Read all about Leslie Fehling’s 2023 painting workshop in Italy.
Category: Italy
Sketchbook Traveling through Tuscany
This is the sketchbook that started it all. My first trip to Italy lit a fire for travel that continues to burn in me today. That trip seven years ago opened my eyes to the wonder and exhilaration of exploring places that are worlds away from my little corner of Pennsylvania. The journal I kept […]
Arrivederci and Cheerio!
Tomorrow’s the big day! I’ll be flying off to Sicily to teach a week-long workshop near Marsala. On Saturday I’ll be meeting my students in Palermo and heading off to our home for the week at Villa Salinara, an historic villa built in the 18th century. After the Sicily workshop, I’ll catch a flight to […]
Last Chance for Italy!
I have two European workshop tours coming up this fall, one on the island of Sicily… and one in Northern Italy… Both of these exciting 7-day painting workshops still have openings, and the deadline is fast approaching when we will have to decide whether we have enough people to make them happen. My organizers reserved […]
Tuscany Review
It seems like a year ago when my mother and I posed for this picture at Pittsburgh International. We hoped the next four weeks would bring wonderful new people and places into our lives. And they did! Me and my mother, Saundra, ready for another travel adventure! We were keeping our fingers crossed that there […]
Scenes from Certaldo Alto
I’ve been working hard to finish up some of the unpainted sketches I brought home from my Italy trip last fall. Here’s a composite page I did the day we visited the medieval hilltop village of Certaldo alto… Since I taught two week-long workshops at Fattoria Bacio this past year, I had two visits to […]
Chapel Sketch + GIVEAWAY
This is one of my favorite sketches so far in my 2016 Tuscany travel journal… 10″ x 7″, ink & watercolor in a Handbook Field Watercolor Journal I had pre-painted the page earlier with watery washes of blue, yellow, and burnt sienna and let it dry thoroughly. I did a little bit of planning for […]
Best Friends Sketch + GIVEAWAY
There is plenty to smile about when staying at Fattoria Bacio, where my workshop was held last September and October. There are the incomparable views, of course… and the historic buildings… the vineyards… the olive groves… the pool… the chapel… and the sketch-worthy scenes everywhere you look… But the one thing that not only made […]
Tuscan Hills Sketch + GIVEAWAY
It felt good to finally arrive at Fattoria Bacio and have a chance to settle in for two full weeks. Home Sweet Home…temporarily We made it! It was as beautiful as ever… And there were just as many cats as last year, if not more. Kitties routinely get dropped off at Fattoria Bacio, and the […]
“Too Much Luggage” Sketch + Paintbrush and Holder GIVEAWAY
After a day and a half of traveling to Italy from the US, and two and a half days in Cinque Terre, it was finally time to move on to Florence and then to Fattoria Bacio, in Certaldo, where I would teach two week-long sketching workshops. My friends Cindy and Carol watch the scenery going […]
