La Rogaia Painting holidays 2010 Painting with Water Colours and Oil - Landscape and Still Life with Julia Sterland

Born in London Julia has painted in both watercolour and oil all her life. She worked as a family doctor until 2000 and then trained as an Alexander Technique teacher whilst she also developed her artistic skills. She learned fine art oil portraiture from Zohar (an internationally acclaimed London portraitist), and portrait commissions form most of her oil painting work. She has taught watercolour classes of mixed abilities for several years, and runs three regular classes at her home.

Largely self taught, she is a figurative watercolour artist. That is she paints from what she sees and enjoys passing on the joys of outdoor painting to others, whether in Spain, Scotland or Italy. She says about her approach to painting: " The Alexander "Less is more" philosophy applies powerfully to watercolour when a quick sketch outdoors often works best, but then we feel we need to complicate things. When we are painting what we see we are only thinking of the present. I believe this helps to make it so enjoyable.

During the class at La Rogaia there will be at least one indoor session per day to teach basic drawing and watercolour techniques and then in the afternoon or early evening painting at suitable sites of interest nearby. Julia will also teach one oil still life session indoors. Materials are very important and many beginners have poor quality paper and brushes. Therefore materials can be purchased from Julia to ensure they are good quality. In this way participants can obtain good value for money and also minimize costs.

For more information about Julia and her art visit her website www.juliasterland.com

Villa La Rogaia is an agriturismo situated near Lago Trasimeno in Umbria, Italy. It offers holiday apartments and a variety of creative classes, such as painting, dancing, cooking, italian language and many others. It offers also special holiday events, like participating in the olive harvest.
Villa La Rogaia is also an organic farm, that cultivates olive trees, produces finest extravergine olive oil and raises medicinal herbs and fragrant plants

Agriturismo La Rogaia, Azienda agricola biologica
di Annette Greifenhagen
Via Campagna 17
Castel Rigone
06065 Passignano sul Trasimeno
Umbria, Provincia di Perugia
Italy
e-mail: info@rogaia.de
www.rogaia.com

Contact person: Annette Greifenhagen

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