“Join Ann Moeller Steverson for seven days in Italy for her Plein air portrait workshop. Moeller will instruct how to match the colors of nature and create beautiful soft skin tones with a rainbow of paints. Explore outdoor settings and create beautiful scenarios for a photoshoot and color study with a model. You will practice getting your own best shots and making an exciting studio reference. Learn photo editing for sight size, matching color, and scaling prints for creating the best reference material for a studio painting. You will leave with the knowledge you need, multiple color studies, and excellent photo references of color for getting started on painting outdoor portraits of your own.”
$3,750 per person - Includes:
Private transportation to and from Bologna BLQ airport to Urbania
6 night accommodation with breakfast at the charming B&B www.ilparcoducale.it all bedrooms ensuite
5 Lunches and 6 Dinners with full beverage service, including wine
Welcome Aperitivo
Stunning studio
Hand-crafted cheese, olive oil and wine tasting at Beltrami
Truffle hunt with local guide & truffle dog
Private transportation on all excursions
Private trip to Urbino
Entrance to the “Church of the Dead”
Exclusive week-long class with Ann
Activities for non painters as listed in the itinerary (see website for details)
Week-long private guide & international sommelier Piero
BONUS COMPANION PACKAGE- Non artist discount of $250. Piero will be your guide as you explore opportunities to see surrounding historical villages, horseback ride, golf, visit a Roman archaeological site, visit nearby festivals, visit the Church of the Dead, take a bell tower tour, discover sunflower fields or just drink with the locals!
About the Instructor
Ann Moeller Steverson has over 16 years of experience as an art instructor sharing her love of art with students of all ages. Born in Madison, Alabama, in 1980, Ann began painting in oils at the University of Montevallo in 1999. She graduated in 2002 from the University of Alabama in Huntsville, completing a B.A. with a Fine Arts Concentration. Ann then acquired a Master of Art Education from Alabama A&M University in Normal, Alabama.
Ann has been awarded the honor of the Bold Brush Award, a distinction an artist may achieve only once in their lifetime. She has been featured in several Oil Painters of America exhibits and awarded by the National Acrylic and Oil Painters Society and Portrait Society of America. She has recently been selected as a finalist in the Art Renewal Center.
Ann is the inventor and founder of Venus Copper Panels, an innovative new fine art painting surface; now known as Artefex Copper Panels. She is co-founder of Protégé Atelier, which brings master artist workshops to Huntsville, Alabama. Moeller Steverson is an adjunct instructor at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, Athens State University, and Calhoun Community College. Ann taught at Monrovia Middle School and Hampton Cove Middle School and served as the Huntsville Art League Education Director early. For information, visit annmoellerstudios.com.
Steverson – “I hope my art can be a conduit of healing in our world. Sensing the beauty in the world around me has always called me to create. My oil paintings have become expressions of humanity, femininity, and intense moods. I reach into my whole heart and share the best of everything I see, therefore offering my most authentic self. Approaching oil painting as an
intuitive meditation becomes like a dance.The fluidity and malleability of the paint align with the openness I feel as I work. I have begun to paint with more abstraction, in combination with realism, searching for marriage and balance between the two.”