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Quality 2024 and 2025 PAINTING HOLIDAYS in Europe's most breathtaking destinations, as well as India. Our painting holidays in Italy, France, Greece, Spain, Portugal offer painting and drawing art holidays with talented tutors in small groups with artists of all levels starting with complete beginners. We offer multi-media art holidays. Art materials and equipment are provided. Choice of mediums our guests can work with are watercolours (recommended), drawing or gouache. Acrylics, pastels or oils for more experienced artists.

The painting holiday course is in English, although French and Italian are also spoken by the tutors.

SINGLE ROOMS (no supplement) in comfortable accommodation in the heart of the art.

COMPLETE BEGINNER AT PAINTING or DRAWING? No worries at all! Our holidays are about learning and having fun in beautiful places.

COMING ALONE? So are most of our participants!

TUTORING IN ENGLISH. French and Italian also spoken.

CHANGE OF PLANS AFTER YOU BOOK? No stress! Your booking stays valid up to 24 months, transferable on any of our available online painting holiday destinations according to our Terms. Easy booking with Online Payment & Cancellation Policy

2024 and 2025 art holidays DESTINATIONS

SANTORINI Greece Painting Holiday - 2024 and 2025

• Tuition

• Art Materials

• Art Equipment

• Accommodation: 7 nights in an ENSUITE ROOM at a HOTEL WITH A POOL on Santorini island.

• Art excursions & Sightseeing 100% on the island of Santorini.

• Entry to Akrotiri ruins.

• Local transportation on the island to get to painting sights (private van).

• Restaurant meals with wine at dinner included (except on the free day).

• Wine Tasting at a local Santorini winery.

CINQUE TERRE Italy Painting Holiday - 2024 and 2025

• Tuition

• Art Materials

• Art Equipment

• 7 nights Single Room Accommodation in a hotel in La Spezia.

• Restaurant meals with wine at dinner included except on the free day.

• Art excursions & Sightseeing in Cinque Terre villages + beautiful Porto Venere.

• Local Transportation to painting sites (quick train rides).

• Ferry to Porto Venere.

PAINTING & WINE TASTING CHATEAUX art holiday in France - Loire Valley 2024 and 2025

There is nothing like a French castle painting and wine tasting holiday at French Châteaux!!!

Included in this art holiday:

• Tuition by an experienced, fun tutor.

• Art Materials

• Art Equipment

• 7 nights at a comfortable hotel in Tours in a SINGLE ENSUITE ROOM in France’s beautiful Loire Valley.

• Restaurant meals with wine at dinner included except on the free day.

• Wine Tasting

• Local Transportation

• Castle Entries at France’s very best, most beautiful and refined castles: Chenonceau, Chambord, Villandry, Amboise, and Azay Le Rideau.

• Sightseeing

• Free day to shop, relax or sightsee.

TUSCANY and FLORENCE Italy 2024 and 2025 Painting Holiday

Year after year, a holiday you want to be a part of!!! Included:

• Tuition

• Art Equipment

• Art Materials

• 7 nights SINGLE ROOM accommodation at a countryside Tuscan villa with a swimming pool.

• Meals with wine at dinner included except on the free day. At the villa with our chef and restaurant meals.

• Painting & Sightseeing in the area.

• Chauffeured van to local painting sites.

• Wine Tasting at local winery.

• Free group transfer to and from Florence city centre to the villa (1 hour).

VENICE Italy - Painting/drawing Holiday 2024 and 2025

• Tuition

• Art Materials

• Art Equipment

• 7 nights Single Room accommodation at a comfortable hotel 15 minutes from Venice centre in Mestre.

• Restaurant meals with wine at dinner included except on the free day.

• Weekly vaporetto pass from Day 2

• Vaporetto tickets to Burano and Murano

• Glass blowing demonstration on Murano island Painting on

• Sightseeing and Art excursions at fabulous painting sites in Venice

CAPRI-AMALFI-POMPEII 2024 and 2025 art holiday

Join us on this fabulous holiday!!! What’s included:

• Tuition

• Art Equipment

• Art Materials

• 7 nights Single Room Accommodation at a lovely hotel or villa.

• Meals with wine at dinner included except on the free day.

• Entry to Monte Solaro (Capri) and Herculaneum

• Train tickets to Sorrento and Herculaneum

• Entry to Pompeii ruins and Herculaneum

• Ferry tickets to Capri

NICE - SOUTH OF FRANCE - 2024 and 2025 Painting/Drawing Holiday

A fantastic favourite not to be missed!!! Included:

• Tuition

• Art Equipment

• Art Materials

• 7 nights SINGLE ROOM Accommodation in Nice

• Meals with wine at dinner included except on the free day.

• Entry to Villa Ephrussi

• Entry to Eze gardens

• Local Transportation to painting sites.

• Great sightseeing & jaw-dropping art excursions.

SICILY Italy (Palermo) - 2024 and 2025 Painting Holiday

Discover Italy on this incredibly resourceful island full of life!!! What’s included:

• Tuition

• Art Materials

• Art Equipment

• 7 nights SINGLE ROOM Accommodation at a comfortable hotel in Cefalu.

• Meals with wine at dinner included except on the free day.

• Local Transportation to painting sites

• Entry to the ruins of Bagheria

• Entry to Villa Palagonia

• Sightseeing & Art Excursions in Cefalu, Palermo, Bagheria.

PORTRAIT PAINTING HOLIDAY - Provence France 2024 and 2025

Learn how to paint portraits: People, pets, other animals. You choose.

Included in this holiday:

• Tutoring by a talented tutor in a small group. Group size: From 4 to 8 participants.

• Choice of mediums: Watercolours (recommended), gouache or drawing. More advanced painters can choose acrylics, oils or pastels.

• Art materials provided. Paints, paintbrushes/pencils, aprons, small accessories like tape etc.

• Equipment is provided on this French Riviera/Provence art vacation. Board and stool. Easel.

• Accommodation: SINGLE ROOM at a residence with a swimming pool in the Var, France, just a few minutes from the art studio, and less than an hour from both NICE and SAINT TROPEZ. Also, one Ensuite room adjacent to the art studio available at the villa.

• Meals at the villa and out at restaurants.

• Wine Tasting at a vineyard in Provence, just minutes from the villa/art studio.

• Fabulous sightseeing excursions in Nice and Saint Tropez.

• Local transportation to excursions.

• Group pick-up and drop off at Nice airport.

BOTANICAL PAINTING HOLIDAY - Provence France 2024 and 2025

Learn how to paint flowers, trees, plants in Provence France. Included:

• Tutoring by a talented tutor in a small group. Group size: From 4 to 8 participants.

• Choice of mediums: Watercolours (recommended), gouache or drawing. More advanced painters can choose acrylics, oils or pastels.

• Art materials provided. Paints, paintbrushes/pencils, aprons, small accessories like tape etc.

• Equipment is provided on this French Riviera/Provence art vacation. Board and stool. Easel.

• Accommodation: SINGLE ROOM at a residence with a swimming pool in Provence, France, just a few minutes from the art studio, and less than an hour from both NICE and SAINT TROPEZ. Also, one Ensuite room adjacent to the art studio available at the villa.

• Lunch or dinner (depending on daily schedule) every day at the villa where you will have classes at the studio.

• Wine Tasting at a vineyard in Provence.

• Fabulous sightseeing excursions in Nice and Saint Tropez.

• Local transportation to excursions

• Group pick-up and drop off at Nice airport.

BRITTANY France 2024 and 2025 Painting Holiday

INCLUDED in this painting holiday:

• Tuition

• Art materials

• Art equipment

• SINGLE ROOM accommodation in Pont Aven

• Meals

• Sightseeing

• Lovely painting spots in Pont Aven.

BARCELONA | Painting Holiday in Spain

Art holiday in Barcelona. Paint and sightsee in a small group (10 max) in one of the best areas Spain has to offer.

Included in this art holiday:

• Tuition (learn or improve composition, colour dynamics, values, perspective and more).

• Art equipment (board, stool, optional easel).

• Art materials (paints, brushes, paper…) CHOICE OF MEDIUMS: Recommended: Watercolours, drawing or gouache. More experienced artists: Pastels, acrylics or oils.

• Excursions to painting sites 100% Barcelona.

• Painting outing to the beautiful coastal city of Sitges.

• 7 nights SINGLE ROOM accommodation.

• Meals with wine at dinner included (except on the free day).

SICILY Italy (ETNA Catania - Ortigia - Taormina) 2024 and 2025 Painting Holiday

Included in this holiday:

• Tuition

• Art Materials

• Art Equipment

• 7 nights Single Room Accommodation

• Meals except on the free day.

• Local Transportation

• Entry to Taormina Greek Theatre

• Art Excursions & Sightseeing in Catania, Ortigia, Taormina.

PARIS France 2024 and 2025 Painting Holiday

Included in this art holiday in France:

• Tuition

• Art Materials

• Art Equipment

• SINGLE ROOM Accommodation in Paris

• Meals except on the free day.

• One Week Paris transportation Pass

• Sightseeing and painting spots in Paris (Eiffel Tower, Jardins du Luxembourg, Seine River, Versailles Palace)

• Entry to Versailles Palace

• Seine river cruise (“Bateaux-Mouche”) on the Seine river in the centre of Paris

Rome Italy Painting Holiday - 2024 and 2025

Paint in the heart of Italy, where it all started!!! Included in this painting holiday:

• Tuition

• Art equipment

• Art materials

• 7 nights in Single Room accommodation in Rome

• Meals except on the free day.

• Weekly Transportation Rome pass

• Sightseeing

• Entry to sites

• Accommodation welcome with snacks and wine

• Last evening party with snacks and wine

MORE ABOUT OUR PAINTING AND DRAWING HOLIDAYS…

Art holidays in Italy, France, Greece. Soon to come, painting holidays in Barcelona, Spain and Taj Mahal, India. Unwind and paint (or draw) with like-minded people in the heart of magnificent Venice, Capri, Tuscany and Florence, Cinque Terre, Amalfi-Capri-Pompeii (our 3-in-1 art holiday), Rome, Lake Como, Sicily. France: Nice (South of France), Brittany, Châteaux, Lavender in Provence, Paris.

What will I learn?

Throughout the week, you will be rewarded with personal artistic improvement and self-confidence as an artist.

In fun and easy ways, you will learn or improve:

• The basics of sketching, (drawing based on observation).

• Efficient composition.Paintbrushes and their usage.

• How to paint and sketch outdoors.

• Value, tone (lights and darks).

• Shadow management.

• Perspectives.

• Proportions.

• Vertical and horizontal orientation in painting or drawing.

• Colors (mixing).

• Painting subjects.

• Lifting colour.

• Different effects.

• And more!

You can refer to our PAINTING & TUTORING section for more details. 

More about our ‘plein-air’ painting holidays in Italy and France: Our holidays are for people of all levels! Lots of beginners or occasional painters. Do not be intimated if coming on your own. Most people are on their own and make great friends. Although we are not a painting holiday for singles company, some guests have found love, so you never know!!!

Which medium can I use?

Our painting holidays are mostly “en plein-air” (outside) art classes at fabulous excursions, with some teaching in the gardens of the accommodation (depending on the destination). Our art holidays are multi art media. You can choose  your favourite medium including watercolour, almost any drawing media, hard pastels, gouache, acrylics or oils.

Sightseeing on Azenart painting vacations in Italy and France.

Our painting holidays are artfully complete, and the tourist in you will be thrilled by our spectacular excursions / painting sites.

Our painting trips are also customised vacations / bespoke holidays for groups of painters or painting groups with a teacher. Contact us for quotes.

More about Azenart ART HOLIDAY WORKSHOPS in Italy and France:

Choose our unforgettable art holiday workshops in breathtaking destinations. Are you tempted by a painting trip in Europe? AZENART takes you on stunning painting holiday workshop tours (and/or drawing) in the heart of Europe's most inspirational locations, where your artistic expression can flourish amidst awe-inspiring surroundings. Beauty is our business! We'll take you closest to the perfect painting site settings where you'll be able to capture the magnificence!

“Don’t be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.”

— Jalaluddin Rumi

Painting Trip in France

About our ART HOLIDAY IN the SOUTH OF FRANCE...  

Come paint in France with us! Alone or accompanied, beginner or more advanced, you'll love our exciting French painting/drawing holiday in Nice on the French Riviera. 

Whether you are a complete beginner or a confirmed artist on our painting breaks (where you can also draw), you'll fit in perfectly to join our small painting groups in any one of our gorgeous destinations. Our art vacations include fantastic painting / drawing sites, a lovely tutor who is able to teach beginners, or more advanced artists, wonderful excursions,  art equipment provided + paint/pencils and paper. Plus, let's not forget fun artistic togetherness, an important part of painting trips.

You've heard of painting trips or art vacations before, you might even have been on one already. Now is the time to experience one of ours. We aim to please. Our concept is simple; paint in renown star destinations | Venice, Capri, Rome, Cinque Terre, Amalfi Coast, the South of France, Tuscany & Florence painting holiday, and also Sicily, Paris, Chateaux in France (painting castles in France), Santorini- Greece, Brittany - France, and Lavender in Provence - France, Barcelona - Spain, and Taj Mahal - India. We want our participants to get the most out of their vacation and to come home having their own special works of art to show for the fantastic time they've had.

You've never painted or haven't painted in years? No stress. Perfect beginners or "rusty" artists leave our beautiful European destinations with art work they can later frame and be proud of. 

Drawing holidays: You don't paint but only draw or do watercolour pencils? Fantastic! At Azenart, you are perfectly free to choose your medium. Drawing is one of them.

Painting with oils: We do make specific recommendations for painting with oils due to long drying times, and difficult portability. You’ll need to bring your own carry case. However, you are free to choose oils if you are a more experienced artist.

You and your partner or friend are both interested in visiting one of our destinations, but only one of you paints or draws? No problem. You can both come on most of our art holiday destinations in Italy and France. Contact us about non-painting partner/friend prices. 

When considering going on one of our painting classes in Europe, please know that some of our dates are set closely together from one holiday to the next in order for participants to enjoy two holidays in a row.

What's it like going on a “plein air” painting course in Italy or France? Painting outdoors in a small group in unbelievable places in Italy and France, gives a sense of freedom and artistic accomplishment, with the tutor always near-by for help and guidance.

Choose any one of our exciting painting destinations: Venice where artistic inspiration lives and breathes, the gorgeous island Capri, eternal Rome, Amalfi Coast, unbelievable Cinque Terre, Santorini - Greece, sumptuous Nice (South of France), Tuscany & Florence painting holiday or our 2021 and 2022 painting holiday destinations in Sicily, Lake Como, Paris, Châteaux in France (painting castles in France’s marvellous Loire valley), Brittany, France, Lavender in Provence, France, Taj Mahal - India art holiday.

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