rain or shine

Accommodations

ACCOMMODATIONS

Once again, we will stay at the Albatroz Hotel, a luxury hotel which sits near the crashing ocean. The newly renovated Albatroz Hotel is a place of true glamour that rises above the ocean. Each room is unique and individually decorated in their own, unique style, offering guests totally modern up-to-date comfort.

Albatroz Hotel

Workshop

WORKSHOP DETAILS

Media: Oil, watercolors, & pastels

Level: All levels

Workshop will focus on:

Understanding and simplifying shapes
Blocking in confidently
Creating and developing a focal point
Color theory and mixing
Atmosphere and perspective

Eli's class

Workshop includes:

Welcome reception and informational meet and greet on day one.
Each following day begins with a lecture and demonstration on the fundamentals of painting.

There will be plenty of painting time, personal instruction, and group critiques to promote your progress. Participants are welcome to bring images of past work for discussion. We’ll meet at designated locations with a break for lunch. In case of inclement weather, we will work inside. We will end the week with a farewell dinner. A detailed itinerary will be furnished upon registration.

This year we will again be very fortunate to have with us during the workshop Frederico Paradela de Abreu, known in the guide trade as amigo Fred, whom we met as a guide in 2017 and then adopted him as our own. He posed for Eli our last afternoon, after which he serenaded us on the piano. Frederico will show us some spectacular painting spots, be our liaison in Cascais and guide us to some wonderful spots.

Sample Day's Schedule

9:00am: Meet at designation point for a demonstration
12:00pm: Lunch
2-4:00pm: Students proceed to paint with instruction
5:00pm: Free time
8:00pm: Dinner

Painting Supplies List

Hosts

YOUR HOSTS

Eli Cedrone
Instructor

"I've always been influenced by the power of images to express ideas and emotions. Painting is a process of discovery and decision making where disparate elements pull together until the image is clearly expressed."

Eli Cedrone has spent her lifetime creating. A graduate of the School of Art & Design in Boston, she studied art in Italy and at the School of the MFA, Boston. Her professional career began as an art director at Saatchi & Saatchi Advertising, Bermuda, followed by work as an illustrator and mixed-media artist in Laguna Beach, CA. Her work has been exhibited nationwide and she is a popular workshop instructor in the Alla Prima method. Contemporary Realism would best describe her style. Two powerful influences have been the Spanish impressionist, Joaquin Sorolla and Richard Diebenkorn. Others include Nicolai Fechin, Anders Zorn, John Singer Sargent.

Frederico Paradela de Abreu
Guide

Known in the guide trade as amigo Fred, we met Frederico as a guide in 2017 and then adopted him as our own. Frederico will show us some spectacular painting spots, be our liaison in Cascais and guide us to some wonderful spots.

Joan Hill
Owner, Host, & Director

Years ago, it was suggested to Joan that she might offer an art program, and she jumped at the chance of a lifetime. Bringing together all of her life's passions, the development and administration of Artful Journeys is an exhilarating process for Joan.

Joan was born and raised in the apple country of the Hudson River Valley in New York; her father was a gentle, very tolerant, educated land surveyor, and her mother was the efficient business administrator and home engineer. The youngest of four children, Joan was encouraged to pursue anything she wanted, but also to do her best. Sometimes that was very difficult, especially succeeding three very accomplished siblings.

Cost

JOURNEY COST

$3750, double occupancy

Single Supplement: $825. Upgrades to fancier rooms are also possible.
Non-painter spouses are welcome; your cost is $3250.
Includes B&B accommodations at the gorgeous Hotel Albatroz - in Cascais for 7 nights, all meals, airport transfers, ground transportation in Portugal, excursion and entrance fees, daily instructional sessions, and teacher and administrative fees.
NOTE: A deposit of $500 is required upon registration to secure a place in this workshop.
Airfare is not included to enable travelers to use their “travel points,” upgrade flight arrangements, or to extend their trip.
Travel insurance is strongly encouraged. Please see the Travel Insurance Form.

To register for this journey, please click below:

A detailed itinerary and policy page will be provided upon registration.