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TRAVEL SKETCHBOOK IN GIVERNY DAY TOUR

Spend a wonderful day outside Paris, in GIVERNY, the village where Monet, Impressionism’s father chooses to live…
You will realize a travel sketchbook, by learning to draw quickly what you see, to compose your pages, and to write your ideas in a personal and harmonious way. "
During this day you will draw in the village and in the gardens of the famous hotel BAUDY.
Lunch included at the restaurant BAUDY, then you have some free time, around one and a half hour, to visit and enjoy Claude Monet’s house and his famous gardens.
And to relax, enjoy the scenery and the quiet life of the village…

8:30 am Pick up at our agency in Paris located nearby the Eiffel Tower
9:30am – 12:30pm Sketchbook session in the village of Giverny and in the hotel Baudy’ gardens.
12:30am – 1:30pm lunch at the hotel Baudy where famous artists used to stay such as : Cezanne, Renoir, Sisley, Rodin, Mary Cassatt…
2pm – 3:30pm free visit at Claude Monet’s house & gardens.
3:45pm transfer back to Paris and drop off at our agency in Paris.

The workshop is open to everyone, it is not necessary to know how to draw already. Experience shows that even someone who has never held a pen before gets, through a workshop, to surprise oneself and to produce unexpected pages.
And that those who already have a regular practice of drawing find new possibilities.

The courses, which aim at experiencing the travel report sketchbook technique, are based on the following approach:
• drawing on the spot exclusively, outside or on the chosen sites
• giving preference, upon technique, to the dynamism and spontaneity of the image
• main teaching points: observing, choosing a topic, creating an image dynamics, drawing, choosing colors, writing, building the text/image relationship, composing the report.

  • Day tour
  • From April 1st to October 31st, 2013 - From Monday to Friday