Landscape Painting in Alsace, France
SUMMER 2025
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Landscape Painting in Alsace, France
Landscape Painting in Alsace, France
DATES
JULY 12-19, 2025
If you are busy and never get a break for yourself, crave the peace and quiet but can barely hear the sound of your own voice, join us at this retreat where you get time to do things just for you:
If you are busy and never get a break for yourself, crave the peace and quiet but can barely hear the sound of your own voice, join us at this retreat where you get time to do things just for you:
✔️ witness the natural beauty of this historic area
✔️ witness the natural beauty of this historic area
✔️ Enjoy the visual beauty of the picturesque towns, mountains, castles
✔️ Enjoy the visual beauty of the picturesque towns, mountains, castles
✔️ Time and space to paint -- bring your supplies you never have time to use
✔️ Time and space to paint -- bring your supplies you never have time to use
✔️ Learn about the realist artists from the Alsace region
✔️ Learn about the realist artists from the Alsace region
See the world! Step back in time and enjoy this opportunity to travel with artists and paint and learn together.
See the world! Step back in time and enjoy this opportunity to travel with artists and paint and learn together.
We are so busy.
We are so busy.
Job is busy. Kids need you. Family schedules are complicated.
Job is busy. Kids need you. Family schedules are complicated.
Being busy with demanding job and family is a state many of us face. You run from meeting to meeting with barely time for lunch or a workout and then back to the errands of life and then crash into bed without time for you.
Being busy with demanding job and family is a state many of us face. You run from meeting to meeting with barely time for lunch or a workout and then back to the errands of life and then crash into bed without time for you.
But time passes, and something is missing.
But time passes, and something is missing.
Something you wanted to do. Life is more than work and sleep and obligations.
Something you wanted to do. Life is more than work and sleep and obligations.
You bought those art supplies, but that was how many years ago?
You bought those art supplies, but that was how many years ago?
Well it is time for you.
Well it is time for you.
It's time to step into a richer experience of life, where you travel and paint and experience your creativity fully. You feel the cool air of an Alsacian vineyard and sip the dry white wine, then take a tour to a museum and see the work of artists you have only seen in books. Let's go.
It's time to step into a richer experience of life, where you travel and paint and experience your creativity fully. You feel the cool air of an Alsacian vineyard and sip the dry white wine, then take a tour to a museum and see the work of artists you have only seen in books. Let's go.
If you’re ready to spend some time reconnecting to yourself and your art,
If you’re ready to spend some time reconnecting to yourself and your art,
If you’re ready to put yourself into the schedule,
If you’re ready to put yourself into the schedule,
If you’re ready to see the world and paint it at the same time,
If you’re ready to see the world and paint it at the same time,
You’re invited to join us for Landscape Painting in Alsace, France in July 2025.
You’re invited to join us for Landscape Painting in Alsace, France in July 2025.
Alsace region of northeastern France is renowned for its well-preserved medieval architecture and vibrant half-timbered houses. Its' oft-described real-life fairy tale villages offers a visual feast for artists. Join artist Sarah Griffin Thibodeaux and local guide Peak Ness and a small group of painters as we visit and paint the historic and breathtakingly beautiful area of Alsace, France.
In the mornings we gather for breakfast and then Peak takes us to her favorite vistas of the area and we paint.
Non painting traveling companions may use their time to tour the area while we paint.
At lunch Peak has found us the perfect spot to sit and eat and visit with each other after our painting session. And our gear will be safely packed so we can rest and visit.
Learn about the artists who worked here and the amazing architecture that is the heritage of this area.
Fun fact: the artist who created the Statue of Liberty is from Colmar.
In the evenings we take our meals together and recap our day's work painting.
This is a trip for painting artists! Grab your gear and we will share turps and get out there and paint!
Included
Included
• lodging
• location scouting of painting sites
• transportation to and from painting sites
* painting instruction by Sarah Griffin Thibodeaux
• local expertise by tour guide by Peak Ness
• and more!
Not Included
Not Included
• flights
• travel insurance
• other excursions or events
Peak Ness
Peak Ness
A native of Los Angeles, Peak Ness grew up in Thailand and California. She loves music (ask her about her friendship with Mike Watt!), dark comedy, sport fighting, and she looks at the world through her lens as a photographer. She escorts tours in Alsace, France, where she is a boy mom of three.
Sarah Griffin Thibodeaux
Sarah Griffin Thibodeaux
Sarah Griffin Thibodeaux is a contemporary realist artist living in New Orleans. She studied at the New Orleans Academy of Art, the Art Students League, and Florence Academy of Art. She has taught portrait painting, still life painting, and plein air painting since 2009, both at the New Orleans Academy of Fine Arts, the Capital Hill Arts Workshop (in Washington, D.C.) and in her atelier, Studio Thibodeaux, where she offers digital classes, travel workshops, local workshops, and portrait commissions.
She loves to share the process of alla prima painting--the deliberate application of brush strokes to give the painting the feeling of life, of spontaneity, of the buzzing of life all around us. Sarah is looking forward to sharing this experience of painting with you.
A few original works by Sarah Griffin Thibodeaux:
what people are saying about Travel Artist Workshops
what people are saying about Travel Artist Workshops
"I miss our sweet sanctuary already!"
"I miss our sweet sanctuary already!"
"My heart is full from a week rich with shared purpose and pleasure in painting!"
"My heart is full from a week rich with shared purpose and pleasure in painting!"
"I am renewed to keep on."
"I am renewed to keep on."
"I'm working on my new skills."
"I'm working on my new skills."
"Thanks for a wonderful week."
"Thanks for a wonderful week."
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