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Summer Art / Painting Courses in French Riviera, France
Ostroverhy Workshops:
Ostroverhy Workshops in Paris and Agay, Cote d'Azur, France offer all year seascape, landscape and portrait painting lessons to students of all levels of skill from complete beginners to advanced painters. Paint in the presence of a European master in the most inspiring scenery France has to offer. Our workshops are lead by Sergio Ostroverhy, finalist of both BP and PSOA competitions, and explore the secrets of à la prima landscape oil-painting, and classical portrait drawing. We provide a tailor-made service with exceptional tuition, exclusive accommodation and magical painting sites.
All year Painting Workshops for Beginner to Advanced Students:
Landscape Painting on the French Riviera:
Week-long oil land- and seascape painting workshop in Agay, South of France. Five days of one-to-one tuition with awarding winning professional artist Sergio Ostroverhy, suitable for all levels of ability. The workshop will comprise of morning sessions painting a mountain lanscape in the Esterel hills and afternoons painting seascapes and making excursions to nearby places of interest. The price of the workshop includes 6 nights food and accomodation in an exclusive hotel, and all the materials you will require.
Attendees of these workshops have the option to continue their studies with a week of fine art seminars in Paris at our atelier.
What is the workshop schedule?
The beginning of our workshops will be celebrated with a drinks reception at 6pm on the April 19th for the first workshop, on the terrace of our hotel, overlooking the bay of Agay. You will get to meet our team and your fellow participants and then enjoy our first dinner in the hotel restaurant.
Each day will begin with breakast between 7.45 and 8.30am. We will leave the hotel at 8.30 am to begin the painting sessions on site at 9.00am. At 12.00am we will return to the hotel for lunch at 12.30am. There is a break before the afternoon session where you are free to spend your time at the hotel or in Agay. There are tennis courts at the hotel and the beach is a 10 minute walk from the hotel. By 15.00pm we will begin our afternoon session on site till 18.00pm. You will have a short rest before dinner which is served from 19.15 to 20.15pm.
On the afternoon of the 3rd day of teaching there is an optional visit to the medieval town of Antibes, a 40 minute train journey away from Agay. Here you will have the chance to visit the Picasso museum as well as the Chateau de la Napoule on the return train journey home.
Paris Classical Drawing Workshop:
Week-long drawing course, including sessions on still life, live models, classical portraiture and cityscapes, under the tutelage of Sergio Ostroverhy.
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2024-07-13 were from:
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london, UK / GB; Seoul, South Korea; UK / GB; Kirribilli, Australia; Germany; San Dimas, USA; new york, ny, USA; and more.
Institut Europeen De Francais, Montpellier
Courses / Programs
In 2005, IMEF and the Odyssea French Language School (created in 1983 and 2001, respectively) came together in Montpellier, southern France to form the Institut Européen de Français, offering a wide variety of French courses.The Institut Européen de Français welcomes students, teachers, or professionals of all nationalities, all year-round with special summer school programs in a friendly and studious atmosphere, assuring that your study of French will take place under the best conditions.
Summer Immersion Program; General French Courses.
Altiplano Training
Courses / Programs
Altiplano Training offers a unique French summer school for children and adults in Mens in the south east of France. Prefaucon Farm provides a stimulating, and friendly and fun environment which allows you to develop your linguistic ability. After your French lessons you will put what you learn into practice by living and eating with a French family, and learning about the French way of life. Mens is located 40min south of Grenoble and 2 hrs south of Lyon. Here you stay with a local family, discuss life & politics and farming and 'Europe', and enjoy the atmosphere and live music in the cafés. Adults can also take craft courses in pottery, felt-making, watercolour painting, painting furniture, organic cookery, medicinal plants and “green” construction techniques are all possible: all in French! Popular sports and activities include walking, mountain biking, windsurfing & kite surfing, horse riding and paragliding. Courses in these sports are also available.
A 5-day immersion course where you are immersed in French life and culture (7 nights accommodation).
Adults can study the French language with us or help out on the farm, or follow their own activity program.
Children are looked after by their own French language teacher and have their own program of activities and classes with local children, each day, so they learn to use the French language naturally.
Adults can study the French language with us or help out on the farm, or follow their own activity program.
Children are looked after by their own French language teacher and have their own program of activities and classes with local children, each day, so they learn to use the French language naturally.
Creative Writing Course at the French House Party, Carcassonne
Courses / Programs
• Recommended in the book “The 100 Best Worldwide Vacations to Enrich Your Life”, the French House Party in the Carcassonne area of south-west France offers residential, all-inclusive experience holidays, including 6-day summer Creative Writing courses for writers & creative writing hobbyists. • Located in the Languedoc-Roussillon region, Carcassonne is 50 miles from Toulouse which has an international airport. Ryanair also fly directly to Carcassonne from the UK, Ireland, Belgium, & Paris Beauvais international airport.
• Run by author and professional tutor Sarah Hymas, our summer creative writing course "Write Like No One's Watching", is designed for complete beginners or for people who have a little writing experience, while our "Pen & Think" - Tutored Creative Writing Retreat" is designed for more experienced writers.
• Our courses are suitable for those who have attended other writing classes, and for published and unpublished authors.
• You will not be expected to write in any particular style or genre, except for that chosen by yourself - fact or fiction, prose or poetry.
• Participants are encouraged to bring with them one or two of their poems or a short story for the one-to-one and another for group discussion.
• Based at a chic house in Carcassonne, the French House Party offers the ultimate in customer care and personal attention.
• Clients praise our great accommodation, fantastic food and wine, the excellence of our tutors and our exacting attention to detail.
Summer Creative Writing Courses:
"Write Like No One's Watching" (6 days - 5 nights)
• Includes daily 3-hour group sessions, one-to-one tutorials and an after-dinner feedback focus on at least one evening.
"Pen & Think" - Tutored Creative Writing Retreat (6 days - 5 nights)
• This course is a wonderful opportunity for experienced writers to enjoy time and space to devote themselves daily to a current writing project (novel, memoir, collection of poetry or short stories).
"Write Like No One's Watching" (6 days - 5 nights)
• Includes daily 3-hour group sessions, one-to-one tutorials and an after-dinner feedback focus on at least one evening.
"Pen & Think" - Tutored Creative Writing Retreat (6 days - 5 nights)
• This course is a wonderful opportunity for experienced writers to enjoy time and space to devote themselves daily to a current writing project (novel, memoir, collection of poetry or short stories).
P'tit Chef Academy, Normandy
Courses / Programs
P'tit Chef Academy is a traditional French cooking school located in Bayeux, Normandy in North-Western France. We offer French cooking courses and culinary workshops to teach you traditional French cuisine. Our classes allow you to use your own learning style to start at a basic level and progress up to a high standard. We help you to create a classic Normandie dish in one night. The chef invites you to achieve your menu, with the delight of enjoying your own culinary success in a stylish personalised atmosphere. You will be awarded with a diploma and chef’s hat at the end of your course.
- Cooking courses teaching traditional French cuisine
Paris American Academy
Courses / Programs
Founded in 1965, Paris American Academy (PAA) is an accredited arts & design school located less than a kilometer from Notre-Dame Cathedral in the famous Latin Quarter of Paris. We offer intensive summer programs in the subjects of fashion, interior design, fine arts and creative writing. Our summer courses last for four weeks and are all taught in English. A Survival French course is included in the program.
In addition, the English Language Institute at Paris American Academy (ELI PAA) offers an intensive 4-week English course year-round.
During the past forty years, students and professions from thirty five nationalities have participated in either the intensive short-term seminars or attended a longer four month Spring term or a three year curriculum.
PAA has formed a unique teaching staff comprised of academics, qualified professionals, guest artists and visiting professors. Students benefit from a personalized learning environment created by a student instructor ratio of one to five and small class numbers.
Each of the summer workshops can be booked with or without accommodation. Accommodation is available in local three star hotels or private furnished apartments.
4-week intensive summer programs in:
- Fashion (with specializations in Design Process or Couture Techniques or Fashion Merchandising & Communication)
- Interior Design
- Creative Writing
- Fine Arts
The language of instruction is English. Our summer courses include Survival French lessons.
In addition, we offer an intensive, 4-week English course for international students and native English students of elementary to advanced levels.
- Fashion (with specializations in Design Process or Couture Techniques or Fashion Merchandising & Communication)
- Interior Design
- Creative Writing
- Fine Arts
The language of instruction is English. Our summer courses include Survival French lessons.
In addition, we offer an intensive, 4-week English course for international students and native English students of elementary to advanced levels.
Pont-Aven School of Contemporary Art, Brittany
Courses / Programs
Pont-Aven School of Contemporary Art (PASCA) is a highly acclaimed international fine arts institution situated in the historic artists' colony of Pont-Aven, in Brittany, France. We offer summer intensive courses aimed at nourishing the students´ talent and expression as well as challenging students to experiment with new conceptual and technical approaches.The setting offers artists stunning natural beauty, from wide, white sand beaches and dramatic coastal cliffs to rolling green hills marked by ancient stone walls, thatched roofed farmhouses and brilliantly colored flowers. Celtic traditions in music, dance, language and legends, and the French joie de vivre all combine to create an inescapable sense of place.
Advanced Summer School Contemporary Art Sessions based on a variety of subjects such as painting, photography, journaling, printmaking and mixed media.