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Paint the Amazing Light & Colour of the Western Algarve

Jantien Powell

10th - 17th October 2023


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Join Jantien Powell on this exciting

opportunity to paint in an absolutely

delightful place in the Western Algarve

where you will learn how to use

acrylics and pastels to illustrate the

amazing light and colour of the

Western Algarve.


The Algarve is well known for it's

amazing light conditions and vibrant

colours from the vivid blue skies and

turquoise waters to it's lush green and

colourful vegetation as well as the

rustic tiled and coloured traditional

buildings.


The Western Algarve is more rural,

rustic and peaceful than the hustle and

bustle of the Central Algarve with it's

sleepy harbours, quiet mountain

villages and un-spoilt coastline.


The holiday will be based in Praia da

Luz where you can paint the coastline,

fortaleza, buildings and churches. The

traditional fishing village of Burgau is

within a few minutes drive from Luz

and has some really quaint subjects to

paint including buildings, cobbled

streets, boats and the beautiful

coastline.


We will also visit the coastal town of

Lagos (15 mins away) where you can

paint anything from fishing harbours

with multi-coloured fishing boats, old

forts, traditional Portuguese tiled

buildings, churches and town squares.

We will also visit Camilo where you can

paint the coastline plus the stacks.


There are plenty of traditional

Portuguese villages nearby as well as

the mountain village of Caldas de

Monchique.



Through a mixture of full blown

paintings and sketching Jantien will

lead you step-by-step through your

painting with plenty of 1-2-1 tuition.


We will spend some days painting full-

blown paintings on location through

step-by-step guidance.


Other days we will produce plenty of

sketches around a particular location.

These sketches can be in watercolour,

pen, pencil or charcoal and can be

done alongside Jantien or you can

choose other subjects to paint. Either

way she will give you plenty of 1-2-1

tuition.


Then we will spend some time in the

studio with any/mixed media

producing full blown paintings from the

sketches produced on location earlier.


With the mixture of these 3 distinct

approaches you will learn a lot of

diverse approaches from Jantien and

with her friendly and approachable

style you are sure to learn a lot from

her whilst having a lot of fun too.





  Tutor

Jantien Powell

  Arrival

Tue 10th October

  Departure

Tue 17th October

  Destination

Western Algarve

  Hotel

Hotel Luz Bay

  Days

7

  Type

Location

  Single Room

N/a

  Single Occ

£1,575

  Double Occ

£1,425

  NPP

£1,075