Autumn at Val di Pozza

Unfortunately our guests at Art Toscana Painting Holidays in Italy don’t experience this beautiful sight of the old chicken coops and chestnut trees in Autumn. When our guests at Art Toscana Art Holidays in Italy step outside the artist’s studio the trees are heavy, thick and green with a canopy of baby green chestnut husks.

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