I’ve been telling everyone about the wonderful time I had in Italy and have gotten a lot of questions about the school I attended. Thought I would give y’all a quick overview and let you know where to go if you or your artist friends are interested in a wonderful Umbrian experience.

La Romita is a small art school in the hills outside of Terni, Umbria. We stayed in a small 15c monastery with clean, cozy rooms and wonderful food and wine at every meal. The grounds are beautiful and there is an old chapel that is used for the studio. Every day we worked with our instructors there. Each morning a bus would come and take us to a different Umbrian hill town to explore and paint. Information and maps were provided for each excursion. All your needs are taken care of by wonderful staff and you can focus completely on painting. I painted Italian watercolors day in and day out. Can’t recommend it enough. Heaven.

But you don’t have to be a watercolorist. Every two weeks they have different instructors who specialize in various mediums and subject matter. Check their web site out at http://www.Laromita.org. You can also find them on Facebook> La Romita

If you are a friend is interested, have them talk to the director, Edmund. He is an American who lives on site during the classes. schoolinfo@laromita.org

I’d also be willing to answer any questions you might have about this fantastic art experience.

Dinner at La Romita

Studio session at La Romita

La Romita View

Some of my paintings at my workstation

Pastel landscape painting of the wide river that winds through Prato, Italy.

Pastel painting 6.5 inches x 6.5 inches     $100

Please contact me if you are interested in similar artwork.

I’ve done hundreds of watercolor paintings of Italy, but no pastel paintings. For some reason, I’ve always visualized Tuscany only as a watercolor subject. The other day, I thought I’d try a scene of Prato, the small town I visited a few years ago, this time in pastel. My friend Susan and I stayed in the old city center for a week a couple of years ago. On our last day there, we took a long walking tour and stopped to sketch along this beautiful river. My current obsession with water and reflections made this view a perfect one to experiment with for a pastel landscape.