Video Archive: Beyond the Poppies, Painting in Watercolor with Pat Fiorello
$50.00
Paint a Tuscan landscape with poppies in watercolor
Join Pat Fiorello, an instructor who has led more than 10 programs abroad with Il Chiostro since 2008, for a paint-along session where you’ll create a beautiful landscape painting in watercolor that reflects the spirit of Italy. In this class, we’ll paint the joy of Tuscany’s rolling hills with this scene of a villa set on a hilltop beyond the lush poppy fields.
Painting will focus on achieving convincing form and depth, rich, clean color and expressive brushwork.
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Poppies – As you might know, poppies in Italy are bright red. They are wild and appear only in late May-early June. They rarely appear in the same fields twice, so we have to hunt to find them every spring. Sometimes we are rewarded with a great find, like is pictured below, and other times – nothing. While aesthetically we love the blood-red fields along the side of the country roads, the farmers actually consider them weeds (they are) that need to be plowed up as soon as possible.