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.
