Drawing & Painting on the Amalfi Coast

Students will join Hotchkiss Art Department Chair and painter, Charles Noyes, for intensive art studies grounded in the discipline of drawing and painting from observation. Each day the class will move to a different location and focus on various aspects of the landscape, of color and of architecture. Students will learn to manipulate various drawing media (both black & white and color) as well as watercolors. Instruction will be highly individualized. Students will not only learn new skills and improve upon skills they already have but they will also learn to appreciate and to interpret visually the sights, patterns, sounds and colors that make this small town in the Italian countryside look and feel the way it does

A solid background in drawing from observation and painting/color theory is required. It is equally important that students have an adventuresome spirit and be willing to open their minds to new ways of seeing and learning. Class will generally be held each morning from 9:00 a.m. - noon. Students will be expected to do some independent work each afternoon and will also have the option of accompanying the instructor on informal afternoon painting treks. Our schedule will change somewhat during group excursions to Capri, Pompei, Ravello and other sites. 

Instructor: Charlie Noyes

Hotchkiss Summer Arts Program