Commanding Colour: Painting Sicily in Pastel
Dates & Price
9/12/2027 - 9/18/2027
Location
Marsala, Sicily
Italy
Contact Info
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This retreat is designed as an immersive week of pastel landscape painting, combining focused instruction with the extraordinary visual richness of western Sicily.
Each day will offer opportunities to study composition, colour relationships, value, edge, and expressive mark-making. Tony will guide students in simplifying the landscape, finding strong design, and capturing the character of a scene without overworking the image. The week includes a balance of studio demonstrations, discussion, critique, and on-location painting. Studio time will allow Tony to introduce key concepts and techniques, while outdoor sessions will give students the chance to respond directly to Sicily’s changing color, terrain, architecture, and coastal forms. Painting locations may include the salt flats and windmills of the Stagnone Lagoon, the historic center of Marsala, the medieval hill town of Erice, and the ancient landscape of the Greek Temples at Segesta. These sites offer a powerful range of subjects: sea and sky, stone and shadow, architecture, ruins, distant views, and the warm tonal harmonies of the Sicilian landscape.
By the end of the week, participants will leave with a stronger understanding of pastel as a landscape medium, a more confident approach to composition and colour, and a body of studies shaped by the force, beauty, and visual richness of Sicily.
