Autumn 2025/Winter 2026 Online Courses

These are some of the drawings for Unit 1 of the Art Toscana Online Courses. The theme is cubism. Chris has taken several different orientations of a teapot and put the images together as you can see from the drawings. Lots of geometry involve! Many of our guests from Art Toscana Painting Holidays in Italy

Covered in Mud

“Golden Retrievers are the best dogs you could ever wish for,”we were told by our guests at Art Toscana Art Vacations in Italy. We had just lost our previous love, Teddy, a husky cross Italian sheepdog. It was heartbreaking of course. Only a few days later we were told about a litter of Golden Retrievers

Chris at The Saline

I love this picture of Chris at The Saline in Sicily where our guests at Art Toscana Art Vacations in Italy spend the day painting the spectacular views across the salt pans to the open sea. Chris chose the view of the hilltop town of Erice, which as you can see, touches the clouds and

The Salt Pans at The Saline

This picture of the salt pans on the west coast of Sicily is another one of our venues for our Art Toscana Painting Vacations in Sicily. The photo hasn’t caught the real colour of the water which has a pinkish hew due to the pink plankton which live there. The resident flamingos feed on the

The Harbour at Castellammare Del Golfo with Art Toscana Art Courses in Sicily

This is the harbour view off Castellammare del Golfo, one of the painting venues for our Art Toscana Art holidays in Sicily. The name can be translated as ‘Sea Fortress on the Gulf’. Everywhere you look there is a spectacular view to be painted from the boats in the harbour, the fishermen loading and unloading