Oct 31, 2020 | Aperitivo, Artist Interview, La Romita News
We had a lot of marvelous content to include in our November Alumni Newsletter – too much, in fact – and we couldn’t bear to resign any of it the cutting room floor. Here’s everything, including a beautiful quote by Valerio. Valerio’s “second...
Jun 14, 2014 | Artist Interview
Award-winning artist Daryl Urig’s article “How to Paint with a Knife- A Beginner’s Guide“ was recently published in Painter’s Online, the website for Leisure Painter and The Artist magazines. This step-by-step guide to applying oil paint to canvas and manipulating...
May 9, 2014 | Artist Interview, La Romita News, photoblog
Like most artists, I am a bit of a romantic and a dreamer. Maybe these qualities are what make people who create art so amazing. Artists want to believe more, experience more, and live more. Italy is the perfect place for this. Its architecture going back to before...
May 9, 2014 | Artist Interview, La Romita News
Drawing and painting gives us an opportunity to participate in our surroundings in a personal a deeply felt way. When we stop to make art, we begin to see what is before us as if for the first time. The cracks and crevices of a stone wall become lines to be...
Jan 17, 2014 | Artist Interview, La Romita News
I was recently listening to an interview with the musician, Bobby McFerrin where he describes improvisation as movement, as catching song. What does it mean to catch a song? It implies that the song, our creation, is already here– and so part of our work as artists is...
Jan 17, 2014 | Artist Interview, La Romita News, photoblog
In June 2013, I taught an impromptu 10-day watercolor painting workshop instead of the more traditional 14 day format most often offered at La Romita School. The international group included a professional artist from Canada as well as beginner-to-advanced painters...
Oct 23, 2012 | Artist Interview, Italy, La Romita News
[Editor’s Note: Kenneth O’Connell has taught at La Romita four times in the last 8 years, and this year led the workshop Sketchbooks in Italy in early September. He is a Professor Emeritus from the University of Oregon, and is also President Emeritus of...
Oct 23, 2012 | Artist Interview, La Romita News
[Editor’s note: Austin-based calligrapher Sharon Zeugin led the the 2012 “Painting Umbria with Words and Images” La Romita session this year, her second workshop hosted by La Romita. Find more of Sharon’s work, and read her blog, at...
Aug 24, 2011 | Artist Interview
Artist, art instructor, and landscape architect Lisa Guthrie has been involved with La Romita since 1989! The Marin County, California resident recently spoke with La Romita’s Amina Quargnali-Diehl about watercolor, her artistic influences, her history with La...
