Residential watercolor painting course on a sailing boat in Lampedusa

The idea was born from the meeting with Concetta, a painter on board, who after years of teaching at the Art School, today often undertakes trips on a sailing boat to make travel notebooks and to trace real and imaginary routes on nautical charts. We offer an immersive experience, living on board, combining navigation with art and allowing you to paint en plein air in evocative contexts, in close contact with nature. The watercolor painting course will take place as part of a week-long sailing holiday in the Pelagie Islands, in the heart of the Mediterranean, at the end of summer, when the weather is still warm but the islands return to calm after the summer tourist crowds.

Painting Course

The painting course includes a program of four hours a day organized in such a way that the artistic activity is integrated with the proposal of a boat holiday.

Two moments of activity are scheduled:

• In the morning, during the navigation and excursion activities on the mainland, the guest will be invited, under the teacher's super vision, to shoot with the camera and write down with quick pencil sketches on his notebook the images that most excite him
• In the second afternoon, having reached a quiet place, a port, or a roadstead, we will have two hours of group activities of pictorial reworking with the use of watercolors, pencils and watercolor pastels in order to be able to acquire competence in these painting techniques, always accompanied by the teacher-painter.

Each participant will take home their own on-board notebook.

Sailing and the sailing experience will thus become a precious moment of sharing and exchange of Creative Thinking for guests, the opportunity to grasp and retain with greater intensity the experiences and emotions lived and the possibility of acquiring the techniques aimed at expressing them.