USA

 

 

 

 

 

OLD MASTERS-NEW VISIONS " PAINTING SEMINAR & EXHIBITION

 

THE OZARKS ODYSSEY with Prof. Philip Rubinov Jacobson & Cynthia Re' Robbins

 

Eureka Springs, Arkansas

 

April 27 - May 17, 2008

 

3 week seminar - 90 hours of Instruction

 

Cynthia Re’Robbins teaching the secrets of under-painting the first week; on an egg emulsion ground, followed by a two week master class with Prof.Phil and Cynthia.

 

Eureka Springs, AR, is an undiscovered and beautiful little "art community" town in the Ozarks. It is indeed a fairy-tale-like place and magical spot. This will be the first seminar Prof. Phil has held in the USA in 13 years.......don’t miss this opportunity. In addition, each participating artist in the seminar may bring up to 6 works for our group exhibition in our vast studio space!

 

Monday - Friday 9:00 am - 12:00 noon 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm. Extended open-studio hours

 

TUITION ONLY:

$1,495 before 2/27/08 $1,650 if registering after 2/27/08

$495 Deposit required (no refunds after 2/27/08)

 

Contact Prof.Phil regarding your TUITION deposit/questions at eyepaint4u@yahoo.com or at 214-564-0453

 

Northwest Arkansas is one of the "best kept secret" places. The densely wooded hills, winding roads, many lakes and rivers all make for a pristine setting. In the midst of the Ozark Highlands sits a Victorian village so charming you will think you have stepped back in time and into a fairy tale. There are no traffic lights, people don't have to lock their doors, and all he neighbors know one another. Even though it is small, there is a very high quality and variety of restaurants, shopping, accommodations, art and music.

 

SPECIAL ACCOMMODATIONS FOR FIRST 10 PARTICIPANTS REGISTERED: Reservations for accommodations are separate from TUITION DEPOSIT.

 

For our seminar we have co-created a package-deal with breakfast and lunch included at a charming Bed & Breakfast called THE PIEDMONT. It is less than 100 yards from the fabulously large studio space where we will be painting. The Piedmont is giving us all 10 of their rooms, so register early to get this great deal. Rooms at the Piedmont will range from $70 - $120 a day depending on room size, jacuzzi, etc. (with the 2 meals included) and Wi-Fi is available for your wireless!

 

CONTACT "Pat" at the Piedmont to secure your reservation/best by telephone: 479-640-7777, by Email: piedmont@ipa.net

 

ITALY

International School of the Arts - ArtFarmGaia

 

 

 

 

Art holiday in Umbria in the center of Italy: live and learn about its history, art, artists, and see a dream come true in the green heart of Italy. Workshops are open to anyone wishing to have a creative-holiday in a natural setting of great beauty, peace and harmony. Workshops are open to anyone wishing to have a creative-holiday in a natural setting of great beauty, peace and harmony. The site is in a great location in close proximity to the major cultural art centers of Italy. Less than 2 hours from Florence, Italy, there are few regions capable, as Umbria, of exciting and intense emotions.

 

To a visitor, passing through this region of different contours and varied character is like entering a dimension in which spiritual inspiration, artistic legacy and environmental excellence make a perfect combination. Plunge into the stillness of its undulated countryside. Lose yourself in the tinted colors of it’s landscape, similar to those painted by Perugino. It brings us back to being in harmony with the secret rhythm of a world. The ancient Umbrian landscape continues to release mysterious life-energies which gently envelope visitors, stirring their curiosity, intellect and heart.

 

Art Farm Gaia occupies a large rural area on the right bank of the Tevere river, with a spectacular view of the Martani Mountains. Papiano is about 15 minutes from the city of Perugia and is near the town of Marsciano, where scattered hamlets and castles of rare beauty, such as those found in Sant’ Apollinare and Spina. In Marsciano, oak groves share the environment with the Mediterranean landscape and the cultivation of vines, olives, sunflowers and wheat.

 

"ArtFarmGaia"

 

ACCOMMODATIONS AT "ARTFARMGAIA" are charming, very reasonable and limited to 8 - 16 people. Artists may have a single room or share a room with one or two others depending on their budget. Please contact "Pino" at ARTFARM to ensure your accommodations for any of the workshops below.

 

Pino's E-address is: info@artfarmgaia.it

 

Reservations for accommodations are separate from TUITION DEPOSIT. Half board comes with 2 meals per day/Full board with 3 meals per day. TUITION is additional to ACCOMMODATIONS.

 

- Single room: half board per person/per day = Euro 45,00
- Single room: full board per person/per day = Euro 60,00
- Double room: half board per person/per day = Euro 35,00
- Double room: full board per person/per day = Euro 50,00
- Triple room: half board per person/per day = Euro 30,00
- Triple room: full board per person/per day = Euro 40,00

 

__________________________________________________________________ ALL WORKSHOP PRICES AND RESERVATIONS BELOW at ARTFARMGAIA

 

Contact Prof.Phil regarding your TUITION deposit/questions at eyepaint4u@yahoo.com or at 214-564-0453

 

 

Week-end Retreat June 21 - 22, 2008
with Andrea Marie Davis

 

Participants are not required to have any previous art experience.

 

Saturday and Sunday:

Take a two-day retreat designed to replenish the creative spirit. Access creative expression and discover the soulful pleasure of inspiration. Participants will discover the healing power of the mandala 'motif'. The mandala has been used for thousands of years as a tool for meditation, and as a pathway to enlightenment. Each person will be guided to create a mandala in their own personal style using a layering technique with colored pencils.

 

The group will also create and find objects that are meaningful for the assemblage of a "Personal Healing Altar". Group members will have the opportunity to discuss the images, explore personal meanings, and deepen awareness of the power of art as a healing force.

 

Tuition Only: 200 euros (+ materials fee:10 Euros)

 

 

Andrea Marie Davis, LPC, ATR-BC.

 

Ms. Davis is a Licensed Professional Counselor and a Board Certified Art Therapist in the USA. Her experience includes individual and group counseling with both child and adult populations. Currently, she works with families and individuals who are experiencing Autism Spectrum Disorders, Adoption issues, Depression, Behavior Problems and Social Skills needs. She is the current President of the North Texas Art Therapy Association.

 

Andrea has been featured on the national television program 'The Art of Living', which focused on her accomplishments and the results with her clients in art and therapy. She wrote a definitive essay on the therapeutic forces at work on a number of artists working in a variety of styles and methods in the chapter entitled; "The Medicine Painter: Healing as inspiration for art", for the forthcoming publication, "EYES of the SOUL: Exploring Inspiration in Art" by P.R. Jacobson, Foreword by Ken Wilber.

"Fa Presto Brigitta"

Fast Oil Painting Technique with Prof.Phil

 

 

One Week Seminar June 23 - 27, 2008

 

For the Beginning to Accomplished Artist

No Experience Necessary

 

Monday - Friday: 9:00AM - 12:00 NOON and 2:00 - 5:00PM

 

This approach is named after the professor's first student to have studied this methodical and liberating manner in building a picture. During the Renaissance, particularly in Venice, the taste for grand-scale pictures with a textural style of painting became widespread. In this workshop, however, we avoid the typically heavy use of slow-drying impasto under-painting and instead achieve textural and universal effects in oil painting through a division of labor and quick-dry mediums.

 

We will employ a very fast-drying version of the Venetian masters of the Renaissance through utilizing an under-drawing rendered in ink and washes, followed by layering-in chromatic schemes of oil color with painting mediums.

 

The participant will discover an excellent and sound method that is fast and lends itself to absolutely any style, or means of expression. This is a contemporary practice of the alchemy of art based on the sound knowledge of the old masters.

 

Tuition Only: 275 Euros (+ materials fee: 15 Euros) Minimum of 15 hours of formal and highly individualized instruction and 15 hours of informal instruction working along-side the professor.

 

Contact time: 30 hours Instruction: 9:00 am - 12:00 pm and 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Studio Access is 24 hours/day

 

"Fa Presto Filippo"

Fast Drying Renaissance Oil Painting Technique with Prof.Phil

 

 

Three Week Seminar with Prof. Phil

For the Beginning to Accomplished Artist

No Experience Necessary

 

AUGUST 10 - 30 , 2008
Monday - Friday: 9:00AM - 12:00 NOON and 2:00 - 5:00PM

 

Optional week-end excursions to Florence and other cultural points of interest. This approach is adapted after the Venetian painting techniques used by such Old Masters as Tintoretto (1518-1594) and Veronese (1527-1588). An over-all emphasis on the 'big look' of the whole composition is emphasized in the beginning under layers, blocking in the dark and shadowy masses.

 

The first half of the painting is done in the Italian manner and the final layers are completed in the Northern European fashion of Old Masters such as Van Eyck, Memling and Durer, using hi-lighting with an Cremnitz Oil White and final glazes with resin-oil colors. We combine the best advantages of the Italians by building a picture through a limited palette to create an underlying color unity, while later adding the Flemish and German advantages of the 'optical greys', neutral tones and luminosity that can only be achieved through hi-lighting in white and overlaying glazes of oil color.

 

Employing a very quick-drying version of the masters of the Renaissance, the participant will discover an excellent and sound method that is fast and lends itself to absolutely any style, or means of expression. The full spectrum of artistic expression from imaginative gestural spontaneity to an academic realism is encouraged; from a mystical precisionism to a devotional abstraction of styles.

 

This seminar is an alchemy of art that mixes the knowledge of the old masters with the contemporary eye of the painter in an atmosphere of study in which the professor highly emphasizes individualized instruction tailored to each participant's personal visual language.

 

*** NOTE: RETURNING ARTISTS/STUDENTS from previous seminars with Prof Phil may continue their line-of-study in the technique and methods they have been individually adapting/applying with the professor.

 

Tuition Only: 700 Euros (+ materials fee: 25 Euros) Minimum of 45 hours of highly individualized formal instruction and 45 hours of informal instruction alongside the professor.

 

Contact time: 90 hours

Instruction: 9:00 am - 12:00 pm (noon) and 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Studio Access is 24 hours/day

 

Any Questions? Write Prof. Phil at eyepaint4u@yahoo.com

 

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