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Paint in Italy: A Painter's Dream

A Painting Workshop with Lynn Goldstein:
Reggio nel Emilia, Italy
October 2 - 9, 2025 
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Trip Status: OPEN

 

Tour Cost: $3650, $315 Single Supplement, apartment upgrade (2 bedrooms, living room, 1 bathroom: $100)
 
Activity Level: medium exertion – an ability to walk 2-3 hours at a moderate pace
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Lynn Goldstein on our last trip

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Join Lynn as she helps you to concentrate on creating compelling paintings using innovative techniques, experimenting with color, and interpreting the landscape through shape and pattern. Learn how to simplify the vast natural beauty of Italy and find the perfect  subjects to paint or draw. This workshop is designed for beginners as well as advanced students, and the methods can be applied to both representational and/or abstract landscape drawings and/or paintings. Lynn will be demonstrating in acrylic, but you may use the medium of your choice.​ The week-long workshop will be a combination of outdoor sketching and painting, studio time, and excursions to visit the area.

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Topics to be covered:


- At least three ways to start a painting contingent on your
medium of choice


- Methods to improve compositions


- Ways to feel more confident altering what is seen to
enhance your art


- Strategies to ensure color harmony

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Highlights

Class Tour Focus:  Painting, drawing, relaxing, and immersing in another culture. I feel strongly that spending time in a different culture and seeing new things sparks inspiration. Therefore, I would suggest that we spend time making art, but also spend time immersing ourselves in the culture.  As a tour leader at the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery for over 20 years, I love sharing my insight into artwork that we encounter while on tours. 

Day 1: 

Simplify forms in your sketches and then use those sketches to make your painting.  

 

Day 2: 

Compositional considerations still be thinking about simplification. 
 

Day 3: 

Look at simplifying color palettes: Some successful limited color palettes 
 

Day 4: 

Do your own thing 
 

Day 5: 

Do your own thing or abstraction. 

 

Day 6: 

Visit some landscape beauty 
 

Day 7: 

Critique of work done by students in the past and what has been produced during the week.

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Our Accommodations: Agriturismo Cavazzone is located in the small town of Viano, outside of Reggio nel Emilia. It is owned and managed by my dear friend Umberto Sidoli, who also owns the Hotel Posta in town. At Cavazzone, we will be fortunate to have many vistas from which to paint, including from the gazebo, pictured above. In addition to the painting schedule, we’ll have a demonstration of the balsamic production and a cooking lesson. We’ll go into Reggio for the farmers market, which will give you ample opportunity for sketching and/or photos.

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Testimonials

“Thank you for the wonderful trip, it was extraordinary! Lynn surpassed my expectations! Lynn was a kind and supportive instructor and  very generous with her insights regarding our paintings." -  Jean G

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"Many thanks to Lynn for her patience to lead me through some basic requirements for painting, to inspire me to go for acrylics"   - Lien K 

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"I really enjoyed the class with Lynn. She did a great job of providing a balance of instruction and guidance. I entered the class with no experience with pastels and feel that I have a great basis for continuing." — Lynn N 

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"Lynn is a fine teacher and a wonderful artist. Thanks, Lynn" —Barbara K

 

“Attending an art workshop with Lynn Goldstein teaching it was a wonderful experience. Lynn’s gentle guidance is geared to each participant’s skill and aspirations. I am already looking forward to her next workshop.” — Peter K

 

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"Lynn's lessons have really changed how I see art and how I work" — Linda G ​

 

"Lynn obviously knows her stuff and is capable of conveying it in an organized, fun and instructional manner" — Amy W 

 

​“Lynn is such an intuitive teacher. She meets you at whatever level you are on as an artist, knows exactly what you need and works tirelessly to get you where you want to be as an artist. I always learn something new and exciting from Lynn and just having the opportunity to have the week with her to pick her brain and feed on her expertise is an experience I will always be grateful for." — Sandy S​

 

“Lynn’s instruction was invaluable and her enthusiasm was infections and motivating! She brought out the best artist in each of us by inspiring us to push beyond the familiar and comfortable to find new expressions. We’re looking forward to the next workshop!”— Carol M  

Hosts

YOUR HOSTS

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Lynn Goldstein
Instructor & Tour Guide

Virginia based abstract landscape painter, Lynn Goldstein enjoys telling people that one of her first jobs was working in the art department of Ringling Brothers & Barnum and Bailey Circus. She was employed as a graphic designer for seventeen years, but painting was never far from her mind. Since leaving graphic design work behind, Goldstein has exhibited widely, winning awards, in nationally juried exhibitions and galleries. Her work is enjoyed in private and public collections throughout the United States and Europe, including the United States Securities and  Exchange Commission, the Schar Cancer Institute, the Lorton Library in Fairfax County, Virginia, and the United States Department of State.  

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Notably, one of her paintings was selected for the permanent collection in the Jean-Haffen Museum in Dinan, France, upon her completion of an artist residency there. Lynn was one of fifteen American artists selected to participate in the Caravan multi-cultural and international art project which took place at the National Cathedral in Washington, DC and the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in NYC.  Her installation work exploring her Jewish roots was selected for exhibition at the Smithsonian S Dillon Ripley Center in Washington, D.C. in 2015, and a different piece was selected for display there in 2017. 

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Lynn is a signature member of the Pastel Society of America. Lynn is a juried member of the prestigious Washington Society of Landscape Painters. She is also a juried member of the Torpedo Factory Art Center, and a juried resident artist at the Workhouse Arts Center where she has her studio.  Lynn has taught many workshops in the mid-Atlantic region, Southern France, Portugal, and in Italy.  Lynn has also taught workshop classes at the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, where she volunteered her time as a docent for over two decades. This experience has allowed Lynn to study, understand, and pass on the best of America’s art masterpieces.  

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To see Lynn’s work, visit her website at: www.lynngoldstein.com 

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Joan Hill
Owner, Host & Director

In 2008, the seed of Artful Journeys was planted in her brain, when Joan brought together all of her life's passions, her love of music, an affinity for the beautiful things in life, and an ability to organize events to give birth to Artful Journeys, a program of art education trips for the soul.

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Joan was born and raised in the apple country of the Hudson River Valley in New York; her father was a gentle, very tolerant, educated land surveyor, and her mother was the efficient business administrator and home engineer. The youngest of four children, Joan was encouraged to pursue anything she wanted, but also to do her best. Sometimes that was very difficult, especially succeeding three very accomplished siblings.

Cost

JOURNEY COST

Cost: $3,650 

  • Above prices are for double occupancy

  • Single supplement is $315.

  • Apartment Upgrade $100 (includes 2 bedrooms, living room and 1 bathroom)

  • Includes accommodations, most meals, all ticketed events, teacher and administrative fees.

  • Not included are personal purchases and pampering.

  • NOTE: A deposit of $500 is required upon registration to secure a place in this workshop.

  • Airfare is not included to enable travelers to use their “travel points,” upgrade flight arrangements, or to extend their trip.

  • Travel insurance is strongly encouraged. Please see the Travel Insurance Form.

  • Covid vaccination and boosters required. 

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A painting from Lynn's last trip to Portugal

To register for this journey, please click below:

Please note that PayPal remittances must go through the form on this website.  Thank you.

For details or questions, please click here to contact Joan Hill.
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